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Hand on the Throttle

Old 12th Aug 2014, 17:52
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and flying S-turns along a road, aren't seen as necessary lessons and a good skill base to develop in pilots.

Sounds like super-whizzo fun!

After exercise 15 from the 'dated' syllabus, I like to choose a day with plenty of small Cu about and get Bloggs to 'play' around them. Topping entertainment, oodles of confidence-building, nobody ever pranged a kite colliding with the sky, then back for Tiffin.

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Old 12th Aug 2014, 18:46
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Hand on the Throttle

Also a fan of cloud surfing. Quite hard to judge 1500m horizontally and 1000' vertically at times though. ;-)
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Old 13th Aug 2014, 12:25
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Is it not "clear of clouds" below 3000 feet where you fly?
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In my experience if left hand not otherwise occupied trim wheel is a good other place to put it to enable minor adjustments
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In my experience if left hand not otherwise occupied trim wheel is a good other place to put it to enable minor adjustments
Are you serious?
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Old 13th Aug 2014, 16:15
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Wot I was taught:

At all times when at full power or idle.
At all times on the ground unless brakes applied.
During final approach.


I'm sure there are other times but......
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Old 13th Aug 2014, 18:20
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Hand on the Throttle

Not many fluffy clouds around below 3000' this time of year.
Wot he sed ^^^ seems like a good answer.
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Old 16th Aug 2014, 18:22
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I always teach hand on the throttle below 1000'. Generally take off and landing. Had a student from another school that needed me to pull the power on him, on final and on take off, 8 or 9 times to make him put his hand on the throttle lever.

He had been taught, at a previous school, to never touch the throttle unless he was moving it !! He also pulled the mixture twice on me downwind, in my opinion because his hand wasn't familiar with the controls.
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Old 17th Aug 2014, 01:56
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simply put, if you will need to use the throttle to adjust something soon, keep your hand upon it.

on takeoff until you reach V1 (transports).

on takeoff to make sure the throttle does not creep back in a light plane and there is no doubt you will continue the takeoff. (no need to abort/reject).


holding your hand on the throttle in really rough air on takeoff MIGHT make you grab something and pull it the wrong way, so use caution.

on landing approach, your hand really needs to be on the throttle at all times, esp in rough air (see above for caution though) as you may need to add power in a big hurry.


You should always be able to fly the plane with one hand on the wheel one on the throttle, except in extreme circumstance.
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Glendalegoon , teach the studes to PUSH the throt[s] forward on t/o . On our bumpy grass , or any turb from our hills or trees ; holding with the G force will close the throt[s]..... get them to imagine pushing 4 throtts..
On the approach our trees and hills soon get their '' hand on throt , hand on stick '' especially when they need full power 2 seconds ago .

TheOddOne ... love your idea of sawing off inner part of yoke ... spamcans into instant stick and rudder machines ......... even better in these days... what a wonderful way of getting the cheapest way to train Airbus pilots !

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