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I have always felt a sort of kinship with those IP's who took on initial
transition training for guys coming off the Tweet and into the Talon. The girls used to say these guys had the fastest hands on the base. Little did they know!! :-)) Dudley Henriques "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message ... On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:38:16 -0500, "Dudley Henriques" wrote: "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:26 -0600, "Danny Deger" wrote: What is your favorite "lost" story? Every IP knows that you have to let the students go a little bit, so that they can see the outcome of their errors and then the lesson is reinforced. The difficult judgement call is knowing how far to let them progress and still be able to make the recovery without damage to the airplane or the landscape. Correct of course...............and this can no doubt take on some real IP "decision making moments" as he sits in the back of a T38 on final with a student up front starting to develop a rather LARGE sink rate :-)))))) Dudley Henriques I've not done the UPT thing in a T-38, but spent about 1500 hours (in .9 increments) as an IP (and IP's IP) in the AT-38 at Fighter Lead-In. Generally the landing wasn't much of an issue. The flight attitude would tell you most of what you needed to know--if you had the right pitch and the airspeed was ball park, you were OK. But, things happen occasionally. I had an old friend who had been a UPT student of mine, come through Holloman for a fast jet requal after a staff job. He'd been a Raven and was generally crazy, but a good aviator. First traffic pattern, just as you describe. He falls back on his old FAC flying patterns and goes to "flare"--not the thing to do, in the Talon which responded to holding constant attitude until entering ground effect and then when the airplane tries to lower the nose in response to the increased wing effectiveness, simply adding back pressure to hold the landing attitude. He flares at about 40 feet AGL. I sense impending doom and calmly adopt a mezzo-soprano tone as I scream "I've got it!" Grab the bird, freeze the stick and simultaneously reach for a yard of throttle. Bottom falls out, we impact and bounce into the air about 25 feet just in time for the burners to light and I gingerly milk it back into controlled flight. "Let's try another one, and this time lets do it like the briefing, OK?" Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" www.thunderchief.org www.thundertales.blogspot.com |
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