New Twatters are sweet

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The delivery flight for this brand new Twin Otter starts tomorrow. It is going to the sandbox via Maine and Azores.
Honeywell deck. Holy smokes, this is not your grandfather's Twatter. This is going to take some adjustment.
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Adler said:
why the handheld?
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brand new airplane
+ brand new avionics
+ 2000 miles of ocean
+ a modicum of caution (wimpiness?)
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2 handheld backups

A five degree deviation over 1900 miles is almost 160nm, and some of us don't steer so well. ;)
 
Cal Goat said:
Are these new airframes or rebuilt originals?
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New airframes made by Viking. These are DHC-6-400 series. -300 and older can be overhauled by a couple shops around the country once they reach their limits of AFTT and cycles. Viking also supports the old DHC-6 with parts and engineering.
 
Only problem with all that glass, is the same problem we have with our glass. The lowest brightness setting isn't low enough not to destroy your night vision. And with the typical mission of an otter, it's really really helpful to have your night vision.
 
How's the ergonomics of that cockpit layout? I would have figured they'd have made it a little more conventional, for example splitting the yokes and adding a throttle quadrant.
 
gotWXdagain said:
How's the ergonomics of that cockpit layout? I would have figured they'd have made it a little more conventional, for example splitting the yokes and adding a throttle quadrant.
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Ergonomics for the pilots was second to function for the mission. The information I was given is that overhead engine controls are desired for bush flying. Routing the cables overhead is a function of maintenance / repair for when it crashes on wheels or operates on floats. Less work to repair and keep clean. In addition to that, when it is on standard landing gear, the fuel fillers are the height of a 55g drum. So it can't be serviced by a hand pump from a drum of kerosene in the bush.
 
If it flew Thursday night, I was at work and didn't see, I did work an M20P from KBTV to LPAZ. You couldn't pay me enough to do that, especially in winter.
 
z987k said:
Only problem with all that glass, is the same problem we have with our glass. The lowest brightness setting isn't low enough not to destroy your night vision. And with the typical mission of an otter, it's really really helpful to have your night vision.
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Aha!! Officially the only reason to legitamaty wear ones sunglasses at night!
 
A friend of mine said "f-that" to the crappy pilot industry in Canada, went to school for avionics. Graduated, got a job in Calgary, helps to build the avionics on the TWOTTER. Met husband, had kid, and now we are drooling at her work... Yadda yadda
 
Nark said:
A friend of mine said "f-that" to the crappy pilot industry in Canada, went to school for avionics. Graduated, got a job in Calgary, helps to build the avionics on the TWOTTER. Met husband, had kid, and now we are drooling at her work... Yadda yadda
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If you could pass something along then... for the love of god make the auto dim work correctly, and have the lowest brightness setting almost entirely black. Seriously. If you can see anything at all in the daytime it's a million times too bright.
I'm thinking about writing a letter to garmin about how I love their products, but I wish the light of 1000 suns to pierce their retina on a daily basis.
 
She works for Viking not Garmin. You beef is with them.
But I know your pain, or plight. The Garmin's low is about a 4 of 10. Pain to look at.
 
Nark said:
She works for Viking not Garmin. You beef is with them.
But I know your pain, or plight. The Garmin's low is about a 4 of 10. Pain to look at.
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Anymore I end up flying with my chin on the glare shield, yoke in the chest if it's not IMC. Two of our displays come on with the master, so even killing the rest of the avionics doesn't work... I guess I could start pulling breakers.
 
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