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New site under development! I wil post here often as I develop the new site: http://flyingillusions.wordpress.com Jim spencer

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In Michigan, Camp Grayling was the destination of The Michigan National Guard. Troop exercises and refresher work for the Air national Guard were common during the 50s just after the Korean War (United Nations Action - If you remember!) Just to the east of the current US-27 between Gaylord and Grayling (Inter-State 75 didn't exist then) was the bombing and artillery range practice area. Pops and

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The continuing news about the NW Flight that over-shot Minneapolis. Enjoy the link provided. Link to Story Jim

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Pops was an MD with the 3rd Marine Division in the Japanese campaign. He was with the Marines from 1943 through 1945. His last island station was Guam in the Marianas Group. It was there where a little prank was played on Pops. With other island bases in the Pacific, including Guam, the bombing of Japan increased as the possibility of invading Japan rose higher and higher as we prepared for that

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Transitions! Transitions! When the Beech was sold I invested in a 1946 clipped wing Piper Cub with a 90 Hp engine and a metal prop. transitioning from a high powered V-tail Bonanza to a tail-dragger was a fun sight at the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport as I attempted to perfect the technique for landing the Piper. The Lipert-Reed clipped wing Cub has, essentially, the same wingspan as the Piper

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Back in the days when I was a cocky little SOB and very sure, at the age of sixteen, that I knew everything I was shown that I didn't. I experienced another rude awakening. This time the scene of my demise was at the Waters, Michigan Airport near the famous Bottle Fence next to the Old Waters Hotel that later burned down, years later. If you remember, Waters was the site of a lumbering empire.

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In a much earlier post we talked about what happens if you use the runway lights in your peripheral vision, in a night landing, to judge your height above the runway before you flare out prior to landing. What is the visual illusion, if you mistakenly land with the wind (downwind landing) at night? In this case, looking at the runway lights in your peripheral vision, the lights appear moving

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Lake Harriet is a beautiful jewel of a lake nestled in the City of Minneapolis. A favorite pastime, for me, is fishing the south side of the lake for bass near the weedline and shore. I knew when to scramble home when a large Boeing 747 loomed nearby on its approach to MSP. Right on time -5:40 PM the big boy tip-toed through the suburbs toward a landing. For a short period of time a conversation

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Calling all folks who like to play bingo. Calling all folks who like to gamble now and then. Calling all people who believe everything they read in the news sources about new aviation research as the gospel truth. If you do, you have just been scammed! Jim, get serious. These folks want to believe what they read. They fly, they like it and hang on every bit of positive news they can find. Okay,

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Come on! After reading article after article trying to make excuses for napping on the job, the fact that pilots tire on flights where the plane flies itself is a case of boredom. Sure they tire and nap off. Scares the heck out of the general public. The fact folks will think twice about taking a commercial flight is what the FAA and, especially the commercial aviation interests, are trying to

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Chronicles are wonderful sources of planes and pilots in unusual places! The scene is Gaylord Municipal Airport in Michigan somewhere in the past. Participants were my Dad and his Son-In-Law, Jack. Nice day for a spin in the SeaBee, practice a few touch and go's in Otsego Lake and a quick return back to the airport and drive back to Bradford Lake, a few miles south of Otsego Lake to join the

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If you enjoy what you read take a few seconds to: 1. Critique 2. Share a Flying Story 3. Follow the Site 4. Contribute as a Guest Blogger 5. Post a Story You Like on Facebook,Twitter.. 6. Tell me if the Posts are: A. Too Long B. Too Short C. Just Right (Are we talking about the Three Bears?) D. Too Detailed E. Too Sketchy 7. Make Suggestions on what To Improve I like feedback just like you need

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Approximately one percent of the individuals applying are denied certification. Over fifty six percent of pilots denied have less than forty hours of flying time. It could be assumed that less than one-half percent of the licensed pilots applying for renewal are denied. Of the total denials ninety one percent of the people are involved in non-aeronautical occupations. The aeronautical occupation

