request feedback on proposed feature

[Daddy O]

Pretty soon PE will have a secret rating system like Vatsim, it'll even keep track of our demerits and faux pas.

[Keith Smith]

Adam,

I am trying to work out what your feedback means. Can you help me out?

Do you dislike the idea of a pilot being able to nominate their experience level?

[Daddy O]

I should have put a after the comment. It was not meant as a criticism, just joking about how the suggestions in the thread were going. As I have previously posted, I like the idea of feedback and being able to declare the pilot's experience level. This is a training environment after all. Some people on the network have more experience than others, some are actual ATCs, others have instrument ratings, or like me...I am trying to learn instrument flight. It would help for the controllers to know what level you are at when they bullet 3 pages of clearance to the pilot.

The previous post was really more of a jab at VatSim.

[Hesynergy]

Thanks, guys. The feedback has been helpful. It's very likely that we will provide a way for pilots to specify their experience level in a way that will only be seen by the controllers.

I've also concluded that we cannot provide detailed instruction/corrections over the radio. We either need a private back-channel (similar to an instructor speaking over an intercom), or we need to debrief after the flight through another private mechanism.

Talk about coming late to the party!

Well I am now on the fifth or sixth iteration of my Prepar3d I-10 test and I am getting stuck at understanding holds and the proper entry thereof…tho I gotta say last night's try, in the Mindstar 172, was ...as I was brought kicking and screaming to the instrument, not only the best I have done, but showed me it was indeed "do-able"...all by virtue of:
1. Great pictorial in the 530 GNS of ALL HOLDS AND PTs!! IF you enter start/destination AND PROC
TO enter the departures and arrivals!

AND...2.

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Do while NotThere(AreWeThereYet*(Dest, curPos, ChartInstructions))
   tune to VORFreqs before hand;
   set heading to change of waypoint;
    Set AP TO HDG;
   TWIST the OBS to match arrow to heading;
   let the NAV catch up;    
   switch AP to NAV;
      
EndWhile

Note:
The Mindstar 172, wayyyy over-reaches the stock 172 HDG turns with almost 50 degrees of bank, while my wunnerful lil RealAir Lancair gives me nice normal 30 degree turns....no matter how quickly I change the heading bug...BUT,
the Lancair's HSI heading will drift as much as 60 degrees in as little as 10 minutes...thus the Mindstar -172 trial .

Any one else experience this?


I would not be adverse to paying for a couple of lessons ...somebody in the cockpit with me and I think that is do-able in P3D as well as FSX, to show me the error of my ways AS I'm doing it ...THIS DONE without taxing the ATC folks.(thus the rational behind this entropy...er...entry)


FLASH!
This was going to be a reply to my reply but Keith allows me to edit this soooo,

ACTUAL FLASH

As an afterthought, I think this should be a wonderful add-on service benefiting not only the pilots here , but QUALIFIED pilot instructors as well...with
1.Complete route briefing and flight debriefing and;
2. TYPE and semi-annual like check rides offered to boot!


I'll bet you could come up with a reasonable pricing that would be mutually acceptable…(Yes, I know, this will NOT be considered to be an officially FAA ANYTHING)

Don't thank me now I'll just take my 10% from the PI's...

END ACTUAL FLASH!
END FLASH

Anybody?


* Done in as whiney voice as possible...

Speaking of which... It IS DAD'S DAY this Sunday!...the daughter is coming down from Lexington, but the tyro-screenwriting son is stuck in L.A. Half the hugs are muuuuuch better 'n none!

I wish everyone of you a really a wonderful and memorable (forgetting the function argument) Father's Day!!

Chas

[Keith Smith]

Here's the workshop on holds: http://www.pilotedge.net/workshops/ifr- ... tec-routes

You flew a parallel hold entry during the I6 rating. The hold on the I-10 is the same. Watch the I-6 cockpit video for a refresher if you like after you're done with the workshop.

[Hesynergy]

Thank you sir!
Per usual it was terrific and it was the one IFR tutorial I hadn't yet take taken so thanks for that...

I was over-thinking things and you made setting up for holds simple or simpleR and easy-to-understand.

Happy daddy's day

[bruce]

Good idea, helpful advice always welcome as long as it doesn't interfere with ATC comms for others, if kept brief & to the point should not be an issue.
Perhaps the bigger questions is defining experience. 1000 hours with minimal radio use flying in the sticks could be the same as a lot lesser hours but all in the socal area for example. A common bench mark may be the PE training ratings? Anyway it's a big yes from me

[bruce]

[quote=the Lancair's HSI heading will drift as much as 60 degrees in as little as 10 minutes...thus the Mindstar -172 trial .

Any one else experience this?....

Is this the Realair or Orbx a/c? Not had this problem ever in the Realair Lancair

[Hesynergy]

"The Mindstar 172, wayyyy over-reaches the stock 172 HDG turns with almost 50 degrees of bank, while my wunnerful lil RealAir Lancair gives me nice normal 30 degree turns....no matter how quickly I change the heading bug...BUT,
the Lancair's HSI heading will drift as much as 60 degrees in as little as 10 minutes...thus the Mindstar -172 trial ."

Thanks,

Chas