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Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:41 pm
by Liquid Charlie
Just shows you can't peddle a -8
Strangely enough stick and rudder skills and instrument scans are the subject of the week here. Example -- new cat 1 multi IFR learned on a Garmin 1000 and auto pilot -- WFT -- are you fucking kidding me
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:33 pm
by Colonel
First time I've ever heard "G1000" and "instrument scan"
ever mentioned together.
Sort of like "Lollipops" and "Aeroshell 22".
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:04 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
Fortunately DH makes a tough airplane that can withstand the abuse that pilots give them.
Soon there will be no pilots as automation takes over.
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:15 pm
by Colonel
I thought it was a nice touch when Bombardier renamed the -8 to the TailStriker ([size=6pt]TM[/size])
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:40 am
by Slick Goodlin
Funny, hands and feet and scan are the theme of my week too. Maybe I'll rant on it later.
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:48 am
by Colonel
A few years back, I had a TC Inspector - this guy was one of the
co-authors of the IPM (you know - God) - lecture me that my kind
of hands-on precision flying that I practised and taught was
old-fashioned and irrelevant.
Pilots are "systems managers" now, he told me.
I know I'm a [b]BAD PERSON[/b] but I can't help but wonder about
his cranial-rectal inversion.
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:31 pm
by Liquid Charlie
Must of been the same guy who told us you could not fly a GPS approach without a moving map display -- oh really !!!
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:41 pm
by John Swallow
Perspective...
Then there was the wailing, gnashing of teeth, and wearing of sack cloth when it was deemed that there would no longer be any testing of a candidate's skill on aural null procedures or radio range orientations.
Anybody remember the desired width of the null or the definition of "average bisector"?
(Charles: you're disqualified from answering...)
Re: Hands and Feet
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:02 pm
by Colonel
I've met many guys like that before.
See, he figures if [b]he[/b] can't fly an approach without a moving
map (and since he privately considers himself the hottest pilot
that ever strapped on a checklist) [b]no other pilot can[/b], safely.
If any pilot attempts anything [b]he[/b] can't do, that pilot is by
definition [b]unsafe[/b].
We have discussed this before. Every pilot considers himself above
average, which is a statistical impossibility.