My Ari Ben Aviator Experience
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maverick2
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Just remember, at manuevering speed, with abbrupt control movements the wings will stall before they break off. Thats how I remembered it.
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I wish I could have said it like that, it reads so simple, but so hard to spit it out. I'll remember this one. I'm sure it'll come up again.
Just remember, at manuevering speed, with abbrupt control movements the wings will stall before they break off. Thats how I remembered it.
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I wish I could have said it like that, it reads so simple, but so hard to spit it out. I'll remember this one. I'm sure it'll come up again.
Cactus_Cutter
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So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
ZWflyer
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Three of Rich's students here. Good to be a family.
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Yes it's nice to have family around!
Lui, let me know how the first Duchess flight goes. Even though the MX delays might be more of a headache, I know you will enjoy flying the twin more than the 172.
Three of Rich's students here. Good to be a family.
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Yes it's nice to have family around!
Lui, let me know how the first Duchess flight goes. Even though the MX delays might be more of a headache, I know you will enjoy flying the twin more than the 172.
SmitteyB
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So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
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He will never say you busted. You'll know when you see pink.
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So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
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He will never say you busted. You'll know when you see pink.
maverick2
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Three of Rich's students here. Good to be a family.
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Yes it's nice to have family around!
Lui, let me know how the first Duchess flight goes. Even though the MX delays might be more of a headache, I know you will enjoy flying the twin more than the 172.
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Actually, I think everyone down at Aviator is like a family. Everyone is always helping someone out and easy to approach. I really feel like its a home away from home.
I definitely will let you know how the first one goes. I already know its gonna be a chaos, but I'm so excited to go up in the BE-76. I might go backseat on one tomorrow. MX delays are all part of the Aviator experience, but its expected because they get flown for 20hrs a day. It might be a headache but I've been through a lot worse in the army. See you around, dude.
Lui
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Three of Rich's students here. Good to be a family.
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Yes it's nice to have family around!
Lui, let me know how the first Duchess flight goes. Even though the MX delays might be more of a headache, I know you will enjoy flying the twin more than the 172.
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Actually, I think everyone down at Aviator is like a family. Everyone is always helping someone out and easy to approach. I really feel like its a home away from home.
I definitely will let you know how the first one goes. I already know its gonna be a chaos, but I'm so excited to go up in the BE-76. I might go backseat on one tomorrow. MX delays are all part of the Aviator experience, but its expected because they get flown for 20hrs a day. It might be a headache but I've been through a lot worse in the army. See you around, dude.
Lui
maverick2
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So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
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He will never say you busted. You'll know when you see pink.
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Its funny you say that. I forgot to mention I had some pretty bad omens. The day before the checkride, I saw the same DE actually give another student a pink slip. Plus, prior to the check flight, Mary and I had a mix up with a maintenance issue on the plane I was suppose to take, and I wound up taking 797 instead of 173 (I like 173 better). After the check flight, the left brake line went out while taxiing back to the ramp. I really thought I failed because of these omens, but it was all good and I passed
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So Mary asked the DE if I passed, and he said I did, I still didnt believe him cuz I thought he was joking until he whipped out his typewriter and started typing my temp certificate.
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With this DE:
When you park the aircraft on the ramp after the check ride and he doesn’t say anything or just jumps out of the aircraft and walks back to the school while you are tying down the plane chances are you passed…
Congratulations!
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He will never say you busted. You'll know when you see pink.
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Its funny you say that. I forgot to mention I had some pretty bad omens. The day before the checkride, I saw the same DE actually give another student a pink slip. Plus, prior to the check flight, Mary and I had a mix up with a maintenance issue on the plane I was suppose to take, and I wound up taking 797 instead of 173 (I like 173 better). After the check flight, the left brake line went out while taxiing back to the ramp. I really thought I failed because of these omens, but it was all good and I passed
maverick2
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September 23, 2005
A week after getting my Private single engine certificate, I finally flew the infamous BE-76 Duchess here at the Aviator. No, not because of maintenance issues. It took me a week because I had to get the chief pilot to enroll me into the course, finish up my VA paperwork, attend several hours of ground with my instructor (all part of the 141 syllabus), and the foul weather due to the development of Hurricane Rita.
My first flight consisted of trying the regular private maneuvers (slow flight, stalls, etc.), and getting familiar with the Vmc demo and single engine failure (both very, very important to learn here.
) Its definitely different than the 172s. Its pretty cool how it climbs and flies faster and it only took fifteen minutes to get to OBE. There is a lot more work in every aspect from preflight checks to runups to shutdown. Its a big adjustment, but hopefully I get this rating done by 10hrs according to the syllabus. Wish me luck.
Congrats Monty on your multi checkride today, have fun at instrument ground school!
Lui
A week after getting my Private single engine certificate, I finally flew the infamous BE-76 Duchess here at the Aviator. No, not because of maintenance issues. It took me a week because I had to get the chief pilot to enroll me into the course, finish up my VA paperwork, attend several hours of ground with my instructor (all part of the 141 syllabus), and the foul weather due to the development of Hurricane Rita.
