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Forum: Rumours & News
15th Apr 2016, 11:09
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

There's a lot of old-fashioned flying ability...

There's a lot of old-fashioned flying ability that has gone lost, particularly because a lot of the younger generation are "direct entry," never putting in those long hours doing flight instruction,...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Apr 2016, 04:13
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

Not so fast ....

Conventional wisdom was that it took an experienced pilot who had only flown with "steam gauges" about 300 hours to get past that "What is it doing now?" stage with a glass cockpit. "Results may...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Apr 2016, 08:24
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

You can experience somatogravic illusions in a...

You can experience somatogravic illusions in a sim just as you can in an aircraft in flight. In fact, when you think about it, a full-motion sim uses somatagravic illusions in combination with its...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2016, 19:15
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

The thing about somatogravic illusion is that...

The thing about somatogravic illusion is that while it often involves an acceleration of the aircraft that acts upon the vestibular system, it can also involve a direct acceleration of that system...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2016, 08:14
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

It's difficult to imagine that some versions of...

It's difficult to imagine that some versions of the 737, with almost nine thousand in all having been built so far, should be as difficult to control on a go-around as it's been said to be by some...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2016, 06:56
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

As to trimming and human factors, there was a...

As to trimming and human factors, there was a rather interesting accident in the States to a Beech 1900.

It started with a mistake made by an engineer who was working on his own on a late-night...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Apr 2016, 05:24
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

I am not misreading anything, just asking logical...

I am not misreading anything, just asking logical follow-on questions.

For one thing, the pitch trim switches are placed right there on the yoke, when it's logical that someone who has just...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Apr 2016, 03:34
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

Just questions, not necessarily misconceptions,...

Just questions, not necessarily misconceptions, because that narrative raises more question than it answers.

For me it starts with this "yolk/yoke" business, which I have encountered previously....
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Apr 2016, 20:05
Replies: 1,540
Views: 1,783,698
Posted By chuks

Something odd in this post ....

"I was pulling as hard as I could on the yolk .... " Old King Coal telling about what happened during a sim session.

This man does not know that it is called a yoke, not a yolk?

Too, he says...
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