AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 22) t 12,000 were till qvA manfeet the pilot looked climbing, and over st the on the right with we a questim mark ia his eya- There was no oxygen aboard the plane, and to fly higher than 12,000 fwt for long p i & i not recommended. s Ahead were ~ o l i d c1ouds mushr&ming upward interminably? and somewhere in those clouds Mt.S m Jacinto &ached out, while on the right WSB anow-apped Sari Gorgonio, 11?486 feet above the level of the a a' e! hZv (check p&t) will Inasmuch as khe blind-flying hood is remarkably a t a% mgine whm you entm out at d l ) efbient (you camat see you are not aurpxised when he my$ there i actual instrus wal ''mup" for jimt time ment weather d e a d , You are m r l eey a requisite of &wk pilots. You {and he) are mm~lekiw 8 h b g u b , simulated-inskmment, crms*wtw flight, and are now retwnhg westward t LOB o Angel= ; juat over Palm Springs the &e& pilot geb a radio weahher regart and pick up his mike. The above, at f i a t glance, might seem t be a portion of a p r t W r 1 y o bad acript, written expressly for td0vision or, possibly* a C k s 2 movie. That ia bad enough, but wome ~ t i U is ta be in the script, with a pilot who shou1dn't he there. What would you do if you were the pilot? "Turn arounv you w y , and that i~ a good amwer, p&icuhrly if you don't realize that 10,000 seconds mder the hmd requim that you know cerhin thhgg, What ahout v o h pr* cedures; position mport~~~ dear~ces~ and let d o n ? What i it like ta make s an approach at a busy airport when the surrounding country has "bhm a t " weather? =ow e one fly m "the gauges?'(as imtmment flight is hetiously referred to) m d m e a computer? edimah your tfme over the next ~IX, haride the radios, and fly the plane? W h t hapi an f engine quits? (Presuming you ham more than one.) Can o w man do & khe work? E not only cam, but many pil& e hama done .st on an ATl2 (Ahline Tramport Rating) ref r d e r course, in which al the work was done by l the pilot. Suppose that you are a reamnabIy competent pilot & i t i ~ g m the left side; we'll eliminab the C U Z m i p t including the movie pikd and hi8 hysterical wife, who wodd of coume be in the cabin making salt tears and yak-yak in mpbms mounb. O n the right side you71 haw the c & pilot, a man with a amdish h Seconds by JOHN R. HOYT dumbfounded. The pilot-that's you4oesn*t like it, because as an applicant you've never been an the gauges before excepting under the hod. You begin to sweat a li$tIe-there i a subtle difs ference between flyihg when you h o w you can pdl the hood down to take the preasure a%, and flying in the 8oup when you know you can't, In the latter case you are campelled h fly the gauges whether they like it or not. But while you're composing a strong objection t flying onward? o the check pilot radios ARTC (Air h u h Tra& Control) and the dearm e c u m back,"Nan 777 . . ARTC c clears Nan 7'77 from present pmition t LOBAngek. Climb b e d & a aWy t on*three thowand, cruise o and maintain onethree khoumnd until further advised.'' So at 12,000 feet the pfld i ~a ,K i climbing, and at 13,000 the shiny aluminum nose of the lbh B & e g m d m , the propa are pulled back to cruising r.p.m,, the throttle adjusted to recommended manifold preaewe, mixturn leaned out, cowl flaps d & and the controh trimmed uno, til the B e d cruises along nicely i n l d flight with '%an& M." Almost hands off? because? dthough the k h is not only a M e plane but a great favorite, ' k d a o r flying is not om of iâ‚ attributa when on the gauges: it is sot noked for a tendency t maintah heading a or altitude without frequent c o r n tiow. The pilot h e w thh. and the knowledge that he was man to be on actual instrumah didn't help him to relax. Airplane-jmkeya are like anyone else when tke pre138urei on, and s the pilot wished he were VFR (WEual Flight Rules). VFR flying, with its vi8uaI reference t the horizon a8 o it ~tretches interminably around the aircraft, ia w y : a pilot can stem, eat lunch, smoke? a d keep up hi8 pmgw s chart, but m e the a h r a f t ene ters clouds and the pilot begins to commtrate on hb instrument8 to maintain h d flight in a given direction+ he i busier than ants in s mamalade. So you-the pilot-fly on toward the cloud bank, only half a mile away. . ( C o u ~ s i a a p g 4 69) on THE AOPA PILOT
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