My first flight consisted of trying the regular private maneuvers (slow flight, stalls, etc.), and getting familiar with the Vmc demo and single engine failure (both very, very important to learn here.
Congrats Monty on your multi checkride today, have fun at instrument ground school!
Lui
maverick2
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October 18th, 2005
Well, I passed my Private Multi Engine checkride today. Took me about three weeks and 15 hrs of flight. I wanted to finish last week but some flights were canceled due to weather and maintenance, I had to brush my single engine landings after I did the stage check with Pierre, and I took a few days off to go to Disney with my wife. Actually my checkride was supposed to be yesterday but due to the tragic death of a fellow student, the school was closed most of the day. Anyway, the oral consisted of how angle of bank affects Vmc, what to do before feathering the props on an engine failure, the infamous magnetos, and landing gear system, Vlo and Vle speeds (DE confused the crap out of me by saying there are three Vlo speeds), and is it safe to rotate at Vr since Vyse is 20 knots, yada, yada, yada....The flight portion of the checkride was quite fun yet challenging. The DE killed the engine on me five times and all five times were unexpected. He really kept me on my toes. After my Vmc demo, he showed other ways of doing the Vmc demo like straight and level and banking toward the inop engine. Did a quick go around at Vero where he put my flaps down right after I put them up, and he picked the most busiest time of the airport at KFPR to do a single engine landing. He killed the right engine two miles approaching left downwind on runway nine and he goes you get the radios also. Tower was calling me, DE is trying to distract me, looking out for traffic since I was number 4, controlling the airspeed, trimming, keeping the left pedal down, making sure not banking too much to raise Vmc, calling tower again, DE telling me to watch my speed when Im at 85, coming in low, putting in more power,a little more rudder pressure, final call to tower, putting power back to normal, loosen up on rudder, DE telling me to go slower, try to close the throttle more, DE wont let me, great!!, notice some crosswind, can it get any worse, more rudder pressure more opposite bank, pitch higher to slow, DE finally lets me idle the throttle, a little drift to right, bank right while pulling back yoke, bam! perfect single engine landing just a little off to the right but off the grass. Good enough, I'll take it. Multi engine pic time here I come, but Miller time first....hehehe.
Well, I passed my Private Multi Engine checkride today. Took me about three weeks and 15 hrs of flight. I wanted to finish last week but some flights were canceled due to weather and maintenance, I had to brush my single engine landings after I did the stage check with Pierre, and I took a few days off to go to Disney with my wife. Actually my checkride was supposed to be yesterday but due to the tragic death of a fellow student, the school was closed most of the day. Anyway, the oral consisted of how angle of bank affects Vmc, what to do before feathering the props on an engine failure, the infamous magnetos, and landing gear system, Vlo and Vle speeds (DE confused the crap out of me by saying there are three Vlo speeds), and is it safe to rotate at Vr since Vyse is 20 knots, yada, yada, yada....The flight portion of the checkride was quite fun yet challenging. The DE killed the engine on me five times and all five times were unexpected. He really kept me on my toes. After my Vmc demo, he showed other ways of doing the Vmc demo like straight and level and banking toward the inop engine. Did a quick go around at Vero where he put my flaps down right after I put them up, and he picked the most busiest time of the airport at KFPR to do a single engine landing. He killed the right engine two miles approaching left downwind on runway nine and he goes you get the radios also. Tower was calling me, DE is trying to distract me, looking out for traffic since I was number 4, controlling the airspeed, trimming, keeping the left pedal down, making sure not banking too much to raise Vmc, calling tower again, DE telling me to watch my speed when Im at 85, coming in low, putting in more power,a little more rudder pressure, final call to tower, putting power back to normal, loosen up on rudder, DE telling me to go slower, try to close the throttle more, DE wont let me, great!!, notice some crosswind, can it get any worse, more rudder pressure more opposite bank, pitch higher to slow, DE finally lets me idle the throttle, a little drift to right, bank right while pulling back yoke, bam! perfect single engine landing just a little off to the right but off the grass. Good enough, I'll take it. Multi engine pic time here I come, but Miller time first....hehehe.
Wow! Congratulations Maverick on passing your multi checkride! Sounds like you had a lot of fun with that! Can't wait to get back in a plane...been only a couple of weeks right now getting ready to head down there, but it's been a long time as the air is finally clearing out here and visibility is getting to be superb and the air a bit more calmed down.
I am just now catching up with everything and still waiting on some things to be finished here before I can head that way in another couple of weeks.
Catherine
I am just now catching up with everything and still waiting on some things to be finished here before I can head that way in another couple of weeks.
Catherine
Right now I live in the Tri-Cities area of eastern TN in a tiny town called Piney Flats, not far from where the Bristol NASCAR track is (I don't go or watch, but a lot of people seem to know where that's at!). I've been flying out of TRI here which is not far from where I live.
Sounds great! I'm looking forward to meeting everyone when I get there!!!!
Catherine
Sounds great! I'm looking forward to meeting everyone when I get there!!!!
Catherine
