nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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 Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: Situational awareness as an instrument of flight. |
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| Quote: | > Only those not skilled in doing without them. When I
> checked out new renters in our 150's I used to demonstrate
> that "sticking the upper edge of the cowl on the
> horizon" got you an 80 mph climb. I further demonstrated
> that if the horizon is visible over the nose, you cannot
> be too slow. After that, paying attention to power settings
> pretty much covers the bases for not having an unhappy day
> in the pattern.
That instrument only works for people of the same height. It has to
be recalibrated for some of us 8*)
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Yeah . . . that's why I was happy the thing averaged
80 . . .
Short guys IAS was a little slower, taller guys were
a little faster but rate of climb wasn't enough different
to worry about. Bottom line was that it kept the
guy's eyeballs out of the cockpit in the airport traffic
area.
Bob . . .
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( . . . a long habit of not thinking )
( a thing wrong, gives it a superficial )
( appearance of being right . . . )
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( -Thomas Paine 1776- )
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