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Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
: : Touche! : How hard do you touche? BOOOO! Get off the stage! -- ************************************************** *********************** * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************** *********************** |
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message m... wrote: Robert M. Gary wrote: Did he have you practice Controlled Flight Into Terrain also? Do landings count? Touche! How hard do you touche? Depends if your doing a touche and go. |
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Thanks for everyones response to my question.
I would add a note about the practice of stalls and unusual attitude recovery in IMC. I work in the Oil and Gas industry on Catalytic Cracking units. If something goes wrong it is serious (usually only in $, but sometimes lives) However almost nothing ever goes wrong. And when it does, it is almost always because TWO things went wrong. Therefore we never test one thing going wrong, because we never know when the other thing might also go wrong. Imagine practicing stalls in IMC at the moment your vacuum system fails? Or steep turns? Not for me - but others have a high risk tolerance. Thanks for everyones response. |
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Robert M. Gary wrote: One one instrument proficiency check a few years ago, I had a CFII not only ask me to perform stalls, but also to make two steep turns, all while flying on an IFR flight plan in IMC Seems a bit like asking a student to practice spins on his turn from base to final. Some things seem better to practice simulated. In my aircraft the plane rolls over about 30 degrees in the stall and has a pretty good nose down attitude. I wouldn't be excited to do that in IMC. I actually recover from stalls better under the hood than I do visually. A stall feels much less dramatic to me when I can't see out and I tend to respond faster and smoother than when stalling visually. I would have no fear doing stalls in IMC with a competent instructor along. Alas, one of the most (if not THE MOST) common forms of death in flying. Steep turns in IMC is lunacy. In IMC I'd rather follow the flight director and mine limits bank angles to about 20 degrees. |
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"Peter R." wrote in message ... "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote: Pretty much everyone will tell you it's actually easier to fly in clouds than under the hood. Not me. I think actual is harder due to the misleading visual clues of the clouds, Sounds like you're letting your focus wander if you're looking out long enough to pick up cues like that. (?) |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
Sounds like you're letting your focus wander if you're looking out long enough to pick up cues like that. (?) Nah, just accumulating a lot of IMC experience as of late where the scan is starting to become second nature, rather than demand every last brain cycle like it did when I was a student. -- Peter |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
I take it you dumped that guy? Nope. He's a 10,000 hour, gray-haired ATP with a lot of experience to share and a very good teacher. I would imagine he only hands out tasks such as these if he has confidence in the instrument pilot taking the IPC. -- Peter |
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Doug wrote:
Did he have you practice Controlled Flight Into Terrain also? rimshot You've been a great crowd! Thank you all and good night. -- Peter |
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Michael wrote:
Sure. You'll get a chunk of airspace defined by a block altitude and maximum distance from some fix or VOR radials. That is theoretically possible, but not common in airspace that is at all busy. I do most of my instruction in Houston Approach airspace, It was not uncommon at all in the evenings for Continental Express (ExpressJet in this case) to fly off to beaumont and request a chunk of airspace for them to perform maneuvers and training under an IFR clearance. Not just a hold, but sometimes an entire quadrant with a 5k foot chunk of airspace. Granted this was late night, but it was doable. Dave |
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Greg,
Do you have an instrument rating attached to your pilot's certificate? Thanks CloudyIFR |
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