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Re: Pilot avoids collision with Venus
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 5, 01:35 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 5, 01:35 -0700
Recently I have been flying the new Cessna Skycatcher and I really like it. It has two glass panels and NO other instruments in the plane, no airspeed indicator, no altimeter, no attitude indicator, no tachometer, no directional gyro, no oil pressure gauge, and even no compass. The manual says that in the event of a complete loss of the "glass cockpit" that the pilot should just use his experience to establish a safe approach and landing. If fact, that is not at all difficult to do but if flying over featureless terrain or water no matter how much experience I have I can't tell directions. I can't believe that a plane can be licensed without a compass! So an astro-compass is a good idea in one of these new planes. I also just bought a car compass at Pep Boys for $2.99 and I am going to mount it in the plane the next time I go flying and leave it for the next
guy. gl --- On Sun, 4/29/12, Gary LaPook <glapook@pacbell.net> wrote:
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