Distractions? Very distracting.

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:54:52 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

"Doors latched" is one of my checklist items. I just push on the door(s),
and if one opens, I latch it.

Ugh! This is on my checklist too. I check the lever, I check the look of
the seal in back. But I never thought to simply push on the door.

Thanks.

- Andrew

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:24:42 -0500, "Viperdoc"
wrote in
:

In the Baron, the door can appear locked when it is unlatched. Pushing on it
does not move the door-

So it takes a large pressure differential to unlatch it?

my first indication was at rotation, when the door
light flickered just before it popped.

It sounds like the door switch could use adjustment, so that indicates
properly when the door is not completely latched.

The only switch is the one that turns on the door light when it's fully
open. I pulled the fuse for this circuit, since I generally leave the door
open in the hangar. It seems the pressure differential increased with
airspeed- while flying the door trailed open with around a two inch gap, no
more, no less. Couldn't open it more against the airstream, and of course
couldn't close it as well.

In article ,
Richard Riley wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 22:26:25 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:


I guess it's time to spend some time with an instructor re-learning how to
deal with distractions.

Years ago, when I had about 100 hours, I got "checked out" by a CFI to
fly 177 with the A&E Flying Club in Hawthorn, CA. The entire flight
he acted like an ass, swearing at me, grabbing the yolk and rolling us
off in an entirely different direction, directing me to do stuff that
I hadn't planned on doing. I was about ready to announce an emergency
just to get on the ground before he killed us.

He signed me off. I never flew with that club again and dropped my
membership a couple of months later. I figured if they had jerks like
that as CFI, their maintenence would be just as bad.

Recently I was talking with a member of the club which is, amazing to
me, still around. He said "Oh, that's just his way of seeing if you
can deal with distractions."

I still wouldn't fly with them.

I flew with A&E Flying Club back in 1963-64! They had the best airplanes
at the cheapest rates.

Would you believe:

Meyers 200A $12/hr
B-35 Bonanza $9/hr
F-35 Bonanza $11/hr
C-172 $7/hr
C-140 $6/hr


All wet, tach time-- no damned Hobbs!

I flew all of them-- the Meyers was my favorite. The main point of the
club was that all members were assigned to maintenance crews and put in
for scheduled (supervised) work details to do routine maintenance. I
would venture that the planes were as well, or better, maintained than
the FBO planes.

In article ,
Richard Riley wrote:

But after that flight, I didn't fly again for close to 2 years. Today
if a CFI did to me what he did, I'd probably smash him across the face
with a Maglite. He had me doing a departure stall at 3000 AGL, then
grabbed the yolk and rolled it hard over.

Boy, he must have had egg on his face!

"Richard Riley" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:44:07 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Richard Riley wrote:

But after that flight, I didn't fly again for close to 2 years. Today
if a CFI did to me what he did, I'd probably smash him across the face
with a Maglite. He had me doing a departure stall at 3000 AGL, then
grabbed the yolk and rolled it hard over.

Boy, he must have had egg on his face!

That'll teach me to trust the spellcheker.

Yup, it was probably over easy...