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akoch wrote:what about the rest of us who fly plastic nose-wheel trainers that don't have a chute or even autopilot? Go and make up a will on monday?
I have a plastic nose wheel trainer and a chute. It comes in a bag and I put it on when I do Aerobatics.
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Colonel Sanders wrote: As as "old school" pilot I will stick to tube & fabric
taildraggers and WWII radial engine aircraft and
light tactical jets. You know, the "old school" stuff
that I know how to operate.
Unfortunately, most pilots (including probably me) will never have the chance to fly those aircraft anymore. If only the "plastic stuff" is produced, it's the "plastic stuff" we'll be flying.

I'm a big fan of the clockwork cockpits, yet I had to do my IFR training in glass cockpit toys since there was no analog cockpit available anymore in my school.

Also, most people with a bag of money to spend on a new airplane would most probably choose to buy an airplane of which they are 'sure' that there will still be replacement parts produced for the next XX years. Can't really blame them for that.
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You get a pass if you love Taylor Swift.
Oh good, I was really worried for a second
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You should be worried. Go get tested for STD's - she really gets around.
most people with a bag of money to spend on a new airplane would most probably choose to buy an airplane of which they are 'sure' that there will still be replacement parts produced for the next XX years
Oh, so that's why a P-51 is only $2,000,000
and a Corsair is only $3,000,000?
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digits_ wrote: Unfortunately, most pilots (including probably me) will never have the chance to fly those aircraft anymore. If only the "plastic stuff" is produced, it's the "plastic stuff" we'll be flying.
Personally I don't find anything specifically wrong with "the plastic stuff" with the exception of how pilots tend to want to fly them. Remember that stuff is produced because there is the largest market for GA airplanes for them. If you're lamenting the fact that there are only plastic planes to fly, well look in the mirror. I will admit that I'm sort of entralled by the tailwheel version of this thing though, if the purchase price wasn't so high, I think one could run some flight training based upon them. That and if my head didn't have to press up against that ill-positioned spar.

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I'm a big fan of the clockwork cockpits, yet I had to do my IFR training in glass cockpit toys since there was no analog cockpit available anymore in my school.
Then it begs the question that if you desired such a service, why didn't you go for it? This falls into my main theory that flight training is primarily selected by convinience of training above all other considerations. Flight schools succeed primarily based upon location, location, location, if the market warrants it and can otherwise have an exceedingly poor product.

Also, most people with a bag of money to spend on a new airplane would most probably choose to buy an airplane of which they are 'sure' that there will still be replacement parts produced for the next XX years. Can't really blame them for that.
Lowest consideration when most people purchase airplanes. Like many things people often use their heart rather than their head, and if they use their head, then their priorities are often misplaced. I'd guess that a majority of airplanes are sold based upon some shiny paint, leather seats and some flashy stuff in the dash, a few because of a percieved higher groundspeed.
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The spar and the reinforcement tubes are just horrible on the Sinus. Otherwise could have been a decent aircraft, but really really tight inside. My head will be banging against the tubes in turbulence, and I don't want to think about a crash scenario.

P51 mentioned by CS for a couple of mil... if it is so attractive why very few people seem to be interested in flying and owning them? I'm sure there are others like me who just don't get what's the deal there.
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P51 mentioned by CS for a couple of mil... if it is so attractive why very few people seem to be interested in flying and owning them? I'm sure there are others like me who just don't get what's the deal there.
Your sentiment is more common than you think, hence the proliferation of plastic airplanes with glass panels. Its also why old airplanes are disappearing, there's just not enough people to care for all the airplanes that need love. So bit by bit they fall into neglect.

Way out in London airport in hangar number four
A lonely little biplane slept whose name was Evermore
His working days were over no more would he sail
Upon his wings above the clouds flying the royal mail

All the plastic plane pilots would look down their nose
They'd laugh and say oh I'm so glad that I don't fly one of
those
And Evermore would shake away the teardrops from his
wings
And dream of days when he again could do heroic things


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"Emergency procedures" is what you do when something
goes wrong. You know, stuff breaks. Let's say that the
autopilot fails. Well, it's time to demonstrate the ability
to manually hold a heading and altitude in the absence
of exterior visual cues.


These clowns in the Cirruses do not know how to
operate the equipment installed in the airplane (eg
autopilot - "normal procedures"). They have no
mastery of emergency procedures, either. This may
be the "wave of the future", with their plastic nosewheel
fixed-gear aircraft, but it's a lot different than how
we do things where I come from ("old school").

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This is what I believe has been lost. The equipment is awesome. Until something doesn't work the way it should.
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The equipment is awesome
Sure, but it would appear that the owner/pilots
are too dumb to even turn it on and push the
"APR" button.
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Shiny Side Up wrote:
P51 mentioned by CS for a couple of mil... if it is so attractive why very few people seem to be interested in flying and owning them? I'm sure there are others like me who just don't get what's the deal there.
Your sentiment is more common than you think, hence the proliferation of plastic airplanes with glass panels. Its also why old airplanes are disappearing, there's just not enough people to care for all the airplanes that need love. So bit by bit they fall into neglect.

