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Too many good points to comment on all of them, Michael.
But I'll add this about the slaved HSI... If it also includes an ADF pointer, you'd wonder why anyone would ever complain about NDB approaches. You just make the raspberry-colored RMI arrow line up with the Final Approach Course on the HSI, and then keep it there. (I'm sure some RMI pointers aren't raspberry, but mine is.) (I know....."Who cares about ADF?" Well, I kept mine.) ---JRC--- "Michael" wrote in message = om... =20 =20 =20 =20 HSI (slaved) =20 Nice to have. Not particularly important unless your scan is poor or things happen very, very fast. =20 Michael |
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"John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... Too many good points to comment on all of them, Michael. But I'll add this about the slaved HSI... If it also includes an ADF pointer, you'd wonder why anyone would ever complain about NDB approaches. You just make the raspberry-colored RMI arrow line up with the Final Approach Course on the HSI, and then keep it there. (I'm sure some RMI pointers aren't raspberry, but mine is.) Lime green! (I know....."Who cares about ADF?" Well, I kept mine.) ---JRC--- Some places, some backwaters, that's all there is. |
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"Tom S." wrote in message = ... =20 "John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... Too many good points to comment on all of them, Michael. But I'll add this about the slaved HSI... If it also includes an ADF pointer, you'd wonder why anyone would ever complain about NDB approaches. You just make the raspberry-colored RMI arrow line up with the Final Approach Course on the HSI, and then keep it there. =20 (I'm sure some RMI pointers aren't raspberry, but mine is.) =20 Lime green! =20 (I know....."Who cares about ADF?" Well, I kept mine.) ---JRC--- =20 Some places, some backwaters, that's all there is. =20 =20 Besides, the ADF can point to thunderstorms! How cool is that? :-) ---JRC--- |
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Hi there
For those thinking of TCAS, I just took delivery of the first UK import of Surecheck trafficscope VRX..the successor to TPAS...much nicer .... maybe worth considering instead of TPAS on your shopping list! -its out in the USA already http://surecheck.net/five/avionics/vrx/ Bill Padley London "John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... "Tom S." wrote in message ... "John R. Copeland" wrote in message ... Too many good points to comment on all of them, Michael. But I'll add this about the slaved HSI... If it also includes an ADF pointer, you'd wonder why anyone would ever complain about NDB approaches. You just make the raspberry-colored RMI arrow line up with the Final Approach Course on the HSI, and then keep it there. (I'm sure some RMI pointers aren't raspberry, but mine is.) Lime green! (I know....."Who cares about ADF?" Well, I kept mine.) ---JRC--- Some places, some backwaters, that's all there is. Besides, the ADF can point to thunderstorms! How cool is that? :-) ---JRC--- |
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"Bill Padley" wrote in message ...
For those thinking of TCAS, I just took delivery of the first UK import of Surecheck trafficscope VRX..the successor to TPAS...much nicer .... maybe worth considering instead of TPAS on your shopping list! -its out in the USA already http://surecheck.net/five/avionics/vrx/ Interesting, but I wish the web site had more details about how it works. For example, how does the built-in-altimeter work? How does it cope with pressure changes? How does it develop distance and altitude information on other aircraft? Does it develop range, too? I hope you'll put in a pirep as you get more used to it. What concerns me is, when I most want "extra eyes" watching for me is w/in a few miles of an airport. Yet there can be 5 planes in the vicinity of our airport, heck within 1.5 miles, and none of them a threat to me. I'm afraid when I most need such a device it would be nothing but a continuous cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" Cheers, Sydney |
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"Guy Elden Jr." wrote in message ...
