Scudrunners

[quote]making ACTPA calls made you safe[/quote]

Heh - I appreciate your sarcasm!

However, I suspect the reason doughead pilots
blabber ACTPA at the end is to "sound cool".

Now, these doughead pilots don't give a fuck,
but they're busting regs by doing so.

TC has no authority over the comm radio -
Industry Canada does.

Now, if any of these doughead pilots had
ever bother reading RIC-21 before they
were  fraudulently issued their ROC-A's:

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.ns ... 01397.html

They would discover this:

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That's right, ACTPA is inarguably "superfluous"
and is thus subject to a fine of $5,000 or one
year in prison.

As an examiner for ROC-A's for Industry Canada,
I have no problem tussling with @sshole pilots
over this.

I catch you calling ACTPA, I will submit a complaint
to Industry Canada with your aircraft registration,
date, time and place, and you can talk to IC about
why you don't have to obey the rules because you
want to "sound cool".

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[quote author=Colonel

Call me crazy, but ...

I tell people to keep their head up when
they are playing hockey, riding a motorcycle
in traffic, or flying an airplane.

Look outside.  I know it's a terribly old-fashioned
...
[/quote]

THis is one of the most terrifying videos I've seen on youtube.  The guy is rolling on the runway staring at his glorious G1000.  It appears all the comments are praising him, not one I found points out his obsessive focus on the video game.

I love the G1000, the capabilities are awesome, but it's not a replacement for situational awareness.

Gerry

Edit: should probably post the link

[quote]I love the G1000[/quote]

First thing I do, instructing on something
with EFIS, is find the breaker for it and
pull it after takeoff.

Guy in the left seat gets to look outside.

You don't need any of that shit to fly
an airplane in VMC.  You don't even need
an altimeter or airspeed indicator.  You
don't even need a ball.

Just look outside.

[b]Attitude + Power = Performance[/b]

As a bonus, you might not hit the other
aircraft near the airport.  That may or may
not be important to you.

I agree completely and yet I still love the damn thing.

In my ab initio training I jumped between G-1000 equipped and conventional panel C-172s and the G-500 equipped DA-20.  I found myself looking out the windshield / canopy equally in all types, and referencing the attitude, airspeed, and altitude about equally regardless of what the panel looked like, and for the most part my head was inside the cockpit only long enough to identify landmarks on the paper chart in my hand.  Yes I had the GPS programmed with the next waypoint, but that was secondary to the line on the chart.  Does that make we a weirdo?  This being said I've not yet hit 150 hours and have to be considered a lightweight, but I'll tell you I'm not a moron.  (other opinions my differ)  Yes I'm flying tailwheel exclusively now.

EFIS instrumentation isn't inherently evil by it's nature.  I believe it's incumbent on the instructor to ensure their students use them appropriately, that's why I find the guy in the video so flabbergasting.

As a homebuilder I've selected Dynon to equip my Tailwind.  Keeping in mind I'd like to use it down the line to help earn an IFR rating.  Bottom line it's much less expensive to equip my airplane, and it's substantially lighter too.  The downside is the thing's got so much capability built in, it's difficult to find a point to stop adding doo-dads to use the system's abilities.  Here's the thing:  With a properly designed electrical system and dual or more panels, dual ADAHRS, your scenario of shutting off the display is all but impossible in flight.  That's the point of the system, it's got redundancies built in, including another display on the other side of the cockpit.

You don't like you're student looking at it, train them not to!  Shutting it off on them is likely a good training exercise but it's not a realistic failure mode.

Gerry