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Hadlock posted:The light aviation engine industry is probably long overdue for a big shake up. This is going to happen in the form of electric propulsion. It will be a while yet, but it is inevitable.
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I wish I had the requisite skills to become an A&P but I'd be basically starting at zero. Like, I could maybe manage to do a brake change on a domestic car without watching youtube videos or reading a Haynes manual or something. I changed the oil in my plane once (and was very proud of myself for it) but now it has a spin-on oil filter which means safety wire and I don't know how to deal with that. Bleh.
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Aug 3, 2015 17:17
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Aug 3, 2015 19:08
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KodiakRS posted:I've always wondered if there was a market for a ~200HP turbo prop engine. I know they make them for R/C airplanes but I have no idea if they would be a feasible replacement for something like an o-360. If you want a higher TBO engine with like double the fuel burn, then yes.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:56
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What are the best choices for kit planes that are not too hard to build for an amateur, but will also sell for a decent profit when complete?
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Aug 4, 2015 09:10
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Anyone else have bizarro flying dreams? I am a very vivid dreamer and I have a few recurring aviation dreams: -Plane can't climb: I'm flying a few dozen feet off the ground, barely avoiding power cables and buildings, for some reason unable to climb. -Land somewhere stupid: Land the plane, realize taking off from here is impossible. Also there's no 100LL available. -Backseat flying: Plane is in cruise or taxiing but I'm in the back seat for some reason?? -Brakes don't work: Can't stop the plane from slowly taxiing into a collision with a hangar or a fuel pump or whatever. Engine refuses to idle usually too. I recently had one where I landed on a nice little path in a park, and taxied past a snack stand to get some 100LL. While I was dealing with the pump, I realized that I had somehow suffered serious prop strikes (in my tricycle gear 172) during taxi. Waking up from that was quite a relief.
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Aug 7, 2015 21:56
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 Popular Science October 1971. Lots more airplanes in this issue, too. https://books.google.com/books?id=XgEAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&client=firefox#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Aug 10, 2015 14:36
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simble posted:http://www.kpho.com/story/29768179/storm-knocks-over-planes-at-chandler-airport "Strong winds flipped over 20 to 30 small planes, leaving behind several thousands of dollars in damage." Don't worry, only ~$100 in damage per plane!
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Aug 12, 2015 16:21
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AWSEFT posted:Good corporate jobs are hard to find but they are out there. I got really lucky. Egg White Power Wrap
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Aug 26, 2015 01:30
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helno posted:Got the bill for my first annual inspection and the hail damaged window repair. Any insurance help for the storm damage?
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Sep 3, 2015 03:01
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Why worry about how much your airline of choice overbooks? There are always people who will volunteer to get bumped off the flight. I volunteer whenever my travel plans allow for it but they rarely actually need to do that.
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For casually renting out a 172 to cover costs and keep the plane flying (not for generating profit), what do you guys think is best: -Dry Tach -Dry Hobbs -Wet Tach -Wet Hobbs And why?
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Sep 24, 2015 22:46
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I'm the owner and excessive leaning is my fear with dry renting. I will be renting by dry Hobbs for now because it's much less complicated for me to deal with. I do not have CHT/EGT though so that makes me a little nervous.
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Sep 25, 2015 10:07
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Captain Apollo posted:Can you expand on the airplane / engine? C172 Continental O-300
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Sep 26, 2015 00:47
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35 years old? Is this the cover of the POH? 
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Sep 27, 2015 17:48
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I've only flown one that is younger than me - a Piper Meridian (no landings). The oldest I've been a passenger in was a Stearman and the oldest I've flown (no landings again) was a 182 from 1957. My 172 is from 1966 
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Sep 28, 2015 02:12
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One of the things I got corrected for a lot in training was fixating on a particular instrument, or the panel in general. You're supposed to divide your attention among things like visual traffic scan, instrument scan, radio work, getting wx info, getting nav info/pilotage, managing the engine and other systems, etc. Seems kind of like an ADD paradise.
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Oct 3, 2015 01:49
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Captain Apollo posted:Dear Vessbot, Yes please.
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Oct 5, 2015 18:40
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tenaciousvigilance posted:Kind of a long shot, but anyone in this thread live near KBUF and interested in selling part of their airplane or finding a partner to buy one? Are you on Ron Ciura's mailing list? If not, get on it and have him send an email for you.
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Oct 19, 2015 16:48
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tenaciousvigilance posted:Hey there, fellow WNYer! I am actually; great idea. Where do you fly out of? I'm at BQR with the flying club. 9G5, but I live overseas so I'm not there very much.
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Oct 21, 2015 07:05
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Caution: wake turbulence http://i.imgur.com/532t5X0.gifv
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Oct 26, 2015 04:03
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AWSEFT posted:Haven't seen an airplane take itself off yet and only a few can competently autoland. Two pilots is really about redundancy, every system in the plane has a backup (and sometimes another backup). Plus, its a lot easier to catch a mistake when there is two of you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOtDPHjW-Y Checkmate, pilots.
