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by aeroncasuperchief
Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:26 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Canadian living in the U.S. getting the boot...
Replies: 26
Views: 2876

Re: Canadian living in the U.S. getting the boot...

Aviation or otherwise, America is there to be used and abused ! It is when someone tries to enforce the laws for the good of Americans that the freeloaders and abusers rise up and demand everything they are not entitled to!
by aeroncasuperchief
Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:16 am
Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
Topic: Hair-raising hang gliding incident caught on camera
Replies: 8
Views: 1615

Re: Hair-raising hang gliding incident caught on camera

I know very little about hang-gliding, but despite the hair-raising misadventure, this video has me wanting to try it. Switzerland looks like a beautiful place, too. You can get in touch with Randy Rauch of freedom flight school and park in Lumby near Vernon BC. Luc Mallieu is the local tandem guy ...
by aeroncasuperchief
Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:21 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

The other types of test flying include post-production acceptance and post-maintenance test flying. This is flying a certified aircraft and modifications through a very specific test method (that was likely developped during Engineering test flying). Pilots conducting thise tests normally refer to ...
by aeroncasuperchief
Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:50 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

I found positive evidence that wonky is, in fact a test pilot. Here he is testing out a winter kit he designed himself Naa, Not me I am way more handsome ! :rolleyes: BTW, there is a McDowell starter that wraps around the crankshaft, once bumped up, It only takes 1 pull to start an Aeronca, Quite n...
by aeroncasuperchief
Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:54 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

There’s one caveat to that.

It is perfectly legal in Canada to design and build your own aircraft. As the builder, you or someone you delegate becomes a test pilot in every sense of the term.
True that !
Acceptance Test Pilots or Maintenance Test Pilots.
True that too !
by aeroncasuperchief
Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:01 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

f) Test Flights &Conditional Maintenance Releases (i.e. Where specified in the quality procedures of the organisation performing the work, or where the person signing the maintenance release determines that a test flight is required to verify the system operation ). Information Note: Conditional Ma...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:37 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

Try. Go on. Just once. . Try. Go on. Just once. Best post in awhile Not only once, but twice! but have failed in ways in my own eyes because I gauge my own success by my capabilities, talents, abilities and comparing them with what I have done with them, AND YES, IN everything that I do, I can be a...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:51 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

Readers here may judge me by what I write, I don't need to be judged by what I say I am.... In an anonymous forum, We don't have the luxury of being known for "what I say I am" therefore, we introduce ourselves as a Pilot or AME or DAR and it is what we write thereafter in relation to "what I say I...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

In school , in our PC, liberal snowflake society, A child cannot receive a failing grade but is constantly praised regardless. When someone in the real world does succeed ( and not through the "proper" channels) there are more than enough people around to claw him/her down. Success is a very subject...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:14 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

My wife just pointed out to me that it is not just aviation that has nit-picking, egotistical, fault finding, immature folks, it is everywhere !
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:02 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

One of my job descriptions is a test pilot and yes, I do take the A/C to the near limits where I am told, one should never go to ! This was my first post about test flying an aircraft. Or is that check flying an aircraft . I do check out pilots and the last pilot, I /we decided to not continue with...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:57 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

It is acceptable to do tailwind, crosswind, headwind take-offs, Tail to cross TO cross to into wind TO into to cross, cross to tail etc take-offs, Yall just need to know the procedure and do it within limitations. On a small lake , many amplified procedures can and are used
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:15 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

This may open a can of worms with some float pilots but it hasn't been mentioned yet so I'll chime in. When on a runway on amphibs, I will use the method as above but with the ailerons maintained slightly into wind, however I have been using another technique for years on SE float planes. When I ha...
by aeroncasuperchief
Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:01 am
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

On the backside argument, I quote sources and my own experience. Concerning a simple phrase, I quote sources. I am happy to agree with many pilots who have an "industry" definition of test flight and check flight . I guess I am a check pilot If I only do a check flight BUT then doesn't that confuse ...
by aeroncasuperchief
Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

test1 /test/Submit noun 1. a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use. flight /flīt/Submit noun 1. the action or process of flying through the air. Test flight : Credits: NASA. a flight made to test an a...
by aeroncasuperchief
Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:02 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

test flight /ˈtes(t) ˌflīt/Submit noun a flight during which the performance of an aircraft or its equipment is tested. Test flight definition: the first flight of a plane or rocket for the purposes of testing its equipment | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples. an occasion when a pla...
by aeroncasuperchief
Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:47 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

I guess I will need to amend my JLB entries to check flight satisfactory from test flight satisfactory then !
by aeroncasuperchief
Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:49 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

This guy thinks he’s a test pilot. I know what/who I am and I am NOT a career test pilot, As mentioned before, it is 1 of my duties in my job description . For those too ignorant to understand, Not all pilots who "test" A/C wear those $365.00 Ray-bans, the $2000.00 flight suit, Tom Cruise flight he...
by aeroncasuperchief
Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:03 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

Aviatard wrote: Thu Nov 22, 2018 4:08 am
aeroncasuperchief wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:42 pm In 2018, Teachers teach to the minimum.
Nonsense.
aeroncasuperchief wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:42 pm PS: If the weather aint CAVOK, students don't fly in these days :roll:
More nonsense.

OKAY, It looks like I got told ! :o
by aeroncasuperchief
Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:44 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: MERGED power curve / floats posts
Replies: 265
Views: 11259

Re: MERGED power curve / floats posts

Or perhaps our PC society who can never fail a student ( discriminatory ) or say it as it is ?

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