Just got back from a good proficiency practice flight. This was the first time I'd flown single pilot IFR at night with conditions that could potentially deteriorate to actual instrument. (cloudy, rain developing as the flight progressed, visibility dropping somewhat) .... So to sum up: I had 1 VOR, 1 COM, and no backups in the plane for this trip. And the COM was flaky toward the end. Methinks this plane is about to be decommissioned from the flight line, because the owner refuses to put any more money into it. It also just came out of 100 hour, so should (in theory) be at its best operating capacity. I know I won't be trying any more trips at night or IFR in it anytime soon, but I'm glad I had the chance to push the boundaries a bit with the bare minimums for night IFR flight. Given that you suspected the flight might turn into actual, did you examine the VOR checks done by other pilots in the last 30 days? I'd suspect if the owner was an aircraft slumlord, that they weren't done... I got bit by this once (second IFR solo flight after getting ticket), I rented a plane where the VOR check was done, but only on one radio, the other radio was off by about 13' and determining location by station cross-reference put me into a confusing quandry where my time based location wasn't matching the VOR cross reference location. Of course I didn't realize that the second radio was bum or which VOR was actually checked because it just said VOR check good +1', so It took me another 20 minutes of sweating in hard actual to sluth out which one was bad. I had to wait until an NDB passage to eliminate the bad one. This was all over territory which was outside ATC radar coverage, and when I did come into coverage I was barked at because I had reported my position in the wrong location (30 miles wrong). I informed them of electronics problems and asked them to keep an eye on me. To compound my stress levels, ATC later in the flight kept calling me asking my altitude and telling me I was in a steep decent. This was due to a fresh and faulty encoder install two days prior to me renting this plane.. No idea why it kept doing that, but it sure freaked me out. Constantly running through my mind were all the failure modes, blocked static, failing gyros, etc etc.... I think I lost 40 pounds of weight and all in perspiration on that trip. This stress could have all been avoided if the log clearly stated which VOR was checked, and if the second one wasn't checked I could have checked it myself before departing. (More importantly, I should have realized that the entry was incorrect or incomplete) The VOR problem combined with the fear of diving into the ground due to some instrumentation failure were over the top stressfull. The encoder by itself wouldn't have been so bad, but I was already doubting the aircraft's quality before that happened due to the VOR issue, so I started assuming everything was going to hell in a handbasket... I learned more about troubleshooting problems on that one trip than 90 hours of classroom lecture could ever be taught. |
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"Snowbird" wrote in message om... Even when there isn't an authorized VOR checkpoint one can often pick up a radial somewhere on the airport, or track the localizer on takeoff or something. Tracking the localizer won't tell you anything about VOR errors. |
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"Snowbird" wrote in message =
om... "Bill Padley" wrote in message = ... =20 For those thinking of TCAS, I just took delivery of the first UK import of Surecheck = trafficscope VRX..the successor to TPAS...much nicer .... maybe worth considering instead of TPAS on your shopping list! -its = out in the USA already =20 http://surecheck.net/five/avionics/vrx/ =20 Interesting, but I wish the web site had more details about how it works. For example, how does the built-in-altimeter work? How does it cope with pressure changes? How does it develop distance and altitude information on other aircraft? Does it develop range, too? =20 I hope you'll put in a pirep as you get more used to it. =20 What concerns me is, when I most want "extra eyes" watching for me is w/in a few miles of an airport. Yet there can be 5 planes in the vicinity of our airport, heck within 1.5 miles,=20 and none of them a threat to me. I'm afraid when I most need such a device it would be nothing but a continuous cry of=20 "Wolf! Wolf!" =20 Cheers, Sydney Sydney: Regarding "Wolf! Wolf!", I'm on my third iteration of Ryan TCAD. It scares me now to think of flying into busy areas without it. I find that my Ryan 9900BX is selective enough about its advisories. The TCAD does some simple vector prediction to calculate threats. It doesn't rely solely on proximity. And if you don't like the factory settings for your protected airspace = volume, you can change them. Also, the TCAD has separate modes for approaches and departures, both of which further reduce nuisance alarms near airports, by focusing more on the airspace you're entering than what you're = vacating. ---JRC--- |
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