Great video Mike! Regarding your question on two-handed rotation on airliners...at my airline, the Captain keeps his/her hands on the throttles until V1 (at which point a reject is not an option) and usually places the right hand on the yoke for rotation. After rotation, one should return the hand to the throttles. It's not required to have both hands on the yoke on rotation, but the Capt. shall remove the right hand from the throttles at V1. Most folks opt to place the free hand on the yoke. Where I work, the FOs don't manipulate the throttles on takeoff so they normally opt to place their left hand on the yoke on takeoff when they are PF.
Bruce is correct. Since I will not reject a takeoff after V1, I will put my right hand on the yoke and use it to assist the rotation and will leave it there until about 400 feet. With the auto throttles armed, the thrust levers are in THURST HOLD (at 86 KTS) until thrust reduction, usually 1500 AGL so there is no rush putting my hand back on the thrust levers. At my current airline, I have to do all the takeoffs and landings but in my previous airlines, if the First Officer was the Pilot Flying and doing the takeoff, they would remove their hand from the thrust levers once takeoff thrust was set and I would have control of the thrust levers and they would usually put their left hand on the yoke for the rest of the takeoff run and rotation until the time they want to put their left hand back on the thrust levers.
There are lots of aviation channels but yours brings a unique set of topics and a very individualized approach that I definitely enjoy. I heard that they're in Torrance, I'm based in Long Beach. I might head down there for a look because it's such an interesting airplane.
Great video! I did 105 hours during my EASA Commercial Multi Engine IR in the P2006T. Its a fantastic and stable aircraft, with very low performance, which makes it great for twin engine practice.
We fly the airliners with one hand on the controls and the other on the throttles. It is bad form to take your hand off the throttles during landing. Also called the thrust levers by some.
In the UK on the take off run..we say “speed increasing “in The USA you say “airspeed alive”I think uk has a more clear indication of aircraft’s speed increase for takeoff..speed alive makes no sense..
Airspeed alive is just an on the roll check to make sure the airspeed indicator is in fact indicating (functioning/alive) airspeed increasing altitude increasing is more of a flaps check, that or 2 positive rates Should be all icao
Wow. I have 274 hrs tt and cant find any jobs. Cfi and multi looks like another 7-10 grand. Why things have to be so expensive, its killing the passion for a lot of people who dnt really have it. These newer planes are more fuel efficient but we still have to pay more. A rental 172 my side got upgraded with a garmin 750 and now rental fee went up an extra 25 bucks an hour.
In Canada its either CFI or you can go up north and work the ramp/cargo crew somewhere like pickle lake and after a while you end up right seat. In the meanwhile in (canada anyways) you are not allowed to be paid for a flight but it is legal to be "compensated" for the price of the AC rental and fuel so you could do short trips that take 2-3 hours on a bus and put up a flyer at the bus station and charge the same as the bus....or take people sightseeing or put up a curtian and let em bang up there at 6000FT and provide a $10 bottle of champaign and market it as mile high flights.
I saw that plane in Deland. Cool and efficient plane. Seems reasonably priced. I have a twin brother. If I had my pilot license would that make me a twin pilot? :-)
You are distracting both of them, that could be a safety issue, even though your asking questions were important for this RU-vid video, safety first always.
Nice intro to the plane. Good instructor and student flight training talk. Wonder how it would fly with my former flight instructor (270 lbs) in the right seat? But looking ahead 5-10 years, I'd hope to see the gasoline Rotax engines replaced with electric motors. Once batteries get much lighter, of course.
Mike, are the RayBan Sunglasses a Sling Academy issue or did these two pilots just happen to be wearing the exact same sunglasses during this flight?? I found this funny when I saw from the forward camera shot that they both had on the exact same style, design and lenses size from RayBan.... To me both pilots show great confidence and airmanship while operating this aircraft in the pattern. The Sling Academy must produce some great pilots? Are you receiving your training for your Sling TSI from them in California while your building yours?
MojoGrip - ask them if you could get your pair before your first preflight???? Thanks for the quick response and congratulations to your wife and you for that amazing, wonderful, beautiful bundle of joy you two brought into this world together. Now the dad-body starts.... Enjoy the adventure because your lives are forever changed Sir! Good luck and God Bless your family!!
Sling Academy produces good pilots??? LOL, her sloppy flying, late turn to final, off center line several times, absolutely ZERO pre-takeoff briefings, and very little use of checklists don't inspire much confidence in the Sling Academy.... looks like amateur hour, not the kind of place that would produce professional pilots.
M O J O M I K E ! ! ! You my friend are awesome! If you ever feel like a jaunt to Oklahoma, I would love to buy you one of the best steaks you will ever have!!! ✌🏼 Peace my friend!
Hah that plane would have saved our school thousands of dollars with all the belly landings (pilot induced) and gear failures. And did I hear her say 70 kts approach for a twin! That's an impressive approach speed. all the light twins I have flown were 90ish. Needing a cart or truck to do a walk around is a bit annoying but no more do than a proper inspection of a 172 with a stair cart.
Not trying to troll, but seriously; Here's what I saw. I saw some half-decent flying, but, also saw some fairly sloppy flying too, late turn to final, off center line several times, absolutely ZERO pre-takeoff briefings, and very little use of checklists. Very little in terms of CRM. It does not inspire much confidence in the Sling Academy.... looks like amateur hour, not the kind of place that would produce professional pilots. Maybe all the important risk management stuff was edited out?
Yes the video was edited so you don't see them running the checklist, flows or doing briefings... CRM in an instructor situation? She is being trained to be a solo pilot or an instructor herself. That's called SRM now days for these types of rating. Although, of course an instructor isn't going to idlily sit back either and not offer suggestions and corrections, which I saw throughout the video when it was needed. All of the landing were very close to centerline as well. Remember this was a training flight and the student flying in the left seat only had like 4 hours in this plane. To me it seemed you are being a bit too critical.
