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John Clark 05-04-2010 10:32 AM

Climbing onto my soap box
 
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Originally Posted by ron sterba (Post 429693)
Lets face it. not everybody knows how to fly from the seat of their own pants. AOA YES!!.. I always favored a airspeed dial that displayed 0 to 60 on 100 degrees of the dial face and lets say a stall speed for 55MPH always be at the TOP of the dial so the NEEDLE always pointed up. Old friend of mine said when he flew the bombers from yesteryear the engineers gauges' faces were turnable so you could actually turn every guage in the plumbers section so the needles always pointed UP for the normal operating position. This made it easy to do a eye scan rather than remorize every normal setting. How TRUE!! Just my thoughts Ron in Oregon

As a certified duffer and, I suppose, "seat of the pants pilot" I have to comment. The push to replace skills with technology is getting us in trouble. Back when I was doing primary training it was my practice to familiarize the student with how to fly by actually looking outside and listening to the airplane. In fact, sometimes I would cover the panel with a black cloth that carried in my bag of tricks. It is amazing how, in very little time, a student could nail an airspeed by sound and pitch alone. We need to keep the very basic skills sharp. I am not down on technology, just on people that depend on it as the be all, end all, answer. I have to wonder how many base to final, stall-spins have been created by people looking at the airspeed, AOA, and power settings with the AOA blaring in their headset when listening to the airplane and looking outside may have saved the day. <<rant off>>

John Clark ATP, CFI
FAA FAAST Team Member
EAA Flight Advisor
RV8 N18U "Sunshine"
KSBA


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