dbdartman
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Copied from a skydiving forum I post on.
Turbines Have Ruined Aviation!!
We must get rid of turbines.
They are ruining aviation.
We need to go back to big round engines.
Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to
move a switch from "OFF" to
"START" and then remember to move it back
to "ON" after a while.
My PC is more difficult to start. Cranking a round engine
requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the
pilots are not even allowed to do it. Turbines start by
whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot and
start whining louder.
Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click
BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two,
more clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low
pitched roar. We like that. It's a guy thing. When you
start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
concentrate on the flight ahead.
Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan:
Useful, but hardly exciting.
Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew
boredom,complacency and inattention. A round engine at
speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any
minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a
pilot's attention.There's nothing to fiddle with during
the flight.
Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman
lanterns.
Round engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell.
Having jumped from more than a half-dozen different DC-3's, a DC-4, 3 or 4 different DHC4A Caribous, a few different C-180's, a 196 & a 205, plus a few other assorted piston powered aircraft (including a 1927 Navy N3N3 biplane), but also being experienced with some of the "new" turbo-prop jobs (Beech 99, C-130H, turbo Pilatus Porter, Twin Otter) I found it quite interesting & entertaining. It's true, too! BTW, I found nothing quite so soothing on the ride to altitude as the radials vibrating through your butt while sitting on the floor of a DC-3. I LOVE those aircraft!
Turbines Have Ruined Aviation!!
We must get rid of turbines.
They are ruining aviation.
We need to go back to big round engines.
Anybody can start a turbine, you just need to
move a switch from "OFF" to
"START" and then remember to move it back
to "ON" after a while.
My PC is more difficult to start. Cranking a round engine
requires skill, finesse and style. On some planes, the
pilots are not even allowed to do it. Turbines start by
whining for a while, then give a small lady-like poot and
start whining louder.
Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click
BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two,
more clicks, a lot of smoke and finally a serious low
pitched roar. We like that. It's a guy thing. When you
start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
concentrate on the flight ahead.
Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan:
Useful, but hardly exciting.
Turbines don't break often enough, leading to aircrew
boredom,complacency and inattention. A round engine at
speed looks and sounds like it's going to blow at any
minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
Turbines don't have enough control levers to keep a
pilot's attention.There's nothing to fiddle with during
the flight.
Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman
lanterns.
Round engines smell like God intended flying machines to smell.
Having jumped from more than a half-dozen different DC-3's, a DC-4, 3 or 4 different DHC4A Caribous, a few different C-180's, a 196 & a 205, plus a few other assorted piston powered aircraft (including a 1927 Navy N3N3 biplane), but also being experienced with some of the "new" turbo-prop jobs (Beech 99, C-130H, turbo Pilatus Porter, Twin Otter) I found it quite interesting & entertaining. It's true, too! BTW, I found nothing quite so soothing on the ride to altitude as the radials vibrating through your butt while sitting on the floor of a DC-3. I LOVE those aircraft!