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When we talk about Ear Pollution we must have an understanding of the intensity of common sounds for comparison. The list below gives you an idea where noise behind a Single Engine Small Plane stands with respect to other intensities of sound. 1. Threshold of Hearing........0 Decibels 2. Whisper.....................30 " 3. Quiet Office................40 " 4. Normal Speech...............60 " 5

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Red light blindness - the visual handicap that develops gradually affects most pilots including many that seem to have "perfect vision" under daylight flying conditions. A good idea, if you are a pilot over the age of 40 years young, is to try and read fine print by red light before your next night flight. What is red light blindness? Heres an example: You plan on taking your wife out to dinner

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Many pilots, over the years, never knew they could have communication problems..domestic..yes...flying airplanes...yes! With the incredible increase in miniaturization of avionics an old enemy still rears its head...HEAT. Remember the story about how cool transitors ran and the rage in the aviation community after spending thousands for new avionics only to have them fail. The answer to theses

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You and I may share a few things if we find ourselves in a "scary" situation while flying. You can name your own poison to describe that "scary" event or set of circumstances. This blog is how to deal with your symptoms when they become "obvious" to you. For me, night-time flying can lead to a sense of uncertainty, especially if comforting visual clues are not forthcoming. Unconciously I may

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Ahhh! Beautiful day! Nice hammock to think about physics! Specifically, how is it possible for a thunderstorm to have the power of numerous atomic bombs! No way you say! Get in the hammock and look at a cloud forming on a nice hot, humid day. Everything appears normal until suddenly the cloud rises upward very fast. Soon it takes on the appearance of a thunderstorm. Lets take a peek at that

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Load factors and safe flight. "The witness saw pieces of a plane fall out of the bottom of a nearby thunderstorm"...this is related to phrases like, "separation in flight" and "exceeded the designed stress limits of the aircraft" as frequently reported in too many accident reports. The strength of an airplane is measured by the total load its wings can support without sustaining permanent

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if you have ever flown into a small strip in early morning and found, after a few hours, that the temperature increased to a point where the calculation of takeoff distance was necessary before takeoff? I can remember several such instances at Dawn Patrols I attended. So can you! One thing you have to do is take humidity into your calculations. Water vapor can reduce the percentage of oxygen in

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The term compulsion refers to an individual's irresistible tendency to perform an action, even though he realizes it is irrational. For a pilot, this "compulsion" to go on in the face of weather conditions that were quickly deteriorating is a good example. The feeling, irrational as it was, signaled that the weather condition was "circumnavigable" and that it would be better to the West. All of

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Courtesy of The Readers Digest. The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." One student replied: "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length

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In these times of bureaucratic abuse pilots sometimes feel "put upon" by what they consider abuse by the physicians that issue Third Class Medical Certificates. In one such incident the physician noted the applicant had an undenied history of "gunrunning." He denied the applicants Medical Certificate under the guise of a "Character or Behavior Disorder." From an appeal to the Examiners decision

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A pilot standing in the weather office while a meterologist talked about the current situation...which was terrible. The pilot seemed to understand. The forecast was for turbulence, precipitation and toronadoes over fully half of his proposed route. Pilot reports backed up the forecast. Weather impossible for any kind of flight. Yet at midnight he was airborne, incredibly on a VFR no flight plan

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One mans' experience with that strange feeling of what is happening to me that I am not sure what is right-side up or up-side down. Whaaaat! Pick these nice conditions to fly on this nice sultry Summer day: Altitude 6,000 (IFR) Flight Plan filed for general safety about other aircraft in the vicinity Hazy Flying into the sun from the East accross Lake Huron into Willow Run Airport just West

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Approach over water leaves little room for error. In IFR flying the transition from IFR to VFR holds hidden dangers. The existence of layers of clouds in the approach lulls one to the dangers of over-the-water approaches. The sensation, visually, when penetrating a fog bank, is a sudden movement of the nose of the aircraft upward. You temporarily substitute the fog layer for the horizon which

