747-400 questions

on T/O set the IAS to 250
arm the autothrottles and the engine speed will come up automtically


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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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BT writes:

That's how it is in real airplanes.

Good; I like realism. But is there any technique to finding the right
throttle setting? The 747 seems particularly prone to this (as compared
to a
737).

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FAA has a new catagory out. It's been out about a year.
Sport Pilot where you don't have to take the medical to get the license
(this is if you've never been turned down in a medical before by FAA
doctors.)
You can only fly GTW 1320 lbs (Piper Cubs, and other lightweight A/C)

Ground time is the same, but you only have to have 20 hrs cross country as I
remember when the FBO told me up here.

King Schools offers the ground courses
and I think volunteer CFI examiners give the test.

All you have to show is your driver's license.




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"Not4wood" wrote in message
news:ZhfEh.6007$2u.4703@trndny04...
Hey JW,

I just peaked inside RAP for the first time because of all the commotion
thats gone on because of MX Manic depressed. I cant believe the level of
anger that he has caused in RAP.

Some people are still trying to be nice but he goes and says stupid things
to **** them off also.

Let me introduce myself to the RAP. I am an msfs pilot only. But I do
fly (passenger) and have been in a Beaver for a flight around the
mountains of Mt McKinley this past summer. I cant express how
breathtaking it was and how amazing being in a real plane trying to hear
each other over the sound of the screaming single engine are.

I have heard mentioned (in here) that learning to fly is not expensive.
It is where I live (in New York), but because of my eyes I know that I
wont be able to pass any physical exams for my PPL. So my only choices
are to do what I did when I was younger. Sit on the closest place to an
end of the runway and watch, or sit in a chair and fly on FS9 and dream.
Some or actually most of us on alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim try to learn
and experience why and how about aviation. But we do know its not real
life. Learning to fly isnt just controlling the plane, but being able to
handle all the other situations that can happen. Control Stalls, engine
out, using the radios, plotting routes with weather patterns, worrying
which part is going to fail next and how long the plane will be out of
commission waiting for the parts etc. But the most I feel is what we are
really not experiencing and no matter how hard we try our little corner of
the FS world wont let us. That is looking out the window and seeing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...a/IMG_0342.jpg

Yup, on approach to landing on that big piece of Glacier. The Beaver had
skies.

enough said.

Mark G
Not4wood


"John Ward" wrote in message
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Hi Not4wood,

"... you have ****ed off too many of them and NO ONE wants to help
you. ..."

I'll try though, just this once.

If Mxsmanic has "calmed down", as you put it, or feels differently
about things these days (and, I must say, I perceived the same thing),
and wants to participate in the n/g, as all the rest of us do, then one
thing he could do is change his moniker, and start afresh, safe in the
knowledge that everyone would have the good grace not to trace him (even
though, no matter what anyone calls themselves, you get to be able to
identify people by their posts, I reckon...).

Then, he would get a whole different reception...

Just a thought, but, hey, I've been wrong before, mate!

Regards,
John Ward


"Not4wood" wrote in message
news:r4eEh.3727$iF.3506@trndny03...
Again, I'll have to explain things to MXS:

Side note: Way too many of the members of this great Usenet group agmfs
have put you in there kill files and wont see this. I am crossposting
this for the benefit of the RL Pilots who we have heard that you have
****ed off as well. I never intentionally cross post until now where I
feel I have to inform the RL counterpart to this group about the latest
events..

You've calm down lately and that is a good thing. Sorry to have to tell
you this but you have annoyed way too many people with your arrogant
quotes and self righteous attitude. Believing yourself to be an expert
and tell people that you know something when you dont is arrogant. When
you dont do something in RL and then become an expert because you see it
printed by somebody else and take credit for it. Now, thats arrogant.
When, this group starts to hear your ****ing people off in the RL Pilots
Group because you feel a need to try to be on there level of knowledge,
skill and experience. By arguing with them the things you've picked up
in here and making the mistake that this is real life and then going
back to them and arguing the point. Thats NOT arrogant. Thats just
plain stupid. The Real Life Pilots who fly RL planes see that you do
nothing, learn nothing and experience nothing but feel you have to tell
them who are the real experienced people in the skies what they should
know and do. That is ARROGANT!

