FlyingAccountant
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He also grew up and trained here in sunny AZ, where we don't see *that* many IMC days.
414 in the water off of San Diego
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He also grew up and trained here in sunny AZ, where we don't see *that* many IMC days.
I don’t know. The only witness is dead.
I don’t think we factor-in pride enough.
Too proud to go around: dead
Too proud stay VMC: dead
Too proud to declare an emergency when low of fuel: dead
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Pride/Not wanting to have F'ed up. I very nearly ran a Warrior out of fuel when I was a kid. Didn't want to fess up to having to land short and fuel. Like anyone would have cared.
knot4u
Repeat Offender
I had a fancy (early '90s) handheld Garmin GPS Nav/Com with a rudimentary moving map that would show airports and airspace as a backup back in the olden times when I was training. My instructor wouldn't let me remove it from my flight bag, he made me leave it in my truck before he'd sign me off for my solo long cross country flights as a student. He wanted me to be able to navigate with the bare minimums. It worked and I built that muscle at that time. When he finally did allow me to use it I didn't really need it, except once at 9000' over the Central Valley when I smelled something burning, hit the NRST button and spent a fine afternoon in Paso Robles waiting for a ride home.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
My take away from Air Wagner vids is he uses synthetic vision as if he's looking out the window. Or tries to. I wonder how many others do the same.
Other than the occasional GTN970 equipped bird, luckily my poor ass (you can totally say "ass" on here) has been doing all IFR training and general flying using 6-packs and paper charts. Only switched to ForeFlight last year when my club was like "breh your midnight flying paper charts in the cheapest most clapped out planes white ass better embrace the future because if you instruct; theyre not going to want to learn like that". I still use pilotage on VFR XCs as my primary navigation just going landmark to landmark, its more fun that way. I keep the iPad in the side pocket and take it out as needed, I don't mount it anywhere. For decades the freight dogs of this site did fine with VOR/DME, THAT is what requires practice for SA and not unaliving. RNAV? GPS? If you can't do that, you probably couldn't beat Pilot Wings 64.
When I fly with club members I challenge them to not use their iPad. "How will we stay out of the airspace?"."You still aren't familiar with the airspace boundary landmarks here?" "What? No! I use foreflight like everyone else". 0/3 tries to push these kids lol. I have hope that I can teach my daughter the lost ways.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
^ This is The Way.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
I have thousands of hours flying synthetic vision like I’m looking out the window, guarantee I didn’t fly like Jerry doing it lol. That might be what is saving his bacon but he’s still not good at it.
Wardogg
Meat Popsicle
Fair.
DropTank
Well-Known Member
The 400 series has a vacuum pump in each engine.
If one fails, the other should work..... IF the check valves haven't disintegrated over the past 50+ years
that's a BIG if.
You're supposed to shut off one engine and check if one of the red poppets shows, then the check valve is there. If neither show, the check valve(s) is (are) shot and a single vacuum pump may not be sufficient to power the gyros since it's pulling through the opposite side and not exclusively through the gyros.
Difficult to determine if this aircraft had electrical gyros or something more modern.
If one fails, the other should work..... IF the check valves haven't disintegrated over the past 50+ years
that's a BIG if.
You're supposed to shut off one engine and check if one of the red poppets shows, then the check valve is there. If neither show, the check valve(s) is (are) shot and a single vacuum pump may not be sufficient to power the gyros since it's pulling through the opposite side and not exclusively through the gyros.
Difficult to determine if this aircraft had electrical gyros or something more modern.
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I was just reciting the Shepherd's prayer. No, Alan Shepherd's prayer - "let us not frak up!"
English is dumb and everyone got the phonetic point here.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
"Oh, God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have one". (IMS, originally in French, but oh ho ho ho!, etc.)
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Amen. Alleluia. Excuse me whilst I sin.
Boris Badenov
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We have dating apps, now.
Yes! I miscalculated winds on a long cross country from Albuquerque back in college and I was too prideful to land short and refuel so I pressed-on “hoping” that it’d be ok.
One of my top five dumbest decision-making moments.
The fueled put an “inordinate amount of fuel” onboard after I ramped in.
Pride gets a lot of people killed.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
The same thing happened to the renter before one of my students in the mighty C one-five-two. The fueler pumped 24 gallons to top it off, and with 24.5 useable - there wasn’t even enough for a go-around. School policy was first tank is free, and refills away from base would be reimbursed at local rate. The real head scratcher was the previous renter being a wide body captain at a legacy that didn’t want to stop and risk not being reimbursed for fuel.
FlyingAccountant
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The articles I've read mention that he had aspirations of making it to the airlines, so it's possible that he potentially didn't want a mark on his record, and that might have played into his decision making. The VAS video of his flight the night before is troubling.