flight chops and dan gryder educational

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[Thruster88]

 

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While this is USA data, aircraft in Australia crash for all the same reasons. Dan's videos are not really entertaining but they are getting watched alot, there must be a reason for that.

 

 

[facthunter]

Stalling is dangerous. Don't we ALL know that? The way it's normally covered in your training is near useless. Loss of control Is LOSS of control and  HAS to be worse. Recovery from unusual attitudes under the hood on limited panel will sort THAT out. I can assure you ,THAT is NOT easy.. Nev

[turboplanner]

37 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Stalling is dangerous. Don't we ALL know that? The way it's normally covered in your training is near useless. Loss of control Is LOSS of control and  HAS to be worse. Recovery from unusual attitudes under the hood on limited panel will sort THAT out. I can assure you ,THAT is NOT easy.. Nev

Are you saying that should be added to the RA training at extra cost?

[johnm]

many years ago - me & ross took a C152 up and did some mountain and valley flying using clouds as the terrain - probably + 3500 feet - we both had about 150 hrs each

 

ross was a confident hang glider pilot as well

 

anyway, i'd be guessing in a tighter turn (ross as PIC) and slower speed (its a memory after 40 years) ............ ye olde C152 fell out of the turn / shook / fluttered / and pointed to the ground

 

it was a total loss of control if you can say that about a stall - we looked at each other with understanding and continued flying - ignoring more cloud mountain and valley flying - we had unintentinally practised what we had been preached

 

(at height .............. ignoring staying clear of clouds ............ of course)

[turboplanner]

2 minutes ago, johnm said:

many years ago - me & ross took a C152 up and did some mountain and valley flying using clouds as the terrain - probably + 3500 feet - we both had about 150 hrs each

 

ross was a confident hang glider pilot as well

 

anyway, i'd be guessing in a tighter turn (ross as PIC) and slower speed (its a memory after 40 years) ............ ye olde C152 fell out of the turn / shook / fluttered / and pointed to the ground

 

it was a total loss of control if you can say that about a stall - we looked at each other with understanding and continued flying - ignoring more cloud mountain and valley flying - we had unintentinally practised what we had been preached

 

(at height .............. ignoring staying clear of clouds ............ of course)

This is different but there’s a record in ATSB  where the engine dropped out of a 150 and the pilot used the falling leaf method at times going backwards to keep air flowing over the wings and he survived.

[onetrack]

I guess Dan could be rated as premium instructor, as regards avoiding crashing, because he's crashed so many aircraft himself! Maybe he should start educating aviation people about the foolhardiness of threatening to run over police with a DC-3? And I wonder if he's found the money to pay that US$1M defamation judgement? I think there's much better aviation instructors around, than Dan Gryder.

[facthunter]

Turbs, not the Under the hood bit. It's a bit extreme to mandate, but I've ALWAYS  advocated "unusual attitude recovery" training for everyone (in an appropriate, strong enough plane) OR at LEAST for ALL instructors.. The Instructor must be able to handle ALL possible situations competently. Nev

[Thruster88]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

I guess Dan could be rated as premium instructor, as regards avoiding crashing, because he's crashed so many aircraft himself! Maybe he should start educating aviation people about the foolhardiness of threatening to run over police with a DC-3? And I wonder if he's found the money to pay that US$1M defamation judgement? I think there's much better aviation instructors around, than Dan Gryder.

Just some corrections Onetrack,

 

Regarding the crashes, the most recent one in the Lockheed he was a pilot rated passenger, the crash was caused by a defective brake due to a maintenance error. In the cessna 150 with flaps stuck at 40° a forced landing was inevitable, he carried this out successfully with zero injuries and the aircraft did fly again.

 

In the 2009 DC3 incident I don't think he was ever charged with anything, he returned to commercial flying with Delta 6 months later. In the texas defamation case the initial ruling was thrown out and the case is yet to go to court.