Metro

[Flyin Tony]

Anyone know where I can get a metro study guide, or anything to help me study before I goto class?

 

[frmrBUFFdrvr]

Anyone know where I can get a metro study guide, or anything to help me study befor I goto class?

You can't be serious. They're gonna let YOU fly a tube????

 

[Flyin Tony]

Aint that scary

 

[oops!]

training materials

flight department usually sends them to you when they decide who is going to be typed... I got mine about a month before going to Seattle... did they decide on a class date for you yet? If so I would give the training department a call, they may have just forgot to send it... have fun with the tube, cause she'll have fun with you!

 

[Popeye0537]

Tony, where you gonna be based? If its anywhere other than BUR or PHX can I have the bike, I'll keep it runnin on my trips to glamis. Your not gonna need it anymore....LOL

 

[DirtyBeech]

Congrats and enjoy it. The tube is a fun and rewarding airplane to fly. Don't let Buff razz you too much either. Someone recently decided to let him fly again and he was seen trying to taxi the tug out before someone reminded him what an airplane looked like.

Some nice numbers for the tube:

1. In the sim 4 degrees pitch up is your magic number. When in doubt and throughout your manuevers return the 4 degrees for level flight. Not so in the real thing. 1-2 degrees nose up in real life.

2. To set your airspeed subtract 100 kts from the desired airspeed and divide by 2. That will give you a target TQ setting. For example, if you desire 240kts then -100 = 140/2 = 70 TQ. Kinda cumbersome at first, but works well when you get used to it.

3. For constant airspeed descents subtract 10% TQ per side for every 500 fpm you wish to descend. So if you're doing 200 kts (50 TQ) and desire a 1000 fpm descent then 30 TQ per side will work nicely.

4. Between FL 180-210 is your cruise sweet spot at 610 EGT and 97 % rpm. You can take it higher, but are losing out if you aren't running speeds high.

5. For loading: 800 lbs or less put it all in bay 4 or 5(expediter). 800-2000 lbs put it in bays 2-3 or 3-4(expediter). Any heavier than that and you need to start in bay 1.

6. To set your pressurization divide your altitude by three and set that for your cabin altitude. You can work from there.

7. If your nosewheel steering is deferred try taxiing speeds high. It makes a huge difference.

There's a lot more to it, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Maybe some other deathpencil drivers can chime in with other good advice.

 

[Linetech]

In a light Metro your MTOW is 14,500 you can take up to 14,600 to account for the 100lb fuel burn on the taxi.

Different pilots like Different CG's. Some like it right down the middle, some a little forward and some AFT. Depending on the A/C if your CG is too aft the Auto Pilot will try and correct for it and you will be fighting her the whole way.

You can most likely tell where your CG is going to be from the nose gear strut.

Any loading questions let me know, I'm the only Load Planner at AMF who has a personal CG Wheel!

Most of all, Handel the Airplane or she will handle you!

 

[citabriapilot]

I wouldn't worry so much about getting the systems book... Try to get your hands on a Metro SOP from one of the other Metro pilots at CVG and see if they still have the cockpit poster. Study flows, and only flows, until you go to Seattle. They will spoonfeed you the systems stuff, but expect you to come prepared with flows. Good luck!

 

[DeathPencil]

In a light Metro your MTOW is 14,500 you can take up to 14,600 to account for the 100lb fuel burn on the taxi.

Different pilots like Different CG's. Some like it right down the middle, some a little forward and some AFT. Depending on the A/C if your CG is too aft the Auto Pilot will try and correct for it and you will be fighting her the whole way.

You can most likely tell where your CG is going to be from the nose gear strut.

Any loading questions let me know, I'm the only Load Planner at AMF who has a personal CG Wheel!

Most of all, Handel the Airplane or she will handle you!

Don't rely on the nose strut technique. It'll get you into deep trouble someday. A tail heavy tube is no fun.
I wouldn't say the plane takes more skill to fly than others, but it does have a lot of creative ways that it tries to cause you trouble.
Learn the flows and get it so you can do em without thinking about it. Then it's just another airplane.
Good Luck.

 

[Flyin Tony]

Tony, where you gonna be based? If its anywhere other than BUR or PHX can I have the bike, I'll keep it runnin on my trips to glamis. Your not gonna need it anymore....LOL

Going to be based in CVG, Im going to go get the bike! I havent been on it in almost a year. I havent got a class date yet, they have to get someone to cover my run first, but it should be in a month or so.