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Hey all you Old Timers can't you feel the sink rate in the seat of your pants after a while you can feel the speeds pretty close keep your eyes outside and just glance inside to see if what you feel Is right chances are it is. Usually if it's going right it's gunna feel like slow motion on approach.Dennis 99564 --- Greg Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm > before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > 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 > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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