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How many of you have heard, or made the comment yourself, " I never saw what hit me!" after an accident? My guess is a lot of us have. Why does a fawn (baby deer to city folk) remain motionless when danger is nearby. Their camouflage of birth is such that, unless they move, you can't see them as they lay in the brush. Here's another example. When a train is moving across a bridge over a road,

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If you have ever experienced a sudden power loss due to carburetor icing this technique will improve your chances of landing safely with power. Lycoming and Continental engines in conventional carburetor equipped aircraft experience carburetor icing. The carburetor can cool below the freezing point of water quickly. The use of carburetor heat and idling the engine can keep the temperature of the

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In instrument conditions, the attention of the pilot should be on flying the plane. With newly minted IFR pilots sometimes our attention fixates on lesser duties. Such was the case with me flying the Bonanza near Capitol City Airport in the vicinity of three major towers soaring more than 1000 feet each above the ground. They are formidable in VFR conditions. Checking the IFR Center

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I started with a post about the failure of a simple device to prevent a prop from going into reverse pitch while in flight. The results were not pretty. With a heavy amphibian with an underpowered engine, gross weight increases, even when they are distributed properly, are problems that create unusual circumstances when flying the SeaBee. Just such an event took place on Otsego Lake, a

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Ahhhh! Memories! Much of my earlier years were in the right seat of Republic Aviations well constructed but underpowered Republic SeaBee. The amphibian received its nickname, "The Flying Rock" from its tendency to fall 'like a rock' once the power was reduced. The Piper Tri-Pacer with the shortened Reed modification of the basic Piper Cub wing was a close second. They both landed where you

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Remember those wonderful days when you knew everything at the old age of fifteen? I think I passed through that "era" when I was just learning to fly. I was absolutely sure as long as the nose of my venerable Cessna 120 Trainer was pointed down below the horizon and my indicated airspeed was 70 mph I was as safe from stalling as anything in the world! Yes Sir! I knew it all! So confident I would

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Remember speech class in high-school? It was difficult to speak on the spur of a moment...so to speak! We did about everything except speak. Communication between a pilot and the "tower," "center," flight service station" are all examples of important communications. During our early flying days the instructor helped us out by handling early communications hoping against hope that we would pick

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Many years ago one of my favorite places to visit with my folks was St. Ignace, a small town just a across the Mackinaw Bridge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There was a attraction called The Mystery Spot. When you went inside the strangely built house weird things happened to you that you couldn't explain. When you thouight you were going up you were actually going down. When you tried to

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One mans' experience from a Bahama Flying vacation. Some facts first on flying vacations that involve Scuba Diving in blue holes in the Bahamas. Remember the discussion presented earlier on altitude partial pressures? In that article we discussed oxygen and how hypoxia creeps up on you above 10,000 feet, all things considered. Now we have to consider other gases that may dissolve in your blood

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Well, if you like Flying you like numbers and percentages. Time to bring out your electronic sliderules.The atmosphere is composed of several gases. Nitrogen occupies 79%, Oxygen approximately 20% and the Trace Gases, which include Carbon Dioxide and Water, about 1 %.An Ideal Atmosphere (Is this sounding familiar?) at Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP) will support a column of Mercury 760 mm

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This could be you and me. Early on a hot summer afternoon, a single engined aircraft barely made a tumultuous approach to an airport a number of miles from their original destination. The pilots wife, fortunately, was able to land he plane safely.Her husband was slumped in the left seat, a very nauseated, sweating person with violent stomach cramps to boot.Cause of the pilots incapacitation was a

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Too many times you hear a message like this, " The CAP has ground rescue units and twelve aircraft in the area north of Longs Peak looking for a single engine aircraft with pilot and three passengers missing on a flight from Jeffco to Walden. The search started early this morning when the FAA reported the aircraft overdue on its flight plan."Many people think they can win against the mountains.

