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Tom White - Jan 03,2015
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Don's last flight 2014 inspired retrieving the old Go-Pro from the bottom of the flight bag.
No audio on this clip, but a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 03,2015
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Great moment, Tom!
What's that doo-dad with the black circle, on top of your panel?
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Tom White - Jan 04,2015
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Short answer: That doo-dad is a homemade heading bug constructed from a compass with a rotating bezel.
Long explanation: Why?..because neither the Helm EFIS nor Fore-flight have a heading bug. Daplane also has one of those Sporty’s suction, pointy things as an altitude bug.
I use DaPlane to maintain IFR currency and, sometimes though rarely, file IFR to descend or climb through California’s Coastal Night and Morning Low Clouds.
I don’t recall SoCal ever giving hold instructions, but they make up for it with multiple vectors, especially for us slow flyers on busy days.
When given heading or altitude changes, I always set the bugs before “reading back” the instructions. Who, at our ages, can remember the instructions thirty seconds later without referring to the bugs?
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Don Maxwell - Jan 04,2015
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"...'before reading back' the instructions." Well. If there have to be instructions, that seems like a great idea.
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