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Dan

10:43

So, I just noticed this answer

A: Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly (or make me a better pilot)?

I'm not a pilot so I can't answer the second part of the question, but a flight sim can definitely help with learning. My story: I've been "playing with" MS Flight Simulator ever since the first version came out for the original Mac's nine-inch black-and-white monitor. (It only had the Cessna...

Does anyone really buy that answer as-is?

(I'm not saying the guy is outright lying, I just don't believe for a minute that the instructor was able to just sit back and enjoy the (presumably) circuit. From 'little' things to downward checks to doing a decent landing, it just doesn't tot up)

4 hours later…

casey

14:28

@Dan he might not be lying but he probably left out the bit where his instructor had to continually tell him "stop staring at the panel and look outside"

though I am quite skeptical that he did everything unassisted.

it also must have been a 182 as I am not aware of any 172s with prop levers, but that isn't a typical training first-time airplane

so yea, it doesnt really add up

4 hours later…

reirab

18:59

I have seen a YouTube video of a guy who had a lot of simulator experience flying a circuit around the pattern with no assistance from the instructor, but, yeah, it's definitely not normal (especially without pedals.)

2 hours later…

voretaq7

20:36

@reirab depends a bit on the plane too - within reason I can fly the Cherokee with my feet flat on the floor and keep the ball within 1/2 of the lines. Can't get away with that in a 172 though.

Jay Carr

I'm calling BS unless he has evidence.

And said so on his answer.

Because, in the end, I'm just a prick. That's why I'm getting into PM stuff :P

Jay Carr

20:50

Awww man...can you not edit bounty notices? I managed to omit a word...

@casey Perhaps he was referencing the fuel mixture and didn't really know what it was? Or even trim or something else that needs to be adjusted often. He may have just presumed it was the prop.

voretaq7

21:07

@JayCarr it's hard to mistake the fuel mixture for the propeller pitch... also unless the instructor is one of the .000002% of converts to the Church of LEAN THE DAMN ENGINE FOR TAXI they probably ignore the existence of the mixture knob :-/

casey

@voretaq7 i prefer that church to the church of "i live at sea level and have never flown over 3000 ft and have never touched that red knob -- you know it turns the engine off, right?"

When I took a flight into the rockies in a 182 with an instructor, she remarked about lowlanders that try to tell her there is no need to lean, even in flight because they are staying below 3000' AGL... until she explains that 3000' AGL in Denver is 9000' MSL and even higher going over the passes in the mountains

Dan Hulme

@casey how do you do aerobatics without flying over 3000 ft?

casey

perhaps I'm an oddball though. I'd also climb a 172 up to 11,500 and cruise with the winds

while my fellow pilots stayed below that magical "i dont have to remember my altitudes for direction of flight" level

@DanHulme you can barely do normal training maneuvers at that altitude, let alone the fun stuff

voretaq7

21:55

@casey I'm definitely an oddball: I won't cruise below 5,000 feet generally and I'll climb higher for a trip over 100 miles if it gets me more favorable winds. And if the engine is below 75% power I lean aggressively (I've gotta pay for that fuel and clean the crud out of the plugs - I'm LAZY!)

Dan Hulme

well, I live at sea level and we don't even have a red knob

voretaq7

@DanHulme FADEC?

oh wait, tiger moth

duh :P

Dan Hulme

apparently some Tiger Moths do have mixture controls, but not ours

voretaq7

@DanHulme Yeah, it's like the cub - most of them the mixture is wired in place under the cowling, a few have a control retrofitted.

Dan Hulme

22:12

it's not as fun as the auto carb heat

voretaq7

o_0 auto...carb...heat?

ratchet freak

22:27

just a thermo stat that'll activate the heat when below X degrees?

Dan Hulme

normally the hot exhaust warms the incoming air

but pushing the throttle above about 75% mechanically opens a flap that lets cold air in

so carb heat is always on, but at high power it's not as hot

casey

@DanHulme sounds more like auto cowl flaps

Dan Hulme

@casey there's no flap in the cowl: the flap is just in the side of the engine

Stack Exchange

22:54

Q: What explains the enormous difference in reception between these similar questions?

I ask to seek kindly advice and recommendations on improvement. These 2 open questions Pilot passed out in a small GA plane. What can a passenger do? and Can a passenger realistically replace suddenly incapacitated pilots? have received many upvotes and views, but my original was closed and crit...

Ethan

23:05

@Federico Would you mine if I ask what role or field you do as an aerospace engineer.

Ethan

23:27

You guys flying on the 737 MAX in the future may save yourself 15 minutes of flight because of the higher cruise speed. 737 Next gen cruise speed-514mph, 737MAX-522mph. Blades are a little bigger on the new engine. Its not much, but it does save time.

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