Can someone please help?

[afar1]

Thanks,
I am actually considering having him attend an a&p class or two
to help him with systems but is there anyway he can get tutoring on the told cards?--He had a hard time with them.

 

[PC12Cowboy]

TOLD????

As a low timer with some turbine time, I am not familiar with TOLD...so do tell an explanation
I always count on you guys&gals for great responses!!

Afar
I have been thru one type school(the PC12..DUH )And if your nephew is really commited to the task at hand basic systems can always be learned by hanging at the airport..and bothering the A&P's while they are working...most will tell you what and why they are working on the plane...and they will gain respect for the pilot who is concerned enough to ask questions!

For some this is a JOB..that is the only goal...For those with Passion for flying this IS a way of life!!
He should immerse in everything flying..all the time..until he bleeds 100LL and pisses JET A then it might come a lil easier..
Just remember this fact as quote by MR Bob Hoover!!

"The day I stop learning about flying, is the day the close the casket lid"

ChinChin
PC12Cowboy


p.s. I know the PC12 isnt a type rating ..just type specific

 

[Checks]

He is a 1000 hour pilot

Pretty much sums it up, doesnt it?

 

[Snakum]

As an aging, cynical wannabe ... aspiring only to fly rubber dog $hit around the mid-atlantic in old, clapped-out Senecas in the ice ... so far aviation is, indeed, a very "glib and gloomy" profession.

However ... if I started getting my full salary again ... and thus could finally afford to get my CFI, teach for a few hundred hours, and have my aging, cynical @ss hired into the right-hand seat of an MAC ATR42 ... I might change my tune.

And I assure you ... if ever given the opportunity to 'suck the firehose' ... I would forgo sleep, food, and sex and ensure I did WHATEVER IT TAKES for the honor of yanking the gear in an old ATR. OK ... I'd forgo the food and the sleep, anyway.

Minh
"Glib and Gloomy"

 

[avbug]

Forgo sex?

Afar, Takeoff and Landing Data cards are simply calculations of aircraft performance, based on actual conditions at the time of arrival and departure. These cards are filled out using aircraft performance charts.

Any pilot flying transport category aircraft should be able to help him out with this; it's very straight-forward. It's the same information he should be filling out when he flies his Cessna 172 with a student...just for bigger airplanes, with a little more information. No different, otherwise.

See if he can get performance data for a particular large airplane, one he may be flying, and begin calculating performance under varying conditions. Fill in the boxes on the form; that's all there is to it. With the assistance of anybody flying any transport category airplane, he should have no difficulty.

 

[barn stormer]

I'm not so sure that it is totally an hour thing. I understand that the more training and experience you have the better; however, I know numerous people who have moved on to the regionals at low time (800-1000 hours) who have done fine...in fact great! It is based more on the individual, quality of flight training, and current flying that will make a difference in the future. My grandma could go out and fly around just to get 1000 hours in small aircraft. Big deal... However, what you do, and how you do it is what is important. That's my $.02....