Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mustaine on July 10, 2006, 04:30:56 PM
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Saturday Aug, 5 13:00 in a Cessna 172
website of school:
http://www.flymilwaukee.com/
:aok :O
kind of just did it on a whim lol.
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Right on!
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glad i am a few thousand miles away
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Careful it's an addicting experiance.
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Mustaine, did you go to that be a pilot deal or just to the school?
I have really wanted to get my licsense and was thinking of going thru the be a pilot routine.
just not sure what way is best yet at this point
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Make sure the guys gives you the yoke from the time you lift off to final approach. You can do, especially if you can fly in Aces High.
He will work the radio and the throttle. Don't be shy.
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Originally posted by Habu
Make sure the guys gives you the yoke from the time you lift off to final approach. You can do, especially if you can fly in Aces High.
He will work the radio and the throttle. Don't be shy.
Yup, it really isn't hard. The time I did it I had to beg the instructor to take the yoke as we were landing...the only reason being that I found it really weird when we were taxiing out to the runway getting ready to take off that I had to steer with my feet. I kept turning the "yoke" and would obviously get no response. I was really worried about doing something by mistake when we touched down and flipping the plane or something.
The pilot said I did a great job though...nice and fluid on the turns and nothing that gave him any concern at all.
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Originally posted by Habu
Make sure the guys gives you the yoke from the time you lift off to final approach. You can do, especially if you can fly in Aces High.
He will work the radio and the throttle. Don't be shy.
Oh i'll keep that in mind, though I know I'm gonna be a bit jumpy, see I love to fly, and have as a passenger probably over 500 times, but i still get white knuckled during any turbulance. I'm kind of hoping that if i am on the stick I wont be as worried :eek
thats why I'm just doing a intro flight. who knows, maybe I'm not up to the whole flying a small can of metal waiting to plow into a field and crush me :lol
Originally posted by WilldCrd
Mustaine, did you go to that be a pilot deal or just to the school?
I have really wanted to get my licsense and was thinking of going thru the be a pilot routine.
just not sure what way is best yet at this point
Well, I don't have the money to do the full pilot thing, maybe the sport pilot but not full... I just really got the itch to try it, and found this school really really close to home. turns out a member of the youth ministry at my friends church has his private liscense, but let it lapse since he started a family and misionary work out of the country. he went to this school and recommended it.
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Sounds like fun JB37 (:D)!
Remember, no fart jokes prior to takeoff and all should go fine. Also avoid trying to vulch other planes.
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Originally posted by Saintaw
avoid trying to vulch other planes.
:lol will have to keep that in mind.
will they allow me to tape a gunsight onto the windsheild at least?
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Don't want to worry you but..............I'm going to anyway. An instructor once told me of how he was taking a student on an introductory flight. Now this guy 'flew' flight sims and talked the talk. Seemed to know his stuff. When he asked the instructor if he could handle the controls during take off, the instructor allowed him to do so, although normally he wouldn't.
The take off roll was uneventful until the aeroplane lifted off the ground. At this point the student shouted 'No, no, no' and pushed the yoke hard forward. The instructor retook control and landed heavily swung off the runway, thinking that the guy had seen something wrong. After recovering his composure the instructor asked what was wrong. 'I just got scared'. was the reply. :eek: Seems the real thing is a bit different than sims:rofl
When they taxyed back in. The guy had got over his fright and was last seen trying to book another introductory flight!
But seriously don't worry, just do exactly what the instructor says and relax. It is really very hard to get hurt in a light aircraft on a clear day. The 172 is a nice cuddly safe aircraft. Turbulence is mostly a non event, after a while you hardly notice the smaller bumps. If you don't land with a big smile on your face. I will be surprised.
:D
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thanks :aok
though I could be totally off base, I think I have flown enough as a passenger to not freak out on take-off, and probably in a live or die must do situation I could probably do it without a problem. I am not going to ask for that, NOR landing. honestly that spooks me more than anything. there are too many ways I could screw up a landing. heck I can barely do it in AH :rofl
the "great" thing is this is going to be the weekend after the EAA Airventure fly-in / airshow I will be at. :aok I'll probably be antsy and raring to go all week long. :lol
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Also remember that rolling from the hangar is not a mission planner screw up by the instructor.
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Also, inverted hangar passes in the C-172 are discouraged by most FBOs.
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One more thing. Its good luck (especially for your first flight) to chant "Allah Ackbar" repeatedly right as the plane is leaving the ground. The louder you chant it, the more luck you will get. Plus, this will make the pilot more comfortable, seeing as how he will recognize that you know about aviation culture.
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Originally posted by Mustaine
I am not going to ask for that, NOR landing. honestly that spooks me more than anything. there are too many ways I could screw up a landing. heck I can barely do it in AH :rofl
I find the real thing easier to land than sims. Many 'real' pilots apparently do when the try sims. Probably something to do with visual cues or peripheral vision that we normally use when landing. Or it could be that we are useless at games!
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Also, you can feel the ground effect, and the resolution of 'real life' is somewhat higher than your video card, so you can judge visual cues more reliably.
The sim experience does come in handy when doing instrument reference maneuvers and night flight. Flying at night in LA looks almost exactly like MS Flight sim of about 15 years ago.
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True Chairboy, I found night instrument flying in a MS flight sim as close to real as any sim can be. I replicated some of my Instrument training at Dublin Airport on the sim. The only thing missing was the heart stopping moment when I realised we had been vectored out to sea, at night in a single engine aircraft:eek:
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No problem, just hit pause, go to 'File', select 'Open Aircraft' and select the 747-400. I prefer the one with the United livery, looks sweet.
....wait
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Just out of curiosity, what happens when Skuzzy trips over a cable while you are in real flight?
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crash to desktop :)