Re: Lycoming engine fails! Pilot survives!

"RR Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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>
> >> >            I have been told that it killed a few
> >> > unwary pilots who forgot and pressed the wrong rudder pedal on
> >> > take-off.   :-(
> >>
> >> >Regards,
> >> >
> >> >Peter
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>
> >> Really.
> >>
> >> Who told you such?
> >> Sounds like wannabee myth and legend
> >> without some serious documentation.
> >
> >I was told about serious difficulties for pilots converting
> >(though not about casualties ) in exactly this story
> >in my PPL ground course. The teacher's identity
> >is available though not on this forum, but he's certainly
> >a serious guy with a lot of flying hours (though less than UB of
course)
> >and he's a university teacher besides.
>
> >Just before this, he had explained that the TO procedure
> >for powerful fighters like the P51 Mustang prescribed
> >several precise steps of adding power and corrective steering,
> >with lifting the tail somewhere in between.
> >
> >KA - first flight real soon now
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Sorry Karel,
> All really experienced pilots I know... just FLY THE AIRPLANE
> when they are through reading 'the book'.
>
> Your instructor may be a serious guy as a professor, but as a
> first class pilot, I have some reservations. Read Rick Pellicciotti's
> post and you will be on the right track, IMHO.

Read that, thought this...
Seems to make sense, indeed

<<big john episode snipped>>

> FWIW....
> No question, the military has 'numbers' for everything.

Yups. As I remember my PPL teacher,
this was exactly the point he was making:
do NOT follow your training as such
or the tons of numbers turning around in memory
there might always be a tiny bit of theory
or one single figure
you didn't remember

OTOH what you feel in the controls will always be there
for these to feel who have developed some feeling

Rgds,
KA
(longing for more aircraft feelings)