Originally Posted by
Tom a Hawk
I'm sorry, what airplane do you fly? do you have an fms and pull out your low enroute or hi enroute for every fix when you load it up? I was referring to not having to pull out the chart when atc says go direct to this vor because you know the freq. same as you going direct to a fix without the chart because you know the spelling.
250 to the marker is more comfortable because the pax spend less time sitting in the the saab. When you idle it at 250 it slows down quick and quiet especially if you have the dowty rotol props. Then the gear, flaps and props forward come at the normal speeds. There is nothing unstable, uncomfortable, or unprofessional about that for VISUAL approach with no one ahead of you and a long line behind you.
Ill fly it cheaper than who? You? Probably, I don't have the sense of entitlement you do. Your avatar makes it look like you fly for eagle but you are "standing with RAH pilots". Enjoy your Bankruptcy and furlough, I know Ill enjoy mine.
No sense of entitlement here, you still don't get! What you refer to in just dialing a frequency because you game it memorized is complacency, you can get and will likely get it correct 100% of the time. But I not willing to take that chance, to much is at risk. I don't fly an airplane with an FMS, we work in a field that doing something by memory becomes so easy but we also work in a field where we are dealing with many outside factors and a fatiguing schedules. We have different views and I think we should leave it at that!