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04-29-2025 | 04:43 PM
#121
At your mom's house
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: cpt 737
Nobody cares. Spinning the altitude knob hard isn't abusing equipment. Are you even a real pilot?
I did once have an old 4 digit codger living in the past tell me to turn the mechanical freq selector in the classics the short way around in order to save wear and tear on the gears. I looked at him like my dog looks at me when I ask him how his day was.
I did once have an old 4 digit codger living in the past tell me to turn the mechanical freq selector in the classics the short way around in order to save wear and tear on the gears. I looked at him like my dog looks at me when I ask him how his day was.
04-29-2025 | 06:05 PM
#122
Line Holder
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 586
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From: FOD
Pros go the short way, then overshoot and have to turn back the other direction, then overshoot again, and end up spinning more than if they'd gone the long way around and actually paid attention.
04-29-2025 | 09:18 PM
#124
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Joined: Jun 2021
Posts: 584
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Nobody cares. Spinning the altitude knob hard isn't abusing equipment. Are you even a real pilot?
I did once have an old 4 digit codger living in the past tell me to turn the mechanical freq selector in the classics the short way around in order to save wear and tear on the gears. I looked at him like my dog looks at me when I ask him how his day was.
I did once have an old 4 digit codger living in the past tell me to turn the mechanical freq selector in the classics the short way around in order to save wear and tear on the gears. I looked at him like my dog looks at me when I ask him how his day was.
05-08-2025 | 12:13 PM
#125
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Joined: Aug 2020
Posts: 333
Likes: 41
From: Picking up the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnix.
"simple things bother simple minds"
I've heard stranger things said in the cockpit, but that is a stupid thing to worry about.
05-10-2025 | 09:50 AM
#126
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,635
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From: Guppy Gear Slinger
If the alt knob didn't exist, how the heck else would we decide who flies the first leg of a trip? Without an alt knob to spin, we'd all just sit there trying to outdo the other guy in terms of "I care even less than you about which legs I fly" 😅
05-10-2025 | 11:01 AM
#127
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 534
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From: 18%er but I’ll enforce UPA23 to the last period.
Heading bug my man. Heading bug. I also flew with a Captain many moons ago who used which side the transponder was set to as the determinant if there was no preference and no compelling reason for him to have to fly the first leg.
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