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Sun 04/03/11


Total Messages Posted: 4



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     1. 06:41 AM - Re: Re: Single engine procedures. (BillLeff1@aol.com)
     2. 07:41 AM - Re: Re: Single engine procedures. (kitepilot@kitepilot.com)
     3. 08:17 AM - Re: Re: Single engine procedures. (Tylor Hall)
     4. 08:44 AM - Re: Re: Single engine procedures. (BobsV35B@aol.com)
 
 
 


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    Time: 06:41:03 AM PST US
    From: BillLeff1@aol.com
    Subject: Re: Single engine procedures.
    Shutting down and restarting in flight is not a problem. it does buck a lot so it is best to not to due it toop much. When doing it make sure you have a lot of altitude and are near a suitable airport to make a single engine landing if you can't get it started. When landing single engine do not add extra speed. be on speed 100-115 until landing is assured and then make a normal landing. Commanders fly so well on one engine I treat single engine operations as an abnormal procedure rather than an emergency. However always keep in mind your engines must be in good running order and density altitude is all important. I am not saying that the aircraft will perform as well on one as on two. I am saying the handling characteristics as very good one engine. By the way, on the subject of tail dragger flying. I typically can tell in just a few minutes if a pilot has a lot of tail wheel time. Just checking out in a tail dragger will help but it is being proficient is tail draggers that matters. A tail dragger pilot typically instinctively uses the flight controls better because most tail draggers demand it and most importantly directional control with the rudder is instinctive. A good tail dragger pilot just never lets the nose move without doing something about it. When I was an instructor at TWA the pilots that did best with V1 cuts were mostly tail dragger pilots! Have fun but don't something dumb! Bill Leff In a message dated 4/2/2011 4:32:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, adam@adamfrisch.com writes: --> Commander-List message posted by: "stratobee" <adam@adamfrisch.com> Thanks Bill. No, I'm doing the multi in a Seneca and am almost finished now. That's some good advice about the 520 and the stuff I wanted to hear. How to keep directional control and all that is what the general training and rating is for, but I wanted the specifics of the 520 so that when I simulate an engine failure or even shutdown an engine to get the experience, I would like to be able to restart it and unfeather it. I don't want to find myself in a scenario where I can't unfeather, can't start and have to do a landing on one engine. Good practice, I'm sure, but not something I want to do first thing out. -------- Adam Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=335832#335832


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    Time: 07:41:02 AM PST US
    From: "kitepilot@kitepilot.com" <kitepilot@kitepilot.com>
    Subject: Re: Single engine procedures.
    Taildragger? Half of the story... :) Once they are flying, you can get as lazy as you would in the dumbest Cessna or Piper. If you REALLY want to "second nature your feet", get glider time. As a long time CFI and CFIG, and having 85% of my taildragger time with a glider on tow (you go down faster than you go up... :), NOTHING will teach you coordination as a long-winged, adverse-yaw advocate, turn-stubborn glider will. By the time I got to multiengine, after hundreds of hours towing and wrestling my feet in gliders, and engine out event was a fairly muscle-memory familiar event. YMMV ET Cate Chagnot writes: > > Adam, > I know it's a long way to go from California but you won't find anyone better to give you training in your Commander than Bill Leff. He trained me in mine and does my re-current training. Well worth the cost and trouble to get to Dayton. > Get some time in a taildragger if you can. It will help you deal with an engine out situation since keeping the nose straight with rudder will become automatic. > > Cate N4278S N180PK > > -------- > Cate > > N4278S 680E > Skywagon N180PK > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=335835#335835 > > > > > > > > > >


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    Time: 08:17:11 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Single engine procedures.
    From: Tylor Hall <tylorhall@mac.com>
    Bill, Thank you for your input on single engine procedures. I have flown with Cate in her 680E, and she is a good stick. It is looking like I may be involved with another 520 to get it flying again. Could you go through the shut down procedure on a geared engine Commander? It appears that you do not want to simulate a single engine as we all did to get our multi engine rating by pulling power back to a near Zero thrust condition. Your post on on April 1 says to pull the mixture to idle cutoff. What next? I have been warned that the engine starter takes a lot out of it to start the engine again. This is a time where the starter could fail due to high stress? Bob Hoover did a lot of engine starts in a 500S, but that is with a direct drive engine and unfeathering accumulators. Tylor Hall On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:38 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: > > Taildragger? > Half of the story... :) > Once they are flying, you can get as lazy as you would in the dumbest Cessna or Piper. > If you REALLY want to "second nature your feet", get glider time. > As a long time CFI and CFIG, and having 85% of my taildragger time with a glider on tow (you go down faster than you go up... :), NOTHING will teach you coordination as a long-winged, adverse-yaw advocate, turn-stubborn glider will. > By the time I got to multiengine, after hundreds of hours towing and wrestling my feet in gliders, and engine out event was a fairly muscle-memory familiar event. > YMMV > ET > > Cate Chagnot writes: >> I know it's a long way to go from California but you won't find anyone better to give you training in your Commander than Bill Leff. He trained me in mine and does my re-current training. Well worth the cost and trouble to get to Dayton. Get some time in a taildragger if you can. It will help you deal with an engine out situation since keeping the nose straight with rudder will become automatic. Cate N4278S N180PK -------- >> Cate N4278S 680E >> Skywagon N180PK Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=335835#335835 > > > >


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    Time: 08:44:11 AM PST US
    From: BobsV35B@aol.com
    Subject: Re: Single engine procedures.
    Good Morning ET, As a very long time CFI (CFI-A, CFI-G CFI-ME, CFI-R and CFI-I, first CFI rating in 1949) I totally agree with your thoughts. It is heading awareness and how to get the heading to be what you want that counts. Remember all the fun we tow pilots have when the trainee is 'boxing' the 'prop' wash? Happy Skies, Old Bob Stearman N3977A Do Not Archive In a message dated 4/3/2011 9:41:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes: --> Commander-List message posted by: "kitepilot@kitepilot.com" <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> Taildragger? Half of the story... :) Once they are flying, you can get as lazy as you would in the dumbest Cessna or Piper. If you REALLY want to "second nature your feet", get glider time. As a long time CFI and CFIG, and having 85% of my taildragger time with a glider on tow (you go down faster than you go up... :), NOTHING will teach you coordination as a long-winged, adverse-yaw advocate, turn-stubborn glider will. By the time I got to multiengine, after hundreds of hours towing and wrestling my feet in gliders, and engine out event was a fairly muscle-memory familiar event. YMMV ET Cate Chagnot writes: <cchagnot@ultimateair.com> > > Adam, > I know it's a long way to go from California but you won't find anyone better to give you training in your Commander than Bill Leff. He trained me in mine and does my re-current training. Well worth the cost and trouble to get to Dayton. > Get some time in a taildragger if you can. It will help you deal with an engine out situation since keeping the nose straight with rudder will become automatic. > > Cate N4278S N180PK > > -------- > Cate > > N4278S 680E > Skywagon N180PK > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=335835#335835 > > > > > > > > > >




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