I hate Peoplenet, where are you parked and recipes thread

Proper prior planning affords me a lot of latitude.

 

It's a pity...they don't make them like that anymore. It almost scares me to fly, they don't teach the students to fly anymore...it's how to push a button to land.

Used to be a time when real skill was what mattered... Tech can't replace skill and yet we rely on it to do just that... I can't decide if that makes us arrogant, lazy, scared of human error or what...

If I didnt have more important things to look after in the future, I'd be spending my time getting my license to fly. I only hope that when the time comes, I can find an instructor that's willing to teach me how to fly the #### plane and not just push its buttons.

 

I don't think you have the concept of what's involved in piloting a light general aviation aircraft firmly in grasp.

Push a button???

 

Cut him some slack. He drives for Orange.

 

you're right to an extent. even the newer trainer aircraft now have been dumbed down to a degree.

if you do decide to do it, go to a country airport, with older planes and find the oldest instructor there. the old guys still get it and won't be so reliant on the tech and still remember when all we had was a watch and a map and an old AM band directional finder......and if you were lucky a course guidance beacon called a VOR.

the new instructors now are as tech dependent as the 3 month driver 'trainers' now who would rather trust their gps than find the better route on the map. they still have to learn the old ways but don't stress them as much. guys like the one that taught me won't even allow that stuff in the plane and still make you do it the old school way.

the smaller country airports without the navaids or only the most basic ones will teach you aircraft control and usually have the better instructors. where I fly now is only a 2900 foot strip, with a width of 40 ft. the wingspan of the plane I usually fly is 36ft. there are 50ft trees just off each end of the runway. you learn to do it right at a place like that lol

 

lol yeah generally you don't get the push button planes until you can afford it

I didn't even see a plane with an autopilot until I was working on my commercial

they are a lot more tech dependent than they used to be though. the newer trainers with sidesticks and glass ####pits and built-in gps don't look anything like the bare bones 150 I learned in lol they're like the space shuttle in comparison

 

It's an expression... I'm actually well aware of what it means to really pilot an aircraft. Many schools now will teach only what's required to pass the exam much like the cdl mills out there.

Now, many planes are equipped with landing assist... Which is where "push a button" comes from for me. That, I'll admit I don't know what it assists with, removes most of the skill associated with landing an aircraft.

...I suppose what I mean to say...the pilots leaving schools now aren't always prepared as they should be.

@flyingmusician
Thanks, that's really what I was referring to. I don't want to learn to fly through a computer (at the same time...I'm not interested in being an old fashioned barnstormer either. Maybe later? ), it's good to learn the tech...but not good to rely on it.

I figured a country airport was the way to go. Last one I knew of nearby me has picked up quite a bit in the last several years. Falcon field ring a bell?
Had uncles that flew out of there...last time they took me was when I was...12? Someone had emergency landed a private airplane there. First time I ever got to see a jet airplane up close.

 

that does forgive many many things doesn't it? lol

 

Go ahead, I rag on you all. It's about time I took some return fire.

I might be misinformed about many things, but I'm not inept or stupid.

 

ugh. nothing in the house is safe from the puppy

I walk out back and she's happily chewing away on the wife's 1/2 cup measuring spoon.

how she got that off the counter I have no clue