Do You Fly Like You Drive?

Clark1961 said:
No, I don't fly like I drive. My car doesn't have gpss or alt hold.
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Mine has multiple GPSs and a pretty awesome terrain following system, but the TF mode tends to wander off 0AGL over rough terrain at high speed.

Nauga,
bottomed out
 
DavidWhite said:
what similarity do a tailwheel/cs prop have with a standard?
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If you loan any of them to someone who doesn't know how to use any of them they're going to bugger it up.

or

Improper use of either will result in a nasty grinding sound.

Nauga,
who says, "grind a pound for me while you're at it."
 
If I flew like I drive, I'd have insane horsepower with the airspeed of the wright flyer, and be overweight with all that fire truck stuff, like airhorns, mechanical sirens, and 1000 gallons of water :D
I do drive a jeep liberty 6-speed like its a mini cooper too...C152? not so much.
 
MAKG1 said:
My car has a really crappy climb rate. No matter how hard I pull on the steering wheel, it won't leave the ground. And the pedals don't turn it worth a damn.
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If you hit the right pedal hard and fast enough the car will turn around
 
JOhnH said:
A long time ago I made a long 3-week cross-country. When I needed a ride, I used taxi's, hotel shuttles or asked the FBO for a lift. When I returned home I got in my car and found myself in the middle of the road, right over the center line. A few quick horn blasts from others reminded me real quickly I was in a car, not a plane.
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Glad I'm not the only with that problem. Driving home at night when I am tired I start to get that line on the road go in right through the middle of my car.
 
I've had multiple friends comment on how safe they felt after flying with me. They seem genuinely surprised. I have a pretty aggressive driver's mentality when operating ground based vehicles. I feel I'm safe but I go out of my way to make sure the passengers in my plane are relaxed and enjoy their flight. In my car it's more like, get in, buckle up, shut up and hold on!
 
No and thankfully not. I'm willing to bet if most of us had the same attitude towards flying that we did towards driving, we'd be dead by now.
 
I drive both like a professional.
Professional race car driver or professional A&P pilot.
Yeah the cars pull more Gs but eventually it's hard to find willing passengers when you like to pull 2 or 3 Gs on the downwind to base leg even if you are trying to shed speed.
 
I am a fairly safe driver (love to speed, weave through traffic etc) but a very cautious pilot.


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