Comments on: Taking a tumble http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Sun, 19 May 2013 17:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dave Hirschman http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67891 Dave Hirschman Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:11:46 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67891 Hans,
Caging your electric AI will prevent it from tumbling in unusual attutides (as will pulling the circuit breaker). You can uncage it in normal flight without damaging it.

Dave

]]> By: Hans Plangger http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67762 Hans Plangger Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:48:20 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67762 Hi,

I have a back-up electrical AI, that I need to uncage every time I start the plane.
Will that AI recover or not be affected? If it is affected in the same manner,
is there a way of “caging” it back, then uncage?

Thanks.

Hans.

]]> By: Warren Morningstar http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67692 Warren Morningstar Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:21:03 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67692 Roger,
Was your cursor resting on the video? The player has a “hover” mode that keeps the video controls on top when the cursor is on the video. Move the mouse pointer off to another part of the page, and the video progress bar should disappear. Let me know if it doesn’t.
Warren

]]> By: Roger Halstead http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67392 Roger Halstead Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:54:41 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67392 I’ve seen an AI tumble and appreciate what you are trying to show, but unfortunately on all of my screens the AI is completely covered by the video progress bar except for a couple of seconds. IOW the video didn’t show to me, or any one using the same software anything of importance.

]]> By: Danny Cherry http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67363 Danny Cherry Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:43:50 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67363 Thanks for posting the video. I have a Private certificate and only about 125 hours. I have never seen that, even though, I have heard of it. Verrrrry interesting and informative.

]]> By: Patrick Flannigan http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67349 Patrick Flannigan Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:08:14 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67349 Thanks for the warning on the audio Warren. I’ll keep shopping around then!

]]> By: Steve Early http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67305 Steve Early Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:47:25 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67305 Guess it’s just me but in the video, a shadow completely obscures the AI until after it has already tumbled.

]]> By: Warren Morningstar http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67193 Warren Morningstar Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:24:15 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67193 Thanks, Patrick. Just to be clear, only the cockpit video was shot with the Contour HD. You might find the audio somewhat lacking for other uses. This camera is best for point-of-view shots — mount it on your helmet, glare shield, wing tip, etc. The extreme wide angle and very limited microphone make it unsuitable for more conventional shots, in my opinion.

]]> By: Patrick Flannigan http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67129 Patrick Flannigan Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:16:32 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67129 Interesting. I’ve never actually seen an attitude indicator tumble. I always imagined it would be “sneaky” like a vacuum failure, but it’s pretty hard to miss a spiralling attitude indicator like the video shows. Is that common for tumbled gyros, or does the indication vary on a case-by-case basis?

There’s a Decathlon at my local airport, I think I’ll make an appointment with an instructor to do some basic aero just to see this firsthand.

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the camera recommendation! I’m actually shopping for a good video-blogging cam now, so good timing!

]]> By: Bill Ryan http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895&cpage=1#comment-67046 Bill Ryan Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:07 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=895#comment-67046 Good show! Hope we can cage that poor A.I.

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