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Duck going multi
TheSoccerMom:
Hey Duck!!
Best of luck on the training, it sounds like all will be well as long as you don't spill those darned BBQ Goldfishies all over the cockpit!!
You'd better watch out driving back home, though -- you'll have that enormous thigh muscle from so many hours of holding that rudder -- if it's the gas foot, you'll get a speeding ticket!!! :D :D
Enjoy the rest of your flying!! Hope the weather holds for you. ;) ;)
The Soccer Mom**
Turbomallard:
--- Quote from: TheSoccerMom on October 21, 2006, 11:35:41 PM ---Hey Duck!!
Best of luck on the training, it sounds like all will be well as long as you don't spill those darned BBQ Goldfishies all over the cockpit!!
You'd better watch out driving back home, though -- you'll have that enormous thigh muscle from so many hours of holding that rudder -- if it's the gas foot, you'll get a speeding ticket!!! :D :D
Enjoy the rest of your flying!! Hope the weather holds for you. ;) ;)
The Soccer Mom**
--- End quote ---
Thanks! The goldfish are smart... they stay in the hotel!
Just checked the TAF... 14G24, 90 degree Xwind on a 50 ft wide 3,000 foot long runway. Gulp. Mesa no tink so! I need more time just sitting in the airplane just going through checklists, though, so I can do that and then bail for home. I wouldn't mind getting home around dinner time and decompressing before going back to the day job Monday AM! And I can play in the Frasca 142 at home with some multi procedures, too, during the week. That's mainly what I need at this point... I can talk about it all day no problem, but the multitasking of doing it in the air is a bit much after only three hours in the airplane (at least at my age... 10-15 years ago it would have been much easier... back in grad school I used to think nothing of the "book a week per class" reading and comprehension bit... I think I burned out too many brain cells doing it, though).
Time for some alka seltzser (urp) and maybe some more book review. I hope the bloody junior high school girls basketball team goes to bed soon... actually I think they're a track team the way they keep running up and down the hall over and over. Hmmmm... time to use some good old duck deviousness. Step one, find the switches for the hallway lights and darken a selected area of the corridor. Step two, string a line across the corridor at a height of about eight inches. Step three, proceed back to room and wait for the inevitable.
TM
Gulfstream Driver:
Were you able to break any ankles at the hotel last weekend?
Turbomallard:
No, but when I got up the next morning a tourbus of retirees (lucky people, them) had come in and they had all taken over the room where the continental breakfast was served... it was packed with people with name tags all asking one another if they had slept well.
Gulped down cereal and headed back to the airport. Got in one flight, but no checkride-- too bumpy. Also, the day before I got a DEMO of an engine failure, and flew an approach (on two engines) visually... then there we are up in turbulence, I'm under the hood for the first time flying an approach, and got my first engine failure... all this at once. Needless to say, I didn't do well. :-\ Then we had a gear light failure that took about 10 minutes to troubleshoot, then we headed home (further away than usual since the nearby airport where they typically do appraches was closed). I have a whopping four hours time now. They tell me about another 1-1.5 and I'll be done, but that seems hopelessly optimistic to me. I just don't see the five hour deal working for me-- I'm not that good, at least not as I was 20 years ago. ;) But I hope to go back down there again Saturday (and stay over if need be). With a little luck, I'll be able to finish up. Hope so-- spending weekends on this does not make for time to decompress before returning to work on Monday morning.
Anyway, I'm glad I am doing this... I think! ???
TM
fireflyr:
Hey Duck,
Sounds like you're having fun--don't know about other folks but when I'm doing approaches, I don't use the rudder trim at all if they fail an engine---gets too busy if they give it back or you have to make additional power reductions on the working engine. Just thought I'd toss that out for one hint---any of you other CFI's got hints about what works for you?
The only time an engine pop NEEDS immediate attention is on takeoff (your head should be prepped BEFORE you shove the levers forward)---other times, take a moment to analyze what's going on before you start yanking levers.
If it takes an extra hour or so of duel to feel confident then so be it---you can't rush safety.
Sounds like you're doing just fine though
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