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Flight Check ride-along
I had the rare privilege last Tues of riding along with Flight Check
as they inspected the new LDA (Localizer Directional Array) approaches at CLE (Cleveland, OH) Typically, we see a King Air from Detroit for periodic checks, where they just need to fly a few approaches. For this new installation of 2 new offset ILS's (LDA's), they sent a Challenger 601 from OKC. Of course I brought my own headset My original intent was to ride in the back and see exactly how the techs 'check' the approaches. But once I got in the jump seat behind the pilots I forgot about that! One of my co-workers warned me they would be doing a lot of "fast", "low" flying...Well... Lots of flying at ~ 1000 AGL at ~ 220 knots. A couple of times the pilots checked to make sure I was OK with it. Not even a concern for me...hey, I fly at 1000 AGL all the time! ....and 220 knots feels like slow flight in a big plane @ 45000+ Gross...that's about the weight of 18 172's... 3 hours in the jumpseat...and I felt it I had a blast...even made a notation in my logbook-zero hours of course...although I did learn a bit! I do think I was smoother on the controls later that day in the 172-after watching them fly. Definitely up there on my "pilot geek cool meter" just below getting my instrument rating (Friday), and just above riding along on a KC-135 refueling flight ~1988 --Don Having a good week Don Byrer Electronics Technician/Friendly but Sarcastic Pilot FAA Airways Facilites/Tech Ops, RADAR/Data/Comm @ CLE Amateur Radio KJ5KB Instrument Pilot Commercial Student PP-ASEL 30 Jan 2005 "-IA" 25 Mar 2005 |
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