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Nothing is as important as a bound, readable (Think Big Print) short list of duties to perform from the following list of topics.Preflight Inspection (Interior)Preflight Inspection (Exterior)Before Engine StartEngine StartAfter Engine StartTaxiRun UpBefore TakeoffAfter TakeoffCruiseV-SpeedsBackApproachBefore LandingGo Around / Missed ApproachAfter LandingShutdown / TerminateEngine Failure During

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I know, I know....this is just between you and me. This Post is not all about flying in the actual "flying sense!" It is an invitation to a wonderful time to let your guard down and enjoy a flight into your mind from a great source, "The Onion" , who publish articles on just about everything from a completely different point of view.Some may actually be on aviation, or flying or anything that

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In the training of fledging aeronautical aces the student-instructor relationship is influenced by both verbal and non-verbal communications that may be contradictory.The increased pressure of training may cause a significant distortation of ordinary movements, by a students instructor, to the student pilot.In a funny instance in my training, I was making great landings with perfect flare-outs at

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Yes, I meant what I said! Can you remember any "war stories" - especially from WWII where aviators were shot down in combat because they had to fly sober?What I heard, while at the barbershop of all places, was a story from the Japaneses campaign in the Pacific Theatre where many pilots fought the Zeros while intoxicated. In fact, quite a few times, when scrambled to engage the enemy in air

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The title to this topic is linked to several pages of a site where the physiological altitude is directly related to carbon monoxide of cigarette smoking before and during a flight. "Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette,"....so the song goes. I would think twice about that advice. Hemoglobin, a large complex molecule found in red blood cells circulating in your blood vessels, can combine with

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Look at the Wall Street Journal Opinions. Make a comment on what you think. Other people can put in their opinions too. We can get to know one another better. That would be great!Look at that strange little plane on my blog. What is it? Come on, my fine feathered friends! Name it! In fact, name them both!The search engine feature is just that, a full featured search engine. Find or search

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The cockpit is no place for unnecessary distractions. During these summer months a collection of pets, children and relatives who have never flown before are pitched into aircraft. The smell of are everywhere. How can you avoid, to some extent, these distractions?First, decide where each person is going to sit. Don't forget to place yourself in the left front seat! If you can, have another adult

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FAA Report on Fatigue - Read FirstI experienced this when I attempted to take off from Denver Stapelton Airport, a number of years ago, in a Beechcraft Bonanza after a "trying day" filled with traffic delays, missed appointments and general disappointment with the tremendous growth in the Colorado Springs - Denver corridor. My plane just seemed very under-powered as it sluggishly plowed down the

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Heres a partial list and classification.Analgesics, narcotic (opium, morphine, codeine, etc.)Analgesics non-narcotic (includes aspirin)Anesthetics (includes procaine, cocaine, nitrous oxide)Antacids (sodium bicarbonate for one)AntihistaminesAnti-motion sickness agentArsenicalsCathartics (senna, castor oil)Depressants (atrophine, belladonna)Hormones (some)LaxativesNasal decongestantsPenicillins (

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FAA Accident Report - Visual Illusions If your view of the runway disappears, you are too low! Something is obstructing your view and you are about to become an aviation statistic. Once over the runway threshold focus on the very end of the runway in front of you while maintaining your descent landing attitude. Everything else considered it makes for a very smooth touchdown. Ask your

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Ever feel "light- headed?" All of us have - either legally or illegally. When the grey matter in your noggin doesn't get enough of a gas called oxygen - you may or may not feel "light- headed।"The hypoxia pilots feel normally results from flying at altitudes too high to support brain function. This degree of support continues to fall unless man steps in with a bottle of oxygen that can supply the

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Remember the flight, in your flight training, after you did those climbing turns to 3500 feet, trimmed the plane for straight and level flight and the Instructor dropped his pen on the floor.Yeah! You remember. As you, the student Newbie, bent over to pick up the pen (Unusual Attitude) he put the Trainer Plane into a steep climbing turn to the right, looked at your wildly spinning baby blue eyes

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When driving a car on the road you don't have much to worry about in turns. (Except going in to a turn too fast-which could introduce you to flying in a most unusual way!!) In the air most turns are perfect, after a few seconds, if you close your eyes briefly, you can't tell if your turning. Take away your visual sight of the horizon it can be downright dangerous. Thats what IFR (Instrument

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