Just wanted to share - with the work I’ve been doing lately to get endorsed as a CAP pilot, the view of ‘the office’ gives an idea of what that’s been like:
In addition to getting the pilot endorsement, I had to get the glass panel endorsement. Not so many steam gauges any more! In fact, the three backup instruments at the bottom…? I recently saw that those are now sometimes being combined in another glass instrument. Things have come a long way since I learned to fly with a “six pack”.
I, for one, hope that when the panel looks like this, the kit comes with a decal!
Wow those Cessnas have really come a long way. Far cry from the one I used to fly, I’ll admit I’m a bit envious. I really miss flying the smaller planes, there is something special about being able to fly where you want, when you want. It’s amazing to see how close they are to the current airliners. Here’s a shot of my office to compare, it’s a lot more similar than you would think.
That’s a nice office, there, Frozin. I’m a bit jealous, but at the same time, I now have the freedom to take that 182T Nav III (G1000) whenever I would like and fly. I get to take girl kid with me, too, since she’s a CAP cadet, so I might take her along and start teaching her checklists and taking down the ATIS.
That’s a great plan, I’m sure she’ll love it. How old is she if you don’t mind saying? I want to take my boys (almost 7 yrs) for a flight someday. Getting a basic checkout in a 172 would run over $1000, plus the cost of taking the boys up for a while. It’s a good chunk of cash to throw down. I’ll have to plan the schedules properly so I’m still current on the rental when I want to take them.
@Frozin, girl kid is 14 and pretty revved up about aerospace. She went to OSH with me last year and camped on site, and we’re going to SNF next month. She is working through the CAP ranks (currently C/CMSgt) and wants to apply to the summer program for powered flight, but she has to be 16 for that. So, she’s building rank to be competitive and I’m hoping to get her some basic “co-pilot” experience that gets her quite comfortable in the cockpit so she can breeze through to solo. But that’s a lot more story to blather about some other time.
If you want to drop me a PM, I can tell you about CAP and its programs. Every cadet (min. age 12yo) gets 5 orientation flights for free. It’s the primary reason I got my CAP wings, so I can give O-flights to the cadets in our squadron - we have over 80 and typical O-flight days only get 4 at a time! 80 x 5 = a lot of flights!!
CAP primary instruction for cadets is in 172s, but most O-flights are given in the 182s and cadets can get as many back seat rides as they want. My daughter lucks out because while you must be in CAP to fly in a CAP plane (obviously, she is) there’s no requirement that she can only take O-flights. So she can just be a passenger with me any time, and as a CAP pilot, I can take the plane whenever it’s available. RHIP!
@jeaton01 yeah I think it would be a challenge to fly it that way. They build in a ton of redundancy so if you lose that much, you are having a really bad day. There still is a standby display that gives you all the necessary info in case of such a bad day, but it’s only about 4”square, and is a real challenge to fly the plane only using that.
Thanks for the info about the CAP. Sounds a lot like the Air Cadet program here in Canada. I’d love to learn more about it though so I’ll probably send you a message.
