My postings have been lame in the last days; I had to finish off a project and decided to focus on nothing else. This morning, howeverI took a ride with flight instructor Gerhard Breu to get introduced into a new plane, the Grob G 115.
Although, Mr. Grob warned me, it still took me by surprise that the Grob is much more sensitive to handle than the Cessna 172 or 152 which I had been flying so far. Little movements on the yoke or the rudders immediately exert strong reaction on the plane. At first-take off, being used to pull the yoke in a notable way, the stall warning went off and I corrected by pushing the nose down. Nothing serious, but still an indication how to treat this “lady of the skies” with care and respect ;-)
With regard to the instrumentation, and very interesting from my usual (business interest) was the combined navigation and radio device Garmin GNS 430. What’s really cool is that the link at website offers an entire simulator for free where one can exercise the handling of the device for free, even by entering complete flight routings and the simulator would present the entire display in an interactive way. That is really smart from Garmin and I am sure that it’s a great driver for sales, as one can de-risk the purchase by pretty much trying out exactly what what you are going to buy.
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