On 1 Jan 2007 15:19:21 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

Is this an admission that you can't stay several minutes ahead of your plane?
You'd better let your wife do the flying from now on.

Ouch. That's low... ;-)

The point is, you don't have to stay that far ahead of any plane moving
at 130 knots. When you're moving at 250 knots, however, in a plane the
size of a 747, you make tiny little movements that make your aircraft
move to a spot in the sky a full minute or three ahead.

This is why simmers trying to land a 747 (myself included) usually
crash. We're trying to raise a wingtip with abrupt turns of the yoke
(as we would in a Cherokee, for example) -- and that just doesn't work
in an aircraft the size of a destroyer.

Our pro pilot NEVER made a motion that you could even see, yet the 747
ended up greasing the runway. It was fun to watch.

Get hooked up to fly a Bo for a few hours. They are light on the
controls and quick. I'll bet you'll enjoy it. As I've said before,
I've had experienced pilots put it into a PIO with 2 Gs out of the
bottom and zero over the top. Actually it's quite common. I can fix
it by telling them to look outside and put the horizon at a specific
spot in the windshield or covering the VSI which forces them to look
outside. The Bo, or Deb in this case is quick enough I can do a PIO
like that and keep the VSI pretty much centered.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com