On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:10:25 +0000, Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's probably what I call the knowledge syndrome, the more you know, the > more you realise how much you don't know. From a young lad who thought > he knew all about radio to a fully qualified and experienced adult, my > perception is that I have a very sketchy knowledge of how the stuff > works, but I know just enough to get me by. Quite right. You can spend weeks or months just studying the NDB, but most of that knowledge isn't practical enough to be useful in the cockpit. It's one thing to know that your ADF can be a bit unreliable if you're flying parallel to a shoreline at certain times of day, etc., but in practice, there are so many ways that the NDB signal can get messed up that you pretty much give up on trying to assign reasons. Besides, one important rule of thumb is not to troubleshoot in the cockpit -- just fly the plane, then figure out why things went wrong once you're on the ground. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