First, there are plenty of 747 Virtual Pilots here and good ones to I
might add. The problem is you have ****ed off too many of them and NO
ONE wants to help you. Get it, you've come to that point in time that
now of all things you need this group to help you after you ****ed off
just about everyone.

Now do you understand? Some of us have warned you including me. Now
the truth hurts, but you will probably rationalize your grave mistake so
you wont fully understand the implications of what you've done. Good
luck to you, where ever you go.

Pushes his chair back, and stands. Waits for a second and then bows.
Now turns and walks off into the Sunset to get his first cup of Jo this
morning.

Not4wood




"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
BT writes:

That's how it is in real airplanes.

Good; I like realism. But is there any technique to finding the right
throttle setting? The 747 seems particularly prone to this (as
compared to a
737).

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go for your sportpilot license. No medical required there.


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"Not4wood" wrote in message
news:kHkEh.25976$kr6.12211@trndny09...
Yes, I was at an Optician/Eye Doctor (I forgot exactly what his title was)
getting my eyes done and I happened to mention to him about me trying to
take the eye test for the FAA. He looked at me and gave me the test right
there.

I have a lazy eye, and the vision is so poor it prevents me from seeing
clearly from about 8 inches and better in this one eye. I can see
movements on the peripheral but thats about it. Its not so bad I do see
everything but with no detail. I have no 3 dimensional judgment because
of this. The example would be catching a ball. If the ball is coming
straight toward me I cant make even a slight judgment to catch it. If I
can twist or move slightly out of plane then I can grab it. Not good, and
didn't let me do a few things when I was younger but I tried. My other
eye is OK, I can make partial judgments and get by. The bad thing is my
situation wont allow me to wear those stupid 3 dimensional glasses when a
bunch of us go to the movies for anything that was in 3D. LOL

Did I pass the FAA Medical, NO not even close. So I gave up with the
thought of getting my PPL. I dont care how cheap it is, knowing I wont be
able to pass the FAA Medical will still prevent me from wasting my money
on something I wont be able to complete no matter what I score or learn on
any of the other tests. Its called beating a Dead Horse. So what do I
do? I fly on Flight Simulator instead, or I sit in another seat and watch
the PIC take the controls.

Mark G
Not4wood



"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ZhfEh.6007$2u.4703@trndny04,
"Not4wood" wrote:

I have heard mentioned (in here) that learning to fly is not expensive.
It
is where I live (in New York), but because of my eyes I know that I wont
be
able to pass any physical exams for my PPL.

Without wanting to pry into your vision issues, have you talked to an AME
(FAA medical examiner) about whether or not you'd qualify for a third
class
medical?

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text...b4d692406916cf
c0604324&rgn=div5&view=text&node=14:2.0.1.1.5&idno =14

"Eye standards for a third-class airman medical certificate a

(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye separately, with
or
without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact
lenses)
are necessary for 20/40 vision, the person may be eligible only on the
condition
that corrective lenses are worn while exercising the privileges of an
airman
certificate.

(b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in
each eye
separately, with or without corrective lenses.

(c) Ability to perceive those colors necessary for the safe performance
of
airman duties.

(d) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa
that
interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be
expected
to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be
aggravated
by flying. "

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lawyers will hate

Mxsmanic,

You also need people who give a flyin' f**k about your questions and
don't think you're a waste of human life.

Intelligent people are uniformly members of that category.


Ah, priceless.

It looks like you've run out of those in RAP.

I'm not sure that there were any to run out of.

Then why do you hang out here so much, posting more messages than any
other member? That can hardly be considered intelligent.

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Ya see. This is your problem M8.

Even though your photo is very nice. Mine isnt from FS9, its real life and
you cant tell the difference if you tripped over it.

