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MANY YEARS AGO I WAS FLYING SOUTHwest
along the lee side of the Appalachian
mountains when I heard an interesting
conversation on the frequency between
the air traffic controller and the pilot of a
Piper Arrow.
The pilot said her airspeed indicator
was erratic and she wanted to land at
the nearest suitable airport. Dutifully,
the controller vectored the Arrow's pilot
to a nearby airport but didn't suggest
what might be the cause. I was getting
mountain wave but only about 10 knots
above and below my Beechcraft Baron's
normal cruise airspeed. I keyed the mic
and said, " mountain wave. " The controller
took the bait and mentioned this to
the Arrow's pilot, who didn't understand
nor did she care. She stopped short and
likely went on a potentially expensive
path of finding a " problem " with a functioning
airspeed indicator.
There was a high likelihood the
Arrow's pilot was flying on autopilot
44 FLIGHT TRAINING AUGUST 2021
equipped with automatic trim. While the
waves increased and decreased airspeed,
the autopilot would have dutifully done
its job holding altitude and trimming
away control pressure, masking the wave
conditions. My Baron's S-Tec 30 autopilot
doesn't have auto trim, but it does have
altitude hold, and occasionally on this day
it would squeal to prompt me to nudge
the trim up or down. Without an autopilot,
it would be clear to any pilot that
maintaining altitude would require a lot
of trim changes as he or she flew through
the up- and downdrafts.
What the Arrow pilot must have failed
to notice was the concurrent increase and
decrease in angle of attack as she rode
the ups and downs of the wave. If it was
affecting my heavier Baron by plus or
minus 10 knots there's a good chance that
Arrow was getting 15- to 20-knot airspeed
excursions, which would lead to considerable
changes in pitch between the tops
and bottoms of the wave. Likewise, a good
CHARLES FLOYD
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