Is a light twin below 200HP considered "high performance"?

[Tram]

No, no, no.. When the mains go flat you get an INV light and your yam damper stops working...

The altimeter only reads higher when the strobe fluid gets low..

 

[MikeMD80]

It's all relative to the person...really. All the guys who drive 747s call 767s "light twins". So it all depends on who you ask

 

[Sniper Bob]

So that's why it seems like I've been flaring too high--I must have low tire pressure.

 

[User546]

No, that was a different guy on the seminole alternator thread.

You're right, my bad. I must've just automatically associated the two. You guys must've ran the Alternator guy far away with the beating he received...

Sorry, that *is* private pilot stuff, and there is something seriously wrong witht hte process if someone makes it to MEI/CFII with this bad an understanding of systems.

I'm not disagreeing with you for a second on this issue. But I do feel that we have an obligation to help out a fellow pilot whose unfamiliar with something (through whose ever fault it was) no matter how mundane, and atleast educate him to the degree asked or needed.

You don't want to create an enviroment where people are afraid to ask questions. Something they may want to know, but is to intimidated now to ask, could save their lives one day, or keep them out of big trouble having known what we can teach.

Unlike SOME of you on here, we're not all God's of Aviation, some people squeek by the process, yet their still going to fly and they still need to be educated one way or the other.

 

[Kream926]

if he was a student pilot maybe....

but this guy has a MEL

 

[sky37d]

I know, I'm the same way, and it can be really tough to remember that sometimes.

Know the feeling. Speaking of that, I took my ME training in a Travelair, with 2 x 180 HP engines, and it was the first complex aircraft I had flown, so I got my complex endorsement, but couldn't get my HP endorsement. When I started flying the 337, I got my HP endorsement.

It's the rules. Granted, a Travelair goes a heck of a lot faster than a 182, but it's still not a HP airplane.

 

[sky37d]

So, wait a minute. So, I could have gotten my alternator to work, just by pumping up the mains?? Why didn't my mechanic think of that??
Could have saved myself a ton of money. Well, not actually a ton, unless of course I paid him in pennies, but then I would have had to pump up the tires in the car, but then the list goes on, of things that would have gotten fixed, by just pumping up the tires.