CpnCrunch wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:50 am

Was that power on or off? I did all my spins power off, but I imagine if you added power then that would use up some of your right rudder.

I don't recall now, but I suppose it's possible it was with power on. The only "spins" I really recall with power on were snap rolls (it was an Aerobat).

150 will spin fine to the left or right using just elevator and rudder input. Maybe it was rigging, but this one wouldn't go to the right unless your foot was pushing the rudder pedal to the floor and the yoke pushing your navel into the baggage compartment. To the left, you could spin all day with...

Any ultralight guys here. Perhaps they are more concerned about landing straight ahead into the trees as there is less facial protection from branches. The average density of trees is still lower than the average density of dirt. Both may be higher than the average density of an ultralight pilot, b...

How does one get up above cloud in an airplane with a skid ball that could fail? I mean, I get not allowing electronic instruments, that might fail due to an electrical gremlin, or a vacuum gryo that could fail for any number of reasons. But a skid ball? All of the Cessnas have them, and they're not...

I remember my instructor showing me spins to the left and when I asked about spins to the right was told "the 150 doesn't really spin to the right". I asked if I could try and he said "sure, go ahead". So right at the break I gave it full left aileron and the right wing dropped like a streamlined gr...

If only it were that simple. Wow. Someone needs to go back and read the XKCD comic posted above. No company is violating your right to free speech. No company has control over what you say in public, either. But they do have control over what you say within their domain, ie. this site and others. P...

ReserveTank wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:38 am

Yes yes, muh free enterprise. Next time an organization does something that you don't like, just sit back and take it.

Hey, you're getting exactly what you paid for on this site. Maybe you should ask for a refund.

It the electronic PTR is only half-filled-out, and you push the issue with Transport, how much would you like to bet that he'll get a paper PTR with only that data that's already in the electronic PTR. See if the electronic PTR can get updated first, see if it's possible to take a screenshot or some...

Beefitarian wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:11 am

Get some copies to those guys in Sprinbank building the replica. STAT!!

Never mind that... Get them into a scanner STAT!! Then post them online somewhere.

Check the guy's barn, maybe he has the "missing" Arrow, too...

It would really suck if you hit one.

Well, i'd still say it's easy to *generalize*. It's hard to be absolute about it though. I wouldn't say "never learn in your own plane", in fact i've recommended the exact opposite to a number of people and it's worked out swimmingly. But for 90% of the population, going to a flying school is the ri...

photofly wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2020 5:40 pm

Depends on the AME. Some are very happy to learn you a lot, while they work on your airplane, and they do a good job of educating you.

Fair point. That arrangement is not very common from what I understand, but it's good if you can get it.

Really, if you don't know anything about airplanes, you're better off in a flying school flying their planes. If you're growing up in a flying community where you have parents or friends in a flying club, and are learning about planes along the way, you probably do know enough to get a deal on a use...

Isn't he an AME? An AME is allowed to sign off mods to his own aircraft? The quote above says there's "no STC" to add the light, and "to hell with the regs," he's doing it anyway. Which suggests that if he's an AME, he knows it's against the regs somehow. And yet, he's doing it anyway. But hey, I g...

NOT 1 post suggested talking to your AME ! Sure, go ahead, put unapproved parts on an A/C but don't expect your AME to do the next annual. Expect him to lock the doors when you come around ! When it's obvious that putting the desired part on the plane flies in the face of regulations, why would any...

At any rate, I wasn't questioning the ADS-B implementation anyway. I'm interested in the use of the experimental LED. I think AirFrame has the most sensible answer, but I would ideally like to do something that meets TC approval as well. Unfortunately, as photofly points out, there is no option tha...

Nor would it affect structure, airworthiness, or performance. Nor is it likely that anyone would ever ask you about it if you just installed it and flew on.

Use a digital logbook. Make columns to your heart’s content. This. You can set up Excel to automatically do it for you, too, based on the parameters of the flight. Mine adds time to a "Tailwheel" column for time spent in tailwheels based on aircraft registration. Also totals time on types, and time...

Heliian wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 6:56 am

Unsafe gear, which led to a botched landing.

Oh. Well, then that's just embarassing for whoever was at the controls.

Two pilots on board? I wonder if each thought the other would flare?

I thought I posted a link to a Global story with someone mumbling about instrument failure. Bill Yearwood appeared and says there was a distress call, but he didn't mention instrument failure. Ah, interesting, I hadn't heard about the mayday yet. Well, if things were happening fast, it's possible h...

At the end of the video they pan around the front and it looks like the windshield is gone on the co-pilot's side of the airplane. Could the pilot have been sitting right seat, and been incapacitated by a bird strike or something? In any case, the video shows airport fire rescue waiting at the side ...

It does seem rather odd. The track shows what looks like a normal cross-country approach to Nanaimo, coming north around 4000' ish, then descending to 2000' north of Gabriola, but the speed didn't increase, so maybe the power was pulled back for the descent? That doesn't really suggest that an engin...

The Reno accident with the Mustang is a case study in this. Well, only sort of. The failure was in the trim-tab actuator that couldn't handle the loads associated with racing. The stock configuration on a Mustang is for there to be two tabs, one on each side, and they share the load. Ghost, like mo...

I was told by someone who worked for one of these HR companies, that a good start is making your resume a PDF, and in the PDF metadata include the entire text of the job posting. That way you get every keyword that was in the job posting, but none of it is visible when you open the PDF to just read ...