Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
I met Alyssa Cobb at Sun & Fun this year. She is the Director of eMedia at AOPA. She is the one flying the AOPA give-away Super Cub around the country. We had a couple of good conversations at S&F and her being a Cessna 170 pilot and only having flown the Super Cub from Baker Montana to Lakeland Florida we talked about flying Super Cubs. She gave me her card and I found it while cleaning my desk off recently so I decided to shoot her an email and see how it was going. Having gotten some more time in the airplane and completing Lori MacNichol's canyon flying course she is a lot more comfortable in the airplane and really enjoying it. She sent me a link to a recent article that she wrote that conjured up some questions in my mind about indicated air speeds. The "Aircraft Performance Work Sheet" linked in the following article got me to questioning the way I fly my airplane. I honestly never look at the airspeed indicator, well I guess on occasion but I couldn't tell you any speeds I regularly fly. Flying regularly here in Texas at 1000' MSL in and out of gravel bars and such to the mountains in Idaho and areas in Utah I have always adjusted to load, wind and density altitude without paying attention to my air speed. I wonder if this is something I should be more in tuned to or have I adapted the "seat of my pants" method and if so is this a bad way of doing it. Curious to others methods and techniques.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media...kcountry-sweepstakes-experience-of-a-lifetime
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media...kcountry-sweepstakes-experience-of-a-lifetime