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by CTLSi
Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:40 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

I am bitter and need to diss others because I got old and lost my medical and have to fly as a sport pilot and use rentals now... The parachute is the best piece of safety equipment made. New flyers should be made aware of the advances in aviation (all airframe parachutes and all glass cockpits wit...
by CTLSi
Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:10 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

Lesson#3: Emergency procedures. What to do when your engine quits, if you need to make an emergency descent and what to do if there is a fire, etc. My instructor uses A-B-C-D-E; A irspeed, pitch for best glide. B est place to land, preferable no people, firm surface, no obstructions. C hecklist, us...
by CTLSi
Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:13 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: ICON & Rube Goldberg
Replies: 11
Views: 5837

ICON & Rube Goldberg

The ICON A5 has emerged as just that, a Rube Goldberg aircraft. A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered to perform a simple task in a complicated fashion at absurd costs. Flying Magazine test flew, reports and verifies what some s...
by CTLSi
Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:50 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

SportPilot wrote: With your limited experience
" And there are willing allies among pilots perfectly happy to defend and cling to the old designs/materials, old instruments, paper charts, and convoluted regulations." < refers to you.
by CTLSi
Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:25 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

There's no need for this gibberish today. The older methods provide an understanding of the fundamentals, but competence in Forflight and/or similar applications, with appropriate backup resources, should be the new checkride standards for real-world proficiency. Technology races at the speed of li...
by CTLSi
Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:56 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

dstclair wrote:
How about FU? Smoke.
That one's easy -- "Flame Up"
Okay, how about this one...no googling.

ACSL
by CTLSi
Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

I'd really like to know what sadistic bastard came up with some of the abbreviations for the METARs, like BR is mist. Really? How'd they get that. I have the AOPA app on my phone which gives me the option of English or gibberish. lol How about FU? Smoke. http://www.aopa.org/Pilot-Resources/PIC-arch...
by CTLSi
Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:31 pm
Forum: Safety Corner
Topic: Traffic Service Unreliable - What the Hell is This?!!
Replies: 64
Views: 33484

Re: Traffic Service Unreliable - What the Hell is This?!!

drseti wrote:NOTAM has been rescinded. See this article:

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All- ... A-concerns
Good news...but for those that don't have ADS-B or a Mode S xpndr it didn't matter to them anyway...they are already flying around blind....
by CTLSi
Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:13 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Buying your own plane for training
Replies: 437
Views: 118907

Re: Buying your own plane for training

Done with lesson #2. 1.8 hours flight time. Slow flight and stalls. The Zodiac doesn't really do much just kind of mushes and then eventually, if you wait long enough, the nose will drop. It recovers quickly. It's more work remembering how to configure the plane for the maneuver than the actual rec...
by CTLSi
Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:41 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: Polls on SportPilotTalk?
Replies: 10
Views: 5340

Re: Polls on SportPilotTalk?

I voted yes, but might have voted differently if the question was worded differently . Should we, instead of can we. That is the sort of gratuitous pedantry up with which we should not put! The word is pedantic or pedantical. 2. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms. The reference is g...
by CTLSi
Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:53 pm
Forum: Eye Candy
Topic: Pulling the Chute
Replies: 44
Views: 25659

Re: Pulling the Chute

SportPilot wrote:Which "gadgets" do you think a 767 pilot would not be familiar with?
As has been requested many times before please stop using my real name in posts...
by CTLSi
Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:40 pm
Forum: Eye Candy
Topic: Pulling the Chute
Replies: 44
Views: 25659

Re: Pulling the Chute

Sport flying is ALL about day VFR, in good to great weather. LSAs are designed and built to meet this area of flying. If you're only a sport pilot but you want to fly IFR in IMC then you need to upgrade your license and ratings and move up to the appropriate level of airplane. For myself sport flyi...
by CTLSi
Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:17 pm
Forum: Eye Candy
Topic: Pulling the Chute
Replies: 44
Views: 25659

Re: Pulling the Chute

The Flight Design CTLS has spine protecting force absorbing seats and an 'egg' similar to modern car designs. The cabin remains stable while the energy is absorbed in peripheral areas. No SLSA has lightning or ice protection. Flying in IMC is ill-advised even if the POH doesn't specifically prohibit...
by CTLSi
Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:17 pm
Forum: Eye Candy
Topic: Pulling the Chute
Replies: 44
Views: 25659

Re: Pulling the Chute

• Loss of control/icing (component failure, icing induced or pilot error, IMC flight prohibited in all SLSA ) . You might want to check your facts. The earlier SLSA were not prohibited from IMC, unless it specifically prohibits it in the AOI (POH). For later aircraft it is required to prohibit IMC ...
by CTLSi
Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:19 pm
Forum: Eye Candy
Topic: Pulling the Chute
Replies: 44
Views: 25659

Re: Pulling the Chute

Part of the preflight check is to pull out the pin and set it beside the handle. Some 35 pounds of pull force is needed to deploy the BRS chute, it CANNOT be deployed by accident. Here is a short list of scenarios where the chute should be pulled. Briefing these (esp a passenger) should be part of e...