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Which of these is cheating?
My days as a Naval Aviator ended in 1954. Carrier approaches were
made quite differently from today's. We dragged around the base leg just above the altitude of the deck at whatever power it took to maintain airspeed just above a stall, and chopped the power when (if) we we got a cut. "Got a cut" means you were hooked by the cable? No, it means the Landing Signal Officer waved his paddle across his throat, telling the pilot to chop the throttle for landing. If you didn't get hooked, what did you do, given that you were already just above a stall? If an a/c missed all the arresting cables, it was stopped by the "barrier"-- a large net stretched across the deck-- to keep it from running into planes that already landed. Today, approaches are "straight in," a lot like a VASI or ILS approach. Power is not "full," it is whatever it takes to stay on glide slope and correct airspeed. When the wheels hit the deck, THEN full power is added for a possible go-round. Sounds stressful. I've also read that fighter pilots are more stressed by carrier landings than by flying in combat. And they say that a carrier deck is more dangerous than a combat zone. I've read that. vince norris |
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Which of these is cheating?
Dana M. Hague d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net writes:
No, not at all. You can have an uncoordinated turn while maintaining a constant bank and pitch angle. Yes. In my recent experiments, the horizon looks stable, but the ball is still sliding to one side. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Which of these is cheating?
Flying is energy management. You have 2 types of energy to manipulate.
Converting your liquid fuel to thrust (which can be converted to airspeed or altitude) and your altitude (potential energy) to kinetic energy (either airspeed or altitude). Which combinations you use depend on what you want to accomplish. Your goal at landing is to reach the ground at the lowest possible airspeed. So basically, your are attempting to greet the earth with the lowest possible energy. mike "Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Lately I have modified my flying methods in the sim in ways that seem to produce better results, but I don't know if I'm learning to do things correctly or simply acquiring bad habits. I want to make sure that I don't "cheat" too much when flying. |
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