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They say that it is very difficult to land a sea plane on the ‘glossy water’. Wonder then how it works if you’ve got an amphibian aircraft with ‘glass cockpit‘?

So, this brief post is an announcement for a chat on the topic of amphibian aircraft from Beriev Design Bureau.

Hopefully, we’ll have an audience interested in this kind of exchange. I don’t guarantee it for sure, but we might expect something ‘unexpected’ :_)

You folks are strongly encouraged to join this talk,

Cheers,

Clash

“Russian Glass… Hmm.. You mean, ‘crystal glass’ from Gus-Khrustalny?”

Well, it depends.. Here’s an example of ‘Glass’ the pilots may find to be interesting to chat on

This is a picture of he TU-204’s (RA-64026) EFIS panels. Apparently, it was taken from the right seat. And hopefully, we’ll be some pictures from the same seat in the near future, for I have just re-established a connection with my old buddy, a former flight college mate who now flies this type of Tupolev in the ‘Vladivostok-Avia’ airline.

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When I watched that hilarious video of the ‘Dancing Cadet’ on You-Tube, I thought of our years in the Flight Training College.

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‘Back in the USSR!’

Not on the BOAC plane, but on our ‘Time Machine’:)

Here’s a couple of words about FLIGHT TRAINING IN THE USSR.

An aviation training system in the USSR was remarkably different from what existed for the same purposes in the Western countries. In the middle of 70s the Ministry of Civil aviation in the USSR began introducing a new type of training facilities that could be defined as ‘ab-initio colleges’.

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Thanks to the Internet, in recent years I re-established connections with two of the other three guys (myself is second from the left). Moreover, a daughter of the guy staying on the right visited us last year here, in Canada.

Here we are: young, happy, eager to start a ‘pilot&engineer’ course at the Aktyubinsk Civil Aviation College. Just minutes before a moment taken on the picture we had been released from a joining ceremony.

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As I mentioned before, my colleagues often ask me about experiences of living in the Soviet Union. Not very often, but once in a while they would shoot a ‘blunt’ question, something like this:

“Was it the state in the Soviet Union that used to make decisions who goes where, and in your example, - whether they had decided that you would go to aviation, or it was your own choice?” Read the rest of this entry »