Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
I'm sure you can fly airplanes plenty good. You're just afraid of the automation
For what its worth, got to fly a full procedure VOR-DME approach in Mexico last week complete with course reversal and step downs. But I wussed out and used the FD so I could free up some brain bytes to look at the big ass freaking VOLCANOES! You should check out Oaxaca, Mexico. Bet you would think you died and gone to heaven.
I don't think I would have lived through that - way too exciting!!
I lucked out today and got to depart Rwy 28 in HDN (uncontrolled woohoo) today...low overcast so had to fly the published ODP...no FD and no white-needles...flew direct CHE VOR, teardrop (should have done a parallel) entry to climb to 10,000 for on course...and since I was green anyway, I just shot the arrival into DEN old-school too.
Made an "oops" on the procedure turn though - flew outbound at 200 KIAS in the climb, but as we turned inbound, we also broke 10K, so I cranked her over to 250 KIAS...would have worked out great, but with the tail-wind and the addt'l airspeed we didn't quite intercept the inbound course as smoothly as I would have liked...never something I would have thought about the last time I shot a hold (over a year ago in a Seminole
). Well - ya live and ya learn I suppose!
But
wow it felt good to use the brain to fly the plane for the first time in months and months! And then I had to pound her in hard just to bring myself back down LoL