Lost stories here

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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So of like the "no **** story" I heard some years ago. Navigator says
"change course 1 degree to port". Pilot says "I can't change course 1
degree". Navigator says "change course 5 degrees to starboard", and
pilot
complies. Then the navigator immediately says "change course 6 degrees
to
port".

That's they way they did radar vectors in the old days (still??) when the
adjustment was only a degree or two.

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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)


Yeah, I was always taught that you couldn't (shouldn't) give a one degree
turn on a PAR or ASR. Rather turn three degrees one way and two back.

When I asked why I was told the stick actuator couldn't do it or it was
easier for him.

Always thought that was BS.

Either because it wasn't up to me to decide what he was capable of doing or
if it really was easier he'd already know that and do it on his own to get
to the assigned heading.

Then there were always the issues of whether the hold-on heading really was
just one degree off or whether the guy could fly within one degree in the
first place. The old measuring with a micrometer and cutting with a
chainsaw thing.

But if you want to pass your rating eval you stick to the conventional
wisdom (at least until you're working on your own ticket ;-)