Scudrunners

Given the break thread I though bring up throttle, power lever, thrust lever and the obsession to someone to have those sticks in hand when they are a helper. On take off I usually go to the yolk after power setting and if an F/O is fine adjust thrust, do it then get your hands away from the levers and hand on quadrant "guarding" is at your own risk cuz I will hurt you if i reject. On the jets I have flown you don't want your hands on the thrust levers because not many runways are smooth and a bounce (140kt+ rotation) could actually cause you the retard, hovering over top is one method but time from yoke there is very little difference. The herc would be like a bucking bronco on some ice runways but then again the F/E was a great set of eyes and always monitoring engines.

Landing - on the levers until flare(except in a jet) if you are actually flaring two hand always worked better for me, likely because of all the aircraft with heavy control I've flown, the convairs were a slut. I have actually seen a throttle bent on a Cessna on floats. The twin Otter was one of the worst, I would always chase my helpers away and tell the to sit on their hands. Guys who would reach up and squeeze them together pinching you hand, lets say I would not so politely rip them a new ass hole. Damn that could hurt. So bottom line stay away from my levers unless briefed otherwise.

Damn us old fuckers have so many perceived bad habits

What is old when it comes to pilots?

pilots who were flying prior to deregulation and when it was air regs and ANO's and 126.7 was very quiet and rarely used. Thumb on the map or doing a range approach and of course when penicillin cured everything -

What is old when it comes to pilots?

A five digit (new-fangled) licence/file number! That by itself is probable cause for Jim Pfaff to pull your medical.

and of course when penicillin cured everything -

Except your ruined marriage when you gave the clap to your wife before you got the penicillin.

I was smart didn't get married until i was 40 --lol

One airplane. One engine. One pilot. One throttle.



That's good enough for me, even if TC thinks we're shit sticks.