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Beavis wrote:
In article jchKg.2674$c07.2060@fed1read04, Sam Spade wrote: In the modern jets and many GA airplanes too the DG automaticly aligns the correct magnetic heading. Checking the EFIS heading prior to take off was not on our companies checklist. It should not have to be on any company's checklist. Some things are basic airmanship. No, they're equipment-specific procedures. Doing a mag check prior to takeoff is not "basic airmanship" either, nor is realigning the DG every 15 minutes. They're specific procedures required by specific equipment, and neither is relevant on a modern turbine-powered airplane. Did you align the IRUs in your 152 before you started moving? Check the landing gear doors as part of your walk-around? Of course not, because they're not appropriate procedures for THAT AIRPLANE. See what I'm getting at? I think the context of the thread is air carrier equipment. Virtually all airliners have heading bugs. They all had them at my airline when I signed on in 1964, and that continued to the 767. |
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