who`s flying the pilot or George . .?
Well, when the pilot banked the aeroplane your A319 and let go of the lever, then the aircraft was holding the attitude to within 1 G, this has nothing to do with George, we don`t refer to A/P as George anymore as George went off to marry Georgina, a nice young hostie, from Zanaduu Island, it is a shame that we all loved George, but we received a postcard from him, on his honeymoon and apparently Georgina, was not all she, or rather . . he, was cracked up to be. Still there won`t be the patter of tiny feet, rather a jingle of little drinks trollies.. They are still on their island living happily together (seeing as Georgina burnt the only rowing boat available and so he is kind of stuck with it).
The correct terminology of course is volume control. Levers forward, volume increases, levers rearward volume decreases. I love noisy approaches.
Sometimes it all goes quiet on the vestun front and therefore, the volume control is useless, to cater for this anomaly one could carry a ghetto blaster stereo set on which was recorded the distinct sounds of the CFMs.
Also we refer to the sidestick as a sidestick and not a joy stick. there have been many pilots with the name george, who have spent far too much internet time on long haul flights confusing joysticks with sidesticks. The sidestick cpncept was developed by a well developed student pilot with very large personalities whose multi-tasking skills came to the fore (or indeed the side) on those very long haul flights in the A330 and such.
Refreshingly down and technical don`t you think?
Last edited by Natstrackalpha; 28th Jun 2012 at 10:37.