Steve Hix wrote:
In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

Dan wrote:
On Mar 8, 11:40 am, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Ken S. Tucker wrote:
On Mar 7, 5:01 pm, wrote:
On Mar 7, 1:02 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
Dud, you've never been in an airplane, and you're
NOT an instructor. I'm a prof teacher and I can
sniff your bad **** off the net, you're a phony!
If Dudley or Bertie are frauds, they are very, very good frauds.
The terminology and all other aspects of their posts regarding
aviation and learning to fly are accurate and perceptive. There would
be few folks who could come up with this stuff unless they were
savants of some sort. Those of us who actually fly have little
argument with most of what they say.
There are some other posters here who were obvious frauds from
the start. And the more they post, the deeper they dig their holes of
discredit. They're just incredible.
Anybody can sound good on the net where knowledge
is concerned, but you can't fake an attitude for long.
Pulling mixture or fooling with fuel valves immediately after
takeoff is asking to die. Soon.
No not really, Mr. Buttman is not a suicidal maniac
and one has to presume if the pilot didn't react
properly he take control and have that figured out.
Pulling the throttle has the same
engine-loss effect without the extreme risk associated with killing
the engine. Pulling mixture or fuel also carries
the more remote risk of a control failure, whereby the mixture control
cable or fuel valve linkage breaks at that exact moment, making a
recovery of the engine impossible.
Sure that can happen. I suppose that's part of the
point of Mr. Buttman's suggested exercise.
In the last 15 years or so we've
had a throttle cable failure and a carb heat cable failure, so now we
replace all the controls when we replace the engine. There's no legal
requirement to do it, but after seeing old controls break I decided
that it was going to get done.
Dan
My personal fear is loosing elevator control, it's
very rare, but that Alaska Air crash a few years
back (in the Pacific) was blamed on the screw
that adjusts the elevator getting stripped or jammed.
Ken
The answer to this entire issue is quite easily proved one way or the
other.
Anyone.....and I mean ANYONE, reading about this issue here can easily
pick up the phone and call their local FAA office here in the United
States anyway, and ask for an official opinion on the following
question. (Someone please do this :-)
"Is it acceptable procedure for a flight instructor to turn off a fuel
valve on a student on takeoff causing fuel starvation and subsequent
engine failure as a teaching method"

No flames......no back and forth on who's an idiot or who's a fraud; no
banter on who's a good instructor and who isn't.....simply get the
official position of the authoritative body officially responsible for
flight instruction and flight safety in the United States.......then
post the answer right here for the world to see.

How fair and up front is that?

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Dudley Henriques
That's way too easy and implies moments away from the computer.

Are you KIDDING?

Sheese...


Dan
I actually went out this week and bought a new Macbook Air just for
Usenet and email. Wish I'd waited a bit longer though. I'm getting more
disillusioned with Usenet by the minute :-))))

Say...if you decide to give up on usenet for sure, I'll take that
MacBook Air off your hands.

Because I'm all about being helpful. :}
Hey..I LOVE this thing! It's amazing. This is my second Mac. I have an
IMac downstairs that serves as a wireless relay for the Macbook Air with
the laser printer.
I use a high end gaming PC for the flight simulator only. I'll never
again buy a PC for anything but the sim. I'm completely sold on Apple!


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Dudley Henriques