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Terrified - Entering OCS In Two Days
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torpedo0126
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just a minor correction
Yea because then you'd have to go to TBS afterwards.
yeh instead of doing nothing waiting for flight school to start up
Wait, are you saying you'd rather do tbs than hit up bars while waiting for API? I question your priorities . . .
Given you're not flying VT-10 T-2B's anymore how rare is that?
don't get me wrong the majority of TBS was doing nothing waiting for THE WORD
torpedo0126
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Sorry, I'm not following exactly...I just know that that the failed card pt to pts blow my mind...
Direct, Enter. Easy Day. :icon_smil
Seriously though, how is it taught? That's not in the syllabus at Whiting. I can think of a bunch of ways to do it, but what's the way it's taught?
(yeah, it's a threadjack, but the OP is on vacation.)
I just assumed you'd have something better than the failure prone DG in the T-2B we had. I truly hated flying the T-2, whether it was the syllabus the instructors or going through in the winter doing said point to points I relished moving on and it even led to my callsign.
torpedo0126
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Its not so much taught as it is just a bunch of techniques. Nothing really changes. Despite the frozen card, your RMI needle stills provides magnetic radial information and the HSI will still center up. However, since the card is frozen, you may see the head rise and tail fall. That can make the pt to pts trickier because when you do your pencil or straight line method or whatever technique you use, you might accidentally give yourself a turn in the opposite direction.
Once you are actually on the approach, its not so bad. Not all the instructors make you do a failed card pt to pt. I know of one person who got failed card intersection holding on their checkride about a month ago...other than that you see it mainly for for no gyro PAR/ASR.
If the IP REALLY wants to mess with you, he can unslave it and put the card into a continual spin.
Haha, I understand. Yea, its never actually failed for me, just been failed intentionally. And maybe this is just my inexperience showing, but unless there was no radar service available, no GPS, etc, I would make the controller say "f--- you" before I accepted a clearance involving failed card pt. to pts. Again, that could just be my inexperience and that I am not an extraordinary pilot.
