'Easterners are odd' is a phrase I learned from from Charles Woods navigation tute site: http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/
- it's useful for remembering what height to fly at depending on your heading... and a good description of Benjamin 'Bean' Counter who apart from his typical bean counting ways also seems possessed of the urge to lurch around the NE USA - with his hot secretary girlfriend - in a 'Cessna Nav Trainer' in some of the most miserable weather imaginable.








I thought he might appreciate a ride in a Duke more... everything happens a lot faster in this wonderful twin than in the tutes, though. But when we stall or miss the airport at least we're doing it in style.







Have got to the end of both the NDB and VOR training...ILS is next, but before getting into that I feel like Counter, secretary and I need a nice sunny holiday.







The navigation lessons are great... much better than the FSX lessons... but I've just one complaint. Why couldn't he, among all the pictures of DC3s and navaid maps, have included at least one shot of Mr Counter's secretary?? 

Cheers

Krigl

Club508 wrote on Jan 30^th, 2012 at 6:06pm:

Passenger:
"Uhh, pilot, were you drunk at all when you put together the plane"
Pilot:
"I am judge as a sober"
passenger:
".... I'll pretend I didn't hear that....
HELP!!!!"

Hehehehe

I have seen a lot of backwards seats in 6 seaters like this. I think it is so the passengers can talk to each other easier. Think of it as a light corperate jet. People sometimes would be having meetings on their way to a destination.

And also, I think it would save room, and give more leg room.

BTW awsome shots. I just love that blue paint job!

Good morning all....

Seats facing rearwards towards the tail was common on many military aircraft.

It is still the best way to sit especially during a hard landing, controlled crash or uncontrolled crash.

The back of the seat helps to protect the back and neck.

Trains also used rearward facing seats also.

It does not matter which way the seat faces, front or back because one still gets the same view.

Public opinion, folks who said they got headaches from sitting in the seat facing rearwards is what changed common sense and safety to what we have today.

I seldom sat in the rear of an aircraft however sitting rearward facing or sitting looking towards the front makes no difference to me....never got no headaches.

I hear folks say they can't sit in a back seat of a car for any great length of time because it makes them car sick.
Me, I think it is all in their head....

krigl wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 7:16am:



may I ask.. What aircraft is that? is it freeware?

That looks like allot of fun
Great shots anyway glad you have GPS

Most of your 6 passenger light twins (Seneca, Baron 58, Duke, etc.) will typically have club style seating.  It allows for efficient use of legroom, and to allow the 4 passengers in the back to face each other and conversate.  I usually prefer to be forward facing though, and I thought I read somewhere once upon a time that rear facing passengers can be more prone to vertigo and airsickness, as it is a less natural position to deal with the acceleration forces.