how many of the drowning victims in seaplane crashes over the years were actually safely clear of the wreck before drowning, versus how many died of drowning in the wreck. According to the amendment only 20% of deaths occured outside the aircraft and not all of those were attributed to drowning. Th...

An endorsement is required under FAR Section 61.31 in the United States unless one had previously flown a tail wheel aircraft. There is no endorsement required in Canada. A checkout may be required by the aircraft insurance policy, and can normally be performed by the owner.

Student pilots are are instructed to perform lengthy runups. Flying schools know billable flight time starts when the instructor finishes a cup of coffee and walks outside and the costs of air time start when the aircraft leaves the surface of the earth. Good practices such as mag checks while taxii...

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Jeep Cherokee. They have solid front and rear axles. A lever to disengage the front axle, a reliable inline 6 cylinder engine, room for your stuff or to sleep in the back, affordable normal size tires, an entire parts vehicle with a dented fender is a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand fo...

Jack Roush found a jet that can withstand his touchdown style.

Rockie wrote: ...so if I were the traveling public I would care very much.

I understand this means you're not, so you don't.

Baby wipes are what you want. They are damp enough to soften dried bugs and if you put the last one used on the dash you have a dry one to dry the windshield with. They don't scratch and clean your hands too. Use them with Pledge.

Bryan Jensen makes it look like the consequences of using some of his 250' aerobatic floor to recover from the inverted spin were worth pulling hard enough to risk a low altitude stall. Private pilot spin training is not just about recovering from spins. It is one of the only maneuvers common flying...

Go do some night flying with them. There will be a load that comes back twenty minutes later than dark.

lanceair wrote:Hey all,
...when he should have done a precautionary.

Just wait for someone to beat up on Lance for ending a sentence with a preposition and completes it for him like this.

...when he should have done a precautionary washroom break.

A hook turn. A misjudgment can result in the canopy hitting the ground before your body.

is that everyone rendered a controllable aircraft uncontrollable. It does not have a ram air parachute which flys in a normal manner, however with the engine running under canopy how much guidance could a Cirrus pilot have to the location of the crash site?

Posted: Apr 05, 2013 5:22 AM Updated: Apr 05, 2013 5:22 AM By FOX News A family's criticism of inflight entertainment allegedly prompted a United flight to be diverted over "security concerns." In a story published in The Atlantic, one family recounts traveling from Denver to Baltimore with two youn...

You're right about that. Somehow this became bank angle and turns, not slipping. My apologies.

And I would assume you planned the pullout to start at 6g easing off near the end to arrive at the desired altitude. This is an example of a turn starting out gentle and increasing the bank when it became apparent it was not working out. Consistent with the November 3, 2006 preliminary report, the N...

The other tactic I advise, is to begin with a gentle angle of bank and if it looks like its not working then to increase to a greater one angles of bank. That is terrible advice and one of the reasons pilots still fly into corners they cannot recover from. Observe someone which routinely flies near...

Repair shops should not be marking up prices on parts above the normal market price. The profit on parts should come from them negotiating a discount from the suppliers. Charging full retail +40% only makes them look unintelligent to owners who know how to open a catalog.

frosti wrote:

Did you forget that the people in uniform also pay taxes?

Wrong. If the federal budget were a swimming pool and government employees were drinking from it they would claim they did their share to keep the pool filled by pissing in it.

Those look like Mayson & Campbell skis which were made in Prince Albert.

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This aircraft could have the ability to mach 2 supercruise for 2000 miles with a full warload of a dozen long range missiles able to detect and hit hostile satellites and submarines and the air between with a pair of GAU-8 cannon which can be aimed and fired by a front line soldier with an iphone, a...

I think that's aluminum, not a mag wheel.

That was half an hour wasted watching that garbage. A film crew had more than an hour to set up for a shot of a large aircraft one gear up landing, and then show less than two seconds of a thirty second crash before cutting the shot to a shaky picture of out of focus sunglasses. The camera work look...

I can't say what the numbers are for the citabria are, but putting a load on the wings is an excellent way to control speed without closing the throttle. All it takes to recover from my location is to roll level out of the turn to reduce the drag, after all the thing became airborne in the first pla...