Me too

Me too

And very very noisy - from first had exp.

About to go for my instrument checkride...and turn 69.

@@MargaretLeber Good luck friend! I hope you do well.

I started in 79 and it stopped in 88, did a lot of hood flying thank God. Flew from Florida to the Bahamas in the early morning when the ocean was glass calm. Saved my bacon 🥓 many times. We used hand microphones and ear plugs back then. Just started flying again at 76. I flew a j-3 float plane ✈️ once. I think I might do that again.

I learned to fly in the early 80s and never really stopped. I did take a hiatus for 13 years due to raising a family. I finally got back into it in 2013 for a couple of years. Got back into it 2021 and all the automation is really something. Now aged 62 with no hope of it as a career but exploring becoming a CFI to help others who are young and ambitious. After 40 plus years, barely at about 600 hours. I remember a C-152 with instructor costing $49 dual. Not today! Can’t even afford a 3 hour cross country on a whim like I used to. Could’ve use this new fangled stuff back in the 80s and 90s. Miss the old NDB and Loran C days. Flying is so much easier with most airplanes having some sort of auto pilot and automation. Sad to say some people are still killing themselves because of complacency or because they feel that as an aircraft owner, they are immune to adhering to the basics. Now, more than ever trying to maintain IFR currency is a challenge, but thank God for the RedBird TD-2 simulator. Where I live I only have two flavors. Icing or thunderstorms. Sometimes being able to chase IFR weather just to do some approaches can be far and few in between. I remember the days I always looked for good weather, now I’m always looking for somewhat bad weather, lol!

Poor ol Harry and that Red Hat..

Hahaha oh wow. It's insane how I know that reference

@@TrollerzTV I know right? standard issue during that time..

He's busy fishing.

@@snojetsst9420 hahaha nice one

Saw others saying 9344x crashed

@@ultrasuperkiller Sadly, N9344X was substantially damaged by hitting a road sign after a precautionary landing on a road in 2001. app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20010604X01076&AKey=1&RType=Summary&IType=LA

I used to run the N numbers too. It's interesting how many of the planes are still on the registry. That 182 is now 62 years old. My '68 150 is 56 years old and still going strong. It'll outlast me! (I'm a '46 model myself.)

The Bonanza is still flying.

N9344X also crashed

He's also in this FAA video: Safety by the Numbers. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irWSgdebzq64lZ8.html

@@2degreewca Kind thx for the link. 🙂

@@lisasimmons5362 I take you're related to Mr. Simmons?

@@2degreewca No relation that I know of. But the Sergeant Preston series is one of my all-time top fave programs.

Perfectly OK if you're not the pilot.

Nobody used headsets back then. Headphone technology was in its infancy so none were available and there was no real market for them anyway. Just crank the volume up and speak very loud. The smarter pilots used foam earplugs but most pilots didn't. Now, old pilots are now a gold mine for the hearing aid industry.

I can only imagine! Even with headphones I sometimes have trouble hearing in a GA airplane.

What?

@@carpenjatp lol :)

@@2degreewca Hmm strange. I did see a Bell Airacobra training film from 1943 in which they wore headsets.

Cristi Neagu I'd be interested to know the context in which he was saying "look outside." I've found some students fixate inside, neglecting easily correctable attitude excursions.

You should try to get your IR.

Well, I had the same problem, and my instructor was perfectly right to get me looking outside. I was one of the first generation of pilots to have significant PC simulator time, and I was initially terribly fixated on the instruments. You can't do that in a VMC environment; you need to look for traffic. Once you can fly visually, you add the skill of getting on the gauges. After all, every flight begins and ends flying visually, even when the weather is at minimums.

@@chrisreeves4388 Never got a notification for this... He was saying that in all conditions. When climbing he would have us set climb speed, and then look outside, with occasional glances at the altimeter. Once at altitude, he'd have us level of using the altimeter, then keep the pitch by looking outside at the horizon, with a glance at the altimeter every once in a while. For everything we were expected to look outside to establish pitch, and only use the instruments rarely, as a check now and again.

@@MargaretLeber That is true, but my experience was that the instructor would have us spend 95% of the time looking outside. There were not talks about instrument scan patterns, because there are instrument scan patterns even for VFR, which make sure you spend an adequate amount of time looking outside for traffic. So it's one thing to become fixated on the instruments, which I agree is a problem, and quite another to learn to use the instruments to aid you in flight. For example, when doing a standard 360 degree training turn, we'd be expected to enter the turn, keep it going, and end it without looking at the instruments. And while that is what i would be doing for the most part, every 20 degrees or so I would glance at my altimeter and VSI.

I don't think so. All private pilots are now required to have some hood time during their primary training and also during the regular flight reviews.

You do still get a blue seal on the upper right corner of any certificate where you "demonstrated the ability to control an airplane by reference to instruments", which means you now get it by default for the private pilot certificate because it requires 3 hours of flight training solely by reference to instruments.

I wonder what Missletronics made-probably baking or gardening products.