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Old 04-19-2007 | 08:15 PM
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Yeah I thought he was trying to pass along a gouge. If you want good gouge try www.willflyforfood.cc
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Old 04-19-2007 | 08:15 PM
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I apologize if my comment came off as rude, but those aren't really "curve-ball" questions and in my opinion should have been asked in an instrument or II checkride which the poster has supposedly passed the first or both. I also believe someone at a level high enough to be considering applying to fly 50-70 people around at 400mph should have the know how to do his/her own research to find answers to questions as fundamental as those. It is scary to think what else he/she doesn't know if they are befuddled to the point of opening a thread in a public forum to pose such simple questions. I was not commenting to belittle this individual, I was merely posting out of shock.
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Old 04-19-2007 | 08:19 PM
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Ah, passing along a gouge would make much more sense. Good eye fellas. Another great gouge site is aviationinterviews.com
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Old 04-20-2007 | 02:08 AM
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yeah, i think he might have been passing on gouge, but i will tell you, that it is all based on your particular experience...

the 21.2G was a stumper for me but i dont fly with Jepp stuff. in the USAF we use NOS, so that standard Jepp format (if that was what it really was) is just something i am not trained for....you know?

just my $.02 worth......
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Old 04-20-2007 | 07:15 AM
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http://www.amazon.com/Mental-Math-Pi.../dp/0964283972
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Old 04-20-2007 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Tinpusher007
I've been taught and I teach one mile: .5 on either side of the arc.
I have been taught the same but instrument PTS give you 1NM either side.
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Old 04-20-2007 | 02:21 PM
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Thank you to TankerBob, Tinpusher007, oldveedubs, kbalch, crjjetjockey and jeff122670
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Old 04-20-2007 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jeff122670
yeah, i think he might have been passing on gouge, but i will tell you, that it is all based on your particular experience...

the 21.2G was a stumper for me but i dont fly with Jepp stuff. in the USAF we use NOS, so that standard Jepp format (if that was what it really was) is just something i am not trained for....you know?

just my $.02 worth......
Excellent point. Not everyone as you said uses Jepps. As far as another way to figure out distances on an arc/even distance off course, calculation I teach is: For every NM away from the station, each dot = 200 Feet. So if you are 20 NM away and have two dots deflection you would be 8000 feet off course of 1.2 NM.
On a side note, I wish everyone would lay off the whole low timer thing, I am sick of hearing it and believe or not, not every pilot interviewing at an airline is low time. In the group of people that I interviewed with at Mesaba, I was the lowest time pilot there, with a weak 1100TT. So this whole world is ending thing is getting a little ridiculous.
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Old 04-20-2007 | 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by sigep_nm
Excellent point. Not everyone as you said uses Jepps. As far as another way to figure out distances on an arc/even distance off course, calculation I teach is: For every NM away from the station, each dot = 200 Feet. So if you are 20 NM away and have two dots deflection you would be 8000 feet off course of 1.2 NM.
On a side note, I wish everyone would lay off the whole low timer thing, I am sick of hearing it and believe or not, not every pilot interviewing at an airline is low time. In the group of people that I interviewed with at Mesaba, I was the lowest time pilot there, with a weak 1100TT. So this whole world is ending thing is getting a little ridiculous.

for the Arc length:

.0174*(DME)*(#radials)
....everybody has a small calc for the cockit, right? Can somebody try their "way" to check this?

Thanks!
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Old 04-20-2007 | 07:58 PM
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I'm doomed if I ever have to interview at a small jet carrier. I don't know the answer to the DME arc question. The bus flys it by PFM. All I need to know is which buttons to push to program the box.



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