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To: Mr Rogers

For rudimentary flying, I prefer a sweep second hand. A non precision approach with timed turns is easier to track with an analog clock.

My brother learned to fly in the Navy, I learned in a Cessna. The first time he flew a GA aircraft, he about wet his pants over the “dime store” gauges. Hell, most of them were even working that day!


10 posted on 11/26/2014 7:50:31 AM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: wrench

For a checkride, I planned to drop my bombs within 5 seconds of planned. If leading a package, if the plan called up to push at 14:17:38, then I could not afford to misread my analog watch and push at 14:18:38...something someone else did when I was a wingman and required to maintain radio silence, years ago.

By the late 80s, I took a large digital watch and used a clip to attach it to the glare shield. I used an analog watch on my wrist for its stopwatch.

In F-111s, we finally went digital in the cockpit around 1990-93. You could push the throttles and see the computer’s idea of your time of arrival change. I continued to carry and use my large, clip-on digital watch and my wristwatch, but they were for backup. There is no way in hell anyone in the space program was relying on their wristwatch to adjust timing in 2006, as Kelly claims.

I guess a liar lies because that is what they are. They cannot stop with lying about politics. It is their nature to be dishonest - about everything.

I prefer analog gauges for things like altimeters, engine rpm & other such things, where the trend is more important that a specific number.


13 posted on 11/26/2014 8:02:34 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: wrench
Hell, most of them were even working that day!

What the heck do you need 'em for? Push forward on the stick, the ground gets closer, pull back, it gets farther away, keep pulling back and it gets closer again... ;-)

14 posted on 11/26/2014 8:11:28 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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