Alpha Flying/Planesense

Boris Badenov said:
Citation X is a beautiful, sexy machine. How you deal with the sort of people who must get in the back of it is beyond me, though. The beatchjet was bad enough, but to attempt to countenance the number of Goldman-Sachs types that must get in that thing is beyond me. You're a better (or at least more patient and less homicidal) man than I am.

Also: No copilot. One man show. Just the way I like it.
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My favorite song is White Man In Hammersmith Palais. The part about Hitler is so damn true. To be fair, occasionally, people are pretty nice.

Lyrics:
Artist: The Clash (Buy The Clash CDs)
Album: Clash


(Strummer/Jones)


Punk rockers in the UK
They won't notice anyway
They're all too busy fighting
For a good place under the lighting

The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned
They got Burton suits, ha you think it's funny
Turning rebellion into money

All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway

I'm the all night drug-prowling wolf
Who looks so sick in the sun
I'm the white man in the Palais
Just lookin' for fun

I'm only
Looking for fun
 
Aren't you a little young to love The Clash in a non-ironic way?

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If I had a dollar for every time I smiled wryly at "White Man in Hammersmith Palais", I'd be...well, I wouldn't be a pilot.

The only band that Matters. Amen.
 
hell yeah, they're timeless. "i'm so bored with the USA" is my favorite. or maybe "train in vain". or "clampdown". oh hell, i can't pick a top 10, let alone number one.
 
1500 hours PIC in -9. Rolling in 30 seconds and off the ground in 1 minute single pilto no joke. You could call it over-automated for a single turbine but these same systems are found in twin turbines(that fly slower and as mentioned, in single pistons too) which I might say that second engine is redundant they way the pc12 performs. Pusher test is lame. Has to test because it exists and exists because stall recovery is less than forgiving. Not only cumbersome but for goodness sakes, why flaps 15? ...and yeah once a day should be enough but the Swiss must know better...pft. Which is my next point, flap system is very fragile (reset switch is a godsend) but if you treat the girl right she won't break all the time. I have squawked VERY few items. Dont' over utilize the boots, flaps 15 is more than enough, two fingers on the enunciation silencers etc. etc. I considered many times applying to Alpha but now it would be a lateral move...not even, and for less money. I do understand it is a great step towards a bigger fractional though. Definitely an opportunity worth considering imho.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Aren't you a little young to love The Clash in a non-ironic way?

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If I had a dollar for every time I smiled wryly at "White Man in Hammersmith Palais", I'd be...well, I wouldn't be a pilot.

The only band that Matters. Amen.
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Well, I can only afford to live with college students so I don't often consider myself young. Thanks bro.

Can't open your link with tapatalk.
 
Vapor Lock said:
Pusher test is lame. Has to test because it exists and exists because stall recovery is less than forgiving. Not only cumbersome but for goodness sakes, why flaps 15?
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Maybe that's their way of making sure you have the flaps set at 15 for takeoff. Gotta do the pusher test before you fly, and gotta have the flaps at 15 before you can do the pusher test. I don't KNOW that's why they did it, just my best guess.

The rest of your post mirrors everything else I would have said, right down to the 1500 hours in a -9. Strange.

And remember she handles a crosswind landing much better with 15 flaps. Actually, I land with flaps 15 all the time, unless I'm trying to get stopped in the shortest distance possible. Also that way your flaps are already set for the next takeoff. Some people think you need to land with full flaps all the time, but there's no point in that. (this last bit of info was for Boris...)
 
BigWaveDave said:
How has that compared with the 91 flights? In terms of how the pax treated you?

Just curious. I'm conducting a really unscientific survey....
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Some of the flights I've done were our owners. The 135 is used by them if they run out of flight hours for the year. I've also done a handful of demo flights for potential owners, so I've never been treated any differently. I think I've only ever done 1 true charter that wasn't an owner or potential owner.
 
Mark815 said:
Some of the flights I've done were our owners. The 135 is used by them if they run out of flight hours for the year. I've also done a handful of demo flights for potential owners, so I've never been treated any differently. I think I've only ever done 1 true charter that wasn't an owner or potential owner.
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They're all potential owners. Don't forget the lav door demo.
 
staledog said:
Maybe that's their way of making sure you have the flaps set at 15 for takeoff. Gotta do the pusher test before you fly, and gotta have the flaps at 15 before you can do the pusher test. I don't KNOW that's why they did it, just my best guess.

