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At any point in time there is sufficient power to climb or not. As soon as the pilot detects "or not" then the pre decided maneuver should commence. The time between "or not" and the start of the maneuver should be less than one second.

Stall airspeed rises as a result of wing loading. Actually, the whole polar moves to the right as wing loading increases. If you fly at best L/D for the current wing loading there is no chance of a stall.

All planes need a certain glide slope to land. If a plane would be below that slope after the turn then the pilot would not have made the decision to turn back. The decision making performance of the pilot is part of the exercise. If, given the aircraft and the day, the plane would pass below the necessary flight path then another decision would have been made. Stalling the plane is never an option. As I have said this is standard training and this particular exercise is common.

The pilot knows because from the time the engine is started to the time it is shutdown the engine is always one second away from failing. This is especially important during takeoff and landing and not so important at 10000 feet.

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What! 8 seconds! Any pilot that delays should not have a license! The pilot should execute the maneuver that was decided on one second before the engine failure. The time from engine failure to commencement of execution should be under 1 second.

This is standard training for us. Good to see others doing it.

That's old, fat, white guys if you don't mind. Get it right!

I do not understand how this can happen. From the time of joining downwind the aircraft should be able to land on the runway whatever happens.

I have not done a wheels up landing - yet. The pilot in question was a novice club member in a club aircraft.

We had a wheel up landing a couple of weeks ago. The only injury was a bruised ego.

I was told over the last weekend that the plane was out of fuel when it landed in the paddock.

Could have been worse.

In addition to offering fight scoring and live flight display SkyLines now offers a flight planning facility. Also, to come is a competition facility.

I don't know what you had in mind for $300K. An LS8 or ASW24 would be about $100K. Astirs were made in Germany. They use that same methodology as a $300K glider to stop overhead wing clap.

Not necessarily so. It is possible to by a perfectly good glider for $10000 - $15000 - for instance an Astir CS.

Yes, the wind and cloud data are esp. useful for power pilots.

Flying for free.

XCSoar v6.6 has been released.

No. This video really only explores the security aspects of the protocol - of which there are none The denials in the article are to do with security of the nodes - in particular the FMS. As far as I know nobody has addressed the security concerns raised in this video. It is difficult to see how they can be addressed. The ADB-S protocols remind me very much of the early (1970s and 1980s) internet protocols where anything went.

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XCSoar v6.5.4 has been released.

XCSoar v6.5.3 has been released.

XCSoar v6.5.2 has been released.