Finally back into flying!
11-13-2013, 05:52 PM
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Flown 5.2 in the last week after not flying at all for 25 months other than the sim to keep instrument currency.
As a 95% turbine guy, this mixture lever.. You'd think they''d have a way to make that automatic by now.
As a 95% turbine guy, this mixture lever.. You'd think they''d have a way to make that automatic by now.
11-13-2013, 06:21 PM
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I was never out for that long at a stretch E2C - but it feels good to be back in the air no matter what you are motoring around in doesn't it? I have missed what I call *recreational flying* for quite some time now. Except for 3 flights between getting out of the military and starting my current job, all of my flying since 1991 has been mission oriented flying. I'll love to have the opportunity to go for the proverbial $100 hamburger again someday. Have fun with it. I'm sure you be back to flying for a job soon enough!
11-13-2013, 06:43 PM
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Yep.. First flight back in a 172, with the CFI on his first day instructing after getting his CFI, was pretty fun, since it looked like a scaled up version of the 152 I used to fly.
First flight in the Seminole at AATPs was my second flight with glass ever.
(monkey with football).
Second flight in the Seminole was much better. Had a discontinuance for weather on my ATP checkride Monday, scheduled to complete it Saturday, hoping the WX at APA cooperates, because I'm on the road for 3 months without day off starting Sunday.
The DPE was really great about trying to find a way to make it work.
First flight in the Seminole at AATPs was my second flight with glass ever.
(monkey with football).
Second flight in the Seminole was much better. Had a discontinuance for weather on my ATP checkride Monday, scheduled to complete it Saturday, hoping the WX at APA cooperates, because I'm on the road for 3 months without day off starting Sunday.
The DPE was really great about trying to find a way to make it work.
11-14-2013, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by E2CMaster
Flown 5.2 in the last week after not flying at all for 25 months other than the sim to keep instrument currency.
As a 95% turbine guy, this mixture lever.. You'd think they''d have a way to make that automatic by now.
As a 95% turbine guy, this mixture lever.. You'd think they''d have a way to make that automatic by now.
11-14-2013, 08:15 PM
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The prop controls are not too bad for me, I actually salvaged and approach I got too high on by going MAX INCR (or whatever it says) to increase drag, which was a trick I used flying into Randolph AFB in the T-44 more than once.
I'm just befuddled how on earth these things are fuel injected and have a mixture lever.. I can understand a no feedback open loop system, but speed-density has worked for mix control in cars ever since the GM TBI system of the late 70s/early 80s.
Also, the Cessna I flew had no carb heat but a mixture lever.
I'm just befuddled how on earth these things are fuel injected and have a mixture lever.. I can understand a no feedback open loop system, but speed-density has worked for mix control in cars ever since the GM TBI system of the late 70s/early 80s.
Also, the Cessna I flew had no carb heat but a mixture lever.
11-15-2013, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by E2CMaster
The prop controls are not too bad for me, I actually salvaged and approach I got too high on by going MAX INCR (or whatever it says) to increase drag, which was a trick I used flying into Randolph AFB in the T-44 more than once.
I'm just befuddled how on earth these things are fuel injected and have a mixture lever.. I can understand a no feedback open loop system, but speed-density has worked for mix control in cars ever since the GM TBI system of the late 70s/early 80s.
Also, the Cessna I flew had no carb heat but a mixture lever.
I'm just befuddled how on earth these things are fuel injected and have a mixture lever.. I can understand a no feedback open loop system, but speed-density has worked for mix control in cars ever since the GM TBI system of the late 70s/early 80s.
Also, the Cessna I flew had no carb heat but a mixture lever.
11-15-2013, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by brianb
Could you do a forward slip in a T-44?
Normal landing procedure was not to go props full forward until short final, but you could to increase your drag count further out if needed. I forget which approach into Randolph it was, but there was one that you would have a hell of a time getting down and hitting the mandatory altitudes if you left the props at 18-1900 rpm.
2200, it comes down like a rock.
12-09-2013, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by slinger
Great! What will you be doing?
I also tentatively agreed to take on my third Beech Baron, this one a B58.
I guess I'm "all in" again.
12-14-2013, 02:52 AM
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Originally Posted by TonyWilliams
Burning kerosine and hauling passengers. I'm in the sim right now.
I also tentatively agreed to take on my third Beech Baron, this one a B58.
I guess I'm "all in" again.
I also tentatively agreed to take on my third Beech Baron, this one a B58.
I guess I'm "all in" again.
Hope thing are going well at home and in the new job.
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