The rest of your post mirrors everything else I would have said, right down to the 1500 hours in a -9. Strange.

And remember she handles a crosswind landing much better with 15 flaps. Actually, I land with flaps 15 all the time, unless I'm trying to get stopped in the shortest distance possible. Also that way your flaps are already set for the next takeoff. Some people think you need to land with full flaps all the time, but there's no point in that. (this last bit of info was for Boris...)
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Use minimum flaps required. It's a reg for jets but stupid not to apply that to anything else. For a stiff Xwind I use 0 flaps so no rudder/aileron interconnect. Much easier X control. Yeah, I'm kinda beating a dead horse with all this PIC SE TP time. Only getting harder and harder to get into a jet. As far as your pusher theory I suspect you are correct but still stupid and somewhat offensive to think that I need so much help to be sure I have flaps set before TO. Plus test will not work at flaps 30 which is approved for TO. Also, flaps 0 TO is sweet. Needs to be some charts for it though. Would be nice to be able to MEL the flaps when they are being moody but nooooOOOOOOoooooo. The swiss are too smart for us Yanks.
 
Vapor Lock said:
Use minimum flaps required. It's a reg for jets but stupid not to apply that to anything else. For a stiff Xwind I use 0 flaps so no rudder/aileron interconnect. Much easier X control. Yeah, I'm kinda beating a dead horse with all this PIC SE TP time. Only getting harder and harder to get into a jet. As far as your pusher theory I suspect you are correct but still stupid and somewhat offensive to think that I need so much help to be sure I have flaps set before TO. Plus test will not work at flaps 30 which is approved for TO. Also, flaps 0 TO is sweet. Needs to be some charts for it though. Would be nice to be able to MEL the flaps when they are being moody but nooooOOOOOOoooooo. The swiss are too smart for us Yanks.
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You've taken off flaps zero?
 
Jimmy_Norton said:
I've thought of it but I really can't think of why it would be a good idea.
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Does something really have to be a good idea for you to do it? How about a heavy Xwind. there you go, a good idea. Much lighter on the controls without the interconnect fighting your correction.
 
Maybe in the older PC-12's, but from SN 684, the interconnect is there full time in any flap setting. If you have a problem with the interconnect, you have obviously not spent much time in a Piper Navajo.

Flaps zero takeoffs are simply not approved. Why be a test pilot for no good reason? If you need flaps zero on landing because the crosswinds are greater than 25 knots, maybe you should rethink your runway choice.

Vapor Lock said:
Does something really have to be a good idea for you to do it? How about a heavy Xwind. there you go, a good idea. Much lighter on the controls without the interconnect fighting your correction.
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skydisaster said:
Flaps zero takeoffs are simply not approved. Why be a test pilot for no good reason? If you need flaps zero on landing because the crosswinds are greater than 25 knots, maybe you should rethink your runway choice.
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Without looking it up, I was also pretty sure that flaps zero takeoffs are not approved. Although a couple years ago, I saw someone do it (I was in the plane), I think they just forgot to set the flaps and leaving them up was not intentional. It took quite a bit more runway to takeoff, I mean it was clearly noticeable that it didn't want to fly right away as it usually does.

As far as the landing with less flaps to make it easier to land in a stronger crosswind, I will agree that it does work. In the AFM it even states different max demonstrated crosswinds for landing with the different flap settings. I would have to look it up, but it's something like 15 knots for full flaps, 20 knots for flaps 30, 25 knots for flaps 15, or whatever. I can look it up tomorrow if anyone's interested.
 
Very good! From the POH:
Crosswind limits Flap 0° 30 kts
Flap 15° 25 kt
Flap 30° 20 kts
Flap 40° 15 kt

staledog said:
Without looking it up, I was also pretty sure that flaps zero takeoffs are not approved. Although a couple years ago, I saw someone do it (I was in the plane), I think they just forgot to set the flaps and leaving them up was not intentional. It took quite a bit more runway to takeoff, I mean it was clearly noticeable that it didn't want to fly right away as it usually does.

As far as the landing with less flaps to make it easier to land in a stronger crosswind, I will agree that it does work. In the AFM it even states different max demonstrated crosswinds for landing with the different flap settings. I would have to look it up, but it's something like 15 knots for full flaps, 20 knots for flaps 30, 25 knots for flaps 15, or whatever. I can look it up tomorrow if anyone's interested.
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