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What’s the cockpit instrumentation experience that you have?

22 Friday Nov 2013

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Analog, Cessna, Diamond, Experience, Garmin, Glass, Honeywell, Piper, Survey

Glass_vs_AnalogFor an upcoming article, which includes a research study by a pilot from ERAU (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), and the thoughts of an experienced captain flying the caravans in India, we at The Flying Engineer would like to understand how many of us have a glass experience, and how many analog (traditional) instrumentation exposure, as a pilot. We wish to understand the exposure you had, when undergoing flying training for a CPL.

If you do have airline experience, please limit the responses to your training period only.

Please take a minute to fill up this simple survey. Please make sure your selected choice is honest, as the results gathered here will be displayed for all to see, giving valuable insights.

Usually, pilots from a particular flight school have a single type cockpit experience (example: NFTI, Chimes, GMR-APFT), where they have an all-glass fleet. Pilots from IGRUA, for example, are mixed: some are mostly analog, some have an equal mix, and some are mostly glass experienced.

Punching Through mild Weather in a “chartered” Cessna 172R

30 Saturday Mar 2013

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Weather_Cessna172RTo have an aircraft waiting to pick you at an airport is one thing: yes, it is cool, and sounds like fun. To be in a 4 seat Cessna 172R, struggling to climb with the three souls on board, the luggage, and fuel for a one our trip, is another.

It’s a light aircraft, but it’s a good one. With the high wing, it’s pretty stable. But when the aircraft is heavy, the engines screaming at close to full power to squeeze what was barely a climb at 4000ft, dark clouds all around, dropping visibility (visibility was still good, though), an upright seat to accommodate my over sized luggage, and gusts that bump you around once in a while, it isn’t really the comfort you’d expect to enjoy.

It wasn’t bad, it was good. We finally “cruised” (read: bumped around) at 7500ft. It just is the way in which you get thrown around that sometimes makes you wonder if you’ll ever reach your near term destination. This was my longest flight ever on a single engine aircraft. I had to do it someday. And I would gladly do it again and again!

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Chimes Aviation Academy

07 Friday Dec 2012

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172, Academy, Aviation, CAA, Cessna, Chimes, CPL, Flight, Honeywell, IV, Piper, PPl, Recency, School, Seneca

A Flight Instructor entering the twin engine Piper Seneca IV

A Flight Instructor entering the Piper Seneca IV, a twin engine.

I am at Chimes Aviation Academy, (Dhana, Madhya Pradesh; ICAO: VA1J) and the weather, skies, airplanes and people have made possible some very beautiful photographs. Here are a few shots, for your enjoyment!

Chimes Aviation Academy boasts off the largest G1000 equipped Cessna 172R fleet in the country (Fleet: 7 Cessna 172R + 1 Piper Seneca IV), as well as having the distinction of being the flight school where aerospace-major Honeywell sends its engineers for flying training, for a Private Pilot’s License.

The hangar at dawn, before sunrise.

The hangar, all lit!

A student taxiing into the apron just before sunset.

A student taxiing into the apron just before sunset.

The Garmin GNS 530 on board theor Piper Seneca IV

The Garmin GNS 530 on board the Piper Seneca IV

The two birds that make the Academy fly.

The two bird types that make the Academy fly.

A second to touchdown? Not really. She balooned.

A second to touchdown? Not really. She ballooned.

A Cessna 172 backtracking on runway 35.

A Cessna 172 backtracking Runway 35.

Leaving terra firma...

Leaving terra firma…

A student cuts his engine after a solo.

A student cuts his engine after a solo.

A Cessna 172 longing for the skies.

A Cessna 172 longing for the skies.

Open fields, nice weather, and a nice airplane make a brilliant setting!

Open fields, nice weather, and a nice airplane make a brilliant setting!

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