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Actually, it's a Course Deviation Indicator, or CDI, the cockpit instrument of a basic level Vhf Omnidirectional Range, or VOR, receiver system.Its an HSI (Horizontal Situation Indicator).
Actually, it's a Course Deviation Indicator, or CDI, the cockpit instrument of a basic level Vhf Omnidirectional Range, or VOR, receiver system.
All your basic bug smashers (at least your basic Beech, Cessna, Piper types prior to light plane glass cockpits) have CDIs in them, if they have a VOR.Never heard of a CDI. I've flown bug smashers
Dashes and ATRs. All Q300s, but a mix of ATR 500s and 600s. The older 500s are being replaced one for one. A combined fleet of around 50 aircraft.What do you guys have for regionals, anyway?
All your basic bug smashers (at least your basic Beech, Cessna, Piper types prior to light plane glass cockpits) have CDIs in them, if they have a VOR.
I guess CDI may just be "Yankee talk" that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily follow. Sometimes we get a little too big for our britches and assume that because we claim aviation started here, that "all them furreners" will always follow our lead.I have heard it being called a direction indicator, but the term CDI is new to me.
I guess CDI may just be "Yankee talk" that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily follow.
Mostly general aviation, flight instructing in power planes and gliders, corporate, airfreight, commuter airline pilot and mechanic. When you're a "bottom feeder" not interested in living in the city, the jobs come and go. The variety makes up for the limited prosperity. My only actual type rating is Beech 1900, a really fun machine to fly. All my early flying was in Navy flying clubs, sharing the pattern with P2s, P3s, A4s, F4s, RA5Cs, S2s, helos, and all manner of transient military aircraft, and my first CFI job was in that same environment.Lots of types under your belt? Were yo hiu airline only or military too?
A victim of the Trauma-hawk, heh? Scarriest plane I've ever flown, bar none. And that includes a number of experimentals and homebuilts as well as ferrying a couple of damaged birds to maintenance. Looking in the mirror and seeing that T-tail shaking and vibrating IN CRUISE FLIGHT just didn't give me the warm fuzzies. I promptly suggested to the boss if he decided to re-equip with T-hawks he'd have to find another chief instructor.Went solo on the mighty Tomahawk.
Especially the 161/181 versions. The ones with the hershey bar wing never impressed me much, specially when my airframes instructor at mech school pointed them out as examples of bare minimum rivet sizing and spacing under Part 23 airworthiness standards.climbing into a PA-28, which looks like a positively massive wing area by comparison!