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- Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:56 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4381
Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
Rookiepilot, The first paragraph of your opening post was positive and engaging, and drew me in. It is the type of sentiment I feel, and would also like to encourage here. I like positive discussion about aviation, which engages the group, and grows a feeling of comradery! Is there anything you have...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4381
Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
I see a problem. If anyone voted for:
.....I didn't see it! I don't think anything I posted pointed toward that at all - so why is what I did post being characterized that way?So far, the vote is for continued anarchy, rewarding the trolls, and against increased civility
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
- Replies: 92
- Views: 4381
Re: GA Pilots: Make your voices heard. Block Function
I've read the proposal, and comments. This is not the first time this has come up. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I have mine. I think that a change to the nature of the site is a solution looking for a problem, and not necessary. I will now use a word in a reply, which I have not felt t...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:03 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3814
Re: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
I had the ¨pleasure¨of having one as my first ever student. And this is a theme of my post, a newer instructor who may feel intimidated by an established businessman type, who tends to dominate most situations he enters. It is an untrained instructor moral duty to be alert to people, whom even comp...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3814
Re: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
Geeze... Does this thread need moderation? Can't we just conduct ourselves with courtesy to the others who also make the effort to comment? It'd be nice to look respectable to the many people reading this, but not commenting! What must they think about a bunch of pilots poking each other for no good...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 4:51 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A lifetime of learning when to fly....
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3814
A lifetime of learning when to fly....
Two recent posts from Pelmet and cncpc on the PA-32 crash thread hit the spot well... so well I think that the topic of "when to fly" is worthy of more consideration beyond the discussion of that sad event. One of my many pilot mentors once said to me that it takes a few dozen hours to learn how to ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Float Plane Crash Lake Simcoe
- Replies: 2
- Views: 694
Re: Float Plane Crash Lake Simcoe
Yes, Lake Simcoe is less certain to have calm enough conditions, but sometimes it does, and often in more protected areas. The pilot was familiar with the bodies of water, so I'm sure made his decision with forethought....
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:03 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Definite Stall/Spin Accident
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2662
Re: Definite Stall/Spin Accident
I agree with both points. You do have to lower the nose though.....Are the flaps fully deflected in the photographs (or video)? I don't think so.
I also don't recall difficulties with a go-around when a student forgets to raise the flaps.
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 4:16 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Definite Stall/Spin Accident
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2662
Re: Definite Stall/Spin Accident
Certainly a worthy consideration, but if I recall, the control lock on a 150/152 holds the elevator in a lower position than would enable a pitch up like that. Maybe someone with a 150 can comment?Control lock in?
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Is Buttonville Holding a Farewell Event?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2937
Re: Is Buttonville Holding a Farewell Event?
If I hear of one, I'll be there....
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Ouch! That Had To Hurt!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4212
Re: Ouch! That Had To Hurt!
I’ve flown into Nelson on the KA 350 couple of times, it’s really not that tight for landing even with a couple kts tailwind ... Fair enough, I have never landed there. The video makes it look short, coupled with the possible excuse that a pilot was trying to squeeze the plane into somewhere short,...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:20 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Ouch! That Had To Hurt!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4212
Re: Ouch! That Had To Hurt!
Became worried as the video dragged on they were gonna line up and take that plane flying again. It is (unconfirmed) reported elsewhere that the plane took off three hours later. That's enough time to change something, but not a nose strut! Too short a runway for the airplane, confined approach(s),...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:31 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
Re: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
Now I know why I got lost that time!
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 4:22 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
Re: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
I think digits_ did try to make that point. Perhaps lost in translation Where they cross, that's the location of the waypoint. "Waypoints" might have reduced confusion. As the exercise is to perfect navigation thinking, being aware of the probable second "ghost" waypoint would be wise, it would not...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:48 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
Re: RHO/RHO - RHO/THETA Questions on SAMRA
Draw a circle with radius 40 nm around Calgary and one with radius of 150nm around Edmonton. Where they cross, that's the location of the waypoint. Pedestrian type question, don't the two intersecting circles have two intersecting points on the radii, and thus there would be two possible "waypoints...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
- Replies: 8
- Views: 861
Re: TC license authorization for a once off ferry of a Panama registered aircraft
I expect that TC will not be interested in the license you hold to fly a Panama registered airplane outside Canada. You should inquire with the Panamanian authority for the temporary license, as the plane is in their registry. Though I stand to be corrected, my understanding is that once the plane i...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 2:59 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: How not to put your 172 in the hangar
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1778
Re: How not to put your 172 in the hangar
I agree, that is breaking news!
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:50 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: FAA issues special airworthiness certification for flying car
- Replies: 4
- Views: 766
Re: FAA issues special airworthiness certification for flying car
I'm not big on Gen Z expressions, but in this case: OMG! Every certified aircraft I have ever flown was capable of meeting the prevailing design requirement of being able to land without engine power. Has society (represented by the FAA) now decided that that basic safety need is no longer necessary...
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The Sealand RED V12 Diesel Beaver flies!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9988
Re: The Sealand RED V12 Diesel Beaver flies!
The diesel Beaver is safely back at home in Campbell River BC. I believe that it will be available to be seen at airshows in Boundary Bay, and Abbottsford, though I do not have the details of those events...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 1:41 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The Sealand RED V12 Diesel Beaver flies!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9988
Re: The Sealand RED V12 Diesel Beaver flies!
As long as the weather cooperates, I'll plan to take the RED diesel Beaver to the COPA Flight 23 North Bay brunch Sunday, if anyone would like to have a closer look...