Of course, the video doesn't show him - but he is the voice of sweetness, light, and all-round fuzzy goodness in the background.
Couple of vids from Ye Olde Simulator for your edification. Work safe, even the comments in Arabic.First one shows two IqAF RW pilots flying instruments above a solid overcast – first time they've ever flown without visual ground references and after a quick half-hour class on instrument scanning. Bear in mind I didn't magic them up there with the computer -- they had to climb 1,500 feet through the clouds to get there without "killing" themselves. I've prepped them for a radar approach, which neither have flown, but they got the idea after I demonstrated one.
Second vid shows a straight-in autorotation, which is the maneuver us fling-wingers perform when the engine does an FbL impersonation and goes *pthbbbbbbt!* -- ain't easy to get it right when you don't have decent visual cues. This one wasn't perfect, but it was close to it.
I need to renegotiate my contract -- I'm performing two steps above my pay grade (hah!)...
I asked Bill if the voice was his (it sounds different than when I've talked to him on the phone - heh, I've met most of the Denizens, but I've never laid direct eyes on Dusty or Bill... Anyway, Bill replied:
I'm five feet behind them, talking over the engine noise and the occasional Il-76 screaming overhead. If I don't use my "cut through the background noise" voice, they can't hear me well enough to follow the "ATC instructions." I use about four different voices, depending on who I am at the time -- Tower, Approach Control, another aircraft, and *me*...
Dusty chimed in with:
What airplanes are the F/W guys training for eventually? Reason I ask is the instrumentation. Fighters--HUD is the center of attention (if they're Vipers, EVERYTHING is done in the HUD, including instruments, since the standby ADI is between your knees and is about the size of a golf ball). Other jets--if the panel is glass, that's a whole new kettle of fish if you're coming from steam gauges. Moreover, depending on the software, what you're looking at and how you tell the airplane what to do is challenging at first for those who've not grown up with FMSs. (Boeing has, from what I'm told, a much better design than Honeywell's MD-11 FMS--long (boring) story about proprietary design, etc., etc., etc.)
That's the first time I've seen an autorotation of any sort (real or simulated). Interesting, and not as fast (in terms of sink rate) as I'd thought they would be. Dead sticking an MD-10 in the sim is similar...if you have the altitude to begin with, it's not as scary as you might think (of course, it IS the sim...). You're smokin' when you cross the numbers but energy bleeds off fairly rapidly in the flare.
You must be having a lot of fun! God, I hope whoever gets elected doesn't end up leaving these poor guys out to dry by bugging out of Iraq.
Stay safe and Check Six,
Dusty
Which I included here since we had that discussion about how the MI-17 crashed.
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