From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 15:33:02 MDT
In a message dated 8/22/2002 2:29:06 PM Central Standard Time,
eugen@leitl.org writes: Eugen Leitl wrote no such thing.
True, he quoted it and couldn't find the original. Thinking further. I am
trying to figure out why the engine, aileron, flap controls would be found
in one neat package unless I was ahead of the wings? But in any case why
would the instrument readouts be available?
My son brought home a game which called for the player to "fly" the
F-117. I wallowed around the sky like a beached whale. They had provided me
with none of the data and procedures that a pilot requires to take off, land
or even fly straight and level.
For example to approach and land at my first airfield. I approach
this county road running north and south several miles west of the airfield
at 1500 feet and 120 knots airspeed. I approach the road at a 45 degree
angle heading generally NW or NE. I intercept the road and turn to fly north
until I intersect this county road running east and west. I turn and fly
east maintaining 120 knots and 1500 ft altitude. I watch for a Pecan grove
to appear off my starboard wing. When I intercept the state highway at the
east side of the Pecan grove I turn south along the State highway. Where the
airfield boundary fence intercepts the state highway at a point south of the
Pecan grove I turn into the field to pass over control tower letting down to
1000 feet. I immediately drop full flaps, my landing gear and transition to
XX knots before passing over the control tower.
I'll stop at this point as several contingencies enter the procedure
depending on the duty runway in use.
Please notice that was drilled into us until I still remember almost
everything after forty six years. For example most times in the U. S. Pecan
is pronounced a particular way. That Pecan grove had its own pronounciation
and we had best not forget it. <G>
However my point is this: Without knowledge of particular information
required to fly an airplane or without access to that knowledge on a
continually updated basis that airplane is going to crash almost immediately
IMHO.
Ron h.
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