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I can’t vouch for it personally, but the WIKI page attributes that paragraph to Paul Bertorelli and Avweb.

Certainly...I just found it interesting that that the descent rate in a basically stalled condition was lower that a Cirrus with the chute out.

I would suggest that it would depend on what sort of aircraft it is. LSA require manufacturers approval for the smallest mods, If you're 19 rego, then it could be an owner modification. That said, it's only likely anyone would find out if things go pear shaped and the level of risk would need to be assessed.

I was looking at some aircraft specs today and found this on the DA40 specs on WIKI. Thought it may be of interest on the BRS subject. Operational history[edit] The DA40 has accumulated a very low accident record, particularly with regard to stall and spin accidents. Its overall and fatal accident rates are one-eighth that of the general aviation fleet and include no stall-related accidents. The level of safe operation is attributed to its high aspect ratio wing, low wing loading and benign flight characteristics. The aircraft can be trimmed full nose up, engine set to idle and it will descend at 600–1200 feet per minute at 48 kn (89 km/h) hands-off, a lower rate of descent than the competitor Cirrus SR22 can achieve with its airframe ballistic parachute deployed.[

Melbourne travel ban travel guide. WARNING: Very sweary don't watch if that sort of thing offends you. A bit windy with a couple of small showers on Saturday and over several hours flying, only two other radio transmissions...Sooo peaceful.

You could probably add the word APPROPRIATE in there in both sections. If the rules were clear. concise and appropriate most people will happily abide. When they make hazy rules with no apparent benefit....well, you get what we've got.

Some of us enjoy the solitude of flying by ourselves. It's a personal thing, no point getting upset because someone else enjoys a different type of flying to you. Probably a good idea if your heart's not in it.....

It appears I've been mistaken...For some reason I thought it was the accusatory, know it all, humourless, authoritarian and at times, outright wrong comments from some that drove people away.

Particularly during this pandemic they have proven it time and time again. What may have been in the past is no longer and it been quite some time since there was some sensibility. Campbell Newman's VLAD laws saw QLD police using the laws to harass ordinary citizens on motorcycles. The many fines that were handed out in regards to CV19 and then overturned also shows us clearly that to rely on police discretion to enforce the spirit of the law rather than the letter the law would be most unwise. If that offends you, so be it. Cops are not what they used to be.

I find this amusing. In QLD if you stand closer than around 1.5 metres when you’re talking to them or in any case really we will get annoyed, and it’s been that way for longer than I’ve been alive. I suspect most of Australia is the same.

Perhaps in the proximity of other people. It’s pointless wearing it while driving alone in your car, or when no one else is around and police cannot be trusted with discretion.

A lot of us. I let a lot go because many times autocorrect has changed it without the poster realising.

Hannah Reich held her own. I have read her book and enjoyed watching an interview with her. She gets so excited when talking about flying.

I like fast cars and bikes, but not speedway. I know a few speedway and ex-speedway people, most have either moved on or are going to move on. One of the reasons I like flying is that I can go everywhere at near 200kph without plod having a hissy fit, and they really do have hissy fits. I have met a couple of women that also ride, but I wouldn't call them "fast".

Generally not a problem with rec flying.

Seems we sometime get a driver that thinks if they keep pulling back they can stay up there forever. It's not uncommon around here the get thermals that will reduce your sink rate from 600fpm to zero, sometimes even a Drifter will gain altitude.

Roof? If it's covered in roof, I'm not going there. I like to have my paddock chosen before the event.

Get onto the gyro guys at Wondai, pretty sure there's a couple have them there.

I think that possibly it goes back further than engine failure training. If you are taught to maintain your airspeed then it is instinctive and regardless of power settings or lack thereof you subconsciously adjust your attitude to maintain the proper airspeed without having to think about it. Part of trouble with when you're doing it with an instructor I found was that when the power was pulled, I knew what I would do, and where I was going, but you're not sure if that's what they wanted you to do.

There are often little clues as to what's going to unfold.... If you're observant.

Things might be better if stop signs were only used in places where needed. I've only ever seen one stop sin in my lifetime that made any sense, and many of them actually make the intersection more dangerous. I always make sure I stop because I really don't want the fine, but usually I have already checked whether or not the intersection is clear before I get to the stop sign. The top of the Toowoomba range is probably the worst one because you have clear line of sight in both directions, but are required to stop and start on an uphill gradient. By the time you've stopped and got moving, especially with a load, you're doing well to get across before the traffic is on you. Without a stop sign it would be very easy to use your momentum to clear the intersection with less danger. On the same train line a few kilometres apart are two crossings, one has a "give way to trains" sign, and I know someone was killed there when they drove into the side of a train, the other has a stop sign,. No consistency. Many people also seem more focused on the action of stopping (and counting to three for some stupid reason) than they are actually checking that the intersection is clear. I have been down at the local transport office for regos and such, and I have to say I've been horrified at some of the written test results of other potential drivers in the office at the same time. Some of which have had a licence previously, but needed to retest. Even worse, I have witnessed that our local cops don't understand right of way and such while in marked cars. I know someone who works in emergency services and always drives around under the speed limit because "Iv'e seen what happens if you go too fast", but thinks it's a laugh when they get stuck behind a cop car driving drunk to the bottle-o because they've run out of beer. Do I get angry when I drive? Oh Yeah, because the level of competence accepted in QLD is a joke. Some rules get heavily enforced and really important ones get ignored, people die then they enforce the same old stuff with the same result. Just a few weeks ago a woman was killed on the Warrego, because she pulled out straight in front of a B-double. That poor bugger is probably going though hell from that, but on the bright side it wasn't some guy on a bike who probably would died instead. Bugger....Now I'm cranky again

Currency? Or kill someone at a shopping centre by crushing them against a wall.

I would suggest that's the case only if you maintain currency. Don't know what the studies say about that, but I regularly see elderly drivers around here that have extremely poor reaction times. I suspect the only time they are behind the wheel is once a week to is to doddle on down to the shop. I used to ride 6 to 7 days a week and could pick the deterioration after not riding for a week. Now I ride maybe once a month and the deterioration does not feel so obvious. Doesn't mean it's not there, just less obvious, which would make it more dangerous. My friend bought an aircraft off someone who had done maybe 60 hours in 14 years. My friend and I fly several times a week and scared to hell out of the owner during a test flight by approaching a stall at a reasonable altitude. I think currency is important, but you have to current at the right thing. I doubt that increasing BFR requirements for example would help at all, but would likely exacerbate the issue and make it even longer between flights. Edit: tried your test...consistently below 0.25 sec. not sure if clicking a mouse translates to real world though.

Not really surprising unfortunately. I wonder if the difference in reaction time might be an unfamiliar simulator or just a difference in how it was measured between now and then. Mythbusters did a segment on this some time ago. While driving they would ask them a series of questions that they had to think a bout and make decisions. Even when using a hands free drivers weren't focused on driving. I hate touchscreens because you have to look at what you are pressing, I like different shaped tactile buttons, like military aircraft use so that once you are familiar they can be operated without looking away. I noticed yesterday driving on the Warrego with the sun at the right angle, you could see clearly every driver that went past in the opposite direction. More than 50% were doing something other than driving, including looking at phones, talking to passengers while looking directly at them, having big swigs out of bottles and generally just looking really bored with their head resting on their hand with the elbow propped. Note the buttons on the collective and cyclic in this image....No two the same, you can tell what's what by feel.