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If your answer was a timed turn, then you are guilty of suiting the procedure to the situation, which doesn't pay off too well in an emergency. Isn't that the whole point - to suit the procedure to the situation? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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"Dan Luke" wrote
I really have no clue why anyone would tolerate a whiskey compass in an IFR airplane. In my case, it's because I know of two occasions where VCC installations failed. In each instance the hysteresis error of the compass sometimes exceeded 10 degrees and none of the fixes proposed by the mfr. helped. Ouch. Was the compass on a rigid or flex mount? I've seen some of them stick when they were hard-mounted into the panel or put on a rigid mount, but I've yet to see one stick when it was on a rubber flex mount. Of course the rubber part has to be replaced every few years, but this is about $2. Michael |
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I guess I have a different opinion. I have no trouble using the
compass even in light turbulence. Moderate turbulence is a different matter. Perhaps this is because the airplanes at my FBO have bad DGs that need to be reset every 5 minutes, and we just got used to reading the compass in bumpy air. Regarding timed turns, they will only get you to the approximate heading. For example, even if you are only 5% off from a standard rate turn (which is hard to tell on the TC), you will be about 10 degrees off after a 180-turn. In order to fine tune that heading, one needs to know about compass errors. I've seen students zig zag their way along a north heading because they didn't understand how to compensate for the banking errors. I fly and teach partial panel using timed turns for a heading change of 60 degrees (20 seconds) or less, and the compass for longer turns. In both cases, but especially with the compass, you can expect to fine tune the heading with a second timed turn. One big mistake I see with both timed and compass turns is that the pilot looks at the compass too soon after the turn. I teach my students that after they begin the roll out, based on either time or compass lead/lag, they should ignore the compass completely for the next few seconds. The main priority after roll out is to stabilize the airplane using the turn coordinator and VSI. After that, check the altimeter, then go back to the TC and VSI. This allows you to verify that pitch is OK, and also gives the compass the time it needs to settle down. Students who "zig zag their way along a north heading" do so not because they fail to compensate for compass errors, but because they don't give the compass time to settle down after turning. One item on the Instrument Rating Practical Test Standards that's often overlooked is the turn coordinator calibration (Area IV, Task E4). People who've never done this should try it sometime. You might be surprised at how far off the instrument can be. I have one other comment, not directly relevant to the compass question. All pilots should be careful to use the correct descriptions of turbulence given in the AIM (para.7-1-23). Moderate turbulence is pretty bad: "Unsecured objects are dislodged." In my experience a lot of GA pilots report Moderate turbulence when it's really just Light ("Unsecured objects are displaced slightly"). I usually keep my kneeboard loose on my lap, not strapped down. If it doesn't leave my lap, the turbulence is no worse than Light. Barry |
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Everybody to their own taste, as the lady said when she kissed the cow. In a
real emergency, pilots should not have to sort through a laundry list of possible procedures to find the one that fits...they should learn a procedure that works in all situations and train for that. In the instant case, absent failure of the turn coordinator, timed turns always work. Bob Gardner "Teacherjh" wrote in message ... If your answer was a timed turn, then you are guilty of suiting the procedure to the situation, which doesn't pay off too well in an emergency. Isn't that the whole point - to suit the procedure to the situation? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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"Michael" wrote:
Ouch. Was the compass on a rigid or flex mount? IIRC, the club changed compass mounts as one of the attempted fixes, but I don't know if they went from rigid to flex or vice versa. Apparently the compass requires *some* vibration to work properly - don't remember where I read that. I still would love to have a (working) VCC. I googled up this bit of troubleshooting experience yesterday: http://www.avionicswest.com/articles.htm (scroll down a ways) I'm not giving up. Others besides you (Jay Honeck, for one) have reported good luck with their VCCs. -- Dan C172RG at BFM (remove pants to reply by email) |
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It seems to me that timed turns are easier to do, but require more
iterations for accurate results. Wet Compass turns are easier to get more accurate results, and involve an instrument that one would be using anyway (for heading performance absent a DG) but require slightly more attention and concentration. It also seems to me that there is a situation where timed turns absolutely do not work - electrical failure. No TC, and possibly no clock. So the timed turn procedure does not work in all situations as you so describe. So, you see, sometimes you MUST manage the situation. And there clearly is a valid reason to train both techniques. Redundancy is a popular word among pilots, and I can't imagine anyone being admonished for having it in a plane - even when it comes to technique and training... "Bob Gardner" wrote in news:lmq%b.418281$na.808957@attbi_s04: Everybody to their own taste, as the lady said when she kissed the cow. In a real emergency, pilots should not have to sort through a laundry list of possible procedures to find the one that fits...they should learn a procedure that works in all situations and train for that. In the instant case, absent failure of the turn coordinator, timed turns always work. Bob Gardner "Teacherjh" wrote in message ... If your answer was a timed turn, then you are guilty of suiting the procedure to the situation, which doesn't pay off too well in an emergency. Isn't that the whole point - to suit the procedure to the situation? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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My first attempt to fly that approach had me over the coastline, about a
