Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

[DaNinja]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

guess the army can't afford foggles.

We were blocked off more than foggles could do for instrument training.
For Apache training, the entire canopy was blocked off and you had to fly with only the FLIR image in your right eye.
The instructor's canopy, in both cases were unobstructed.

 

[nwcove]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Mile High Club????

rofl......i was thinking the same thing......only the quarter mile high club! practising for the real deal!!!

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

I am with Ooops on this one. When I was training to be a pilot, I did a lot of training "under the hood" as its called where I am from. I also did a lot of traing doing turns in the shape of a a square. May look like I was circling from the ground.

Do you have a avation school close by? Our local university has a avation school and I see crazy stuff like that once or twice a week. I especially love it when you hear the engine shut dowm and start up a few minutes later.

 

[southkogs]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

We were blocked off more than foggles could do for instrument training.
For Apache training, the entire canopy was blocked off and you had to fly with only the FLIR image in your right eye.
The instructor's canopy, in both cases were unobstructed.

As an USAF kid (son of, never in myself), I usually tote the family line and make fun of the "other military aviators" - all in good humor as allowed by esprit de corps. Until we start talking helicopters ... You Army guys have almost all the cool ones

 

[DaNinja]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Do you have a avation school close by? Our local university has a avation school and I see crazy stuff like that once or twice a week. I especially love it when you hear the engine shut dowm and start up a few minutes later.

I'm pretty used to the sound of the flight school at the nearby airport running traffic patterns.
I don't get used to the sudden silence when they do simulated engine failures.
It always gives my heart a jump.

 

[southkogs]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

I'm pretty used to the sound of the flight school at the nearby airport running traffic patterns.
I don't get used to the sudden silence when they do simulated engine failures.
It always gives my heart a jump.

Propeller - (n): 1.) A fan designed to keep the pilot cool during the flight. (Turn it off and watch him sweat. )

 

[oops!]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

how can you see the instruments with a bag on your head?
in my years I've never heard it anything other than under the hood

I am from Canada phil...... the terminoligy might be different....but under the hood would be the same thing.

lol....the pilots never fly with a bag on there head...(holding my tounge with a gazillion bag over there head jokes)

 

[DaNinja]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

I am from Canada phil...... the terminoligy might be different....but under the hood would be the same thing.

lol....the pilots never fly with a bag on there head...(holding my tounge with a gazillion bag over there head jokes)

The bag thing made perfect sense to me. That's what we called flying an Apache with no view outside of the cockpit.

 

[RogersJetboat454]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Many reasons for a pilot to choose to orbit for a while.

For example...RogersJetboat, do you live near Lawrence Muni or maybe Plum Island?
There's an instrument approach into Beverly that includes a holding pattern in lieu of procedure turn up by Lawrence and it's missed approach procedure is a direct flight to hold at a Navaid around Plum Island.

I've worked at entering and flying holding patterns for hours sometimes.
And then again, I've orbited for a while just trying to figure out where the heck I was or work out a commo issue.

Ninja,

Currently living near Lawrence Municipal airport, but grew up a mile down the street from Beverly municipal. Hearing single engine prop job's for me goes unnoticed ... Heck even a helicopter or private jet roaring off goes fairly unnoticed too. I just happened to noticed this one wasn't the couple minute hold or looping approach that most of the pilots take...

In fact while watching it I couldn't help but think of these guys flying...

This pilot seemed to have a bit more control though.

 

[soggy_feet]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Ive heard of commercial pilots flying half in the bag, maybe it's training for that...

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Do you have a avation school close by? Our local university has a avation school and I see crazy stuff like that once or twice a week. I especially love it when you hear the engine shut dowm and start up a few minutes later.

If it makes you feel any better they don't actually turn the engine off they just pull it back to idle. Turning the engine off completely in a single engine airplane is not advised and could wind up being a real engine out emergency if it decides not to fire up again.

Any instructor who actually kills an engine on me during training will not be my instructor long.

Flying under the bag! That's funny. It reminds me of one day during flight training we forgot my hood in the flight briefing room so my instructor stuffed the sectional chart in the windshield. That was hilarious!

 

[Av8nBill]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

Maybe he was logging solo "night" hours but was afraid to leave the local area - not actually confident of his pilotage and dead reckoning skills. This way the Hobbs would show he flew the hours and the instructor would assume he actually went somewhere.

 

[Philip_G]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

If it makes you feel any better they don't actually turn the engine off they just pull it back to idle. Turning the engine off completely in a single engine airplane is not advised and could wind up being a real engine out emergency if it decides not to fire up again.

Any instructor who actually kills an engine on me during training will not be my instructor long.

Flying under the bag! That's funny. It reminds me of one day during flight training we forgot my hood in the flight briefing room so my instructor stuffed the sectional chart in the windshield. That was hilarious!

read a story in a flying rag about an instructor that used to shut the engine off and throw the key out the window. What the student didn't know is that he had a copy in his pocket.

I'd have to brush up on part 61 but I don't think any solo night hours are required, just dual.

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Airplane acting oddly last night over the house, any pilots out there?

When I was learning how to fly, the instructor would turn off the fuel to demonstrate an engine fail. Would do it without even telling me. The engine continues to windmill so getting the engine going again is just a matter of turning the fuel selector back on.