Lancair ES-P, Руководство по эксплуатации для пилотов

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INTRODUCTION
This is a high quality aircraft and one that will give years of service
given the care a fine machine deserves. Like most other pieces of
equipment, it will operate best under certain conditions, and can be
dangerous in others. We have attempted to identify the latter in this
manual, and now will offer some suggestions for the safe operation of
this very high-speed aircraft.
WARNING
This is a high-performance aircraft. All safety
precautions must be observed to reduce possible
injury to the pilot(s) and/or passengers.
GENERAL
Knowledge, skill, judgment and experience go together to make up the
truly good pilot.
Know your airplane and its systems — not just how it works, or is
supposed to work, but how healthy its systems are. To do that, you
need to watch it in action, which means track its performance from day
to day, flight to flight. This will allow you to correct minor problems so
they don't become major ones.
Skill results when you continuously set tougher and tougher standards
for yourself as you operate the aircraft. Fly smoother today than you
did yesterday. Be more precise on lift-off speed today and hold climb
speed closer.
Predict you and your aircraft's performance and understand why you
were not quite on the mark, e.g., total fuel used on this trip — why
were you two gallons off...? How was your prediction of the enroute
and destination weather as compared to the briefer’s? Why was it
different?
Experience comes from a combination of all of the above when we are
honest with ourselves and objective about the facts. Experience need
not be expensive, but it does cost time. Time not measured in hours of
time logged, but how well those hours are flown, how aware we are
during those hours, how we understand the differences of this flight
from the last one. Making each flight a learning experience will gather
that precious experience much more quickly.