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Old 03-04-2006 | 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Tgaug6300
It is something I don't understand. How did all those hours of yanking and banking prepare them to fly straight and level at FL410. Never mind the fact that I have 1500 hours of real world multi-turbine PIC hours.

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Well...if you can yank and bank, then flying straight and level is easy by comparison. Fighters do fly IFR you know. We also use CRM(inter-cockpit) and shoot approaches too! My a/c has no dedicated Wx radar, a two axis autopilot(not coupled), GPS with no moving map and does not sequence to the next waypoint automatically, etc. I also fly an RJ on the outside and it's much easier than single pilot IFR in a fighter.
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