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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:49 am Post subject: Way Off Topic, But!! |
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Good Morning Bruce,
I am afraid it all Depends.<G>
I am not smart enough to be sure I always will have visual reference so I want to be able to fly in cloud and at night when there are no external visual indications to tell me which way is up.
I do know at least one friend who has been flying for about sixty years who is strictly VFR. He flies a Bonanza and uses it regularly. Works for him
It is my opinion that it takes a lot longer to teach a pilot how to be safe when flying VFR than it does to teach him/her how to fly IFR.
For just me, personally, I want a standard Turn and Bank. I hate those new turn coordinators, but that is just my feeling. There are others who want two artificial horizons in their airplane. To each his own. ALL of my airplanes, including my Stearman have Turn and Bank instruments.
After a bit more than 65 years and some 38,000 hours, I find I often make mistakes and I want a way out.
Happy Skies,
Old Bob
AKA
Bob Siegfried
Stearman N3977A
Downers Grove, IL
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In a message dated 7/21/2011 11:43:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, gpabruce(at)gmail.com writes:
| Quote: | I love big global statements . . .wouldn't fuel quantity be somewhat important? Have you ever got caught in the soup before? I like a few little clues when that happens. Really an oil gauge doesn't help a lot since you can't do anything if you don't like the reading anyway unless a passenger farts at which time I'd rather not smell it . . . The old pilot has never been caught in the soup . . . maybe a hangar pilot? You know the ground is below you? You haven't been in the soup . . .better carry a gold necklace, it will point to the ground for you.
Gads you really haven't been caught in the soup yet. . . you've been luckyyyyyyyyy Try wearing a hood for a bit and then write that list. Better yet take an IFR course and drive into the soup.
Not only soup but out West here we have places with no lights and with some overcast blocking out the stars and moon, you have no reference but you're still VFR . . . unless you have really super good smell . . . I'd say you will be crying and begging for relief real soon. Gads could I tell you real life stories . . . Go ahead and fly with just an oil pressure gauge and let me know how that works for ya. (I'm not talking about touch and go's in the pattern type flying . . .I mean real flying. 
Bruce
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Keith Pickford <kpickford(at)xtra.co.nz (kpickford(at)xtra.co.nz)> wrote:
| Quote: | The only instrument that is handy is the oil pressure gauge !! and that is only for a comparison - the reading doesn't matter . no need for calibration.
Everything else is covered by the nomal senses.
Unless you are blind deaf and can't smell - then you shouldn't be flying !!!
I always remember an old pilot telling me you don't need an altimeter or ASI
If the ground is below you , you have altitude
If the ground is moving you have airspeed.
No need for a rev counter
If the engine is making a noise, its going
Gives you more time to look outside the plane ??
Happy Flying
Keith
--- On Fri, 22/7/11, b d <gpabruce(at)gmail.com (gpabruce(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
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From: b d <gpabruce(at)gmail.com (gpabruce(at)gmail.com)>
Subject: Re: Voltmeter advice needed
To: jabiruengine-list(at)matronics.com (jabiruengine-list(at)matronics.com)
Date: Friday, 22, July, 2011, 3:06 PM
As I recall, there is an old Chinese proverb about flying . . . "Pilot who fly's upside down will have crack up" . . . . I found that always to be true! Also, old airmail pilots used to hang a gold necklace from the compass to tell if they are right side up in the fog . . . kinda simple instrumentation when all else fails . . . problem is I have no gold left.
In my field of work, everything's gone digital and programmable. Problem is the old timers who were masters at calibration and certification have gone and the new bucks don't realize that all instrumentation must be calibrated and verified to a NIST standard to be useful. Without that, a person might as well be using the old necklace as a guide. When the necklace is pointing towards the headliner . . . then "pilot is flying with his crack up". Soon he will hear that loud sound of silence and his heart beat just before the ground rises up to smite his butt.
No matter what the precision and resolution, if it ain't calibrated it's just extra weight. It becomes just pretty GIGO . . garbage in, garbage out.
Bruce
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