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Offline Golfer

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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2011, 06:12:50 AM »
Quote from: Tupac on October 17, 2011, 12:46:07 AM
This isn't a cookie cutter accelerated course being taught to the checkride - It's being taught life or death. When its all said and done I should be a safe IR pilot.

You'll just be legal is all. The instrument rating is the coolest one you can get when you're looking at your wheels are whisking along the tops of gentle stratus clouds when for you it's a sunny day while the rest of the world sees clouds or rain. I still love just skimming along the tops when the opportunity presents itself and will admit to smiling when I do.

You will be presented with opportunities to kill yourself. I'm not picking on you for no reason but I'm saying leave the final countdown humming, Bee Gee lip syncing immaturity at home and take this seriously.

You won't be safe, you'll be legal. Big difference.
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #31 on: October 17, 2011, 06:23:02 AM »
When I and a couple of other hot shot pilots (in our minds :joystick:)passed our IR checkride. The boss of the flight school came over and congratulated us but brought back down to Earth by saying that if he ever caught us flying actual IFR in any of his aircraft he'd kick our tulips off the field. His point was like that of Golfer and Wolfala. There is a difference between passing a checkride and flying hard IFR. He was making it clear we weren't ready to launch into the vagaries of the Irish Weather just because we had had a stamp on our licence.

My experience since has borne this out.

I'm sure Tupac will take this all on board.
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #32 on: October 17, 2011, 07:00:24 AM »
Quote from: Golfer on October 17, 2011, 06:12:50 AM
You will be presented with opportunities to kill yourself. I'm not picking on you for no reason but I'm saying leave the final countdown humming, Bee Gee lip syncing immaturity at home and take this seriously. 

Will do  :salute
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #33 on: October 17, 2011, 08:34:11 AM »
Went out to the airport and was doing a preflight and noticed a blue streak down the wheel pant on the nosewheel.  Started feeling around under the cowl and noticed the line to the fuel pressure gauge made my hand wet with 100LL.

Always do a preflight folks
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #34 on: October 17, 2011, 02:44:21 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on October 17, 2011, 08:34:11 AM
Went out to the airport and was doing a preflight and noticed a blue streak down the wheel pant on the nosewheel.  Started feeling around under the cowl and noticed the line to the fuel pressure gauge made my hand wet with 100LL.

Always do a preflight folks

Do ya 1 from yesterday with the same student who drives heavy earth movers. Had a plug go bad with an inflight lean of peak magneto check. Landed, pulled the cowl, replaced the plug. Saw the unmetered fuel line from the transducer up to the spider manifold with an Adele clamp not hooked onto anything and just flapping in the breeze. The Adele clamp was to secure the line to one on the induction tube, but I could move it up down, left right, 12" in any direction. The wrench who worked on it last left it completely unsecured vibrating up and down free to flap and break away. Sure would've made a spectacular engine fire in about 30 hours.


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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #35 on: October 18, 2011, 10:52:25 AM »
Quote from: Wolfala on October 17, 2011, 02:44:21 PM
Do ya 1 from yesterday with the same student who drives heavy earth movers. Had a plug go bad with an inflight lean of peak magneto check. Landed, pulled the cowl, replaced the plug. Saw the unmetered fuel line from the transducer up to the spider manifold with an Adele clamp not hooked onto anything and just flapping in the breeze. The Adele clamp was to secure the line to one on the induction tube, but I could move it up down, left right, 12" in any direction. The wrench who worked on it last left it completely unsecured vibrating up and down free to flap and break away. Sure would've made a spectacular engine fire in about 30 hours.

  :eek:

The fuel line was fixed yesterday afternoon, and we did 2 flights yesterday evening. Stalls, steep turns, unusual attitudes, slow flight, and memorizing power setting for doing approaches. Mostly VFR stuff, but its really different when you're doing them under the hood at night.
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #36 on: October 19, 2011, 10:23:47 PM »
Flying an ILS partial panel at night
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2011, 12:43:09 AM »
Quote from: Wolfala on October 16, 2011, 08:54:55 PM
I had 5 hours of hardcore short field landings today with a student when it was consistently 20 gusting to 30 today. Have a nice video of the guy smoking my left main and running us off the runway as well. I billed out $2,100 just today. That's without the damage.

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Could you tell me what that video is called when the guy poped your tire, I can't seem to find it on your page. Or is it not uploaded yet?
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2011, 09:45:18 AM »
This morning flying an RNAV my attitude indicator slowly started to turn and then flipped on it's back.......I was intending on replacing it, but that looks like its gonna be sooner than later.
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2011, 11:11:44 AM »
Nice! I had an awful flight yesterday. Did an ILS, an arc to a VOR/DME and that was it. I sissied out of the single engine gps cause I was burned out. My problem is that if I make a mistake I can't let it go, I try "harder" which pretty much means I go into awful fixation on any instrument that needs correcting. Stops my scan dead and it ruins the rest of my flight! (perfectionist :( ) If you could list the specific approaches you flew that'd be cool, I like to give random ones a try in the sim to improve my briefing and give some variety.

If you want to try the ones I did:

ILS 36 @ KTIX
VOR/DME 29L @ KVRB
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #40 on: October 20, 2011, 12:05:32 PM »
I don't have a simulator, but these are the ones I did.

KLNK VOR 17 (circle to land 36) x3

KLNK ILS OR LOC 36 x3

KLNK RNAV (GPS) 36 x1 (attitude indicator quit)
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #41 on: October 21, 2011, 12:20:27 PM »
I passed the written today, and from what everyone tells me that is the hardest part.
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #42 on: October 21, 2011, 12:32:28 PM »
Congrats bro

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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2011, 12:33:25 PM »
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Re: Starting Instrument on Monday
« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2011, 01:16:20 PM »
Quote from: Wolfala on October 17, 2011, 02:44:21 PM
Do ya 1 from yesterday with the same student who drives heavy earth movers. Had a plug go bad with an inflight lean of peak magneto check. Landed, pulled the cowl, replaced the plug. Saw the unmetered fuel line from the transducer up to the spider manifold with an Adele clamp not hooked onto anything and just flapping in the breeze. The Adele clamp was to secure the line to one on the induction tube, but I could move it up down, left right, 12" in any direction. The wrench who worked on it last left it completely unsecured vibrating up and down free to flap and break away. Sure would've made a spectacular engine fire in about 30 hours.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1CScnaZ7I&feature=youtube_gdata_player




I enjoyed watching your videos. Dang deer, a real problem here in Maine, too  :)

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