325 stage 103

[Blue Side Up]

If anybody has got any tips or study guides for 325 stage 103 they would be much appreciated. I have one more flight left and i have been pretty much studying everything i can find. thank you.

[Dugie8]

Originally Posted by Blue Side Up

If anybody has got any tips or study guides for 325 stage 103 they would be much appreciated. I have one more flight left and i have been pretty much studying everything i can find. thank you.

Know your Vmc factors cold
SEMI systems, know the basics, no need to build the airplane. However, think about the no brainers, like how many spark plugs on the airplane?
Engine failure, go-no-go scenarios, stick with your answer, there really isn't a right or wrong way, just be consistent and look at both ends of the runway!
If you get dragged into the whole flaps effecting Vmc argument, quietly remind the stage pilot that this little tidbit is usually for airplanes whoes rudder throw is reduced when the flaps are retracted and move on... (example, the DC8 goes from a 2 engine Vmc of 170 knots with flaps to 210 knots with zero flaps)
The one true thing that makes the critical engine "critical" is P-factor, all the other junk, torque, slipstream, etc, is fluff
Critical engine, as it applies to real world ops, can be the engine that has a critical system on it, ie the landing gear pump is on the right engine, that may be a more critical thing than the aerodynamics of it all.
Which would you wrather have happen first Vmc or stall on take off and you have an engine failure?
Engine fails on takeoff and the gear is still down (SEMI) do you land straight ahead or get the gear up and try to climb out. (add up your drag penalties for gear down, windmilling prop and no sideslip and compare to your singe engine rate of climb from the POH for the day).

All I can think of for now, too much beer tonite, sorry.

[Snickersnwa]

Also, be up to speed on your instrument stuff... some stage check pilots spend quite a bit of time going over IFR stuff, and some not so much. I had to plan an IFR cross country and was asked a lot of IFR questions.

[Blue Side Up]

thank you for your help guys.

[Screaming_Emu]

study the bendix GPS. I did most of 325 in the newer seminoles with the 430s. Know that thing inside and out, pretty much forgot that the KLN89 even existed. Walked out to the airplane, saw it and was like "damn". Unsatted cause I forgot that you gotta put it in OBS mode when getting vectors to final on a GPS overlay approach. I'll remember how to do that for the rest of my life.

The best part, is guess what kind of GPS I got on my recheck...yeah, a 430.

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by Screaming_Emu

study the bendix GPS. I did most of 325 in the newer seminoles with the 430s. Know that thing inside and out, pretty much forgot that the KLN89 even existed. Walked out to the airplane, saw it and was like "damn". Unsatted cause I forgot that you gotta put it in OBS mode when getting vectors to final on a GPS overlay approach. I'll remember how to do that for the rest of my life.

The best part, is guess what kind of GPS I got on my recheck...yeah, a 430.

That really sucks! I think they should allow only 430's on stage checks since the majority of the time you're flying with them. I do like the KLN89 though - has some pretty cool features that the 430's don't have. The only thing that sucks is they don't look pretty...with colorful graphics, etc... but who needs colors/graphics anyway.

[NDviaEP]

I've requested the 430 on a stage check before... when you give the slip to the SOF just say it's a stage and you'd like a garmin... I think I did that on the 26 and 30's in 102

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by NDviaEP

I've requested the 430 on a stage check before... when you give the slip to the SOF just say it's a stage and you'd like a garmin... I think I did that on the 26 and 30's in 102

I did too - they didn't have a problem with it.

[airplanerik]

Originally Posted by JaceTheAce

I did too - they didn't have a problem with it.

You mean, you were around when the Warriors still had KLN89s???!

[CRJ700]

How hard is the 325-103 stage, i hear horrible things about that.

[AngelFuree]

Originally Posted by CRJ700

How hard is the 325-103 stage, i hear horrible things about that.

I don't know lol, but I'll find out tomorrow morning. I'm taking it at 11:30AM.

[CAFFEINE]

Originally Posted by CRJ700

How hard is the 325-103 stage, i hear horrible things about that.

It's not too bad. But depending on who you have, the oral can suck. The flight is cake. I went up, did a little airwork (stalls, steep turns, simulated emergencies, etc). Then I shot the GPS (KLN89) at GAF single engine no autopilot and then the BC back at GFK single engine no autopilot.

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by airplanerik

You mean, you were around when the Warriors still had KLN89s???!

Haha yeeup... in 2004 when I first got here. I'd say about half of them. I remember when Sioux 69 was brand new! (my favourite Warrior...not because of the number you know ) ...but seriously that wasn't that long ago. Had I gone directly to UND when I graduated high school in 1999 I'm sure I would've been able to say "I remember when we flew Cadets with the 1XXND tail numbers"

[CAFFEINE]

Sioux 69 is my fav warrior too (I did my first solo in that plane)!

[taildragger173]

Can you still hear the strobes click in your headset in 369?

[Screaming_Emu]

Originally Posted by NDviaEP

I've requested the 430 on a stage check before... when you give the slip to the SOF just say it's a stage and you'd like a garmin... I think I did that on the 26 and 30's in 102

I actually did ask and the guy said "you'll get what you get". I wanted to jump accross the counter when I got back from the flight :P

[JaceTheAce]

Originally Posted by Screaming_Emu

I actually did ask and the guy said "you'll get what you get". I wanted to jump accross the counter when I got back from the flight :P

I really enjoy working with people like that .

[NDviaEP]

haha, that sucks... out here we're flying Seminole 855ND sporting the bendix LORAN!! GPS is for #######!!

[AngelFuree]

Originally Posted by NDviaEP

haha, that sucks... out here we're flying Seminole 855ND sporting the bendix LORAN!! GPS is for #######!!

Hawaii, baby, Hawaii

[Screaming_Emu]

Originally Posted by NDviaEP

haha, that sucks... out here we're flying Seminole 855ND sporting the bendix LORAN!! GPS is for #######!!

if you're lookin for sympathy, you're not gonna get any ;-)

[AngelFuree]

Originally Posted by Screaming_Emu

if you're lookin for sympathy, you're not gonna get any ;-)

Haha, more like bragging actually...He's putting in our faces that he's flying in a nice place

[Screaming_Emu]

oh yeah, I forgot to mention the plane that I unsatted in got what it had coming for having a bendix in it. It was the one that landed gear up last semester :-P

[NDviaEP]

haha, I'll take LORAN for hawaii any day! and actually, it's pretty easy to make your own points to navigate to, kinda cool. just radial and DME... that easy...

[UAL747400]

I don't know much about LORAN, but its basically just ground based GPS right?

[NDviaEP]

umm kinda yeah... it's just a box that is really good at math... like if you want to go directly to an airport that has an off field VOR, you just check the AFD and it tells you the radial and DME from that nav aid and you can put that into the LORAN unit and can track to the airport just like you would a normal VOR... of course, you have to be within range of that nav aid. Or you can put in intersections in the same way so you can fly direct to them if you need to IFR... stuff like that...