Well done sir.
I'm working locally with some new instructors and maintainers in flight training
techniques and common but often missed maintenance issues. You are exemplifying
what we've been discussing:
There is a difference between an airplane driver (licensed occasional stick
operator)
and a pilot. An aviator must be a student of aviation and all its subtleties.
The student of aviation is constantly improving his skills such as his
knowledge of weather, regulations, airspace, communications, emergency
procedures,
aerodynamics, and finishes it off by improving his knowledge of aircraft
handling. Most important he expands his air sense.
Air sense is also called situational awareness, or professionalism, and is the
proper application of all we know to accomplish a safe uneventful flight. A
true
student of aviation also knows the aircraft and its systems and can fix or
describe any issue with the aircraft to maintenance personnel to keep it in good
shape for the safety of others who may fly that aircraft. Maintainers must
anticipate areas of wear and put themselves into the pilot's seat and physically
feel the controls, brakes and steering, (especially the non-flying maintainer)
to troubleshoot not the symptoms but the causes of failure and wear and
improve their inspections.
How one applies the rules and laws that govern all things aviation, and then
uses
this knowledge to anticipate and mitigate risk by acting prudently and
professionally
in his flying is not learned by flying a simulator or a trainer once
a quarter but by immersion in all facets of aviation. It is time consuming,
often expensive, but worth every penny and amount of time we spend to improve
our knowledge and hone our skills. We fly like we train, but basic training
is just that...Basic. When you can't afford training, read, practice procedures
on the ground, fly with others on joy rides, steal some stick time and practice
and hone your air sense. Fly in as many different aircraft as you can to
learn how they all fly and feel. Study the aerodynamics and POH of all these
planes and watch videos when available. It is great fun and knowledge
expanding.
Confidence and cockiness have bit many of us young fighter pilots in the butt
until
we became true students of aviation and professional in our flying. Our
reflexes and natural ability had gotten many of us into embarrassing situations,
where it took all our skill and reflexes to get out of it, whereas the pro
used all his skill and knowledge to avoid or mitigate the risk and made an
uneventful
landing.
Keep expanding your knowledge. Upset training and or aerobatic training are
extremely
important. We don't do it for bragging rights, but for the confidence
in knowing what to do to feel the approach of a problem and take the proper
action
to avoid it and have the knowledge/skill of how to recover in a timely manner
when mother nature throws her worst at us, and then make it look easy.
I tend to watch the downwind landing as loss of rudder control in the mono can
be exciting. I have only been able to solve it by planting the tail wheel and
main at exactly the right time. We have the same situation you described at
Plant City Airport (4000 feet of hard surface). It is flat rough some days
landing
on RWY10 with the winds 045 at 15 Kts (common in the winter), but only
500 feet farther down the runway it is smooth as glass with a simple 7 knot
cross
and head. Locals all knew this, I had to learn the hard way 25 years ago
getting back into aviation in Jim Brown's mono. Luckily, slow flighting down
the runway allowed me to see the issue and learn what every other KPCM pilot
knew.
Best Regards,
Bud Yerly
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Subject: Europa-List: What Did You Do With Your Europa This Week - 15-10-22
Dodged the thermals and puffy white clouds to zip over to Casino with some other
home field flyers for a cup of tea! Then zipped back out off 28 with a 7kt xwind
and 1600fpm climb out under the puffy now turning dark grey clouds and bumpy
air to land with a 10kt downwind on 23 to avoid thermal turbulence on approach
to 05. Starting to feel more confident flying the europa on and off bitumen
in less than perfect conditions. Feeling much more connected to the aircraft
after recent sessions in the Pitts-2SA
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