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  1. I find the more things make sense, the less airline managers do.
  2. Thanks for understanding. What's more strange is this guy wasn't a check airman or in training department. He was a regular line pilot. Later on, I learned from a FA that he has always been disliked, even when he was an FO. Some people are just goobers. Go figure.
  3. I find fly arcs with an RMI a whole lot easier. Just keep the bearing pointer at your 3 or 9 o'clock when on the arc (depending on direction of turn) and monitor the DME read out. If you start slipping inside stop or ease the turn and watch the pointer to move aft. When reaching correct DME then turn back so pointer goes back to 3 or 9 o'clock. If you slip outside the arc, turn until pointer is slightly ahead of 3 or 9 o'clock, monitor DME, and take correction out until when back on arc. Another benefit is you get a constant read out of where you are on the arc instead of turning course knobs. Yes it's most likely in a faster plane then a Skyhawk, but you can slow it down to Skyhawk cruise speeds. Mooney is a good choice, Baron is getting fast but doable for an amateur. Jet I wouldn't recommend until you can fly an arc in your sleep. ----------------------- True story. When I was an FO, I flew to Mexico from time to time out of DFW. I was flying with a goober captain, I didn't really like him for several reasons, probably didn't like me either. Anyways, after having a surprise GPS alert while flying an arc over mountainous terrain, I've made it a personal rule to not rely on the GPS in Mexico for approaches. Especially on the arcs. So I guess the captain sees me about to track the arc off the VOR on my display and he quickly pushes me back into GPS data which is quite rude. I asked what he was doing, and he explained the GPS can track arcs. Duh? "I know that.... Why can't I just fly it like I was taught when I got my tickets?" He sits there and says okay in a not so confident way. I go back to reading the VOR and fly it beautifully. We land, park the aircraft, then I explain my myself. He didn't even say, 'oh okay', or 'sorry'. He says, next time tell me when you're going to do that, or something to that line. I looked at him and said, didn't you hear me brief the approach? Goober.
  4. Same here. I really liked falcon 4.0 especially the campaign play. I too have DCS but wish it had the same campaign play.
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