From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 16:36:11 MDT
In a message dated 8/22/2002 5:13:22 PM Central Standard Time,
mlorrey@yahoo.com writes: Since I was the one who said that, not Eugene, I
will answer the question.
Thanks Mike, I glad we cleared that up.
1. I remember in the old TV1 (isn't that the Navy version of the F-81) we
required a fair amount of time just getting used to the gentler touch
required to fly the jet. I well remember trying to make approach turns and
the exactitude required to maintain altitude on the one hand and stay out of
an approach turn stall on the other. Me and my buddies all wallowed around
quite abit. In the link trainers earlier, where we got used to this, a lot
of us crashed and burned. Fortunately in a Link you get to repeat the
experience. I definitely crashed once and I think twice -- that was in doing
an approach turn.
2. One of the first things I did in any new plane was to establish the point
on the wind screen that the horizon was supposed to sit. That is what allows
me to fly straight and level. Of course, for you non-flyers, a pilot doesn't
ever truly fly straight and level any more than you drive straight down the
highway without varying your speed -- and for the same reasons. Still, the
horizon cross checked against the altimeter is what allows you to stay
straight and level. You also cross check your airspeed against your power
settings to maintain level flight. If you know the power settings are right
and you see the airspeed is high then sure enough your nose is down and you
are losing altitude.
I am making a big point of this because if I am sitting in the back of
a plane occupying a passengers seat it would be the dickens to check attitude
and heading by looking out the side window. I don't know of any reason to
suppose that that I would have airspeed, altitude, power settings, etc.
displayed on my lap top computer. I am not the greatest pilot in the world
but if you want me to drive this bird my first manuever will be to deploy the
Passenger Escape Slide while we are still on the ground and bug out. <G>
Ron h.
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