Sport Pilot Talk

I am confused by this confusion. :lol: Am I missing something? ... Especially on the ground, it's just like a car, turn the wheel left and the nose of the car goes left. ... If you think about it a different way in the context of a car, you sort of push your left hand forward when turning that stee...

MovingOn wrote:Maybe longer. I soloed at 16 and got a Private at 17, Commercial at 18, CFI at 19. I'm now 66.

Very cool! Here's to many more years of flying for the both of us.

Seems like you may be over-complicating this by using terms that sound knowledgeable. Just push left to go left. Push right to go right. Pull back to go up. Push forward to go down. Bank left to turn left. Bank right to turn right. Maybe, but that's the way my brain works. And, as pointed out, ther...

How would you reconcile that with the brakes? Let's see, push right rudder pedal and left brake to turn left?? If directed at me, this cranial inversion was happening to me precisely when I didn't have time to reconcile such matters. It was just an instinctive response, albeit the incorrect one, ba...

Sled, soap box racer,... Shopping cart. My mind's eye image of the occasional mental problem I had with the rudder pedals during cross-wind takeoffs and landings was pushing a shopping cart around. For a short while, if the nose began going left at the start of the roll, I tried to "push" ...

Jandras, the three preceding posts illustrate in different ways why your question is as much about context - the specific Class D's circumstances - as it is about what a given pilot normally does or what the AIM says. There's a lot of that 'judgement stuff' that just comes with a bit of experience....

In my limited student experience, when leaving a Class C or Class D surface area, the tower usually says “BugSquasher XYZ, Kibble Tower, squawk VFR, frequency change approved.” When tower occasionally does not authorize the frequency change, my flight school teaches me to say “Kibble Tower, BugSquas...

"(b) Operate an aircraft that is equipped with an anticollision light system, unless it has lighted anticollision lights. However, the anticollision lights need not be lighted when the pilot-in-command determines that, because of operating conditions, it would be in the interest of safety to t...

My understanding is that you have to be in compliance with the operating limitations of your (LSA) aircraft. So, if your limitations for Day VFR do not require beacons then you would be legal . Thanks for your thoughts. By the way, I just realized that even if you're (we're!) correct that 91.205 do...

What you're missing, I believe, is that the same logic by which the minimum equipment list does not apply, also invalidates the procedure of taking inop equipment offline through a placard and logbook entry. That specific procedure applies to aircraft with a Standard Airworthiness Certificate. Sinc...

Hi all - My flight school really likes to emphasize that a pilot must look to 91.213(d), and not just 91.205, to determine whether it's legal to take off with inoperative instruments or equipment. That being said, does FAR 91.205 even apply to an Evektor SportStar? I may be wrong, but I think the an...

Hi All, I’m training in an Evektor SportStar and want to have a better understanding of my checklist concerning carb heat checks. Here’s a copy of my school’s engine runup checklist (I have made my own, but it’s based on this one): http://www.teamandras.com/temp/Checklist_Carb_Heat.jpg For Item 10 (...

When the engine has stopped, turn off the master switch before you pull the key. Get in the habit of doing this every time. Otherwise, you will some day come back to a dead battery. Thanks drseti! If I turned off all of the other switches, but accidentally left the master switch on, what are the hi...

Thanks everybody. Very informative!

It has a Rotax 912.