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Newps wrote:
I'll vote "very necessary." Once at the Naval Nuclear Power Preparatory School, in North Chicago, there was ice on my windshield so thick I broke the tip off my Herter's sheath knife trying to get it off the windshield of my car. About 1/4" to 3/8" thick. And that was during the day in VFR conditions. One freak time 35 years ago, on a car no less, and that qualifies as very necessary? Remove head from ass. i'm fairly certain that response is neither necessary or constructive. his point was that it can happen, and it can. in his mind, the pitot heat question is answered with a "yes." your's isn't. so what? there's no need to try to silence him. |
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fwiw, I'm a fairly high time pilot (IFR). I need carb heat a lot more
than pitot heat in VFR. At run up on a normally carburated engine if you don't get an RPM dropoff when you pull the carb heat on, you don't go. There's no such test for pitot heat (although I will tell you if I'm going IFR I turn it on for a while when first in the cockpit, then make sure it's warm during the walk around. |
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Yup, even if you aren't planning on using it, it is nice to know what works
and what doesn't before you leave the ground. -- Hello, my name is Mike, and I am an airplane addict.... "Tony" wrote in message ups.com... fwiw, I'm a fairly high time pilot (IFR). I need carb heat a lot more than pitot heat in VFR. At run up on a normally carburated engine if you don't get an RPM dropoff when you pull the carb heat on, you don't go. There's no such test for pitot heat (although I will tell you if I'm going IFR I turn it on for a while when first in the cockpit, then make sure it's warm during the walk around. |
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"john smith" wrote in message ... In the Champ, I can see the reflection of the airspeed and altimeter in the side windows (mirror image). Cub Driver wrote: When I took my first lesson, I complained to the instructor that his shoulders were blocking my view of the instruments (tandem Cub), whereupon he covered them with his hands and said: "You don't need this XXXX! Fly with what's outside the airplane!" A friend of mine starts new taildragger transition students out by covering the entire instrument panel with a towel. Another friend owns an OX5 powered WACO 10. When this airplane was built the "airspeed" indicator was considered an "optional" accessory and the person who bought the airplane new didn't buy ANY of the "optional extras." :-) It is the only currently certified aircraft I know of that is legally certified without an airspeed indicator. The altimeter only has one needle and it isn't very accurate. :-) You were supposed to fly by looking outside the aircraft and by listening to the wind in the wires and feeling the controls. I have sure flown in a lot of Cessnas where the airspeed indicator is WAY over on the far left side of the panel. When you consider the instructor is way over in the right seat, I doubt very much that the instructor is looking at the airspeed indicator very often on final approach! I know I sure don't when I am sitting on the right. :-) Highflyer Highflight Aviation Services Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY ) |
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