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- Wed Sep 16, 2015 4:40 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
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...
- Wed Sep 16, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
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...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 4:13 pm
- Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
- Topic: ICON & Rube Goldberg
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5964
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...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:50 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
Re: Buying your own plane for training
" 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.SportPilot wrote: With your limited experience
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:25 am
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
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...
- Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:56 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
Re: Buying your own plane for training
Okay, how about this one...no googling.dstclair wrote:That one's easy -- "Flame Up"How about FU? Smoke.
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- Thu Sep 10, 2015 2:29 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
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...
- Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:31 pm
- Forum: Safety Corner
- Topic: Traffic Service Unreliable - What the Hell is This?!!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 36508
Re: Traffic Service Unreliable - What the Hell is This?!!
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....drseti wrote:NOTAM has been rescinded. See this article:
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All- ... A-concerns
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:13 pm
- Forum: Training
- Topic: Buying your own plane for training
- Replies: 437
- Views: 121369
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...
- Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:41 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: Polls on SportPilotTalk?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5380
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...
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:53 pm
- Forum: Eye Candy
- Topic: Pulling the Chute
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27670
Re: Pulling the Chute
As has been requested many times before please stop using my real name in posts...SportPilot wrote:Which "gadgets" do you think a 767 pilot would not be familiar with?
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:40 pm
- Forum: Eye Candy
- Topic: Pulling the Chute
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27670
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...
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:17 pm
- Forum: Eye Candy
- Topic: Pulling the Chute
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27670
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...
- Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:17 pm
- Forum: Eye Candy
- Topic: Pulling the Chute
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27670
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 ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:19 pm
- Forum: Eye Candy
- Topic: Pulling the Chute
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27670
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...