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Re: What A Cliche!

Fred Woodbridge — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:16:37 -0000

I actually have a good excuse: Freddie just turned two months and he ain't sleeping through the night yet! :-(

Re: What A Cliche!

Keith Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:08:28 -0000

In the coming days, eh? Looks like it was 6 months! Get on it :)

I can't talk, actually, I'm 7 flights behind in my flight log.

Re: Landing

Fred Woodbridge — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:06:09 -0000

And one wonders why I think the man's a curmudgeon! I kid, I kid!! :-)

Thanks again, Greg.

Re: GUMPS

Greg Penglis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:47:03 -0000

Curmudgeon, huh. I was 32 when I wrote that book.

Have you ever thought of restructuring your checklists until they make sense and match how you actually fly the airplane? As long as you include everything required by the manufacturer, why does it matter when exactly you check things as long as it gets done? If you've checked the fuel on or before your initial descent, switched tanks and done everything necessary to insure the engine/s will have fuel to land, if you don't find yourself a glider, why check the fuel again? Fly the plane; gear, mixture/s and prop/s before landing; land the plane.

Why do we adapt ourselves to the procedure without question, rather than adapt the procedures to best fit how we fly the airplane? More fodder for discussion...

Re: Landing

Greg Penglis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:37:52 -0000

Hello Fred:

You can quote me, just don't put the whole book on line. I do want to keep selling it. That said, if you want to have some fun, ask your fellow pilots to describe how a plane turns, without using bizarre concepts like the horizontal component of lift, and simply describe the turn using only the force of lift from the wings, plus the axis controls of elevator, aileron and rudder, because that's all there is on the airplane.

For even more fun, ask them to describe how an airplane flies, without using any of the pat definitions used to pass checkrides, or how a garden hose resembles a wing in flight and other absurdities. And then ask them to prove their theory.

We could really have some interesting discussions here.

Re: Landing

Fred Woodbridge — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:11:32 -0000

@Greg Penglis
Wow! The man himself!

Thanks for visiting Greg, really appreciate you posting and the carte blanche to quote from your book!

Re: Landing

Greg Penglis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:32 -0000

You can duplicate my material anytime. I'm so happy you enjoy my work. There has been and still remains tremendous resistance to my questions and ideas. Ironically every time I renew my CFI certificate, AOPA includes in their FIRC more of my old ideas into their new revelations about flight training. What a coincidence!

You get it. You see through the procedures into the real meaning behind actually flying a plane. Everything I could say here is most likely already in the book. Think for yourself. Let the airplane teach you how best to fly it. Question everything until it makes sense to you. Talk to other pilots who also get it. We are growing in number. Better students and better pilots will make for better instructors which will improve the whole system.

Fly well. Flying safely is only the beginning. Thanks for the kind words.

Re: GUMPS

Fred Woodbridge — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:28:48 -0000

You're *even* interested in reading more! :-)

Thanks for reading, Konstantin, I'll get on it.

Re: GUMPS

KonstantinMiller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:19:38 -0000

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