Marty Shapiro wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote in
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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




Palo Alto. My airplane is based at RHV (more convenient for
all the
partners). It's a Rallye 235E, all steam guage with a loran that went
tango uniform.


OK. I've flown them a bit. Only the 100hp version, which don't climb so
good. Beleive it or not I was talking to the current holder of the
Franklin engine type certificates just last week!
Your's is probably a lycoming variant, though, eh? Slow as molasss, but
good fun!


Bertie