Are there any "pilot" watches that are actually helpful for pilots?
Marty Shapiro wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote in
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WJRFlyBoy wrote in
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:32:04 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
I'm just getting invovled in instructing in lightplanes again. My
mission? To get the guys in my flying club and turn them into
luddites. First thing they're going to learn is to fly without
anything but their oil pressure and alitimeter..
Gosh, can't you give them an engine?
Ideally, we'd get a glider to start them off with, but this will do
in lieu.
I'm not kidding about this, BTW. They'e going to learn to fly this
airplane from minute one with no airspeed indicator.It has no gyros
anyway. It has a comm and an encoding xponder alright, which we kind
of need (Citabria, BTW) They can have the ASI back when they don't
need it anymore and they can start carrying a GPS when they don't
need that either.
Bertie
Where are you instructing? This would be a great course for
any BFR
or Wings phase.
Far far away in a distant universe!
That's kind of the idea, but it's only for guys in my club and there
aren't going to be too many of them willing to go old timey.
Good job too, because I'm away a lot with work and have only limited
time to see to them. One of them will eventualy be an instructor, I hope
and he can carry on with these rapidly vanishing techniques, I hope.
There are guys who do this around the place, though.
Where are you?
Bertie
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