Sport Pilot Talk

I put very little pressure on the current system and I pay no fees. If I look to Europe I see pilots like me pay a lot. I fear change that could end up with me paying a lot.

You have to pay a fee to land at my home airport now.

I don't see this as a float plane issue. The thought of entering a canyon when I'm cruising around at 50 some knots really bothers me.

I canyon fly 3 days a week and even at 13,000' I want my AI to be reading 95 knots, spare energy can be useful for exiting a canyon in an emergency.

Wm.Ince wrote:

CharlieTango wrote:. . . "have gone back to a more gradual, less rushed round out that starts sooner." . . .

How sooner?

I don't know, I'll have to pay attention next landing and see what cue I am now using.

I used to feel a need to play chicken with the ground in my CTSW but have gone back to a more gradual, less rushed round out that starts sooner.

With 30* and idle its a steep approach, add in speed at @ 1.3 and they are mostly short / soft with full aft stick.

The altitude that provides best performance is right around 7,500' DA. Higher and power is lost due to lack of O2 and lower speed is lost due to drag.

My first plane and my current plane both had/have flaperons. I have always used full or 30 degree flaps for landings. I get that roll authority diminishes with higher flaperon settings but that is true with higher flap settings as well. Nothing new because we have flaperons. It's not a big deal beca...

This cloud depicts the flow. The downdraft zone can be after crossing the last ridge. Right of frame is a highway 5,000' below and then high plains. (Where Clint Eastwood filmed 'High Plains Drifter') The flow is from left to right or west to east. https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/1709...

In the cloud is a reflection of the sunrise

I've always gone round. I've never transitioned R-4807A

Approaching Mammoth Yosemite Airport from the southeast I like to fly over McGee Mountain. Airport is in the right of the frame.

He was flying from right to left and according to a witness unable to penetrate the wind. I think he hit the wall above the spot where the shoreline is a flat line. The door to his cabin remained latched yet his possessions were found in the flat area causing some to assume he made it that far where...

Unless you're right above the airport, maximum time may be worthless. Suppose your maximum "dwell" time is at 35 knots and you're facing a 35 knot headwind to the airport? Good luck. Descending above the field is only one place I might choose minimum sink speed. Here's a scenario: Its a s...

You are confusing minimum sink and best glide. They are not 2 versions of the same thing. Best glide is best l/d ratio and min sink is min vert speed. What I am talking about is maximum distance over the ground before running out of altitude to make a landing, regardless of sink rate. In an engine ...

BTW, my testing seems to show I get better glide from 78kt and -6° flaps than the POH best glide of 63kt at 15° flaps. That does not surprise me, Andy. In glider training I was taught there are really two "best glide" speeds. One maximizes the time aloft, and the other maximizes distance ...