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dexter6 posted:First time poster in this thread... Get your private and fly for fun unless you really hate having money.
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gigButt posted:Repost from the other thread. Hawker 800 went down at Akron Fulton (Ohio) today. Looks like they were over the outer marker for the LOC 25. Sad sad. CFIT? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/11/auto-draft-3/ Amazing nobody on the ground was hurt considering the damage.
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The Ferret King posted:Caution wake turbulence: Always good to see reminders like this. I would not have guessed an AN-2 would create such strong wake turbulence.
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e.pilot posted:As much as I love it, I'll readily admit the E6B is kind of pointless in the real world nowadays with iPads and phones and such. But it does still have one useful thing, the written tests. Sure one could spend $70-80 or more on a nice electronic one that would have to be learned anyways, only to never use it again, or spend $20 on an E6B and learn to use that instead. You can just use a 4-function calculator if you are comfortable approximating trig functions. If I remember correctly, the choices for the answers were far enough apart that it wasn't much effort to find the correct one. I think you're allowed to use a scientific calculator with trig anyways. I have an E6B and an electronic one I got when I bought a used set of pilot gear when I started. I had to use the analog one in my training but I've never used the electronic one. It looks like more of a pain in the rear end than the analog one.
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Yeah of course you can, but if you already know how to math, it's faster to use a normal calculator.
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The Ferret King posted:Engine out landing in Taiwan. Hmmm. Engine out. Once we get to 100AGL we'll find somewhere to land. I feel like this guy got really lucky.
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The Ferret King posted:Twin Cessna crashes into trees and folks rush to help the sole occupant get away from the fire and wreckage. With video: That link isn't working for me, but I found it directly from their frontpage: http://www.fox10tv.com/clip/12391894/new-video-shows-plane-crash?autostart=true Pretty dramatic video.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:First solo (helicopter) today. Crushed it! Congrats! Why do helicopters fly patterns? Just for predictability in mixing with fixed wing traffic? quote:EDIT: also holy poo poo did you hear about that Super Puma crash in Norway a few days ago? Main rotor separated in flight for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yrX0gaVug holy poo poo 
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I just got a PP-ASES addon rating and it was a loving blast.
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My examiner had me demonstrate basically everything I learned in the course. He had me do normal takeoff/landing, glassy water takeoff/landing, crosswind takeoff/landing, confined area takeoff (so much fun -- you take off while turning on the water and then continue to fly up in a climbing circle), and choppy water takeoff/landing. I had to demonstrate various on-water maneuvers (idle taxi, plough taxi, step taxi) plus sailing and docking. He pulled my power and made me land simulated engine out, which is embarrassingly easy when you are surrounded by suitable lakes in a float plane. He was pretty harsh with me about some of my answers in the oral exam and then with some of my flying. I did fly worse with him than with the CFI, which is frustrating, but I did fine I think. I did a go-around after spacing on setting up the proper approach for a simulated glassy water landing. That would have been a bust if I had continued it as a normal landing, which is what I was doing. I had never flown in a Cub before, nor back seat in tandem config. It was fine but I could not see the airspeed indicator or compass. The worst part of that for me was not being able to see the compass while trying to fly a square pattern for a crosswind landing. I got confused easily (very tempting to line up with the waves for a zero crosswind landing) and had to really focus on distant visual references to hit 90 degrees each turn. 52 landings and a rating in 6 hours, and it was mostly really fun flying. I highly recommend it to anyone with any interest. Time it so it counts as a BFR too!
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Rickety Cricket posted:We had a prop strike a couple weeks ago when an airplane taxied into an unmarked pothole covered in grass in the designated run up area. Yay state run airports! There's a local airport with half a dozen bright orange cones placed around potholes on the runway.
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To be clear (and maybe the use of "local" was a bad choice), it is a privately-owned airport, but it is open to the public in the AFD. It should be NOTAM'd closed, in my opinion.
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PT6A posted:I had my first CPL pre-flight-test today. What aircraft? I did some spin training in a 152 and you had to really force it to spin, and then you had to pretend that stopping the spin required any real effort.
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CBJSprague24 posted:One of our 172SPs had a registration which was in Signature's system as a Lear 35 and the desk girl at IND was hearing no different. Thank gently caress I had a credit card to pay the $285 ramp fee in spite of insisting I was flying a motherfucking four-seat piston prop and even POINTING TO THE AIRPLANE ON THE RAMP TO THE RAMP GUY . What was she going to do if you didn't pay the $285? Did she also insist on fueling you with Jet-A? I mean, what the gently caress with this whole thing?
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I love manipulating the controls.
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