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Predators and Prey

TR273

TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
DRGN Juno said:
Keep practicing. Once you're low enough to the ground, all you have to do is cut power. These planes are much better at gliding than you'd think, so you're not going to just fall. You seem to be getting the basics (as far as I can tell with this back and forth via text).

You also want to keep a constant scan going, and you never want to focus on any single instrument. Here's a breakdown of the typical "six pack" of instruments.

www.mcico.com: The Six Pack: Aircraft Instruments Explained

Centre on the attitude indicator, scan outwards to another instrument, and return to the AI. Turn and bank indicator and VSI are nice to know, but your key instruments are the remaining four. Also check outside to get a sense of what your instruments are telling you vs. what you see, so you get an understanding of what the readings mean. You should also be monitoring powerplant readings, but since you're in the sim and starting out, don't worry too much about them. You want the prop pitch full fine and mixture full rich, and only focus on the throttle.

There are a few key altitudes and positions as well that you should know when setting up in the circuit, but those can come later. Focus, and stay VFR. Trust me, there's more to an ILS approach. Much more.

E: I see we've started again.

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E2: Story time, I once got kicked out of the pattern back in college. It was a particularly busy day, and I decided to play around with the VOR receiver in our non-IFR rated Diamond. Every landing, I'd intercept the ILS and glide slope on final just to see what the approach looked like and to get some practice setting the instruments properly for my later IFR flights.

Well, IFR glideslopes are a bit more shallow than visual approach paths, and tower caught on fairly quick. After the third setup, I got the call "<Callsign>, tower can no longer accommodate you in the circuit. Cleared to land 06, full stop, exit taxiway delta."

Thankfully, I didn't get a flight safety writeup for it.
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Thanks:)
I'm playing around with straight and level flight at the moment, and my introduction to the trim controls.
According to my instruments I'm flying at 136kns, 2,940 feet, heading west, and the aircraft is holding its altitude with no input from me because I have it correctly trimmed.
(Auto pilot is off)
 
Groggy

Groggy

Hm!
Spilogale Pygmaea said:
Themselves.
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REVELATION!
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...They're still saying you should donate those chocolate coins to me, though.
 
DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
TR273 said:
Thanks:)
I'm playing around with straight and level flight at the moment, and my introduction to the trim controls.
According to my instruments I'm flying at 136kns, 2,940 feet, heading west, and the aircraft is holding its altitude with no input from me because I have it correctly trimmed.
(Auto pilot is off)
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Nicely done! Are you following any sort of tutorial as well, or just practicing by yourself?

In case this comes off as sarcastic, straight and level is much harder than it sounds. Aircraft are very rarely perfectly balanced (though weight and balance still have to fall within a certain envelope, but that's another lesson).
 
TR273

TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
DRGN Juno said:
Nicely done! Are you following any sort of tutorial as well, or just practicing by yourself?

In case this comes off as sarcastic, straight and level is much harder than it sounds. Aircraft are very rarely perfectly balanced (though weight and balance still have to fall within a certain envelope, but that's another lesson).
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Having flown both trimmed and untrimmed, I fully agree trying to keep the thing level is a massive headache (at one point I was bouncing 300 feet either side of the target altitude). I am following the tutorial, and playing about with the controls dealt with so far, seeing what you should and shouldn't do (getting the poorly trimmed aircraft to do a loop, while impressive, is also probable one of the big no no's).
Quick question, when take off speed is reached why is the instruction 'rotate' called out?
 
DRGN Juno

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
TR273 said:
Having flown both trimmed and untrimmed, I fully agree trying to keep the thing level is a massive headache (at one point I was bouncing 300 feet either side of the target altitude). I am following the tutorial, and playing about with the controls dealt with so far, seeing what you should and shouldn't do (getting the poorly trimmed aircraft to do a loop, while impressive, is also probable one of the big no no's).
Quick question, when take off speed is reached why is the instruction 'rotate' called out?
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It's simply the command. When commanded, the aircraft pitches up, or rotates along the lateral axis and lifting off. That nose up nudge is needed, or you'd run the length of the runway on the ground, or stay in ground effect and never properly lift off.
 
TR273

TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
Well I've made it from Rome to the island of Corse. I think I'll call it a night here, probably practice some more level flight tomorrow (I might introduction some random weather elements) and I'll practice some turns.

Goodnight everyone.
:)
 
Pygmepatl

Pygmepatl

Spotted Skunk
I've just heard about 'Mandanimals', animals that appear because of the Mandela Effect. I didn't know of this until now, and I'm laughing at this. Apparently spotted skunks are considered one of them.
 
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