VanNostrum reminded me to keep my eyes out of the cockpit as much as possible flying VFR and that reminded me about this video:
You will notice the six pack is covered with green stickers. I thought this would be a superb exercise for me and asked my local flight instructors if they could do a similar exercise. In fact, I wanted to do an entire circuit with the gauges covered.
I didn’t have any takers. Is there a regulation against do this here in Canada? Just curious....
Re: Covering the gauges
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 8:20 pm
by vanNostrum
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[font=verdana][size=1em]It is one of the best excercices you can do hone your flying skills
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Not surprise there were no takers, speaks volumes about the quality of instruction
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Re: Covering the gauges
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:12 am
by Chuck Ellsworth
Hope you like sex.
Because you are paying for instructors that are fucking you because you are paying for inferior training from incompetent instructors.
Any other business would go broke doing that.
Re: Covering the gauges
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:48 am
by Colonel
Jesus, Chuck, you're hilarious!
Anyways. I've done the "cover the panel" trick
many times, to force people to look outside.
This is a pretty common problem with students
that teach themselves to fly on PC sims.
There is no regulation that says you can't do
it, so unless some TC twat wants to go after
you for 602.01 you're good.
Re: Covering the gauges
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:59 am
by cgzro
Its the ASI that had them spooked.
Most instructors have no idea how to judge approach and landing AOA without ASI.
Re: Covering the gauges
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 4:28 am
by Colonel
If you know the power setting for the landing
config, you really don't need an ASI.
Attitude + Power = Performance
If the nose is low on approach, you are too fast.
If the nose is high on approach, you are too slow.
Between the picture out the front, and the stall
warning indicator, and the feel of the aircraft,
not having an ASI is really no big deal.
I have flown many aircraft with considerable
error in their ASI. Didn't much matter. A
leak in the static side of an unpressurized
aircraft yields a noticeable over-reading.