Your trying to compare your Flight Sim world to the Real Life world and you
cant tell the difference. You gotta get out of the house more often to be
able to see how beautiful the Real World Really is. Take a breath of Fresh
Air (cough) and look at Nature. Animals, plant life, the water where these
things that float move around, look up at the Real Sky and can you see a
difference to what you see on the computer screen. It doesnt cost you
nuffin.

Not4wood


"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Not4wood writes:

But the most I feel is what we are really not
experiencing and no matter how hard we try our little corner of the FS
world
wont let us. That is looking out the window and seeing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...a/IMG_0342.jpg

Yup, on approach to landing on that big piece of Glacier. The Beaver had
skies.

Then there's this:

http://www.mxsmanic.com/mckinley.jpg

Taken from a chase plane as I turn in my private 747-400 towards the UMM
NDB,
after heading straight for the summit of Mount McKinley out of Anchorage,
purely for the purpose of this photo op.

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"Not4wood" wrote:

First, there are plenty of 747 Virtual Pilots here and good ones to I might
add. The problem is you have ****ed off too many of them and NO ONE wants
to help you. Get it, you've come to that point in time that now of all
things you need this group to help you after you ****ed off just about
everyone.

Well said!
I happen to care enough about this hobby (and the PMDG products I fly)
that I went
out and purchased and downloaded all the necessary manuals to help me
fly these
machines. I even bought the real FMC manual for the big Boeings.
So I know how to solve his problem.

But...I ain't gonna. Not this time.
He always knows better any way. He always has advice, which is the
exact same
advice and answer somone else conviently posted a minute sonner than
him, and
he presumes to know everything like he's flown and done everything
IRL.

Nope. This is the first time I'm declining to help someone here and
I'm not
feeling the least bit bad about myself!


Marcel

capt writes:

on T/O set the IAS to 250
arm the autothrottles and the engine speed will come up automtically

I usually don't have any problem with take-off. I look at the speeds that the
FMC gives me for take off, set the speed selector to that speed or just above,
then set the throttles by hand to about 70% N1 and press the TOGA button. The
autothrottle then sets full thrust and, since I'm usually light, a slight
backward pull on the yoke at Vr starts the nose up. I immediately back off a
bit to avoid a tail strike and try to hold it at about 7 degrees, and as soon
as I have positive climb it's gear up. At 500-1000 feet, I engage LNAV and
VNAV. By then I've also retracted the flaps.

Usually that works well, although on a few occasions the aircraft has really
pitched up steeply and I'm not sure why.

Anyway, it's taxiing that's difficult. It seems that around 36% N1 can get me
rolling at a reasonable speed, but there's still a tendency to end up going 40
kts on the taxiway. And if I throttle back, I end up coming to a gentle stop
instead. It's problematic no matter how the aircraft is loaded.

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Not4wood writes:

Even though your photo is very nice. Mine isnt from FS9, its real life and
you cant tell the difference if you tripped over it.

Yes, but I didn't have to fly to Alaska to get my photo. I daresay I got a
better deal for my time and money than you did.

Your trying to compare your Flight Sim world to the Real Life world and you
cant tell the difference.

Oh, I can tell the difference. But very often the difference isn't important.
I'm trying to simulate flight, not look at picture postcards.

You gotta get out of the house more often to be
able to see how beautiful the Real World Really is.

I've seen some things in person. The Grand Canyon in real life looks just
like it does in postcards, only it's in three dimensions; I'm not sure that
it's worth the five-hour car trip that was required to get there.

Take a breath of Fresh
Air (cough) and look at Nature. Animals, plant life, the water where these
things that float move around, look up at the Real Sky and can you see a
difference to what you see on the computer screen. It doesnt cost you
nuffin.

I'm not much into nature.

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Marcel Kuijper writes:

Well said!
I happen to care enough about this hobby (and the PMDG products I fly)
that I went
out and purchased and downloaded all the necessary manuals to help me
fly these
machines. I even bought the real FMC manual for the big Boeings.
So I know how to solve his problem.

No, you don't.

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Thomas Borchert writes:

Then why do you hang out here so much, posting more messages than any
other member?

I'm an optimist.

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