Useless Aviation Knowledge
05-16-2006, 11:06 PM
#11
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Don't ask a T-37 UPT instructor this question. We used to fill trivial information on the Tweety Bird to students all the time. Where's the only piece of wood? Where's the only wording in a foreign language?
TonyC, do you remember?
TonyC, do you remember?
05-16-2006, 11:08 PM
#12
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Originally Posted by Nightflyer
How many pieces of wood are there on a 727, and where are they located? (I don't remember the answer to this one either, but I knew it once.)
At least some are. What do I win?
05-17-2006, 01:15 AM
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Position: J3 to CL600; retired doing instrument taining
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Zones
The diameter in nautical miles of the "zone of confusion" while passing over a VOR is equal to one half the altitude in thousands. Passing over the VOR at 6000 feet, the zone would be 3 miles in diameter. For the previous generation that used the A N range, the zone of confusion was the "zone of silence".
05-17-2006, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by hyflyt560
1. Army flight school: How many rivets in a UH-1 tailboom. I don't recall the answer.
2. How to use an ADF?
2. How to use an ADF?
Damn, I knew there would be another Army pilot on here to bring up how bull**** some of the oral knowledge can be.
-Forest
05-17-2006, 04:23 PM
#18
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Originally Posted by WatchThis!
As the title suggests, please share the most arcane and useless bit of knowledge or factoid from your aviation career.
On a DC-3, the correct command to an FO to activate the windshield de-icing equipment is: "Rig the elephant's pecker!"
At least one Navy pilot has attempted a catapult takeoff with his wings still folded.
Most people who get sucked into large hi-bypass turbofan engines "bounce out" after hitting the first-stage fan.
(Told to me by a GE engine rep in Borneo). You can tell whether the high-pressure bleed-air comb in a GE engine is out of adjustment, just by listening to how it whistles at ground idle. (same guy)
Yes, I like this thread. Very much.
05-17-2006, 04:31 PM
#19
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Originally Posted by Overnitefr8
Don't ask a T-37 UPT instructor this question. We used to fill trivial information on the Tweety Bird to students all the time. Where's the only piece of wood? Where's the only wording in a foreign language?
TonyC, do you remember?
TonyC, do you remember?
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