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First Instrument Panel

What was the first panel that you first flew under the hood?

1. Was it a panel that had a watch hanging by a string in the center to tell which way the plane was leaning?

2. Was it a panel with a "Turn and Bank, Wiskey Compass, Airspeed and and Kollman Altimeter? Maybe an option of a Hallicrafters receiver and better yet a Narco Super Homer.

3. Or was it a panel full of steam guages and radios to keep your feet warm in the winter?

4 Or finally a panel that is a wide screen movie with an auto pilot that does everything except make coffee with surgar and cream?

The one I saw under the hood was panel number 2 in a PA 12 Did I learn about timed turns with that turn and bank.


John J
 
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Sorry I know I can't do the poll thing yet so this a home made poll. Us older pilots need some key board help.
 
Re: First Instrument Panel

John J said:
What was the first panel that you first flew under the hood?
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Did my private pilot hood requirements in a Grumman AA1B. Standard six pack with an Escort 110 as the only radio.

Did my instrument rating in a late 70's Piper PA28 161 Warrior. Standard six pack, dual KX170s and a KR86 ADF. No autopilot, no DME and no intercom. Used a hood that precluded using a headset. Used foggles, portable intercom and headset for the checkride. Thought I died and went to heaven.

Len
 
First time under the hood was in a 152 II with the 6 pack. Single radio, single VOR, no other nave equipment.

Did some of my IR training in a 172 with the standard layout. No GPS, dual VORs and an ADF. Finished my IR in a Warrior with dual VORs and a standard panel Dont remember the radios in either one.
 
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First hood time was in 1969 in a late 60's C-150 with standard-T instruments and a 90-channel Cessna ARC nav/com.
 
First panel was in the T-41 Mescalero. Next was the Cessna T-37 with a panel that I am sure they put together just to confuse students. Nothing like having to look down under the panel to change the radios. Jason
 
Re: First Instrument Panel

John J said:
What was the first panel that you first flew under the hood?

1. Was it a panel that had a watch hanging by a string in the center to tell which way the plane was leaning?

2. Was it a panel with a "Turn and Bank, Wiskey Compass, Airspeed and and Kollman Altimeter? Maybe an option of a Hallicrafters receiver and better yet a Narco Super Homer.

3. Or was it a panel full of steam guages and radios to keep your feet warm in the winter?

4 Or finally a panel that is a wide screen movie with an auto pilot that does everything except make coffee with surgar and cream?

The one I saw under the hood was panel number 2 in a PA 12 Did I learn about timed turns with that turn and bank.


John J
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Depends on what you mean by "flew under the hood". My first exposure would have been in one of the 150/152s I did my PPL training in. They had a single ARC navcom and the basic six pack. My first instrument lesson was in a Cardinal RG with the typical dual KX-170 navcoms and a simple autopilot (that we didn't ever turn on) and steam gauges. I finished my IR training in an old Bonanza that started with a ribbon DG and one good Collins navcom, an Arnav LORAN, and a crummy Genave backup navcom. Somewhere along the line I replaced the old DG with a new one that had a heading bug and added a DME and an STEC autopilot. I'm pretty sure the Bonanza upgrades were completed before I took my first post-checkride instrument flight.
 
Panel 3 in a 172SP. It may have had a KMD550 MFD. Definitely autopilot, KLN94, dual VORs, etc.
 
panel 3---standard 6 pack in a piper warrior. Have some time in panel 4 too. I do wish they'd install a coffee maker
 
Panel 3 in 172N and (occasionally) Warrior; basic King IFR and no GPS (IFR).

Yes, I learned NDB approaches.
 
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