mile to the west. But at least I was parallel with the threshhold. Then I had to do it again on my checkride, partial panel, picking up a little ice (normally the PP approach would be the VOR one, but the VOR was OTS). I dialed in a "that feels about right" for the wind, and held it. I was *not* peeking; in any case, most of what you can see out of the corner of the hood is water. Damned if I didn't end up about 20 feet off the centerline. I don't know how I did it, especially because I'm sure I didn't look at the compass (which would have involved peeking). Dumb luck, definitely. -- David Brooks "Bob Gardner" wrote in message news:M0a%b.56799$Xp.269573@attbi_s54... True story: The Boeing 747 building is east of the approach end of runway 16 at Paine Field. The NDB approach is based on a beacon nine miles away. On my ATP checkride, the FAA examiner had me shoot the NDB 16 approach, and I did my very damndest....but when I called "missed approach" and he told me to lift the hood, the Boeing building was to my right...my approach was that far east of the runway. "Good approach," he said. As an instructor, when a student shot an NDB with an off-field beacon and ended up looking right down the runway, I assumed that he or she had cheated somewhere along the way. Too many variables for an NDB approach to be perfect. Bob Gardner |
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"Barry" wrote in message ...
One item on the Instrument Rating Practical Test Standards that's often overlooked is the turn coordinator calibration (Area IV, Task E4). People who've never done this should try it sometime. You might be surprised at how far off the instrument can be. Very true. I have seen TC that were indicating standard rate when it took a lot longer than 1 min to complete a 180 turn. In another case, I've seen a TC that did not move beyond standard rate. I could be at 2x standard rate but still showing 1x standard rate on the TC. |
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I don't get it. You'd use the same procedure for a fire in the cockpit as you
would for a gear malfunction? There are no procedures that work "in all situations", even limiting ourselves to PP work. (which P of the P?) In any case, your saying "...timed turns always work" goes against what I was complaining about (using a timed turn is suiting the procedure...) What am I missing? (and yes, in this case I'm top-posting.) Jose ========= Everybody to their own taste, as the lady said when she kissed the cow. In a real emergency, pilots should not have to sort through a laundry list of possible procedures to find the one that fits...they should learn a procedure that works in all situations and train for that. In the instant case, absent failure of the turn coordinator, timed turns always work. Bob Gardner "Teacherjh" wrote in message ... If your answer was a timed turn, then you are guilty of suiting the procedure to the situation, which doesn't pay off too well in an emergency. Isn't that the whole point - to suit the procedure to the situation? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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The FARs and AIM do not address multiple failures such as you posit...vacuum
pump failure plus electrical failure. No procedure can be written for a Part 91 piston pilot that will always work under those conditions, and no examiner would expect an applicant to have a solution at hand. In an emergency (and loss of vacuum instruments IS an emergency), accuracy is secondary...aircraft control is primary. Who cares if you are five degrees off of the heading the controller gave you...after you have said the E word, anything goes. I remember reading about a pilot and his daughter plunging to earth solely because they had lost their vacuum instruments and couldn't fly without them (and there is the Carnahan case of recent memory). Don't worry about dead-on accuracy, bank as little as possible (in your scenario you have no bank instruments, of course), and pray a lot. Bob Gardner "Judah" wrote in message ... It seems to me that timed turns are easier to do, but require more iterations for accurate results. Wet Compass turns are easier to get more accurate results, and involve an instrument that one would be using anyway (for heading performance absent a DG) but require slightly more attention and concentration. It also seems to me that there is a situation where timed turns absolutely do not work - electrical failure. No TC, and possibly no clock. So the timed turn procedure does not work in all situations as you so describe. So, you see, sometimes you MUST manage the situation. And there clearly is a valid reason to train both techniques. Redundancy is a popular word among pilots, and I can't imagine anyone being admonished for having it in a plane - even when it comes to technique and training... "Bob Gardner" wrote in news:lmq%b.418281$na.808957@attbi_s04: Everybody to their own taste, as the lady said when she kissed the cow. In a real emergency, pilots should not have to sort through a laundry list of possible procedures to find the one that fits...they should learn a procedure that works in all situations and train for that. In the instant case, absent failure of the turn coordinator, timed turns always work. Bob Gardner "Teacherjh" wrote in message ... If your answer was a timed turn, then you are guilty of suiting the procedure to the situation, which doesn't pay off too well in an emergency. Isn't that the whole point - to suit the procedure to the situation? Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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