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I would like to add one more very important thing to the discussion it is be very aware of vertigo when you get into some of the problems that have been discussed in the past couple of days. in the clouds it comes on immediately with no advance warning. Always trust your instruments with a cross check because even with a gyro system it can also drop off line with out warning. I have had both things happen. The vertigo came on with just a glance to the side to look at a map. Then everything went to H,,, all at once. I finally figured out I was going down as the engine kept winding up. When I finally got things figured out I was in a spiral dive and about 1000 ft from good old earth. I only bring this up because if it wasn't for the gyro s and the other instruments I would have screwed my Cherokee into good old Mother earth. There is something said for a full panel which if my A/C when purchased didn't have one it was installed very shortly. Always put a mixture of electric and vacuum Instruments in for. DICK NANCY & SOPHIE -------Original Message------- From: Bill Coons Date: 04/14/05 20:42:14 To: ercoupers Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] attatude indicators. ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Hi all, Say what you will about attitude indicators but I will always have one in my D. Many years ago we had our convention in Lockhaven, Pa. When it was time to go home on Sunday, The FFS promised good weather. They lied.. I was about 40 miles into the flight to Chicago and I noticed that the sky was darkening in the north east. I was so intent on evaluating the wx situation that I completely missed the huge clouds forming on my left. I decided to return to Lockhaven and try another time. So what did I do, I whipped it around to the left and in no time I was fully enveloped in the cloud. It happened so fast I barely had time to get my wits together. Let me say right here that I had just taken taken my hour of instrument instruction for my FAA phase 2 wings. We spent lots of time under the hood practicing everything from recovering from unusual attitudes to finding your way out of a cloud. I merely started a standard rate turn to the reciprocal heading back to the airport and watched the attitude indicator all the way. In a minute or two I was in the clear and congratulated myself. I had never had that happen before. Anyway I spent the entire week at the Lockhaven airport and finally gave up and took a bus back to Chicago. Now I have just passed my phase 13 wings and have to say that I still do my instrument hour under the hood. I have programmed into my Garmin 296 a route that takes me right to the runway instead of the middle of the airport and practice it all the time. In fact I conduct FAA GPS seminars that cover that method of emergency flight training with the GPS. I have a full gyro panel in my coupe and use a Loran and 4 GPS units. ( no, I don't have to buy them). So, I run a little heavy, but I don't care. I know that if I ever need them, they will be there. By the way, I wrote an article for Coupe capers in 92' telling this exact same story. Bill Coons ========================================================================== === To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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