Way out in London airport in hangar number four
A lonely little biplane slept whose name was Evermore
His working days were over no more would he sail
Upon his wings above the clouds flying the royal mail

All the plastic plane pilots would look down their nose
They'd laugh and say oh I'm so glad that I don't fly one of
those
And Evermore would shake away the teardrops from his
wings
And dream of days when he again could do heroic things


:(
Not to worry! It will go it's natural way. Just like cars, as an example: there will be some preserved, prized and loved old airplanes just like some people will pay and play with an old Mercedes SL300 Gullwing or Hispana-Suiza. But most folks (I suspect CS including) would drive a reasonably recent sports bike or a Honda Civic, or Lexus - whichever's someone's fancy.
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Just like cars,
Airplanes aren't cars though, despite the rampant consumer need for them to act that way. There's a difference between being a pilot and a driver, though maybe for some that doesn't matter.
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Airplanes aren't cars though, despite the rampant consumer need for them to act that way
I'm still sulking over the North American aircraft manufacturer's
attempts after WWII, to make airplanes look "just like cars"
with steering wheels (instead of a stick) and heavy upholstery :roll:

IMHO a "real airplane" is controlled by a stick in your right
hand, throttle(s) in your left hand, and bare interior with
the plumbing, wiring and cables exposed, and placards.

No shag carpet on the floor. No Corinthian leather. Just
a slightly inclined seat with double five-point harnesses.
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with steering wheels (instead of a stick) and heavy upholstery
I'm not so hung up on that part, wheels have their own charm in the right places, though sometimes its because they evoke a more nautical feel. This panel is a work of art!

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Though I like the look of the ones better that have the throttle on the left.

Some airplanes I think you need a wheel to wrestle it around the sky, all the more that makes it appealing.

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This on the other hand you can't even tell its an airplane.

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Heart of a pilot my ass.
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Shiny Side Up wrote:
Just like cars,
Airplanes aren't cars though, despite the rampant consumer need for them to act that way. There's a difference between being a pilot and a driver, though maybe for some that doesn't matter.
No, they aren't. But as everything - they are what people put in them, the emotional charge.

It is as hard to be a good driver as to be a good pilot. Basically to be on the top takes somebodies dedicated and life-long effort, being that a top aerobatic pilot or top F1 racer.

Funny enough, and I admit it readily - it is a generational thing: to me the Cirrus cockpit looks much more like an aeroplane cockpit than the two examples above. It is so subjective. (Disclaimer - I'm not a fan of Cirrus, to say the least). When I think of what an airplane cockpit must looks like - it is a current gen A360, or gen5 fighter etc, that's the idea.
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"IMHO a "real airplane" is controlled by a stick in your right
hand, throttle(s) in your left hand, and bare interior with
the plumbing, wiring and cables exposed, and placards."

Hey, you just described my battered-but-beloved Dog Ship, the slowest bird in The Snowflakes...
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Shiny Side Up wrote: Then it begs the question that if you desired such a service, why didn't you go for it? This falls into my main theory that flight training is primarily selected by convinience of training above all other considerations. Flight schools succeed primarily based upon location, location, location, if the market warrants it and can otherwise have an exceedingly poor product.
For financial reasons mostly. The school with the glass cockpit was quite a bit cheaper than the one with the traditional cockpit. Quality was, judging from ex students, +- the same.
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you just described my battered-but-beloved Dog Ship
No Corinthian Leather interior?
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THE BRAINS OF A GNAT
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The cirrus layout and tools are awesome. Really; if you understand them. Regretfully; at some point -- perhaps not anymore -- the marketing was the tools made it the easiest plane to fly; like driving a car. Nothing is further from the truth.

I've been up a couple of times in a SR22; awesome plane. But its a whole lotta AC for a low timer. High stall speed; and very slippery. But I am conservative. If I wanted one ( I don't) I MIGHT be ready now at 500 HRS TT. I think you should graduate in your airplanes. Old school?
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the marketing was the tools made it the easiest plane to fly; like driving a car
I blame Popular Mechanics and their "flying car" concept for that.
But its a whole lotta AC for a low timer
Sorry, I don't buy into that. It's all about the quality of
the training. I have soloed people in the Pitts S-2B which
is a LOT more of a handful. Keep in mind that the pilot
of the RCAF F-18 you see this summer at airshows
across Canada, flying high G aerobatics down low,
doesn't have enough hours to get a job flying King Air :roll:

Most civilian training is really bad. Horribly inefficient.
That's what's causing accidents. Not hours in the
logbook.

Let's face it, if some bozo struts up to you and tells
you that he has 50,000 hours, I would wager that
he really has 1,000 hours, fifty times over and over
again.

Food for thought: the helmet cam in this video is
affixed to the head of a 19 yr old with 300TT, flying
wing:



You think he could fly a plastic nosewheel aircraft
straight and level?

The difference between he and the clowns crashing
the Cirruses is the training they have received.

But no one cares about flying well. They don't
need to - just keep pulling that chute handle!
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