Bush Pilots

You can still fly wherever you want to but you would be zig zagging your way to Miami avoiding controlled air space and other other traffic. With a flight plan you are given a corridor and ATC keeps an eye on you and other traffic. If you go off course with a flight plan and don't respond or fly into controlled air space without permission you will be escorted by two fighter jets armed with guns.
What's the stall speed of a fighter jet? Just slow down. :thumbsup:
 
What's the stall speed of a fighter jet? Just slow down. :thumbsup:

Not sure but they are fly by wire computers. Technically a fighter jet cannot fly. You can slow down to a crawl, keep the nose up and thrust. If it wasn't for the need of air flow through the engines they could stand on end and stay in one place.
 
How much deviance from the flight path are you allowed before ATC starts squawking on the radio?
 
How much deviance from the flight path are you allowed before ATC starts squawking on the radio?

Maybe 100' in altitude and course is pretty much right on. They will help a small plane on course if there's crosswind and calculate a crab for you to stay on.
 
Maybe 100' in altitude and course is pretty much right on. They will help a small plane on course if there's crosswind and calculate a crab for you to stay on.
Why would the pilot need them to calculate a crab angle? Doesn't everybody have a GPS these days? The GPS will give you your true course. Just look at your heading indicator, then look at the GPS course & do some simple 1st grade math.
 
Why would the pilot need them to calculate a crab angle? Doesn't everybody have a GPS these days? The GPS will give you your true course. Just look at your heading indicator, then look at the GPS course & do some simple 1st grade math.

Ya, your right. I've been out of it for a while.......BUT.....a real pilot which I prided myself on uses just a compass and landmarks and calculates crab angle, wind speed, wind direction and ground speed. I had Loran, VME and ADF and used them but I still used my map, compass and watch to keep up on my skills.

If your alternator goes out the engine still runs off the magnetos but everything else is gone except for your map, compass and watch.
 
Just another note. Everyone I brought up in my plane for a long ride was taught how to calulate position, ground speed, crab and wind direction. It's pretty easy and all those people really, I mean really got into it.
 
When I was 13 I found my way from KLOT to Elizabeth, IN with nothing but the map. I didn't even use the compass. The pilot taxi'ed & took off, then I took over. The plane didn't have an ADF or any electronics at all. Just the basic attitude instruments plus a compass. The pilot was in the way of me being able to see them because I was flying from the back of a Citabria. 2 seat tandem. All I had back there was the stick, rudder pedals, mixture & throttle. It was fun.

The plane's generator quit working shortly after take-off but we didn't need it anyway. We had the battery to use the radio when we needed it but he kept it turned off most of the time. And we hand-propped it to restart it for the flight home.
 
Ha ha ha, YUP!!!!! Planes run off magnetos and have two for redundancy. Do your run up and switch from one to the other and make sure no more then 150rpm drop.
 

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