Thank God, that will reduce the number of ridiculous NOTAMs I have to sift through when going on a 50nm flight.

The position of the flap control is of less importance than the position at which the flaps stop from transit. The detent in the photo shows where the bottom of the flap lever arm will touch, noting that the flap lever touches at the top at zero flap position. Hopefully, the flap position pointer (...

Shouldn’t be a problem to ignore the detents, should it? Aren’t the original detents at 10 and 25? EDIT: you’re correct, 10 and 20 according to the POH. Maybe you can adjust the switch position? Moving the switch would mean the 10 degree / 20 degree markings would be wrong, and the limit would not ...

https://www.airplains.com/images/support/Aircraft%20Flight%20Manuals/AIr%20Plains%20Cessna%20172%20-%20With%20Gross%20Weight%20Increase/172056-signed.pdf I found a link for a 172N model STC. The flaps should only go as far as the flap jack-screw motor would take it. So from factory it should only g...

My 172N has the AirPlains SA2196CE STC for 2550 gross weight. The odd thing is that the flap lever detents are at about 15 and 25 degrees. For 10 degrees of flaps you have to move it half way to the first detent (to where it actually says 10 degrees). My AME says it looks like they used a CNC machin...

I had a look a while ago and didn't see anything either. The FAR AIM says to contact ATC if you can't maintain 500fpm, but there is no mention of that in the Canadian AIM.

Structural failure is more a concern with spiral dive recovery practice, which arguably gets less attention than spins do, but is related and equally as risky. Like spins, the risk can be mitigated with proper training. When students are out doing spins with passengers it a gross failure of a whole...

If the pilot has the personality willing to spin with an out of limit CG (likely), disregarding safety rules (not enough altitude) with pax, then what makes you think he wouldn't try this if he wasn't trained for it? Because most pilots are afraid of spins before doing them. This guy discovered the...

At the end of it, I find it a hard argument to make that training I got was too much, and others shouldn’t get it. Well there is this accident, and the other recent one where a student pancaked into a field while having fun doing spins with passengers. I don't think either would have happened if th...

photofly wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:50 pm

CpnCrunch wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:00 pmYou can't really have an opinion on something until you understand the facts.

I'm sorry... what??

Perhaps I should have said a "useful opinion" that is worth sharing with others and worth my while bothering to read.

Unless you are exempt... like the entire province of Quebec. Or all the manufactures in Ontario. Because everyone knows that neither produce any carbon emissions. That is because Quebec, like BC, has their own carbon tax, so both provinces are exempt from the federal carbon tax. conform to your zea...

Quoting Conrad Black, eh?

Mach1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:12 am If it were actually revenue neutral, why collect it in the first place?

To penalise high CO2 emitters. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.

no processing costs at all.

The administrative costs are about 2%, according to government figures.

Here's some news for you: Ford is a Conservative.

It's the culture everywhere. Just look on here for comments about FTU's: " Go and look at all the CADORS if you want to know what they're really like" . If you feed genuine safety issues into what has become a system for pubic shaming of FTUs then you cannot be surprised if people are mot...

Generally when something like that happens it's best to apologise and make a quick explanation. I wouldn't worry about it, I've done worse (busting YVR Harbour's airspace, as I didn't realise I was so close to it...luckily I was listening on the frequency, and quickly apologised). Anyway, sounds lik...

I don't think there's anything ambiguous about "classroom-type". It's the type of instruction that is mandated, not the venue in which it occurs. In any event, the definition includes: classroom-type instruction generally given to one or more persons and covering an organized program of l...

You do realize CAR101.01 has a definition of ground school, don’t you? ground school instruction means classroom-type instruction generally given to one or more persons and covering an organized program of lectures, homework or self-paced study that adheres to an approved training program; (instruc...

I'm surprised anyone was still flying to the UK at all. It's been a COVID cesspool for a while now.

Nothing worse than idiotic arguments.