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Stop me, before I do something crazy...
"Matt Whiting" wrote: I never had to bet my life on trigonometry, but it's pretty complex and I mastered it in a lot fewer than 100 hours. Trigonometry is complex? Really?? Well, for *me* it was. But then, I have to look myself up in the phone book to find my way home every day. -- Dan ? at BFM |
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Stop me, before I do something crazy...
"Luke Skywalker" wrote: about two years ago I gave a pilot a BFR and an insurance renewal checkout in his Saratoga. He was a fairly "active" (180 hours in the last year) pilot including some reasonable instrument time. I asked him "Had any concerns" and he self confessed that he had "almost" landed gear up at least four times in the last six months. !!!!! Jeez! In 7 years and 900+ hours of flying a retract, I never came close once. It didnt take "to long" flying with him to see why. We did six different approaches and EACH time with no real variation in traffic he put the gear down at a "different time" in the approach. Sometimes downwind, sometimes final, in the two instrument approaches, it was never the same place. When we met for our next session...I took him to the parking lot of the local walmart which is on the approach path to a busy metropolitan airport. We did nothing for 20 minutes but sit and watch the jetliners approach. his task was to figure out what was the same with all of them. The answer is that they all put the gear down at the walmart, and all the 737's went to gear down and flaps 15 right around the Walmart. The concept of putting the gear down at the same place at the same time, had never really been taught to this guy, indeed the concept of "everything is the same on every landing" was a kind of foreign concept. Look at every gear up landing (absent mechanical problems) and I will show you a pilot whose methodology and procedure skills are non existant. If you dont have those and one flies a complex airplane...one is an accident waiting to happen. No argument there. You're preaching to the choir. -- Dan ? at BFM |
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Stop me, before I do something crazy...
Luke Skywalker wrote:
On Jun 6, 10:56 am, "Dan Luke" wrote: "Luke Skywalker" wrote: a 100 hours a year..my question to someone who tells me this is there anything else in the "complex" category that one does for 2 hours a week and stays proficient enough to bet their life on it...? I never had to bet my life on trigonometry, but it's pretty complex and I mastered it in a lot fewer than 100 hours. -- Dan "How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that!" -Chief Inspector Dreyfus Hello: I found trig and Calculas (at least basic calculas) not that all complex. Is that anything like calculus? :-) I found geometry the most difficult. Too much raw memorization and proofs just aren't my idea of a good time. It didnt take "to long" flying with him to see why. We did six different approaches and EACH time with no real variation in traffic he put the gear down at a "different time" in the approach. Sometimes downwind, sometimes final, in the two instrument approaches, it was never the same place. Sounds like he didn't use checklists either as that should include gear down. If he wasn't using checklists consistently, then putting down the landing gear was only one of his problems! Matt |
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Stop me, before I do something crazy...
Dan Luke wrote:
"Luke Skywalker" wrote: about two years ago I gave a pilot a BFR and an insurance renewal checkout in his Saratoga. He was a fairly "active" (180 hours in the last year) pilot including some reasonable instrument time. I asked him "Had any concerns" and he self confessed that he had "almost" landed gear up at least four times in the last six months. !!!!! Jeez! In 7 years and 900+ hours of flying a retract, I never came close once. It is good that you just sold your airplane as making this statement almost guarantees a gear incident! :-) Matt |
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Stop me, before I do something crazy...
"Matt Whiting" wrote: In 7 years and 900+ hours of flying a retract, I never came close once. It is good that you just sold your airplane as making this statement almost guarantees a gear incident! :-) You got that right. I'm not superstitious, but... -- Dan ? at BFM |
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