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Having said that.........
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Holly mackerel ! I'm really curious how that guy in the 4th picture ended up on the roof.
Same here!Holly mackerel ! I'm really curious how that guy in the 4th picture ended up on the roof.
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Jeez, Fubar, you're really making me paranoid. I'm starting to regret that my parents ever meet...
Hey, lets test out out the new RATO I installed on my Honda!Here's another, Geo - a car hauling down 17th street in Santa Ana (California) managed to pull this off...
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Another one of those gyrations that needs to be reduced from an "Omigod" to an "I can do this!"First time I found the steep slip a lil unnerving. Just seemed so weird. I kept thinking "when are you going to tell me the engine fire is out"? lol
And you heard it here first. Having heard the drawbacks of the sim, you're in a position to intelligently minimize them. Choose a plane that's a likely flight school trainer and install it on your sim. Get hold of the OEM version of that plane's Pilot Operating Handbook (NOT the Microsoft version!!), a basic flight school Private Pilot syllabus, and an appropriate VFR chart for your area. My favorite back in the day was William Kershner's Private Pilot Handbook. Read everything in Kershner (or whatever you did get) right up to the Private checkride, then go back and read everything up to solo again.Maybe a good learning tool as long as one is aware of its limitations.
Much thanks for that. I feel your post is so valuable im actually going to print it out and keep it for a roadmap so to speak.And you heard it here first. Having heard the drawbacks of the sim, you're in a position to intelligently minimize them. Choose a plane that's a likely flight school trainer and install it on your sim. Get hold of the OEM version of that plane's Pilot Operating Handbook (NOT the Microsoft version!!), a basic flight school Private Pilot syllabus, and an appropriate VFR chart for your area. My favorite back in the day was William Kershner's Private Pilot Handbook. Read everything in Kershner (or whatever you did get) right up to the Private checkride, then go back and read everything up to solo again.
Now get out your POH and read about the airplane. Learn its procedures and limitations, looking back at your private handbook and inserting your airplane's parameters into the maneuvers described.
Now it's time to think about the sim. Every time before firing up the sim, run yourself mentally through the preflight inspection procedure described in the plane's POH. Once you've completed the cockpit check, get out your checklists (You mean you didn't print out and laminate the checklists from the POH? Tsk,tsk!) Now go through the "Before Start" and "Engine Start" checklists, get your motor running, then run the "Before Taxi" checklist. Now on this first lesson, we're not going to fly, just taxi around and get used to ground handling. At some point we're going to run the "Before Takeoff" checklist, but not take off. This is all about familiarization. You're going to have to go through this whole process (except the "no takeoff" part) every time you go flying, so get used to it.
When you actually do get airborne in your sim try to fly by reference to the outside picture rather than the inside gages. Learn what visual attitudes and power settings give you what performance, then try to fly "eyes out" with only occasional glances at the gages to confirm that you're on speed and altitude. Remember, pitch controls speed and power controls altitude, and fun makes it all happen.
Cheers,
Wes
And you heard it here first. Having heard the drawbacks of the sim, you're in a position to intelligently minimize them. Choose a plane that's a likely flight school trainer and install it on your sim. Get hold of the OEM version of that plane's Pilot Operating Handbook (NOT the Microsoft version!!), a basic flight school Private Pilot syllabus, and an appropriate VFR chart for your area. My favorite back in the day was William Kershner's Private Pilot Handbook. Read everything in Kershner (or whatever you did get) right up to the Private checkride, then go back and read everything up to solo again.
Now get out your POH and read about the airplane. Learn its procedures and limitations, looking back at your private handbook and inserting your airplane's parameters into the maneuvers described.
Now it's time to think about the sim. Every time before firing up the sim, run yourself mentally through the preflight inspection procedure described in the plane's POH. Once you've completed the cockpit check, get out your checklists (You mean you didn't print out and laminate the checklists from the POH? Tsk,tsk!) Now go through the "Before Start" and "Engine Start" checklists, get your motor running, then run the "Before Taxi" checklist. Now on this first lesson, we're not going to fly, just taxi around and get used to ground handling. At some point we're going to run the "Before Takeoff" checklist, but not take off. This is all about familiarization. You're going to have to go through this whole process (except the "no takeoff" part) every time you go flying, so get used to it.
When you actually do get airborne in your sim try to fly by reference to the outside picture rather than the inside gages. Learn what visual attitudes and power settings give you what performance, then try to fly "eyes out" with only occasional glances at the gages to confirm that you're on speed and altitude. Remember, pitch controls speed and power controls altitude, and fun makes it all happen.
Cheers,
Wes
Just a bit off topic( since when did that ever stop meI was waiting for the "Now its time to think about your sim. Turn it off..."
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Ok, I got it. Didn't realize when you hit the like button the rattlings bar would pop up.
The ratings bar was there earlier today and then it disappeared and that mysterious brown "like" showed up.Ok, I got it. Didn't realize when you hit the like button the rattlings bar would pop up.
Guess I shoulda thought of trying that before asking.
Sometimes I don't see the forest for all the trees.![]()
I learned to fly on a runway with Xs on it. The Naval Air Station where I learned had a runway that they no longer maintained to tactical jet standards, so they painted gold Xs on it outlined in blue, and made it the Navy Flying Club runway. All was well and good until the night (couple of years after I left) when an S-2 belonging to a west coast squadron with a desk-driver senior Commander at the controls came out of a TACAN circle-to-land approach at night in a storm and touched down on the wrong runway. About 200 yards beyond the departure end was the "O" Club golf course, and the Commander parked his "stoof" in the caddy shack. Now you would think this would put an end to the old man's flight skins, but no, they found a way to pin it on the JG in the right seat, since he had done a tour as a "plowback" flight instructor at Pensacola, and theoretically should have been command pilot.One thing an instructor did way back then that made me lose confidence in him. was when he had me do engine outs over a closed strip. I knew you weren't supposed to let the wheels touch when Xs were painted on the concrete but he insisted on a roll out but the final incident was at the same session his last engine out was as we took off he chopped the throttle at about 100 feet and when I setup for straight ahead into the weeds He yelled No No took the stick did a near hammerhead 180 back to the strip.