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  1. atn_pilot
    In fact, the original poster who brought this up (and who you're supposedly agreeing with) said that he deosn't look at the numbers. Here is what he said his CFI told him: "His response was to ignore the ASI, just look out the window and land the airplane" There is no ambiguity about "ignore the ASI." That's dangerous, reckless, bad advice. What you're saying now that you do makes perfect sense, and is what just about every pilot does: looking outside and also scanning the instruments. But that's not what his CFI was advising, and that's what we're talking about here.
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    And yet he's still giving awful advice. There are guys I flew with in the airlines who I would get off their airplane if I saw them up front when I walked on to nonrev somewhere. Hours and type ratings are usually a good indicator of skill, but not always. Some guys just have bizarre ideas about how to fly an airplane. Intentionally ignoring a required flight instrument is not a wise move. It's there for a reason.
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    I'm not sure how you can say that you're a "fly by the numbers guy" when you aren't even looking at the numbers. Getting used to a sight picture and using it if you lose your airspeed indicator is one thing. Not looking at your airspeed indicator as a normal course of business is just a bad idea all around.
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    Then you must be flying your approaches at sea level way too fast.
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    You're absolutely right about the importance of flying the numbers, and this is especially important on an aircraft like a Mooney where so many accidents have taken place over the years because pilots have ignored the numbers and flown faster than necessary, resulting in runway overruns. I cringe whenever I read someone here say "I like to fly 80 to have an extra safety margin." That's not an extra safety margin, it's the first link in the accident chain. Fly the numbers! Regarding a margin of error for required runway length, at the airlines we always divided the performance number for landing distance by 0.6 to get a conservative number. By doing this, you know that you've got an extra 40% of the runway to play with. I still do this in my Mooney just like I did in the Boeing. I think I'd find a different CFI. Ask him to try that method in Denver, then ask him how many times he gets the stall horn on final.
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    I don't know about the F model, but my C has 1950 RPM as one of the recommended power settings in the manual. The older Cs had a POH that went down to 1850 RPM. I pull it back to 1950 pretty regularly unless I'm in a hurry.
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    Every iPhone and iPad (at least all of the newer ones) have a magnetic compass built in. It's completely independent of the GPS, so it doesn't measure track, it measures magnetic heading. Mine lines up perfectly with my whiskey compass.
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    Damn, I'm envious. I'm lucky to keep my C from going over 400 in the climb, and it hovers around 375 in cruise. I'll be shocked if it makes it to TBO. Getting the cowling mod is high on my priority list.
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    I find a wet compass to be generally useless. Anyone who has tried to use one in real weather will find pretty quickly that it isn't practical. The vertical card is still far from perfect, but a much better option.
  10. atn_pilot
    Hyperbole much? Stall speed can vary by about 5 knots in my Mooney based on weight, and then wind additive in ANY airplane can be up to 10 knots. Hardly "tenths."
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    I don't have an AOA indicator, and I certainly don't think one is necessary. Hell, none of the airliners I flew had a direct indication in the cockpit of alpha. But different wights and conditions call for different speeds. A one size fits all approach is just sloppy flying, in my opinion.
  12. atn_pilot
    Sounds like a sloppy way to fly to me.
  13. atn_pilot
    They use Jepp FD. Apparently an upgrade of the software was required, which requires a wifi connection. And no, you can't just bust out the paper charts when required equipment stops working on an airliner when you're still on the ground.
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    Excellent point. Always report shear, and always begin the call by saying PIREP to make it official. Wind shear is nothing to be taken lightly.
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    I don't know about the OP, but some of us have guts that don't make that an option.
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    Sounds like a classic case of wind shear to me. Follows the usual pattern. The violent pitch up and rapid increase in speed to over 100 is your increasing performance wind shear, then the horn and rapid drop of airspeed to 60 is the loss of the shear (or in a microburst situation would be the decreasing performance shear on the other side of the burst). Sounds like you handled it well. Wind shear is a killer. Everyone should spend some time rehearsing what they'll do in a wind shear situation and reviewing what the indications are every now and then.
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    No, many examiners don't talk to each other, and they all understand that people have their personal preferences about who they take rides with. When I was a CFI I would use different examiners at times for my students, and the guys I rarely used didn't get offended that they weren't my favorites. And most of them hardly knew each other, let alone talked all the time.
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    Some of the worst advice I can imagine is telling someone to take a checkride without using what he is used to using. He'll be starting out a checkride already uncomfortable and out of his usual element. Find a different examiner. That's the way to fix this problem.
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    I'm not sure why you would choose to use less intuitive equipment. Makes no sense to me. The vertical card is every bit as reliable as an old whiskey compass, and much easier to read.
  20. atn_pilot
    He shouldn't need to fly without his usual equipment. The examiner is just plain wrong. I've never seen a ram mount that permanently attaches to an airplane.
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    I hate FSDOs that make up their own rules.
  22. atn_pilot
    Every iPad and iPhone comes with a built in digital compass that will show magnetic or true heading.
  23. atn_pilot
    If you haven't threatened litigation at this point, then honestly, you have no one to blame but yourself. It's been four months, man! Start playing hardball.
  24. atn_pilot
    There's a difference between turbulence and chop.
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    Yep. In my airline days I used to get a chuckle out of the guys who would hurridly slow to Vb at the first tiny sign of light chop. "It's turbulence penetration speed, not 'my coffee has ripplies in it speed.'"
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