REFLECTOR: Pilots report cockpit power failures + a feel good story.

[Lawrence Epstein]

I do most of my flying with other pilots. I will file for 1 leg and shoot
the approach and then fly or be safety pilot for the 2nd leg.

Of course, there is a difference between being legally "current" and truly
safe to fly hard IFR, but in either case, you are better off than if you
didn;t have the skills at all.

Larry

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Ron N VelocityXLFG <velocityxl at fastmail.fm
> wrote:

> Getting the IFR ticket is the easy thing keeping it current when you do
> not fly professionally
> is difficult. I would spend most of my time just trying to keep current. I
> have a couple of  friends that
> got there IFR certification and that was the last time they were current.
>
> My two cents
>
> Ron
> On 8/23/2012 9:40 AM, Grover McNair wrote:
>
>> I second Larry's advise!
>> Good for you to give that family the wonderful results and reinforce their
>> good memories.
>> Grover McNair
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On
>> Behalf Of David Ullman
>> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:02 AM
>> To: reflector at tvbf.org
>> Subject: REFLECTOR: Pilots report cockpit power failures + a feel good
>> story.
>>
>> Last week I did my first biannual in the Velo with only a glass panel
>> (Dynon). Previous biannuals were in planes equipped with steam gages. I
>> never had any trouble flying instruments only (I am VFR only) and the CFI
>> could put the plane in any situation and I could get it on course and
>> altitude easily.  Last week the CFI had me put on the hood and I could not
>> really control the plane at all. I was simply not processing the
>> information
>> from the Dynon very well and over correcting.  I was all over the sky.
>> Ouch!!
>>
>> The CFI asked what I would do if I flew into the soup accidently.  I told
>> him that first I was going to practice situational awareness with the
>> Dynon.
>> Second, for now, I would push the AP button (autopilot), let it get me on
>> course and altitude and control the plane through the autopilot. But if
>> the
>> AP goes out and I am in the soup my backup is the virtual six pack on the
>> Garmin GPS (both the Dynon and Garmin have back up batteries).  I need to
>> do
>> a lot of practicing with both of these.
>>
>> On another topic.
>> About four years ago, on the Reflector, there was an advertisement for a
>> Velocity and IO-360 from the estate of Jack Hayes.  He had passed away and
>> his son, Tom was trying to find a home for his dad's projects.  I bought
>> the
>> engine and then about a year or so ago, Geoff Gerhardt bought the
>> airframe.
>> Geoff flew for the first time last weekend.  I sent the Hayes family a
>> note
>> that included ".... the engine now has 50 flight hours on it, having its
>> first flight earlier this year, and the airframe did the first flight this
>> weekend.  Your father's project did make it into the air, partly in Oregon
>> and partly in Mass."
>>
>> Tom Hayes wrote back
>> "   I can't tell you how happy I was to get your email. I have told my Mom
>> and we both started crying. Words can not describe how happy we are with
>> your  news and Geoff's news. We know that my Dad is looking down and is
>> smiling that his project has finally taken flight. Geoff has a web site
>> that
>> I have been checking periodically and will show it to her this weekend so
>> she can watch his flight videos.
>>       Again, thank you for the wonderfull news and happy flying to you
>> both.
>>     Tom Hayes and family."
>>
>> A feel good story made on the Reflector
>>
>> David Ullman
>> N444DX
>> President EAA 292
>> 541-754-3609
>> david at davidullman.com
>>
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