Tricky examiners

"Viperdoc" wrote in
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Anthony, how was your examiner during your check ride? Oh wait, I
forgot that you don't fly, don't have a medical, and have never taken
a check ride.



hmm, could be a big market out there for check rides in MSFS.

Not a lot of overhead. I could make up some wings out of macaroni and gold
paint and recycle some of the "you may have already won" junk mail into
certificates.


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Viperdoc" wrote in
:

Anthony, how was your examiner during your check ride? Oh wait, I
forgot that you don't fly, don't have a medical, and have never taken
a check ride.



hmm, could be a big market out there for check rides in MSFS.

Not a lot of overhead. I could make up some wings out of macaroni and gold
paint and recycle some of the "you may have already won" junk mail into
certificates.

They beat you to it long ago. For instance, see how they horked up the
IFR checkride built into MSFS:

http://www.rodmachado.com/Flight-Sim/FS-IFR-Ride.htm

And Microsludge provides instructions on editing the certificates:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256619

(Let me anticipate your next thought: (jesus wept...")

Rich Ahrens wrote in
et:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Viperdoc" wrote in
:

Anthony, how was your examiner during your check ride? Oh wait, I
forgot that you don't fly, don't have a medical, and have never
taken a check ride.



hmm, could be a big market out there for check rides in MSFS.

Not a lot of overhead. I could make up some wings out of macaroni and
gold paint and recycle some of the "you may have already won" junk
mail into certificates.

They beat you to it long ago. For instance, see how they horked up the
IFR checkride built into MSFS:

http://www.rodmachado.com/Flight-Sim/FS-IFR-Ride.htm

And Microsludge provides instructions on editing the certificates:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256619

(Let me anticipate your next thought: (jesus wept...")


Yep!


But they don;t have gold macaroni wings.


Bertie

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:08:58 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Actually, I think they'll probably be laughing at us! "Those guys flew
aroudn with high explosives in their wings!

Yeah, we'll be the pre-antigravity flux capacitor generation.

What a bunch of brave guys we were.

Students will probably be scour Usenet for clips to write their thesis on
the life and times of Mxsmanic before he was elected the President of the
French Republic.

--
Dallas

"RST Engineering" wrote
Most every nation's set of rules has the catchall that goes something like
(US FAR 91.3) "In the case of an emergency the pilot in command may
deviate from any rule in the book that saves his worthless ass."

Yeah, same down here, you may be asked to justify your decision - if you
live! More likely you end up having a LLOONNGG chat to the CASA folk about
how you ended up in the position that you needed to break a rule.


David

Dallas wrote in
:

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:08:58 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Actually, I think they'll probably be laughing at us! "Those guys flew
aroudn with high explosives in their wings!

Yeah, we'll be the pre-antigravity flux capacitor generation.


Really. there will come a time when they'll look at us the way we'd look at
someone who went to sea in a canoe.

What a bunch of brave guys we were.


Men men men men .

Students will probably be scour Usenet for clips to write their thesis on
the life and times of Mxsmanic before he was elected the President of the
French Republic.


Yipes!


Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Really. there will come a time when they'll look at us the way we'd look at
someone who went to sea in a canoe.


I think that's already happening, particularly in the area of navigation.
I've had more than one pilot comment with amazement on the fact that we used
to navigate across the country without GPS. Particularly in areas where
radio navigation is not available (mountains). Apparently, finding
unfamiliar airports without the magic box pointing you right at it, is some
sort of magical feat. I personally know pilots that wouldn't consider flying
a cross-country trip without an operable GPS.

Remember when flying a GA airplane across an ocean was a huge navigational
challenge (HF being what it is)?

My local library has bound copies of the aviation mags going back to the
'20s. Since my plane's equipment is generally not much better than the
state of the art in the 40s, I can often relate to those old articles.

Several years back I saw an old Narco radio (Superhomer) in an aviation
museum and was surprised because I'd removed an identical one from my
airplane only a few years before.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig601XLBuilder writes:

Most people when put in a position of public trust will do what they can
to live up to that trust.

Unless, of course, they are being paid to be "not too tough."

You have just made a statement saying one or more DPE are excepting
bribes to bass students. Do you have any evidence of such?

Dudley Henriques wrote:

Anyway...I won't tell you what it cost me, but FWIW, if a cop ever asks
to see your pilot's license, for God sake, don't show it to him :-)))



While I agree aren't you actually required to if he asks?

"JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote in
news:7ddba2d81cb24@uwe:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Really. there will come a time when they'll look at us the way we'd
look at someone who went to sea in a canoe.


I think that's already happening, particularly in the area of
navigation.
I've had more than one pilot comment with amazement on the fact that
we used to navigate across the country without GPS. Particularly in
areas where radio navigation is not available (mountains).
Apparently, finding unfamiliar airports without the magic box
pointing you right at it, is some sort of magical feat. I personally
know pilots that wouldn't consider flying a cross-country trip without
an operable GPS.

I know. I still fly with no GPS and people look at me like I have two
heads.
I had to get someone to prop my Luscombe before a pasage over a farly
large body of water a few years back. After a few pulls this commercial
pilot was clearly not able to do it, so I put him in th eairplane and
briefed him on how to work everything and how the procedure worked. He
looked around and asked me how I intended to get where I was going
without navaids ( it was a fifty mile crossing) and I pointed at the
compass.
I went off with him thinking I was an idiot. I made a point of dropping
into his office ( he was a policeman flying an Islander) the next week
in my 737!

Remember when flying a GA airplane across an ocean was a huge
navigational
challenge (HF being what it is)?

HF is useless for nav. You need to be able to combine a few techniques
to do something like a transoceanic flight. You'd have to be a very
special kind of idiot to do it solely reliant on anything, especially a
GPS. If you're not reasonably confident you can at least find a beach on
arrival after having lost everything but needle ball airspeed and
compass you have no business being there. I say reasonably because
anything can happen.

My local library has bound copies of the aviation mags going back to
the
'20s. Since my plane's equipment is generally not much better than
the state of the art in the 40s, I can often relate to those old
articles.

Several years back I saw an old Narco radio (Superhomer) in an
aviation
museum and was surprised because I'd removed an identical one from my
airplane only a few years before.

He he. I taught a couple of kids to fly in their Dad's PA-12 at Pontiac
a long time ago. It had a whistle stop radio and that was all. Pontiac
was a very busy airport. We never did take off and landings there, but
of course we had to depart and arrive. I couldn't reach it from the
back, so a lot of the first few lessons were just getting the students
to tune it. It got so every time th etower heard a carrier wave they
said "88M, if that;s you, you're cleared to a right base 27R and cleared
to land"
It should have been in a museum even then, but it was fun!

Bertie