Hello Rabbit hole, thanks N600RA...

The smallest ship of a fleet that could still be considered a "war ship". Not only have I learned something, I think the four wheeled corvette is a bit cooler now...
 
somewhereupthere said:
Anyway, to add something significant to this thread. During FSI's data collection for the Westwind simulator, they did, in fact, do single engine takeoff runs. They were quite lengthy (gigity) and by their nature, had a varying VMCG as power was slowly brought to takeoff thrust. It's quite an interesting story talking to the pilots who did the test flying.
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Only • do engine out takeoffs in the sim.

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bucksmith said:
Where did they come up with such an original name like "corvette"?
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Hacker15e said:
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Come on Hacker, at least you could've gone with a late model example!

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Inverted said:
Fascinating right?
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I think as a low time newly minted Caravan "Captain" the big take away is both being pressured into going (either by yourself or others) and starting to feel like SkyKing or something and that you can handle anything. I've been pressured into going and had it turn out poorly and promised myself I would never let it happen again. But the more I fly the more I see that experience (or worse yet perceived experience) can start to override proper judgement. Hard to find a happy median sometimes...Just hotel thoughts.
 
We all learn, that is what experience in the cockpit is for. We all make mistakes, every single day. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes it is a crewmember putting a stop to it, sometimes ATC vectors you around even though you were gonna go through the cell. Pilots are risk mitigators, that is what we should be doing every single day. Have I done stupid stuff that I regret in an airplane? Hell yes! Have I done the right thing even though it costs the company time, or money, and I received backlash for it? Absolutely! We all love flying, thats why we are here, but when I learned that this is a job, and I will never let a company • me out for my love of flying, and use it to pay me crappy wages, or treat me like garbage, I no longer cared about what doing the right thing would do to the company. Not to drag the Akron Hawker crash into this, but we will have a thread with the NTSB report, and we will be echoing some of the same sentiments in there, as we are here, and has we have in many other crash investigations.

Hearing the right seater buy off on the captains insane idea to compression start the right engine is scary, but I have seen it happen in smaller capacities. A low time seat warmer has no idea if what the CA is saying is proper, or smart, or normal in lots of cases. Sure they can determine that flying into a mountain is wrong, but do they know the specific operating procedures of their aircraft? Lots of times they are relying on the experience of the captain, as they should be able to, but we have seen bonehead captains do things to kill everyone on board the aircraft more than once.
 
somewhereupthere said:
Anyway, to add something significant to this thread. During FSI's data collection for the Westwind simulator, they did, in fact, do single engine takeoff runs. They were quite lengthy (gigity) and by their nature, had a varying VMCG as power was slowly brought to takeoff thrust. It's quite an interesting story talking to the pilots who did the test flying.
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Why didn't they just purchase the data from Israeli Aircraft Ind?

Also, Airbus uses a Corvette as the chase plane / photo plane for all of their first flights.
 
Inverted said:
So I begin to read, and the bafoonery is strong with this accident. I am assuming that the picture of N600RA posted for sale was in gross error for multiple reasons, but it killed a solid hour in the hotel room which is cool. Very interesting accident, and I think it is the first time of somebody trying to depart with passengers, with only one engine...
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No need to call it "bafoonery." You never know when the Swiss cheese holes will line up just right and leave you trying to take off with one engine, with a private pilot in the right seat of a plane that only 7 people knew was manufactured.
 
gne in prog said:
No need to call it "bafoonery." You never know when the Swiss cheese holes will line up just right and leave you trying to take off with one engine, with a private pilot in the right seat of a plane that only 7 people knew was manufactured.
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That is true. The Scooby Do defense almost worked with the NTSB too. "I would have gotten away with it to, if it wasn't for that meddling CVR..."
 
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