Flightrite

I see the FAA have jumped these two idiots! Pulled their tickets, a blatant act of stupidity for commercial gain, the FAA had no choice👍

‘poteroo’ we’ll said 👍

I’ve always maintained that it’s too easy to get a plane drivers ticket and keep it! It’s rare to witness a full on stall landing nose high or 3 pointer in a proper aeroplane. Flying heavy metal the App speed is a disciplined figure yet in the light A/C world it’s a ‘guide’ to some and it shows! Virtually nobody lands at gross weight (accept for those that are cowboys from the get-go) which is what the stall book figures are calculated on in a lighty.

Speedo errors, calibrated & indicated all play a part in what you actually read off the speedo hence 1.3 Vs is a typical App speed. Taking conditions into account touching down at min flying speed should be a common practice.

They were damned lucky they didn’t collide mid-air!

seems the only malfunction that day was the crashed helo driver! 
The stress in the still flying driver would have been increasing rapidly full knowing that it was likely his mate had taken 4 others to their deaths!

Do we ever learn from these totally avoidable events? Nope, never do!😞

There’s a zillion of these donks in operation world wide, if half the old wives tales here mattered there’d be busted donks littering the countryside😂

They sure are one tuff donk as many are in the abusive training environment👍

Vs is the minimum flying speed in a particular configuration, with careful control inputs the plane should be able to fly anywhere you want it to go at the stall speed. Stall warnings like an aural warning go off well before the actual stall, that’s why during a normal short field (or any landing for that matter) landing the stall warning should be blaring away to produce a min ground roll.

A lot of plane drivers bag Airbus, you know….plastic fantastic, not a real man’s plane etc, well when I went on the bus and drove it around for a few months I was hooked! Providing you understand the French oddities it’s a breeze to drive👍

Airbus, way of the future, RIP Boeing!😂

I took a plane into YMIA recently (been many years) and was surprised at the gaggle of Cessna’s etc parked on the apron off taxiway E. What a waste! 
Australia is just a southern state of China anyway, we would be screwed without them! 

I’ve always maintained that it’s too easy to get a plane drivers ticket & even easier to keep it by way of poor checking! BFR/AFR’s need to be a lot tougher and not a box ticking exercise! 
From the day we got our plane drivers ticket it’s been a downhill slide skill wise for many! Since retiring and driving planes (commercially) part time I’ve had the opportunity to go with a few private drivers, me shakes me head, often! 

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Why look out to try and see something you can’t (the Rwy) by putting undue risk into the equation? Turn 90(+- wind allowance) initially via the DG/compass then once established on base continue with that pilot shit so many are not capable of!!

42 minutes ago, extralite said:

Flightrite..just out of interest, is your profile correct and you are a non-pilot? If not, no problems but maybe that is why you fail to see what people see in a cirrus. . RV10 is a great aircraft too, as all the RV's series. But nothing wrong with the Cirrus engine, its just a Continental, solid. 

 

The attraction is that that they are comfortable, so flying around with the wife/kids it is a lot easier to get them in a Cirrus in my experience because it feels like a modern car.  Little things like aircon, bluetooth.They of course have a chute which i find most comforting when flying at night. Also of course in the event of pilot incapacitation for the pax. I don't want to pull it but to my knowledge there have been no fatalities under the chute and that combined with the fly level button is another way that nervous flyers feel better about "small planes.".

 

If i had a criticism it would be they are a bit boring to fly. Like a Prado of the skies.  Airborne, put on autopilot, kick back until you arrive. But for flying you can get fun in other ways. (RAg and string for me). Of course the annual is expensive, usually about $8k for me and no major problems yet after 5 years of use.  My maintainer says they have fewer issues than most other a/c they do. 

 

Just depends what you want your plane for, how much you can afford, and who you pax are. Most aircraft have their good/bad points otherwise there wouldnt be so many of the good ones. But i love my Cirrus, just as i love RV's, Thrusters and almost anything else that i get to fly in.  🙂

Like a couple of others in here you’ll just have to wonder if I’m a pilot or not, it’s entertaining though😂😂😉👍

At the end of the day……don’t stall, don’t spin, simple basic words👍

Oh I luv the Ruskies driving vids, the best there is, makes the Aussie dash cam stuff look like a bunch of girls!😂

At least these fools are entertaining😂 Seems like everything stupid is made in America!

Somewhere down in that muck is cesspool Melb!

nice day for a drive in the sky but dirty-(

You can rebuild a plane from the ID plate up!👍

That corny saying ‘in the good old days’ fits well with BDV these days! Went there numerous times in the 80’s, we were all so pissed with bodies lying everywhere that nobody remembers anything other than everything was free other than food and race entry!

like most things in Australia, stupidity from certain morons destroy the fun factor due pure greed. 

It really is pie in the sky stuff but entertaining 😂👍

The lift vector is no longer acting against gravity, the A/P will manipulate the elevator in order to create zero lift in any direction. Look at the recent China B737 that was captured on video going vertically down, my guess in that case was the plane was being manipulated, pilot suicide! In the stunt the same input is being created. 

I don’t know how I ever got thru flying a zillion hours behind old Conty’s & Lyc’s with barely an oil pressure gauge!😂

Syd sure has spectacular waterways! Love driving planes in and out of there when everyone is away holidaying, tomorrow they can have it to themselves!😂

The Earth is actually flat, these are just optical illusions 😉👍

Lots of standing water Northern NSW, yesterday.

I heard a new 915 is just short of $60K! Ouch!

An engine doesn’t know it’s close to TBO, don’t mention it to the donk and keep flying😉