Those are some pretty kick ass rc s. I smelled a rat pretty early too. Tough crowd here.

Yeah..."slightly shattered" = "slightly written off". The whole thing has that homebuilt/ultralight feel to it. Maybe they saw too many of those cubdriver watersking videos.

You re right ahramin. Niether the cliff robertson original nor this one made any sense. Both of them glamorize flying while drunk or hungover, which has to be the most moronic hollywood twist of reality there is. All either one can do is ruin your judgement, make you more suceptible to panic, and......

By the time you re flying a kingair or the like you should be grown up enough to no longer feel the need to buzz your buddys/girlfriend/random strangers. And before that point in your career you should be working hard enough at building a professional reputation that buzzjobs should be out of the qu...

All the ground staff in toronto: "See! See! Thats what happens when you try to aviate in the winter!"

Answering your own questions is an important part of SPIFR....

The best part was the marshaler running for his life...

Once you have a handle on which chart you re supposed to be using, its pretty easy to remember the limiting numbers for the apprchs that you use the most. Be sure to read the bit in the cap gen about when an apprch ban is in effect, particulary of you fly north of 60. Also, futher to the point about...

I ll sell mine for a bit more than its worth any day. Which might be a common theme for 180s....

Im assuming the eng and prop are junk, so the times for those dont matter. You ll need to figure on say, 30 K for a new eng, plus the prop. Not sure what that will cost. Price it all out, plus install, plus a good margin for stuff that will crop up....an extra day or two in the shop ads up into thou...

Whats relevent is how fast or slow the engine cools. Yanking power off, going full rich at 10000 feet, or suddenly increasing airspeed at low OAT will all shock cool things. A CHT guage will tell you clearly what you can and cant get away with. Without one, you have to go by something. Inch a min is...

And at the end of the after landings, credit card-SWIPE

Dont forget Throttle-IN and Controls-PULL BACK

Bah. People who cant fly while fighting off a cat shouldnt fly at all. Landing though...that might be tougher

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Next time you shoot an ils down to minimums and feel pretty good about it think of this guy.

If you "roll one" up in a ball, be sure to "burn it" after?

Wow. Pretty cool ideas to avoid some of the pain and suffering of winter flying. I dont even have remote start on my truck though... If you want to keep it real simple, a couple $90 dollar buddy heaters from canadian tire stuck into the blanketed cowel, plus one more in the cabin for a few hours wil...

"Training is recommended because of the sometimes very different flight characteristics of these aircraft."

Meaning some of them are quite hard to fly and may try to kill you unexpectedly in ways a normal airplane cant.

Mmmmmkay. Hundreds of miles at night, under the radar, with the master off? Quite the stunt. Must be an easier way to make a dishonest living.

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Pay close attention to the parts toward the bottom...busted props and decapitation.

Surely they can drive faster than nine kts? He could have backed in then instead of parallel parking.

True. Parts of that vid gave me the creeps though. Nothing to see out there and it would spoil the fun for me to have to devote most of my attention to not wandering verticaly, with few visual cues. The aircam looks like a lot of fun. It would be my first choice if sightseeing down low was my main u...

Dont fly low over glassy water at all. Its hazardous enough even for landing on. Also in addition to the other good advice above, have lots of preformance to spare. You want to be able to climb quick and easy if you suddenly find you havent thought far enough ahead.

No fair. Now I feel guilty about complaining.

(thats not a complaint)

Good post. I already have a dipstick. Cost .99 cents, heh, heh. But seriously, its a good reminder for all of us to not rely entirely on the guages, no matter how supposedly precise they are. I ve had similar experiences with capaticence type indicators. They re the only indication you have in some ...