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DOWN AND OUT

GETTING AN EGO BOOST

I

was reading "Down and Out" by Budd Davisson (Flight
Training, October 2014). I'm still making friends with and
transitioning into my Acrosport biplane. I just started doing
power-off landings. It's a real boost to the ego when you get
them figured out. Keeping the pattern short and tight pretty much
guarantees that I need to slip to landing, even in a biplane that glides
like a rock. It starts to become a real blast! It's especially so when
you plant one on the numbers right in front of another pilot shooting
landings, holding short for takeoff.
I read the whole article without looking to see who wrote it. It sounded quite
familiar until it dawned on me that it was
indeed written by Davisson. Sometimes
the obvious eludes me. I went through
his Pitts S2-A transition training this
spring for my Acrosport.
Dan Williams
Liverpool, New York
SUCCESS STORIES

I can't be the only geezer writing in to
confess I did not earn a private certificate
until age 60 or more; 61, for me. Thanks
to the I know you can do it attitude of
my instructor, Sherman Smith of Sherman's Flight Training in Wimauma,
Florida, I joined the club (he's 20 years
my senior, to boot). No, I am not one of
those gifted souls who can make any
endeavor look simple. I needed 30 hours
before I soloed, and 86 hours when I
passed the checkride (first attempt). I am
now pursuing an instrument rating, at
the same leisurely pace: 101 hours under
the hood, and still at it. I will get there.
I know I can.
Charles E. Lehnert
Riverview, Florida
Jill Tallman's article "The Last Page"
(Flight Training, September 2014) really
helped me get over failing my checkride.
After a two-and-one-half hour oral, we
went flying, and I passed everything
but my emergency power-off landing.
8/

FLIGHTTRAINING.AOPA.ORG

I wasn't able to reschedule right away
because the examiner went on vacation
for three weeks, so we rescheduled for
when he got back. Then another delay
because he was ill on the reschedule date.
Finally, I passed my private pilot checkride two days later, and the examiner was
very happy with my emergency poweroff landing.  
Last Sunday I flew my husband to our
favorite airport restaurant for breakfast.
He is also a pilot and was impressed
with my landings (he only touched a few
things). I am really happy beyond words.
Thanks again for the article. It helped to
know I wasn't the only one who failed
their first checkride attempt. P.S. I'm 67
years old. You're never too old to fly.
Joan D. Cooper
Hemet, California
HOW IT WORKS

I just finished reading my October issue
of Flight Training and I must take issue
with the "How It Works" article on noise
cancelling headsets.
In the article, it states that the headset "senses the sound, processes it, and
cancels it" with an opposite frequency.
While the concept is correct, the
described method is not. An analog signal
(in this case at an audible frequency)
has an amplitude, and a phase. To cancel
the signal, the headset must sample it
to determine its frequency, amplitude,
and phase. It then transmits a signal of


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