Beeping Thing

None of the 150's we fly have IFR equipment. I flew Almost me entire
training in a 150.
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Slick wrote:
I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the
other
day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took
my
parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we
left on
runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen
one in
use before, but I couldn't figure it out and it scared my mother half
to
death, (She thought it was a sound that meant the engine was about to
die).
How do I turn it off? This plane is equipped with the standard
NAV/COM, it
has an ADF and Garmin GPS with moving map. I tried Flipping all kinds
of
switches to turn it off and I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was a
marker
of sorts, so I knew it would go away, I just hoped it would go away
fast to
ease everyone anxiety. Any tips on how to turn it off?


I would have thought that during your 40-50 hours of pilot training a
good instructor would have shot a few approaches during duel lessons
and you would have been aware of a outer marker passage.

Ben Haas N801BH


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I would recommend getting with the instructor in the club who checked
you out in and endorsed you to fly the 172. That club instructor should
be familiar with the radios and audio panels and be able to 1) address
the issue and 2) provide some instruction on the subject for you.
Getting someone to troubleshoot "beeping" over usenet is probably not
nearly as effective.

Of course, this recommendation is based on the assumption that you are
in a flying club that requires checkouts by club instructors (which has
been the case for me)

Dave

Slick wrote:
None of the 150's we fly have IFR equipment. I flew Almost me entire
training in a 150.
wrote in message
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Slick wrote:

I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the

other

day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took

my

parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we

left on

runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen

one in

use before, but I couldn't figure it out and it scared my mother half

to

death, (She thought it was a sound that meant the engine was about to

die).

How do I turn it off? This plane is equipped with the standard

NAV/COM, it

has an ADF and Garmin GPS with moving map. I tried Flipping all kinds

of

switches to turn it off and I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was a

marker

of sorts, so I knew it would go away, I just hoped it would go away

fast to

ease everyone anxiety. Any tips on how to turn it off?


I would have thought that during your 40-50 hours of pilot training a
good instructor would have shot a few approaches during duel lessons
and you would have been aware of a outer marker passage.

Ben Haas N801BH


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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:26:37 GMT, Dave S
wrote:

I would recommend getting with the instructor in the club who checked
you out in and endorsed you to fly the 172. That club instructor should
be familiar with the radios and audio panels and be able to 1) address
the issue and 2) provide some instruction on the subject for you.
Getting someone to troubleshoot "beeping" over usenet is probably not
nearly as effective.

Of course, this recommendation is based on the assumption that you are
in a flying club that requires checkouts by club instructors (which has
been the case for me)

Is it necessarily the case though that a VFR pilot would have been
told about IFR radio functions? I know I wasn't told anything about
IFR radio procedures other than how to use the VOR nav functions.

I'm pretty sure I would have been just as mystified by the beeping as
the original poster.

Corky Scott

"Corky Scott" wrote

Is it necessarily the case though that a VFR pilot would have been
told about IFR radio functions? I know I wasn't told anything about
IFR radio procedures other than how to use the VOR nav functions.

I'm pretty sure I would have been just as mystified by the beeping as
the original poster.

Corky Scott

I would think that a pilot would be taught basic things, on everything in
the plane, at least to the level of turning it off.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:

"Corky Scott" wrote

Is it necessarily the case though that a VFR pilot would have been
told about IFR radio functions? I know I wasn't told anything about
IFR radio procedures other than how to use the VOR nav functions.

I'm pretty sure I would have been just as mystified by the beeping as
the original poster.

Corky Scott


I would think that a pilot would be taught basic things, on everything in
the plane, at least to the level of turning it off.

Amen... not to mention.. just because I am a VFR pilot does not mean I
dont use the VOR and DME to navigate. Identifying navaids (and turning
on and off their audio feature) is key to navigating properly. But..
more than anything else, if it's on the plane, I think it's prudent to
know what everything is, and how to use it at the most basic level. Our
flying club did so...

Dave