You might not have a certified VHF radio on board, but a portable or non aviation one. In that case you can not fill out the VHF in the radio equipment, If you have a portable aviation VHF radio on board, you file V in the aircraft equipment codes. There is no need for it to be certified. And if yo...

But why would you need that cooling for the final 3 minutes of the flight? You wouldn't go full rich when you start descending, right? So what's so special about the last few minutes? I assume you're not generating that much power that you would need to go above 32 map (unless that was your whole p...

I think it's obvious that if you have a VHF radio in your aircraft equipment, SAR knows that you have a radio that can transmit on 121.5. I'm inclined to think that an emergency radio is not the same as the aircraft radio. Yes, the ICAO documentation only specifies that it's 243 or 121.5 but what is...

So we're definitely talking about a voice radio, not an ELT.

ICAO Flight Plan Form, Item 19 (Supplementary Information), Emergency Radio. R/ U V E.

E means ELT, and then you specify what kind, almost always AF.

What are U and V Emergency Radios? Are these ELTs or something else?

Anove 75% it's so risky to lean that they don't want you doing it unless it's for a high density altitude takeoff. Please don't make it sound llike you're taking your life in your hands by touching the red knob. It's not life on the edge. Lean when it's safe to do so. Don't lean, when you shouldn't...

The risk of a full power lean go-around is that it reduces your detonation margin to the point where you might actually get detonation. It's hard to do with an aircraft engine but it can be done. Detonation does a massive amount of wear and tear in a very short period of time, and can easily lead t...

I'm currently running a related but non-aviation experiment but with different grades of mogas to see how the octane rating and Reid vapour pressure decay over time. Far from scientific, I'm doing it with COTS gas cans and old motorcycle tanks. Testing will happen next year, I'll see if I remember ...

Homeopathic flying, very interesting. Avogadro would be proud. For your theoretical example, my guess it that an engine burning a 10% expired fuel mix would run poorly, but still run. In actual practice, there are thousands of planes that sit around for years and then go flying without doing anythin...

Maybe I misunderstand, but why would you add half the speed of a steady wind to the approach speed? Easy answer is because that's what the FCTM says. More complicated answer is wind shear. You add the extra speed to deal with any potential wind shear, then bleed it off to reach the threshold withou...

They have a panel of experts who will calculate exactly when they have to start training in order to just barely keep up with demand. About 6 months after that point they'll start thinking about getting the training department fired up.

Egg. You need an OC before applying to the CTA.

Oh, well that's good news then. I was told differently.

Thank you BPF.

Has anyone ever heard of a way to submit an application for a 703 OC without having the aircraft registered to the company yet? Lease agreement signed for a future date? New purchase with a delivery date guarantee? Anything?

photofly wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:18 amI have two planes. Neither POH says mixture rich before landing. One doesn’t mention mixture at all in either pre-landing or balked landing, and the other specifically says mixture rich on balked approach, *after* full throttle.

Interesting. Could you share the types please?

photofly wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:55 pmI think you train to put the mixture rich as a prelude to applying full power, at any time you apply full power.

Agreed.

In that unlikely scenario yes you could put the throttle in and the engine could die. You are positing that the real and immediate risk of a full power lean go-around arises only after an expedited descent? No. I never mentioned an expedited descent, I'm just trying to think of an example situation...

YDT is the IATA code for CZBB, which no one in the world uses since there's no IATA airline flying to CZBB. Strange.

A friend of mine just told me today that the travel budget for his company next year is 150% of what it was in 2019. They need to get their business relationships back on track and those relationships are made on the golf course and at the restaurant, not on the other side of a screen. Interesting p...

Another note on "full rich". At full rich our aircraft is flowing about 115% of full rated fuel flow which is fine in the winter at sea level but too much fuel in the summer. The EFIS gives us real time density altitude and we use that information to set the mixture out as much as an inch and a half...