Little Issue

Seggy

Seggy

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This is our standby instrument. We were in level flight going from BUF to EWR.

It was also showing us reverse turns. We turned right, it was showing us turning left.
 

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Well, to be fair, the plane is very old. Things break after years of line flying.

Wait a minute...
 
What's wrong with doing 280 at 15,000? Caging it didn't work? Or hold the cage button to reset.
 
You're all going to be jealous since I had a Wookie (errr, I mean, Mark) sighting today at EWR.
 
We have the same system in the newer ERJs and usually if you hold down the cage button for a few seconds (5 or 10) it fixes it. But usually it will put an X through it so I dunno...
 
You see how reliable that little thing is...Horizon had a Q400 (409QX, aka the kills all forms of wildlife airplane) fly through a flock of geese at night going into Medford...one bird went through the nose and took out the electical panel inside the Q's nose...screens went black in the cockpit...Captain's windshield was busted all to hell...FO had to land the aircraft by reference to that little instrument (glad it works some of the time!)
 
If you need a cheap back up horizon that will always work, this is what you do: Hang something heavy, like a bolt, on a string from the ceiling. In normal flight it will be straight down. If you are upside down it will be laying on the ceiling...and if you're IFR, carry a duck and a cat. Since cats always land on their feet, they always know which way is up. So, just always manuever the airplane so that the cat isn't leaning. Ducks fly IFR with no problem, so when you get airborne, toss the duck out of the window and just follow it. (Just be on amphibs or get a land loving duck)

I'm sure Red Green down at the Possum Lodge would do it just like that too.
 
modernicarus said:
If you need a cheap back up horizon that will always work, this is what you do: Hang something heavy, like a bolt, on a string from the ceiling. In normal flight it will be straight down. If you are upside down it will be laying on the ceiling...and if you're IFR, carry a duck and a cat. Since cats always land on their feet, they always know which way is up. So, just always manuever the airplane so that the cat isn't leaning. Ducks fly IFR with no problem, so when you get airborne, toss the duck out of the window and just follow it. (Just be on amphibs or get a land loving duck)

I'm sure Red Green down at the Possum Lodge would do it just like that too.
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I have actually tried this before in a Cessna and if the plane is coordinated in turns the Gs still pull the bolt towards the center. So unless you are upside down it doesn't do anything to help. I'll have to try to cat thing next.
 
SoCalAprch said:
...if the plane is coordinated in turns the Gs still pull the bolt towards the center. So unless you are upside down it doesn't do anything to help. I'll have to try to cat thing next.
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I know, I was just joking around. The string can hang down when you are upside down too if you are making a loop like in aerobatics or a riding in a rollercoaster.

The cat thing might work though. :D
 
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