Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 2:47 pm
Wow - 25 years ago! I suspect all the old-timers here will roll their eyes, but it’s a great video for even private pilots whi fly ridiculously automated aircraft now.
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Wow - 25 years ago! I suspect all the old-timers here will roll their eyes, but it’s a great video for even private pilots whi fly ridiculously automated aircraft now.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:20 pm
The man is right, pilots know how to pilot. My first ever approach in a jet was to SFO and the indoc CA I was with didn’t want to stick the other runway in the secondary because, “They never switch us up here anyways.” Guess what happened inside the marker.
“You heard the man,” says the CA. So I clickety-click the autopilot off, slide over onto the other centreline, somehow grease it on*. Easy peasy.
*just to un-brag: I’ve also drilled it on mercilessly plenty of times. Can’t win ‘em all.
“You heard the man,” says the CA. So I clickety-click the autopilot off, slide over onto the other centreline, somehow grease it on*. Easy peasy.
*just to un-brag: I’ve also drilled it on mercilessly plenty of times. Can’t win ‘em all.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 6:23 pm
Telling stories about the time in the sim, is akin to bragging about the stripper hitting on you…
So there I was in my biannual upset recovery sim session. The tail end of it is 100% raw data arrival in to New York (no automation either).
I can definitely tell how rusty I have become over the last year. Mashing the thrust like I was back in high school. Fixating on something, not having a good scan, thus falling below glide path. It was no wonder the operator called a go-around (to simulate a hard bounce).
I’m heading down south the next few days. Time to kick it off and fly it like I stole it!
So there I was in my biannual upset recovery sim session. The tail end of it is 100% raw data arrival in to New York (no automation either).
I can definitely tell how rusty I have become over the last year. Mashing the thrust like I was back in high school. Fixating on something, not having a good scan, thus falling below glide path. It was no wonder the operator called a go-around (to simulate a hard bounce).
I’m heading down south the next few days. Time to kick it off and fly it like I stole it!
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:06 pm
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 1:41 am
Never understood guys who were excited about the sim. Like being good at internet porn. Ok.
I hate the sim. I have spent my life avoiding it. I want to barf in them, because they never move like a real airplane.
I would rather go to the dentist than the sim, and I never go to the dentist.
20 years or so ago, I made a horrible mistake. This was back when your MIFR would disappear from your ATPL - I don't think it does any more? - and I went to Cornwall to renew my MIFR on this bird sim. They said it was cheaper than an airplane. No mechanicals. Ok.
Now, they had just changed the rules. Before that renewal, you could not use the autopilot on the ride - you would fail. Then they changed the rules - if you didn't use the autopilot on the ride, you would fail.
Sigh.
So, I read the gouge on the autopilot, a practice flight and off we go. Takeoff in the shit sim, enter cloud, engage autopilot, looks good, glance at the paperwork for the next task, and
STALL
No airspeed. It climbed good. Too good. Turns out the default climb on the autopilot was 2000 FPM which the airplane could not do - you needed to change it to 1000 FPM and I must have missed that step on the ride.
Why the default is to kill the pilot, I do not know. Odd engineering.
Anyways, click-click and I walk it down out of the stall with rudder and differential power to hold the heading - avoid yaw - and somehow I recovered from my idiotic stall in cloud after takeoff in the sim.
I look over at Glenn and say, "That has to be a fail"
Glenn laughs and says, "Everyone crashes when that happens. Keep going"
And I did. Somehow, my old buddy Glenn thought my incredibly stupid flying was a pass, and off I went for another 2 years.
There's probably a lesson in there, but 20+ years later, I have no clue what it is. All I really know for sure is that TC doesn't think aerobatics in cloud is a good idea.
I hate the sim. I have spent my life avoiding it. I want to barf in them, because they never move like a real airplane.
I would rather go to the dentist than the sim, and I never go to the dentist.
20 years or so ago, I made a horrible mistake. This was back when your MIFR would disappear from your ATPL - I don't think it does any more? - and I went to Cornwall to renew my MIFR on this bird sim. They said it was cheaper than an airplane. No mechanicals. Ok.
Now, they had just changed the rules. Before that renewal, you could not use the autopilot on the ride - you would fail. Then they changed the rules - if you didn't use the autopilot on the ride, you would fail.
Sigh.
So, I read the gouge on the autopilot, a practice flight and off we go. Takeoff in the shit sim, enter cloud, engage autopilot, looks good, glance at the paperwork for the next task, and
STALL
No airspeed. It climbed good. Too good. Turns out the default climb on the autopilot was 2000 FPM which the airplane could not do - you needed to change it to 1000 FPM and I must have missed that step on the ride.
Why the default is to kill the pilot, I do not know. Odd engineering.
Anyways, click-click and I walk it down out of the stall with rudder and differential power to hold the heading - avoid yaw - and somehow I recovered from my idiotic stall in cloud after takeoff in the sim.
I look over at Glenn and say, "That has to be a fail"
Glenn laughs and says, "Everyone crashes when that happens. Keep going"
And I did. Somehow, my old buddy Glenn thought my incredibly stupid flying was a pass, and off I went for another 2 years.
There's probably a lesson in there, but 20+ years later, I have no clue what it is. All I really know for sure is that TC doesn't think aerobatics in cloud is a good idea.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 3:27 pm
I just watched this last week, thought it was really interesting. It came up after someone posted a clip from YouTube video, it should start from the 24 minute mark if it does not just skip to their.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 12:07 am
Holy poop, you’re finding all the goobers!TwinOtterFan wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 3:27 pmI just watched this last week, thought it was really interesting. It came up after someone posted a clip from YouTube video, it should start from the 24 minute mark if it does not just skip to their.
Another guy to which I shall steer clear of.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 3:29 am
Oh yeah, that guy. No one knows how he still has a pilot certificate. He has very strange aspirations.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 3:02 pm
I had never seen him before someone posted this on Reddit,
But ya he does seem like a goober, lots of people questioning how he still has a cert, or is really just still alive.
But ya he does seem like a goober, lots of people questioning how he still has a cert, or is really just still alive.
Re: Children of the Magenta Line
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 7:12 pm
My biggest concern is WHEN he crashes, he’s going to take out a family mind their own business, eating noodles in Oakland’s Chinatown.
Fun fact: really good noodles, 3.8 seconds until it reached my colon.
Fun fact: really good noodles, 3.8 seconds until it reached my colon.