Best/Worst Feature/s of your aircraft.
Join Date: Jun 2001
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The ignition analysers on the DC-6 were pretty cool. But I hated having to stick the oil and gas with snow on the wings!!!!!!
Nothin like the smell of 80W oil burning!!!!!!!!
Nothin like the smell of 80W oil burning!!!!!!!!
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Rubber
Absolutly right, the reading light wether old or new is donk. I'm carrying one of thses mini flash lights around my neck to make up for it and save me from burning my fingers from it.
The FMS has a logic that I still haven't warmed up to and I'm glad I have an F/O to " clean up " the flight plan for me when on approach.
I do miss the 400 like hell although I admit the 320 isn't as shocking as I was told it was. The joy stick is the sensible way to fly; never had a problem with the F/O I trust them and the throttle isn't a prob either, just know how to read.
My favourite is the 321, it has this jumbo" ish" sort of feeling, although very tricky on X wind.
In the end it's where i'm going that counts
Absolutly right, the reading light wether old or new is donk. I'm carrying one of thses mini flash lights around my neck to make up for it and save me from burning my fingers from it.
The FMS has a logic that I still haven't warmed up to and I'm glad I have an F/O to " clean up " the flight plan for me when on approach.
I do miss the 400 like hell although I admit the 320 isn't as shocking as I was told it was. The joy stick is the sensible way to fly; never had a problem with the F/O I trust them and the throttle isn't a prob either, just know how to read.
My favourite is the 321, it has this jumbo" ish" sort of feeling, although very tricky on X wind.
In the end it's where i'm going that counts
Microlight:-
Best Features: cheap to buy, cheap to run, cheap to maintain, small, compact, portable, lots of stuff added in cockpit to play with/look at/adjust when flying gets a bit boring, gear "down and bolted" all the time, takes off in nothing, lands in three quarter of nothing.
Worst Features: Weather-limited, 2-stroke engine (but it has been a gem so far...), feet get cold because of airflow through nosewheel cutout in pod.
Best Features: cheap to buy, cheap to run, cheap to maintain, small, compact, portable, lots of stuff added in cockpit to play with/look at/adjust when flying gets a bit boring, gear "down and bolted" all the time, takes off in nothing, lands in three quarter of nothing.
Worst Features: Weather-limited, 2-stroke engine (but it has been a gem so far...), feet get cold because of airflow through nosewheel cutout in pod.
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Bell222
Best Features
Dont need runways
Can sing airwolf theme tune when coming into land(or any time for that matter)
Worst feature:
No cabin crew
No Anti/de ice system
Does mach .1 or something like that.
Best Features
Dont need runways
Can sing airwolf theme tune when coming into land(or any time for that matter)
Worst feature:
No cabin crew
No Anti/de ice system
Does mach .1 or something like that.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Wilmington
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Cessna 152:
Good:
1) Someone pays me to fly it
2) Forgiving enough to keep all but the most ham-handed student out of trouble
3) Dirt simple
4) Rugged as all get out for the most ham-handed student.
Bad:
1) Dinky interior build quality
2) Kind of cramped unless you're built like a ten year old girl.
Cirrus SR22:
Good:
1) Gee-whiz avionics
2) Fast, relatively speaking
3) Nice view
4) Delorean Doors
Bad:
1) Too complex for my pay grade. I don't get paid enough to think.
Beech/Raytheon Baron
Good:
1) "Fist-full-o-throttles" macho appeal
Bad:
2) No one pays me to fly it (yet).
That's the view from the bottom rung.
Good:
1) Someone pays me to fly it
2) Forgiving enough to keep all but the most ham-handed student out of trouble
3) Dirt simple
4) Rugged as all get out for the most ham-handed student.
Bad:
1) Dinky interior build quality
2) Kind of cramped unless you're built like a ten year old girl.
Cirrus SR22:
Good:
1) Gee-whiz avionics
2) Fast, relatively speaking
3) Nice view
4) Delorean Doors
Bad:
1) Too complex for my pay grade. I don't get paid enough to think.
Beech/Raytheon Baron
Good:
1) "Fist-full-o-throttles" macho appeal
Bad:
2) No one pays me to fly it (yet).
That's the view from the bottom rung.
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Lear23/24
pro's-
Great performance! 10.000'/min in the initial climb. even single engine performance is reat, better than most airplanes with both engines running. Very easy to fly, handflying it at FL430 no problem. very forgiving airplane if you tell it what to do
cons-
It needs runway like no other airplane I have seen, I will actually taxi around 40 knots with both engines in Idle. No autopilot, so handflying all the way! Small dimensions. Fuelcritical at engine start. Because of our way of operating we always fly with very inexperienced F/O's that are miles behind the airplane so basically single pilot operations in one of the most demanding jets there is.
pro's-
Great performance! 10.000'/min in the initial climb. even single engine performance is reat, better than most airplanes with both engines running. Very easy to fly, handflying it at FL430 no problem. very forgiving airplane if you tell it what to do
cons-
It needs runway like no other airplane I have seen, I will actually taxi around 40 knots with both engines in Idle. No autopilot, so handflying all the way! Small dimensions. Fuelcritical at engine start. Because of our way of operating we always fly with very inexperienced F/O's that are miles behind the airplane so basically single pilot operations in one of the most demanding jets there is.
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Seriously
My Sky Atis 26, DHV 1/2 rated Paraglider.
Folds up into a bag & carries away at just under 6kg
Goes in the boot of my car easily.
Is quite pitch unstable & therefore very agile in flight
Costs 35 quid a year to service & has just two moving parts
Is capable of 38kmh accelerated in still air
Is capable of climbing to whatever cloudbase is on any given day
& flying hundreds of km's in a single flight (Range proportional to bladder control of pilot).
Fully functioning aircraft for less than £2k
V. good camaraderie with other like minded fools.
Has a tendency to shrink one's balls in any decent turbulence
Is a cloth wing & therefore is prone to folding up, without any gentlemanly warning
Lacks any form of in flight catering or entertainment
Wears out in about three years & has to be replaced
Currently offers about 8:1 glide thus generating much hilarity on the part of Hang glider & sail plane pilots & frequently causing rapid & thorough flight plan rethinks & creation of temporary air strips, occasionally coupled with furtive scuttle off's prior to enraged farmer noticing & falsely claiming that ewes aborted as a direct result of one's temporary prescence.
My Sky Atis 26, DHV 1/2 rated Paraglider. Folds up into a bag & carries away at just under 6kg
Goes in the boot of my car easily.
Is quite pitch unstable & therefore very agile in flight
Costs 35 quid a year to service & has just two moving parts
Is capable of 38kmh accelerated in still air
Is capable of climbing to whatever cloudbase is on any given day
& flying hundreds of km's in a single flight (Range proportional to bladder control of pilot).
Fully functioning aircraft for less than £2k
V. good camaraderie with other like minded fools.
Has a tendency to shrink one's balls in any decent turbulence
Is a cloth wing & therefore is prone to folding up, without any gentlemanly warning
Lacks any form of in flight catering or entertainment
Wears out in about three years & has to be replaced
Currently offers about 8:1 glide thus generating much hilarity on the part of Hang glider & sail plane pilots & frequently causing rapid & thorough flight plan rethinks & creation of temporary air strips, occasionally coupled with furtive scuttle off's prior to enraged farmer noticing & falsely claiming that ewes aborted as a direct result of one's temporary prescence.
