Right
out of the box, let it be known by all who read this training information that
I make no claim to having any special navigational skills, nor am I a
qualified flight instructor; truth is, I get lost probably as much as you do.
However, I don't stay lost, because I've learned how to use the
radios and other instrumentation to get me out of whatever mess I got myself
into...most of the time. Plus, I built most of our navigational instrumentation from scratch, and thus
I had to learn at least something about how it all works.
So here we go…the blind leading the blind, but hopefully we’ll have
some fun with all of this gibberish, and maybe you’ll even learn a thing or
two along the way. Stranger
things have happened, you know.
Why
Do We Offer This Training?
Well,
for three very good reasons: One,
it’s how we fly in LewisAire; we’re pilots who fly airplanes; we're not
modern-day software technicians. Two,
as with any hobby, you'll enjoy it more if you know what you’re doing and
what’s expected. Three, everyone
will enjoy it more if you don't come to a Multiplayer flight thinking VOR
means Very Old Radio.
And
This Navigational Training Will Be…?
…Extremely
easy! For one thing, I only know
17 words, so it can’t get too complicated anyway.
Seriously, many folks like to dazzle us with a bunch of mindless
techno-babble, but I prefer to use whatever simple, basic lingo it takes to
make sure you understand a process or procedure.
Beyond that, anything else is pointless.
We’ll go slow, there’s no schedule, and the information will be basic; perhaps too basic for some of
you....and then again, maybe not. This is not by any stretch of the imagination meant to be
misconstrued as professional training --if you manage to grab a left-seat job with United because of this,
then bully for you; we sincerely hope you send us a healthy chunk of your whopping new paycheck; we'll
use it to buy some 1947 airspeed gauges for the fleet, or possibly a new paint job for my Lamborghini.
But assuming United probably won't be beating down your doors once you know how to use the ADF
gauge, let's settle for the fact that this training is meant to help you become comfortable with the
LewisAire way of flying...and to assure that you have loads more fun doing what we do!
