Most Important Control On My Plane

In article .com,
"Charles Talleyrand" wrote:

Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

Most important control
Radio transmit

aviate, navigate, communicate.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Bob Noel wrote:
In article .com,
"Charles Talleyrand" wrote:

Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

Most important control
Radio transmit

aviate, navigate, communicate.

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that makes it fly.

"Ron Natalie" wrote:

It's Bernoulli

Uh-oh...

Dan Luke wrote:
"Ron Natalie" wrote:

It's Bernoulli

Uh-oh...


Newton doesn't rhyme.

In a previous article, "Charles Talleyrand" said:
Type of plane

I fly a Piper Lance.

Most important control

Intercom ISO to shut up my kids.

Least important control

The knob that sets your level on the AI. Never use it.

Never working control

Electric trim.

Scariest control

Landing gear override.

Control I never use

Fin strobe - keep it on all the time so the fin strobe comes on when I
turn on the master.

Control in the wrong place

Rudder trim - I hate reaching down to floor level for it in IMC.

Control I fixate about

Landing gear lever.

Control that impresses non-pilot passengers

The "Gear unsafe" light that comes on while the gear is in transit.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"Panic kills"
-- Rick Grant (quoting RCAF pilot training)

Robert Coffey Wrote:
Type of plane
I have a VFR Piper Cherokee 6.

Most important control
Yoke

Least important control
ADF

Never working control
*#! Sun Visor won't stay up, I'll remember to bring velcro next time.

Scariest control
Mixture ( is right next to cabin heat & same style knob )

Control I never use
ADF, Rudder trim, VOR(s), DME, Standby VAC, Spare fuses, Defrost, (tie)

Control in the wrong place
Cabin Heat

Control I fixate about
Fuel Selector

Control that impresses non-pilot passengers
Auto pilot (when it changes course over a waypoint)

Charles Talleyrand wrote:
Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

M20

Most important control
Radio transmit

Yoke

Least important control
Pitot heat (if you need it, you shouldn't be flying)

Why shouldn't you be flying if you need pitot heat?
I would say landing light is the least important. I only use it for
taxiing.

Never working control
Parking brake

DME slave to nav #2. Slaves to nav #1, just not to #2. Avionics tech
gave me complicated answer, translation "it won't work".

Scariest control
Landing light (when it suddenly failed during a night landing)

On the Decathlon it was the door eject lever. On the Mooney, maybe the
emergency gear extention?

Control I never use
Transponder test

Marker beacon brightness

Control in the wrong place
Fuel shutoff (right where me feet can kick it)

Fuel selector. I'm long armed so its not a big deal, others who have
flown my plane have a very difficult time reaching it.

Control I fixate about
Mixture

Gear

Control that impresses non-pilot passengers
GPS on button

Red flashing "auto pilot not engaged" light.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary wrote:
Charles Talleyrand wrote:
Type of plane
I have a VFR Cessna 150.

M20

Most important control
Radio transmit

Yoke

Least important control
Pitot heat (if you need it, you shouldn't be flying)

Why shouldn't you be flying if you need pitot heat?


Because I fly a VFR Cessna 150. When would I need pitot heat assuming
the weather was good enough to fly in the first place. In other words,
if I need pitot heat, what I really needed was better decision making
before takeoff.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Talleyrand ]
Posted At: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:45 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.owning
Conversation: Most Important Control On My Plane
Subject: Most Important Control On My Plane


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Why shouldn't you be flying if you need pitot heat?


Because I fly a VFR Cessna 150. When would I need pitot heat assuming
the weather was good enough to fly in the first place. In other
words,
if I need pitot heat, what I really needed was better decision making
before takeoff.

To each, his or her own limits. However, pitot heat isn't only useful in
below freezing conditions. It used to be a practice to have the pitot
heat on before flight into visible moisture. I realize you mentioned VFR
only Charles, but it seems to me that this thread was tending to suggest
that pitot heat was for use during below freezing conditions, and that's
just not always the case.

: Because I fly a VFR Cessna 150. When would I need pitot heat assuming
: the weather was good enough to fly in the first place. In other
: words,
: if I need pitot heat, what I really needed was better decision making
: before takeoff.

: To each, his or her own limits. However, pitot heat isn't only useful in
: below freezing conditions. It used to be a practice to have the pitot
: heat on before flight into visible moisture. I realize you mentioned VFR
: only Charles, but it seems to me that this thread was tending to suggest
: that pitot heat was for use during below freezing conditions, and that's
: just not always the case.

One of the most surprising cases of airframe icing I've encountered in my PA28-180 was in VMC under VFR near Kenosha,
WI...

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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