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- 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!
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
True that !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 too !Acceptance Test Pilots or Maintenance Test Pilots.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 !
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 !
- 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...
- 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 amNonsense.
More nonsense.aeroncasuperchief wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:42 pm PS: If the weather aint CAVOK, students don't fly in these days
OKAY, It looks like I got told !
- 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 ?