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

[Scott Derrick]

When I flew out of KWVI on the Left Coast, keeping current was hard not 
to do. The marine layer ensured IFR depts and arrivals on a regular 
basis. And really nice warm ones with no ice or thunderstorms!

After I moved to New Mexico, its really tough staying current. I took 
many re-currency exams becasue I just couldn't find the pilots that 
wanted to spend the time and money flying approaches and doing air work 
under the hood.  Not to mention that now IFR weather here usually means 
embedded thunderstorms or icing or both..

I'm not current now and haven't been in about 2 years.

Scott

Ron N VelocityXLFG 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-----
>> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] 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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