lieberma
10-17-2004, 01:50 AM
Hi all,
I have uploaded some "front seat" pictures I have taken (or my wife) from pilots view of flying. Go to bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lieb...ation.html (http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lieberman/aviation/aviation.html)
Please note, safety is first and foremost. The take off and landing pictures were taken by my wife safely buckled in her seat. NO pilot should be diddling around with a camera during these phases of flight.
The enroute picture, I did take as you can see, it was very smooth air and the plane was configured for cruise flight.
The instrument pictures are what is in my plane. All airplanes, just like cars will look different in how the instruments are displayed on the panel. Don't be intimidated by all the "gauges". A lot of airplanes have less gauges and a lot of airplanes have more gauges.
Just like your car, a pilot generally will use some of the gauges, but not all. Some are strictly "informational" in the sense of how your engine is performing, and how your electric system and other systems in the plane are performing. A good pilot will glance at some of the instruments that monitor performance for safety purposes.
If you drive a car, most of the time, you probably only look at the speedometer, gas gauge, maybe your radio or cd player. You probably don't look at your engine temperature, your tachometer, your oil temperature and so on while you are driving.
It is the same thing in an airplane. A pilot will look at the following instruments on a constant basis. Techincal names are in parenthesis.
How fast you are going (airspeed indicater)
the gauge that has the blue sky on top and brown on bottom (horizon indicator),
the gauge that tells you how high you are (altimeter).
the gauge that tells you how fast you are climbing or descending (vertical speed indicator)
the gauge that tells you what direction you are going (Directional Gyro)
The rest of the guages are more or less informational and should be checked as a plane is in flight.
The above are the basics of flying, so you can see, it really is not much more different then driving a car. You just go much faster in a plane. No "speed limits" per se".
The difference between driving a car and an airplane is that flying is "three dimensional". Not only do you drive straight ahead, but you go up and down. A car, you only worry about driving straight ahead.
Without getting too technical, another great feature about airplanes, is that most gauges have a "backup". If it happens that one gauge decides to go belly up, then you can use the backup gauges. You can't say that about your speedometer in your car :lol
Note the view from the front seat. As you can see by my pictures, the pilot has a much better view then the little bitty window provided for the passenger. :dancers
Hope somebody finds the pictures and movies useful!
Allen
I have uploaded some "front seat" pictures I have taken (or my wife) from pilots view of flying. Go to bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lieb...ation.html (http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/i/lieberman/aviation/aviation.html)
Please note, safety is first and foremost. The take off and landing pictures were taken by my wife safely buckled in her seat. NO pilot should be diddling around with a camera during these phases of flight.
The enroute picture, I did take as you can see, it was very smooth air and the plane was configured for cruise flight.
The instrument pictures are what is in my plane. All airplanes, just like cars will look different in how the instruments are displayed on the panel. Don't be intimidated by all the "gauges". A lot of airplanes have less gauges and a lot of airplanes have more gauges.
Just like your car, a pilot generally will use some of the gauges, but not all. Some are strictly "informational" in the sense of how your engine is performing, and how your electric system and other systems in the plane are performing. A good pilot will glance at some of the instruments that monitor performance for safety purposes.
If you drive a car, most of the time, you probably only look at the speedometer, gas gauge, maybe your radio or cd player. You probably don't look at your engine temperature, your tachometer, your oil temperature and so on while you are driving.
It is the same thing in an airplane. A pilot will look at the following instruments on a constant basis. Techincal names are in parenthesis.
How fast you are going (airspeed indicater)
the gauge that has the blue sky on top and brown on bottom (horizon indicator),
the gauge that tells you how high you are (altimeter).
the gauge that tells you how fast you are climbing or descending (vertical speed indicator)
the gauge that tells you what direction you are going (Directional Gyro)
The rest of the guages are more or less informational and should be checked as a plane is in flight.
The above are the basics of flying, so you can see, it really is not much more different then driving a car. You just go much faster in a plane. No "speed limits" per se".
The difference between driving a car and an airplane is that flying is "three dimensional". Not only do you drive straight ahead, but you go up and down. A car, you only worry about driving straight ahead.
Without getting too technical, another great feature about airplanes, is that most gauges have a "backup". If it happens that one gauge decides to go belly up, then you can use the backup gauges. You can't say that about your speedometer in your car :lol
Note the view from the front seat. As you can see by my pictures, the pilot has a much better view then the little bitty window provided for the passenger. :dancers
Hope somebody finds the pictures and movies useful!
Allen