R
Roger, Roger
Guest
I've flown the DA42 a few times left seat for mx test flights...I felt like an enormous klutz over there. All the levers and switches and handles were in the wrong places!
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
...you have checklists for five completely different aircraft memorized.
...putting the G1000 is reversionary mode totally messes up your scan.
...despite not being an airline pilot, you are proficient at flying a sim.
...you find yourself saying, "Eh, I've seen worse landings," at least five times a day.
...you get a traffic alert from your own return at least twice a day.
...you notice the transponder wasn't set to ALT before takeoff, but let Tower put the fear of God in your student rather than flipping the switch.
For we Floridians--
...you've taught a dozen people how to fly to the Bahamas in the last month, but have only flown there once in the last year.
...you sometimes hope hurricanes hit your airport--solo cross-country time, baby!
...putting the G1000 is reversionary mode totally messes up your scan.
...despite not being an airline pilot, you are proficient at flying a sim.
...you find yourself saying, "Eh, I've seen worse landings," at least five times a day.
...you get a traffic alert from your own return at least twice a day.
...you notice the transponder wasn't set to ALT before takeoff, but let Tower put the fear of God in your student rather than flipping the switch.
For we Floridians--
...you've taught a dozen people how to fly to the Bahamas in the last month, but have only flown there once in the last year.
...you sometimes hope hurricanes hit your airport--solo cross-country time, baby!
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
A few months back I flew ours for the first time from the left seat. Let me tell you: my steep turns did not impress the MEI candidate.
cool92092
Well-Known Member
...the sound of the stall horn is a normal everyday occurence.
...You say here let me show you one, not because you really want to show them, but because you just miss having your hands on the controls.
...your prefilght consist of fuel and oil yet you can recite the preflight checklist verbatim at request.
...When the contoller says have a goodnight you say we'll see you later.
...you've observed your student do something and said (quietly to yourself) 'what the eff are you doing? That's not how we've been doin it for the last 2.3 hours!'
...you have specific cross country locations that you like to go to on specific days of the week because of the FBO staff that will be there.
...You say here let me show you one, not because you really want to show them, but because you just miss having your hands on the controls.
...your prefilght consist of fuel and oil yet you can recite the preflight checklist verbatim at request.
...When the contoller says have a goodnight you say we'll see you later.
...you've observed your student do something and said (quietly to yourself) 'what the eff are you doing? That's not how we've been doin it for the last 2.3 hours!'
...you have specific cross country locations that you like to go to on specific days of the week because of the FBO staff that will be there.
caliginousface
Frank N. Beans
...you have to tell people TIS is not the same as TCAS.
Unless you do have TCAS, then I sit corrected
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
...you have to tell people TIS is not the same as TCAS.
Unless you do have TCAS, then I sit corrected
Haha... busted. Well, save for one plane.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Do people at your school have as much trouble with steep turns in that machine as we do here? It is known as the checkride pass/fail maneuver around here.
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
We don't have too many people going for ratings in ours--mostly rentals checkouts--but, yeah, steep turns are always the eye opener*, especially for people who haven't flown Diamonds before. The plane doesn't "park" itself in a steep turn the way a Cessna or Piper will, resulting in a completely different control feel. That, and the plane just loves to climb.
On the other end of the scale, I've had to intervene in our Seneca before with pilots unfamiliar with the slow, snowballing lurch that is its version of Vmc.
*my steep turns are now good from both seats in the DA-42, thank you very much.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Yeah, it seems especially when you make that jump in bank angle from private PTS up to commercial, it really gets difficult. That daggum extra glareshield attached to the canopy makes the sight picture really odd out the nose. I actually removed one, but someone in a position of power didn't like it and had it reinstalled.
JulietBravo
On Call, On Demand
:yeahthat: That's what I tell my students. I tell them to pick a screw on the nose, or spot on the glare shield, that if you hold it on the horizon, you should not gain or lose any altitude. Works every time...
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
...you laugh at the new-hire instructor going on a discovery flight in gusty, sheary conditions. You laugh at him again when he returns and asks you where the cleaning kit is.
c172captain
Well-Known Member
...you've done steep turns so many times you sometime show off to students by entering/maintain the steep turn with nothing but rudder and trim
c172captain
Well-Known Member
ILS37R;1072936 ...you sometimes hope hurricanes hit your airport--solo cross-country time said:
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
Easier to outrun than earthquakes...
bdhill1979
Gone West
I got so good at that in the Katana, especially when the student was being difficult about trimming the airplane, then saying "it's too hard to get it stay".
"My airplane"
Bust one to the right, then to the left and hold altitude the whole way, naturally you have to pull the "look ma, no hands" midway through the left turn, just to rub it in; and they don't ever say that again.
moxiepilot
Well-Known Member
I love this thread,