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How do you do that? I'm lucky to have the same old one.
{;-) Jim Margy Natalie shared these priceless pearls of wisdom: I always have at least 20 gals when I -land. Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup) VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor http://www.rst-engr.com |
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Judah wrote: Admittedly, I use 10 GPH on a C172 as my rule of thumb - while I do generally lean, I also can't guarantee that I am going to do better than 10, ..... What engine do you have in there? I burn 8.6 gph with my 160 hp O-320 and flight plan for 9. My redline is 2700 rpm, IIRC. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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"John Smith" wrote in message . ..
Correct, of course, but if you're not using pilotage, it'll be too rusty to use when you need it. Something you perhaps should schedule in a few times a year (a pilotage-only route)? A few times a year? You must fly IFR a lot. As a VFR guy, I always have the chart out and follow along, no matter what method of navigation I'm using. If the nav radio or GPS bites the dust, I'm already using pilotage. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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The reason we teach all that stuff in your training is so that you
understand the steps to create a complete and thorough flight plan. Once you gain some experience, you can decide which steps to skip over. You have to learn the long way first before taking short cuts. If the flight is VFR, I draw a straight line on the sectional, look for any airspaces, and then let DUATS figure out the wind corrections and times etc.. It takes just a few minutes to do this. I always call FSS immediately prior to the flight to check for any NOTAMs or TFR. This has become a hot issue recently with all the airspace incursions. Just yesterday we witnessed such an airspace violation. It is a class D airport whose tower normally closed on Sundays (reverts to class G). But yesterday there was a NOTAM saying the tower will remain open. Just as we were on final approach, an airplane was landing in front of us. Tower altered us that that airplane was not talking to anyone. "Nasir" wrote in message .com... Having received my PPL recently and been on several cross countries, I was wondering how extensive of a flight plan do people prepare before the trip? Do you guys do all the checkpoints on a map, calculate time/distance/fuel to each leg? Do you just draw the line on the map and mark checkpoints that you expect to see but not calculate other things? Do you always calculate winds aloft and fly the appropriate heading? I have found myself getting lazy and I dont do all that I did when planning x-countries when I was training. I tend to draw my line and mark checkpoints, make sure I have plenty of fuel to get to my destination (plus an hour more) based on 6gal/hr average. But I dont calculate time/distance/fuel to each leg. I also have a GPS so that makes getting lazy easier! How much do you all plan before each x-country? Am I the only slacker? Nasir |
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"Jim Weir" wrote in message ... How do you do that? I'm lucky to have the same old one. {;-) Must only be when she is solo, I've never seen them when I was in the plane. |
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All my non-local flights (25nm) are conducted IFR. If the flight is more than
2 hours, I will carry a written flight log for time and fuel consumption checks. G. Lee |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:34:25 GMT, EDR wrote:
Any patch of ground without trees or wires is a potential landing area. Well, yes, but those patches are very rare when I fly. all the best -- Dan Ford email: see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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I rent out of Panorama at HPN. They have all late-model C172S's - SP's,
Millenium Editions, etc... They have O-360, 180HP engines in there, and I think the redline is also 2700. IIRC, they're supposed to get around 8.6 at 65%, and up to either 9.2 or 9.5 at 75%, depending on density altitude and temp and all that... I could look it up for you if you want... The planes are really nice - I like them a lot. And like I said, an extra gallon/hr is going to work out longer than TMTBPS (Total Mean Time Between Pee Stops) anyway. So I generally figure on 10gph and am happy to have an extra few minutes to be sure. That said, now that I have started my IFR training, I might have to be more precise, since fuel planning is more critical, or should I say, somewhat more restrictive... "G.R. Patterson III" wrote in : Judah wrote: Admittedly, I use 10 GPH on a C172 as my rule of thumb - while I do generally lean, I also can't guarantee that I am going to do better than 10, ..... What engine do you have in there? I burn 8.6 gph with my 160 hp O-320 and flight plan for 9. My redline is 2700 rpm, IIRC. George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting". |
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:33:21 -0500, "Dennis O'Connor"
