That's every single landing in Cheyenne. As long as the plane is more or less horizontal when it hits the runway, eveybody's happy.
Yet people do it all the time. It amuses me to watch cars accelerate up the freeway ramp with their brake lights on.Da fuq? How do you screw that up?
Which by the way, I drive with 2-feet in automatics.... I saw 2-pedals and noticed we had 2 feet so I naturally thought that was how it was done.
Not once have I ever:
1) Hit the gas when I meant to hit the break (or vice versa)
2) Hit both pedals
The thing I do occasionally when switching to auto after driving a manual is to stomp on the clutch when approaching a red light. My passengers are not amused.
My trick is going for the stick that doesn't exist.Yet people do it all the time. It amuses me to watch cars accelerate up the freeway ramp with their brake lights on.
The thing I do occasionally when switching to auto after driving a manual is to stomp on the clutch when approaching a red light. My passengers are not amused.
Da fuq? How do you screw that up?
Which by the way, I drive with 2-feet in automatics.... I saw 2-pedals and noticed we had 2 feet so I naturally thought that was how it was done.
Not once have I ever:
1) Hit the gas when I meant to hit the break (or vice versa)
2) Hit both pedals
I had a landing in Bangor Maine once that kinda looked like that, in the middle of a winter storm. When passengers are losing their shit, that doesn't bother me. When flight attendants are getting sick and praying, that bothers me. Pilot and co-pilot didn't seem to care, they were nonplussed when we got off.
Da fuq? How do you screw that up?
Which by the way, I drive with 2-feet in automatics.... I saw 2-pedals and noticed we had 2 feet so I naturally thought that was how it was done.
Not once have I ever:
1) Hit the gas when I meant to hit the break (or vice versa)
2) Hit both pedals
Not once have I ever:
2) Hit both pedals
If you stepped into a manual, when you would notice three pedals, would you think this must not be for humans because we only have two feet?
3 pedals: left foot engaged
2 pedals: left foot, go take the day off.
Note, I've only ever driven automatics my whole life, family never had manuals. But I've gotten comfortable with the basic operation of a manual through simulators, though some of the variable complexities are missing in those sim environments, like stalls or unpredictable traffic or even traffic lights (these were racing simulators).
I still want a manual if I get a WRX like I've been longing for.
You get use to driving with a clutch. In traffic you learn how to feather the clutch to inch forward.
What’s a real trip is driving a manual in England. Trying to drive on the wrong side of the road on the wrong side of the car but with the same shift pattern as the US while navigating a roundabout is “interesting”.
Back in college for SAE Mini-Baja competition our off road vehicle had 4 pedals.
The rear pedals overlapped so you could stomp on all three brakes with two feet to lock up all four wheels.
- 1 gas
- 1 front brake
- 1 left rear
- 1 right rear brake
What was cool though was to lock up the inside rear wheel during a turn which made the whole vehicle pivot around that wheel. Came in handy for tight turns on muddy tracks.
I didn’t find that a trip at all, it was surprisingly intuitive to shift with the “wrong” hand on the wrong side of the road/vehicle. Now, intuitively knowing when to shoulder check and what other drivers will do was much more difficult, for me at least.
What’s a real trip is driving a manual in England. Trying to drive on the wrong side of the road on the wrong side of the car but with the same shift pattern as the US while navigating a roundabout is “interesting”.