Hands and Feet

[Colonel]

In the news:  heroes get tourists to hookers and hash on time:

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[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

[Colonel]

First time I've ever heard "G1000" and "instrument scan"
ever mentioned together.

Sort of like "Lollipops" and "Aeroshell 22".

[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.

[Colonel]

I thought it was a nice touch when Bombardier renamed the -8 to the TailStriker ([size=6pt]TM[/size])

[Slick Goodlin]

Funny, hands and feet and scan are the theme of my week too.  Maybe I'll rant on it later.

[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.

[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 !!!

[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...)   

[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.