pmccarthy

If you investigate fatals only you learn nothing statistically valid about the cause of accidents, you have to have an accident and incident reporting system that works,

ATSB has a limited budget and in future will not investigate all GA fatals unless the investigation is likely to lead to insights that prevent future serious accidents ie multiple fatals.

I bought a little Garmin dongle that makes my iPad precise. But no longer need it as the Skyecho does the same job

Raa decision is good. We have been paying for investigations but not seeing results. If there is no learning to be had, no point to activity.

Centre stick Vixxen has throttles on the panel. Flap lever still awkward like many high wings eg Auster

I had a FS Texan some years ago and enjoyed it too. Reasonable cruise and short field performance. They seem to have gone out of fashion, haven’t seen a new one for a while. Would still suit me but SWMBO doesn’t like stepping up on a wing any more.

I have an A22 and am about to take delivery of a new A32. It will do everything that I need. Decent cruise speed, autopilot, low stall speed. As an ex GA pilot, the thing I like most is knowing you can put these down in a very tight spot if needed.

With full flap, my Foxbat stiffens up and feels like my Archer. It really feels like it has inertia and stability, like a different aeroplane.

No, but I put the dill in daffodil.

They are now called AKMs. I think he was a bit of a dinosaur.

Surely a key skill is judging distances and having the threshold at 45 degrees. I was never taught to use points on the ground and have never done so.

Apparently people with electric cars in the Ukraine are having to charge them from portable petrol generators.

Engineer is not a protected title. Any spanner man can call himself an engineer. So what you did is fine!

Should those be $B numbers?

I understand that the Microsoft flight simulator interfaces with a VR headset. My stepson has one and I tried it out, quite realistic. If you had a good set of pedals and stick it would be convincing.

Welcome. We are keen to learn!

I have spent time in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and a short time in Moscow. They all detest the Russians and the Russians don't have the mental vocabulary to understand why.

Not if it is a Ford!

In German it is scheissen. The gold rush miners used to call an unsuccessful hole a scheisser, later spelled shicer, because it still had one use.

My morning newspaper today tells me why we board aircraft from the left. It is a naval tradition, they say, because the Greek and Phoenician triremes had a steering oar on the right, or steer-board side, so had to pull up to the dock on the left, or port, side. A nice story, but complete BS. My reading of early aviation books tells me this: aircraft with rotary engines such as the Clerget suffered precessional yaw that made it difficult to turn right during rotation and takeoff. The preferred turn after takeoff was to the left. This meant that circuit patterns, even on all-over fields, were to the left. When side-by-side seating came along, the pilot sat on the left for a clear view into the turn and of the circuit. When airliners came along, the entry door was on the left so that the pilot could monitor boarding and confirm the door was closed. So there!

Yes, now 3,000 feet plus. I don't see why you would need the card. It is odds+ to the right and evens+ to the left of the north-south line. Very easy to remember. Wasn't much harder in the old days with quadrantal rule.

When Cleopatra fell off the barge she got counselling, but he said she was still in de Nile.

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I have been watching vids of the shot down drones and haven’t seen a Rotax yet.

I think that was a milletary model.