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JetPROP Turbine Conversions
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This presented a wonderful teaching opportunity. All too often a pilot (or sometimes even an entire airline cockpit crew) gets so distracted by a minor irritation like this “lamp driver” failure that airplane control is eventually lost, or the airplane flies into terrain. My student, a wise pilot, asked me to take the controls for a moment while he checked it out.
When handing over control of an airplane, make certain there’s no doubt as to who’s flying. A formal passing of responsibility requires both pilots acknowledge the exchange out loud. Pilot 1 says: “You have the flight controls,” but he doesn’t assume Pilot 2 has “got it” until Pilot 2 echoes back, “I have the flight controls.”
Only then can Pilot 1 turn to other duties. (Since the incident that prompted this article, this precise terminology has made it into the FAA Practical Test Standards).
Pulling out the checklist, my student quickly confirmed that procedure allows continued flight with an inoperative alternator warning light, so I formally turned control back over to him and we continued the flight.
What About the Next Takeoff?
Later in the lesson, as we cruised level using the Baron’s autopilot, I asked my student, “After we land at the end of this lesson, can you take off again with the faulty alternator out light?”
“Sure,” my student replied warily.
“What other conditions must exist for you to be able to take off with the failed light,” I probed. Certain now I was setting a trap, my student asked to have time to look into it on the ground. Wise man, as we were beginning to be vectored for a practice instrument approach.
But he didn’t escape. On the ground I asked again: “Can you
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