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At 01:55 PM 12/5/02 -0700, MAGIC VAC wrote: >How can you not look at the airspeed indicator on final. Easy. Just don't. If I glance at it it always says what I expect anyway. But I fly a lot. A whole lot. In the same plane. And I'm trimmed. And 70MPH and 75 and 80 and 85 and 90 all look and feel vastly different to me in N99387. >I don't believe you pretty much know how fast you're going. I flew with a CFI once who made me learn what speed I was going or what RPM I was turning in the pattern using the sound of the plane and the 'sight picture.' That was in an Aeronca. Good exercise. Airplanes, like horses, have different 'gaits.' I used to keep my nose on the instruments constantly. Hardly ever saw what happened outside. Flew like crap, too. >Call me old fashioned, but I >keep one eye glued on the air speed indicator, one on the altimeter, and >the third one on the runway. Okay, you're old-fashioned :-) I hope you get to fly your Coupe so much that you find yourself looking outside to see how the approach is developing :-) Greg ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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