Air Safety does it again!

[Champcar]

I understand your point, but I have to disagree with the application.

We train our guys to use carb heat when required, rather then always regardless of the situation. You have a valid argument regarding habit, but when you are flying in an area when sometimes you barely have enough power to climb out on takeoff the last thing I want on a go around, on a 115F degree day with nearly full tanks and three guys in the plane is the carb heat on reducing my already dismal power output.

Again it all comes down to habit or just a good flow. When to disengage the carb heat is just as important as when to use it and students need that pounded in them by sheer repetition. I understand what you are saying about the heat in PHX, but just for the sake of the discussion do you also land with out flaps for fear that the student may forget to raise them on a go around on a hot day? just a thought as your point is completely valid.

 

[X-Forces]

Again it all comes down to habit or just a good flow. When to disengage the carb heat is just as important as when to use it and students need that pounded in them by sheer repetition. I understand what you are saying about the heat in PHX, but just for the sake of the discussion do you also land with out flaps for fear that the student may forget to raise them on a go around on a hot day? just a thought as your point is completely valid.

No, however flaps are used to assist nearly every landing and provide a viable function during such landings, carb heat (when not required, which is nearly 99% of the time in PHX) does not. It simply becomes an extraneous factor.

On the same note, while we train our guys to use flaps, and for most landings 40 deg (Full flaps), we also train them to use 25,10, or even 0 flaps depending on the wind/turbulence conditions at the time.

Now while nearly all landing are performed with 40 deg flaps they still know that it is not a cut and dry routine to dump in full flaps for every landing if the situation does not warrant it. Same as with the carb heat.

 

[ozziecat35]

OK, so a bit late on the comment here, but did anyone else notice the news clip showed Luke as GEU?

 

[500b]

Christiansen Aviation is a joke. Their facility in Tulsa is probably the nastiest aircraft maintenance facility I've ever been to. Ferried three freshly annualed airplanes from Riverside to GEU, and the mechanics in GEU found a cracked exhaust manifold, timing over 10 degrees where it should've been and a snapped throttle cable. No wonder they've been called the "slumlords of the sky"...

 

[CirrusDriver]

That particular BE-76 wouldn't happen to be N6013Z, would it?

Ah yes ol' 6013Z.. Always good times.

Christiansen Aviation is a joke. Their facility in Tulsa is probably the nastiest aircraft maintenance facility I've ever been to. Ferried three freshly annualed airplanes from Riverside to GEU, and the mechanics in GEU found a cracked exhaust manifold, timing over 10 degrees where it should've been and a snapped throttle cable. No wonder they've been called the "slumlords of the sky"...

Yep.. that is one scary MX facility. Flew the a fore mentioned 6013Z from RVS to GEU. Not fun for a first multi flight and first "real" IFR flight in the soup.