Common instruments on small aircraft

Judah writes:

How do you maintain separation from other ground-craft? GCT?

I'm ugly, which serves as my TCAS.

Why do you think that?

Because all the evidence points to it.

Why would people fly if it did not provide some benefit?

Because they enjoy flying.

Why do people ride horses? It certainly isn't for transportation.

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Judah writes:

A VFR Flight plan doesn't do more to improve your visibility with ACT except
to inlude a name, contact phone number, and aircraft color.

That's an improvement, especially if they are trying to figure out
what happened to you, or if they are looking for your crash site.

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Neil Gould writes:

A lot of this depends on the individual. I doubt that Jay's family
would agree with you that their aircraft is impractical as
transportation. I don't understand the notion that it is a problem
that one is "still most likely to have to rent a car"; so what?

Because if you take a car somewhere, you don't have to rent a plane to
finish the trip.

Again, I say, "so what?" It's a non-issue, because if you fly
commercially, you *still* have to rent a car to get around.

Weather limitations are greatly over-rated. As others have pointed
out, the inconvenience of waiting out weather can be less than an
hour, and most of the time less than a day.

When the meeting is at 10 AM, that's a show-stopper.

People who "must be there" at a particular time miss a lot of meetings,
regardless of their mode of transportation.

That is not much to be concerned about
if you compare that to having to make connecting flights to take the
same trip commercially.

The commercial flight can generally be relied upon; the GA flight
cannot. Commercial aviation has spent decades and billions of dollars
to ensure that airliners can fly in all but the worst weather.

That is not my experience at all. Within the last 5 months, my wife and I
have missed connecting flights due to airline issues 2 out of 2 times. I
have yet to miss my arrival times flying GA.

Neil

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Why do people ride horses? It certainly isn't for transportation.

As usual, WRONG AGAIN.

Amish community use horses for PRIMARY transportation. Of course you
wouldn't know that in your sim world.

Allen

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Why do people ride horses? It certainly isn't for transportation.

As usual, WRONG AGAIN.

Surprise!

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Judah writes:

How do you maintain separation from other ground-craft? GCT?

I'm ugly, which serves as my TCAS.

Visual conditions are required for ugliness separation.

Why do you think that?

Because all the evidence points to it.

Only if you have selective evidence tracking.

Why would people fly if it did not provide some benefit?

Because they enjoy flying.

Most people enjoy having sex. And yet there are many reasons that people
have sex.

Why do people ride horses? It certainly isn't for transportation.

Some people actually DO ride horses for transportation. Someone else
mentioned the Amish, who do it for religious reasons. Mounted Police patrol
numerous cities around the world including New York, London, Toronto,
Washington DC, and Detroit because it is more efficient for their purpose.
There are certain parts of the world where riding a horse or pack animal is
the only possible way to navigate the terrain.

However, there are other ways in which I find your example very
appropriate. In New York, the Mounted Police and Horse & Buggy drivers put
blinders on the sides of the horses' heads. The blinders allow the horses
to see only in the direction that their head is pointed at any given time.
This helps prevent them from being scared of the busy world around them so
that they can pretend that it does not exist.

Judah writes:

Visual conditions are required for ugliness separation.

Many pedestrians are equipped with radar that warns them of ugly
traffic without the need to look.

Most people enjoy having sex. And yet there are many reasons that people
have sex.

Apart from enjoying it, the only other reason that occurs to me is
reproduction, and I don't think that's a common reason.

Some people actually DO ride horses for transportation.

But most people don't.

However, there are other ways in which I find your example very
appropriate. In New York, the Mounted Police and Horse & Buggy drivers put
blinders on the sides of the horses' heads. The blinders allow the horses
to see only in the direction that their head is pointed at any given time.
This helps prevent them from being scared of the busy world around them so
that they can pretend that it does not exist.

I don't think pilots have that problem, usually.

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Apart from enjoying it, the only other reason that occurs to me is
reproduction, and I don't think that's a common reason.

Man, you are not playing with a full deck of cards to say something as
stupid as the above.

Time to leave that sim world and join the REAL world.....

Allen

Neil Gould wrote:
Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

A lot of this depends on the individual. I doubt that Jay's family
would agree with you that their aircraft is impractical as
transportation. I don't understand the notion that it is a problem
that one is "still most likely to have to rent a car"; so what?

Because if you take a car somewhere, you don't have to rent a plane to
finish the trip.

Again, I say, "so what?" It's a non-issue, because if you fly
commercially, you *still* have to rent a car to get around.

But in cases where you *would* take a car, you wouldn't need one.


Weather limitations are greatly over-rated. As others have pointed
out, the inconvenience of waiting out weather can be less than an
hour, and most of the time less than a day.

When the meeting is at 10 AM, that's a show-stopper.

People who "must be there" at a particular time miss a lot of meetings,
regardless of their mode of transportation.

But you're much more likely to miss it if you're depending on GA.



The commercial flight can generally be relied upon; the GA flight
cannot. Commercial aviation has spent decades and billions of dollars
to ensure that airliners can fly in all but the worst weather.

That is not my experience at all. Within the last 5 months, my wife and I
have missed connecting flights due to airline issues 2 out of 2 times. I
have yet to miss my arrival times flying GA.

I haven't missed a connecting flight for about the last 20 times I've
flown commercially. On average, many more people make their connecting
flights than not.

As for GA, I've been trying to make a trip for two weeks now, but
haven't been able due to weather. If I had needed to, I could have made
the trip in a car and been back home the same day two weeks ago. I put
it off because I'm using it as an excuse to fly - which I believe is
what most GA pilots probably do.

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.. .
Many of us have had times in our lives where car
ownership was not practical. OTOH, most of us
would now not find a bicycle to be practical for
a day-to-day means of transportation.

"Practical" is absolutely relative to a person's
financial resources, time, geographical location
and other individual issues.

Agreed... There was a time in my life where a bicycle was a practical means
of transportation... As my economic situation improved, it progressed to a
motorcycle... Then to various cars, SUVs, trucks, etc... At one point it was
sports cars -- perhaps we shouldn't use the term 'practical' with respect to
some of them... grin These days, my economic situation allows me the
option to choose whichever means of transportation is more suitable for the
moment or perhaps whatever I'm in the mood for... I can throw two bikes in
the back of my plane, fly down to Galveston and bike along the sea wall...
Hmmm... I wonder if those simmers can do *that*...