Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:pifuv901570@drn.newsguy.com:
> In article <XnsA920588529648noemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell
> Holman says...
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>>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in news:pia5nk0r13
>>@drn.newsguy.com:
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>> I would have zero interest in flying a
>>plane without SOME analog instruments. That
>>is just inviting trouble. Maybe I am just
>>old school that way.............
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> Part of my Army flight school back in the 60s was flying with 'partial
> panel' in which the instructor blocked your view of the attitude
> indicator, heading indicator and something else (for some reason, I
> still have the cardboard placed over the instruments after all these
> decades!)
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> Makes ya wonder about some backup analog instruments running off the
> pitot tube.
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I remember a story of an airliner that
lost all power and avionics over Canada
but made it to an airport with only the
wet compass for navigation.
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