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Yeah, right... especially when both your instructors are members of this forum and you're still before the flight test... And now I'll just and hide for a while...

Most of those can be classified as part of the already listed groups:

Missing an option for my situation - I'm half way through buying a trike - made the first payment, and the it should be getting built right now.

Looks like the forum didn't like the formatting, It's supposed to be 35 mechanical failures and 28 forced landings for Jabiru, and 6 and 4 respectively for Rotax 912 family.

You may want to try north Atlantic : http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/australia.shtml As for the topic - I guess it should be pretty good, as I'm about 2 (flying) hours away from my flight test.

From Wikipedia: I'm not sure if this can be put in any simpler way.

Just ran a quick calc on this one and what you're looking for is: x/w comp = sin (angle in degrees) x IAS Since for low angles (blow 10 deg) sin function is almost linear, you can replace the sin (angle) with 0.017 x angle. So for a approach speed of 50 kt and angle of 10 deg you'd end up with something like: 0.017 x 10 x 50 = 8.7 kt cross wind component or rather 0.87 kt per one degree. At 60 kt it's about 1 kt per degree. At 75 kt it's about 1.3 kt per degree. But as TP mentioned this only works in constant wind and at low angles.

Maybe not roller skate, but some can ice skate:

I've heard a report from a military sapper, or at least someone who was blowing stuff up for the army, that got tested positive for the explosives. He just explained who he was and what he did, and all he had to do is to pack all his baggage into plastic bags so that he wouldn't contaminate other people's baggage.

I guess the main thing with security for planes is that once the plane takes off there is no way to get on or off from it until it lands. That means that if there would be any hostage situation to happen, there can be no police / special forces intervention until the plane runs out of fuel. That being said I think most of the airport security is getting over the top. Most of it was implemented to make the governments look like their doing something in the war against terror (not that you can define that as a war anyway) to keep the public focus out of internal issues for a while. One think I'm grateful for is that the worlds is still a bit behind the US where you can be groped, but can't grope them back: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/carol-price-woman-accused-of-groping-tsa-agent_n_1609223.html ;)

Hello, I'm looking at buying a trike and I have a bit of a dilemma as to what radio and headsets to get for it? Is it worth going with the Microair and Lynx from Airborne? From looking at the Vertex 220 radio for example it seems to have really small buttons, which may be a bit hard to operate in the trike. I've seen the headset discussions in other parts of this forum, but they mostly relate to GA headsets. So I'd appreciate any advice about the headsets and radios that you use.

Now that I've started learning to fly I get really amazed by the way birds manage to fly and how unfit for flying we are as humans. When you look how much input the bird can have to it's wing shape, angle and lift generated by it and how much feedback it's getting throughout it's body makes me wonder sometimes how we can stay up there with the limitations we get. If you look at that osprey it goes from a gliding configuration, that many glider pilots would envy, to shape suited more for jets, and then to almost a VTOL from water with a load that's trying to get away and all that on "bio-fuel". I'd buy a plane that could do that any day

Looks like it's one of those two:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language So it's Germanic with Latin, Norse and French influences. P.S. Being a non-native English speaker I also think that English spelling makes no sense whatsoever.

Then maybe you should take it of from here as well.

There's quite a bit more interesting videos on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries Some are really dated, but a lot of interesting ones especially on different aspects of human factors.

Also the Edge x with it's 44l fuel tank won't leave you a lot of wiggle room for an almost 100nm journey.

I think it would be more a matter of discouraging you from trying to learn on your own aircraft, as it would be more hassle for the instructor. After all the instructor should know his own trike, how it was maintained, etc, whereas with a students aircraft you have the added worry if the aircraft is ok. I guess the less outside factor the instructor has to worry about the better for the student. Also I wouldn't change the plane just before solo - solo is enough of new things to process even in the same trike. F_T - stop trolling, it's not working.

First thing I'd change is the text on all the drawing in Rules of the air and Ground marshaling directions (sections 4.04 and 4.05) I appreciate that someone draw all those pictures by hand, but it's really hard to make out whet the text on all those pictures says. Pictures can stay but the text should be redone.

I have to disagree with this statement. There is a guarantee that crossing the road 0n green light is safer, as you can expect most of the traffic to give way to you. There is no guarantee that doing it either way is perfectly safe. It's the same difference as with accepting that there are some risks in life (or flying to be more on topic) and actively looking for risky situations. The main reason for this is that a decision of one man may or will impact us all. Since CASA and RAAus are both organizations with a primary goal of making flying safe for everyone if they notice a trend of people making a choice that is not safe they will have to regulate it more and put in more restrictions and supervision, one of which could be a requirement for lodging a flight plan for every flight with them and them having the ability to forbid you to make such flight in case your arrival is after sun set (similar to traveling through controlled air space in a RA plane). Can you see how this would lead to a death of recreation flying for everyone?

Bluey, it all depends from which side of the fence you're looking at this problem. I'm currently on the opposite side, where I'm looking for a trike to buy. I'm even considering a XT-912, and to me it looks like there are far less trikes for sale than you make it to be. All I can see are either trikes with reasonable (say under 200) hours that are listed for pretty much the price of a new one ($55 -60k) or ones like yours with 600 hours around $40k. Considering how essential and critical proper maintenance is on any aircraft I find it hard to justify buying one that I have no idea how it was maintained (the log books can help, but there's a lot of planes with just a sketchy log books) just to safe a couple grand. It's also a hard choice between a 912 with 400-600 hours, which most likely is a ex school plane with tons of take-offs and landings (a lot of which would be less than perfect, considering a how some of my landings look like - I'm still learning) and again uncertain maintenance record over a new 582. So to finish my rant - I wouldn't say those trikes are undervalued by that much, especially when you compare them to a used car, when you lose 10-20% the moment you leave the dealer.

One other thing when considering buying vs hiring is something one of my friends used to bring up a lot when talking about his boat. If you have your own, and especially if it's hangared at the airfield you have way more motivation to just go flying. Whereas if you need to hire it, you not only have get the right weather, have free time, but you also need to make sure that the plane will be available and that's just another step that brings you to the too hard territory. If you have an aircraft ready to go you can always pop in before or after work, or whenever you have some time, without any prior arrangements and fly for as long or as short as you need. If you need to hire one, you need to know in advance, arrange the hire, specify how long you're going to fly, etc and then you just give up...

I wonder if you can invite them to do an exercise like this on your property...

The T-Lite (and for that matter V-lite, which is the 2 stroke version with slightly different wing) look amazing. If I didn't want to take other people on the flights with me or do any cross country I'd totally buy one.