wrote: Like Dennis, I take a rather relaxed approach to flight planning, be it VFR or IFR. That is not to say I skip any thing important, but I check out the *initially* planned route and take a look at the weather for the full route. Generally I do watch the weather enough to know the trends. (The Weather Channel is the most watched channel in our house) Well, a cross country is just a series of one hour flights strung end to end... To go for a one hour flight I simply check the weather and notams, and if there are no show stoppers we get into the plane and launch in the general direction of where we want to be... To go from one end of the country to the other, I do exactly the same - wx / notams / fuel / go... IE...be flexible. Like battle plans, it's a rare one that survives the first encounter with the enemy. I don't think I've flown a long cross county yet where I didn't have to detour a bit and often by quite a bit. I'm not at all hesitant to swing 300 or more miles to one side or the other to avoid something (weather, TFRs...what ever) Fuel stops are usually not preplanned, about two and a half hours out I start looking ahead an hour for the fuel stop... I try to go to a different airport for fuel on every trip even if it is the twentieth time I've flown the route.. I do avoid the jet ports simply because they have high fuel prices, though... My fuels stops are kinda, sorta planned. I want an hours worth in the tanks when I set down. As soon as I reach my assigned altitude and have a stabilized cruise I can almost pick where I will need to stop with my comfort factor with just a glance at the GPS. The same would be true from watching the scenery. I do not use formal check points, but I know where I am and how far this town is from that town and it looks like I may have about a 40 knot head wind...I think accordingly. If you fly the same airplane all the time you start thinking in terms of no wind distance and adjust accordingly for real world conditions.. You won't even need a calculator. The Howie Keith Charts are the easiest I've found and I have used them off and on for decades... The GPS195 keeps me from blundering into controlled / restricted airspace, and the airport database makes it easy to look an hour ahead for an airport with fuel.. Out west where the airports are further apart I do a smidgen more preplanning on the fuel stop, but that's all... So, my flight planning is the absolute minimum possible in todays airspace... The reality over most of the country is that you are within ten minutes of an airport... Relax and look at this beautiful country instead of sweating over check points and being exactly on time with your flight plan... I do carry both VFR and IFR charts. I have the one handy for where ever I happen to be located. I normally don't fly airways in the mid west and even most of the area to the east of the Rockies (if I'm high enough) Most of the time I pick a nav aid, or airport in each ATC area and go direct from one to the next. When I do fly airways I find that I can expect to be diverted off airways when in or near busy areas and end up with vectors, or "direct when able" so some nav aid. Typically I can at that point request direct to something even more direct. Like Dennis, "I think" a lot of the flight planning we do is mental. We know our planes well. We know the fuel burn very well. Even with two engines on "Fat Albert" I think it and the Deb are pretty close in fuel consumption. In any case, we've gone through all the fine points of detailed flight planning and enjoy plain old fashioned pilotage. OTOH we can file and go on days where we'd otherwise have to stay on the ground. Still, there are many days up here in the north where we are still ground bound due to ice, thunderstorms, or wind. Roger (K8RI) Denny "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:r4SAb.459877$Tr4.1276545@attbi_s03... Having received my PPL recently and been on several cross countries, I was wondering how extensive of a flight plan do people prepare before the trip? Last spring we flew from Iowa to Florida, with a stop in Alabama, with less formal flight planning then when I prepared for my first few 50-mile student cross country flights. We subscribe to Aeroplanner, an on-line flight planning service, and create Sectional Chart "Trip Tiks" in .pdf format upon request, printing them on my color laser printer at work. This pretty much wraps up our "flight planning" in the traditional sense, except for programming everything into our AvMap GPS. Aeroplanner literally does everything for you, including drawing the line on the charts, right down to the 10 nm "ticks"... (It also creates sectionals on 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, in flip-chart form, so you don't have the "octopus arms" of charts in the cockpit.) That said, it's the weather prep that really matters on a long cross country flight -- and, if anything, this has gotten MORE extensive over the years. For several days before a flight, we'll study the weather patterns on The Weather Channel. I'll get a really thorough outlook briefing the night before a flight, and then a standard weather briefing the morning of the flight. I'll virtually live on ADDS and a host of other weather websites, tracking the METARS and TAFS along our route of flight. I'll try to be aware of trends and anomalies in the weather pattern. If they're predicting crap weather the day before a flight, and it's sunny, I'll be very aware that the NWS has no clue what's happening. Finally, for vacations we always plan at least three flights. If the weather is socked in to the North, we'll choose our "Southern Option". If it looks bad that way, too, we'll choose our Western Option. We always leave our options open, and we always leave at least one "contingency day" in our flight plans. This procedure has worked well for almost ten years, and almost 900 hours. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" "Nasir" wrote in message news Do you guys do all the checkpoints on a map, calculate time/distance/fuel to each leg? Do you just draw the line on the map and mark checkpoints that you expect to see but not calculate other things? Do you always calculate winds aloft and fly the appropriate heading? I have found myself getting lazy and I dont do all that I did when planning x-countries when I was training. I tend to draw my line and mark checkpoints, make sure I have plenty of fuel to get to my destination (plus an hour more) based on 6gal/hr average. But I dont calculate time/distance/fuel to each leg. I also have a GPS so that makes getting lazy easier! How much do you all plan before each x-country? Am I the only slacker? Nasir Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?) www.rogerhalstead.com Return address modified due to dumb virus checkers |
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