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travnz wrote: I will let you use TAQ when you are back in AKL

Yes, because I'm sure everybody wants to be flying that death-trap, i really like to have all 4 cylinders firing, and TAP aint much better, although it has a new engine in it...

TAQ wouldn't be a real plane if everything worked.

Does TAP have the same navigation setup as TAQ? (i.e. nothing)

"Tango Alpha Queer" is what Ive been told...

Yes I have to admit that both TAP and TAQ have little in the way of Nav equipment...

Yes I have to admit that both TAP and TAQ have little in the way of Nav equipment...

What equipment DO they have? And what do Massey use for IFR training (if they even do that, I'm unsure)

ZK-Brock wrote:

Yes I have to admit that both TAP and TAQ have little in the way of Nav equipment...

What equipment DO they have?

As far as I know, just one VOR...

Yeah just a rotatable card VOR, but these aircraft are used for VFR, so there is no need for anything else, AFS have 2 x g1000 172's for single engine instrument ratings, and the 2 duckys which have everything in them, EZX has an EHSI (sandell) and JED just has a regular old school HSI..

Well, compared to the types I've flown, (massive total of 6 different aircraft), only one had any nav equipment, an Aerobat that had 2 VOR indicators (might've had ADF, I'm not sure). One other, a 172, had a GPS, but not one of the fancy flightsim ones, but I'm not sure if that really counts.

ZK-Brock wrote: only one had any nav equipment, an Aerobat that had 2 VOR indicators

haha and i wouldn't trust that stuff as far as i can spit. have they fixed the frequency indicator thingys yet ? they never used to work so ya just had to guess which freq ya were on

kiwiflyboy wrote:

travnz wrote: I will let you use TAQ when you are back in AKL

Yes, because I'm sure everybody wants to be flying that death-trap, i really like to have all 4 cylinders firing, and TAP aint much better, although it has a new engine in it...

So because this is happened twice you automatically assume that it will happen again?
EOX has crashed loads and I dont care whether i go up in it.

Didnt stop you from flying TAQ calvin!!
At least its not bent like OAT or TAV

ZK-Brock wrote:And what do Massey use for IFR training (if they even do that, I'm unsure)

To begin with basic IFR we use the Cherokee's, as they are fully IFR equipped including Autopilots. Then once we do actual IFR then its into the Piper Seneca's. So we finish up with a Multi-Engine Instrument Rating

~ZK-KAG~

A185F wrote:

ZK-Brock wrote: only one had any nav equipment, an Aerobat that had 2 VOR indicators

haha and i wouldn't trust that stuff as far as i can spit. have they fixed the frequency indicator thingys yet ? they never used to work so ya just had to guess which freq ya were on

I didn't actually try them (assuming you're talking about JZT) I might have a poke around if it's out next time I'm down at the airport, - I didn't go last weekend cos of the bad weather.