Most Difficult Plane to Fly? T6 <== TOTAL BULLSHIT

[Colonel]

Do you remember the light underneath the belly?

[John Swallow]

"Do you remember the light underneath the belly?"

God, no.

I'm happy if I get out the door with my zipper done all the way up... (;>0)

[Colonel]

When the light under the belly of the Harvard suddenly spreads out, you are right over the runway :^)

Sort of an optical altimeter with the bonus that it is unaffected by 5G!

Dear Old Dad taught me that. Came in handy decades later on the hot-rod Harvard.

Odd that such information is gone. I am not exactly a current Harvard instructor.

There’s a great old guy - maybe dead now - that would know all about this. Bud Granley. Used to fly Airshows with him.

Everyone I used to fly with is dead now. Used to bother me, not so much any more. Maybe someday we'll go flying again together.

[digits]

So now we wait until a Harvard crashes because the belly light is U/S and the pilots fly it into the ground?

[David MacRay]

Odd that such information is gone. I am not exactly a current Harvard instructor.

But it’s not gone. Click on the tiny arrow beside the colon after wrote or.. Scroll up.
I saw it right there.

Many pilots just don’t learn it because most planes don’t have enough spare useful load to add a light on the bottom. Also the runway is usually lit, so we can just fly down onto it if a fellow so chooses.

[John Swallow]

Yes, that reminds me of the "Initial Actions" in the event of engine failure in a SE helicopter at night:

1. Collective: down
2. Pitch for best glide
3. Landing light: ON
4. If you don't like what you see, landing light "OFF"

[Jamesel]

"When the light under the belly of the Harvard suddenly spreads out, you are right over the runway"


I find, in most light aircraft, the reflection of the nav lights off the runway works much the same.

[JW Scud]

When the light under the belly of the Harvard suddenly spreads out, you are right over the runway :^)

Sort of an optical altimeter with the bonus that it is unaffected by 5G!

By coincidence or by design?

[JW Scud]

There’s a great old guy that would know all about this. Bud Granley. Used to fly Airshows with him.

http://budgranleyairshows.com/index.php/about

Turns out he is another four bars superstar.

[Colonel]

Hey, the old guys could fly. But they're all gone now.

The new four bars have plucked eyebrows and manicured hands.

I'm not sure anyone remembers, but I think it was Bud's kids that were
all flying without any paper at all. Everyone just assumed they had licences.