Pilots who are afraid of the airplane

[Hacker15e]

If you need to rack it around, say, to not hit that airplane on the parallel final, rack it!

(just don't make it a habit. please...)

The issue, again, comes not from experienced pilots who choose to baby the airplane around the pattern because of personal preference; rather it comes from the students and inexperienced pilots who learn from the experienced pilots who do this, and develop a belief that these purely artificial limits are actual aircraft performance limits or the limits of safe aircraft operation.

We have all ready built an artificial gigantic rubber room around a lot of civilian aircraft operations with this belief that there's something magical about 30 degrees of bank that makes it a natural limit for normal operations. It is in itself all ready an artificial and conservative limit...we don't need to build another artificial buffer to the buffer.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

The issue, again, comes not from experienced pilots who choose to baby the airplane around the pattern because of personal preference; rather it comes from the students and inexperienced pilots who learn from the experienced pilots who do this, and develop a belief that these purely artificial limits are actual aircraft performance limits or the limits of safe aircraft operation.

We have all ready built an artificial gigantic rubber room around a lot of civilian aircraft operations with this belief that there's something magical about 30 degrees of bank that makes it a natural limit for normal operations. It is in itself all ready an artificial and conservative limit...we don't need to build another artificial buffer to the buffer.

All attitude vehicles, rabble rabble, preaching to converted, rabble.

 

[🦈💜]

And people say there's no such thing as a slippery slope...

I don't. There is.

I ski!

-Fox

 

[🦈💜]

I swear the culprit is the 'bank angle / stall speed' graph and ignorance of how airplanes actually work.

But I've flown with CFIs like that in the past. Bank angle is not your enemy. 'Company limitations' on flaps are understandable from a mx / longevity point of view, but in the end just fly the freaking airplane.

As far as the checkouts every 90 days, no. frakin'. way. is that reasonable business practice. Gotta fight against that crap.

-Fox

 

[🦈💜]

We have all ready built an artificial gigantic rubber room around a lot of civilian aircraft operations with this belief that there's something magical about 30 degrees of bank that makes it a natural limit for normal operations. It is in itself all ready an artificial and conservative limit...we don't need to build another artificial buffer to the buffer.

Veritas.