Pietenpol-List: Official Pietenpol Fish Scale
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:31 am
Original Posted By: Gene Rambo
I've got a BUNCH of time in a BUNCH of sims... From no motion blacked out canopies,to "thousand points of light", to super hi techy full visual, full motionI don't know how many millions contraptions.For what it's worth, the Airbus flies EXACTLY like the sim... not that that's agood thing...Anyhoo, the best thing a sim can do for you is help to establish procedures anda scan pattern. Obviously, the scan pattern is best for IFR instrument work,but it can be very useful for visual stuff.I've never flown computer based sims, can you customize the instrument panel? If so, merely placing the instruments where you have them in YOUR piet would helptrain your eyes where to go for a sneak peak, like to the airspeed indicator,ball, VSI if you have one, etc. It would help to establish procedures likealways remembering carb heat. Help to establish your hand going automaticallyfor the carb heat without looking around in the event of an engine failure.Automatically cycling the mag switch, using a primer if you have on if yourengine is stalling. Helping you quickly determine what's wrong with your engine(if your engine is failing, the oil pressure is probably the first thing youwant to look at and you should probably be able to look at it, THEN look awayand THEN assimilate the info there like is it zero or just low...). Whether or not it really "handles" like your piet, if it stalls as fast as a Pietwill after an engine failure, it might train you on how much you likely haveto PUSH to keep your airspeed up. The timing might be fairly close as to howlong you have airborne after a failure from various altitudes either going straightor turning. In the event of stall or spin recovery, or any situation you don't often do inyour Piet, it flying differently than yours doesn't matter, because you don'tknow what yours feels like in that situation anyway. However, proper applicationof controls is ESSENTIAL. In spin recovery, determining the direction ofthe spin is CRUCIAL, and that gets messed up more than you may think. Just becauseit enters going one way, doesn't mean the spin is going to establish thatway. Often times, because it falls off one way, anti spin controls are establishedbefore the spin, which are always high speed spiral controls the otherway, etc.Especially up north, most folks quit flying for an entire season. A simulatormight be a good way to get your scan and procedures refreshened before gettingback in the cockpit. Just food for thought.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Official Pietenpol Fish Scale
I've got a BUNCH of time in a BUNCH of sims... From no motion blacked out canopies,to "thousand points of light", to super hi techy full visual, full motionI don't know how many millions contraptions.For what it's worth, the Airbus flies EXACTLY like the sim... not that that's agood thing...Anyhoo, the best thing a sim can do for you is help to establish procedures anda scan pattern. Obviously, the scan pattern is best for IFR instrument work,but it can be very useful for visual stuff.I've never flown computer based sims, can you customize the instrument panel? If so, merely placing the instruments where you have them in YOUR piet would helptrain your eyes where to go for a sneak peak, like to the airspeed indicator,ball, VSI if you have one, etc. It would help to establish procedures likealways remembering carb heat. Help to establish your hand going automaticallyfor the carb heat without looking around in the event of an engine failure.Automatically cycling the mag switch, using a primer if you have on if yourengine is stalling. Helping you quickly determine what's wrong with your engine(if your engine is failing, the oil pressure is probably the first thing youwant to look at and you should probably be able to look at it, THEN look awayand THEN assimilate the info there like is it zero or just low...). Whether or not it really "handles" like your piet, if it stalls as fast as a Pietwill after an engine failure, it might train you on how much you likely haveto PUSH to keep your airspeed up. The timing might be fairly close as to howlong you have airborne after a failure from various altitudes either going straightor turning. In the event of stall or spin recovery, or any situation you don't often do inyour Piet, it flying differently than yours doesn't matter, because you don'tknow what yours feels like in that situation anyway. However, proper applicationof controls is ESSENTIAL. In spin recovery, determining the direction ofthe spin is CRUCIAL, and that gets messed up more than you may think. Just becauseit enters going one way, doesn't mean the spin is going to establish thatway. Often times, because it falls off one way, anti spin controls are establishedbefore the spin, which are always high speed spiral controls the otherway, etc.Especially up north, most folks quit flying for an entire season. A simulatormight be a good way to get your scan and procedures refreshened before gettingback in the cockpit. Just food for thought.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Official Pietenpol Fish Scale