I know,Give me one and you wont have an issue ?Honestly i wish i had that
proble.Put a Hula girl on one dash.Take care and good luck
Bill Jacobs
------ Original message------From: Mike Stirewalt via KRnet Date: Sat, Oct 24,
2015 8:25 PMTo: krnet at list.krnet.org;Cc: laser147 at juno.com;Subject:KR>
Plane confusionIt's becoming a problem, more so as I get older. I've pulled the
planeout of the hangar and taxiied down the ramp to the entrance to thetaxiway
and realize, too late in some cases, that I'm not flying aGriffon-powered Mark
XIV Spitfire. I'm actually at the controls of myGP2180-powered KR-1?. The two
planes are so strikingly alike thatconfusing the two is causing me occasional
embarrassment when I'm callingground or the tower and get as far as
"Experimental . . . . . uh, standby please." I get no further because I don't
have a quick way to identifywhich airplane I'm flying that day. I have the
registration numbersmemorized of course but figuring out which plane I'm flying
is theproblem. How do others on the forum handle this dilemma? I'm sure I'm
notthe only one this happens to. It's easy to get them confused. The propsturn
the same direction. The airfoils are the same. The airframes areboth made of
wood and the tails both sit on the ground. Really, unlessyou're outside and
looking at them side by side, how do you tell? You'dthink I would be able to
hear the difference in engine sound except myHalo headset is so efficient at
blocking external sounds I really can'thear anything except the radio. Yes, the
N numbers are placarded just infront of me on the panel but I often don't think
quickly enough to look.When I'm sitting there in a quandry and the tower is
waiting for me togive them more information, if I could remind myself in some
quick andfoolproof way that I don't actually own a Mark XIV Spitfire, that
wouldat least help. However, in the heat of operations, when I'm under
suchpressure and stress, I get confused as to whether I do or I don't own aMark
XIV Griffon-powered Spitfire. As we Baby Boomers age, NextGen is arriving just
in time. With allcommunications by automated datalink, aircraft ID will not be
dependentupon the pilot remembering which plane he's flying. So that'll be a
bigrelief. Until then though, what little tricks/memnonics/etc. do you guysuse
to avoid this kind of confusion? Thanks,
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