PapaFox

A bit hard to comment without knowing more details, but I've watched many Hercs doing night circuits here relying on their NVGs with all runway and aircraft lighting off. Though I don't know if any other AF pilots need this capability.

Skillfull yes, stupid... absolutely. People like that give us riders a bad name

Just getting a little side tracked... I can vouch for the strength of the 701's nose leg, after witnessing a prop strike (hard to imagine) onto the sealed rwy following an aborted takeoff. Damage to plane practically nil apart from a significantly smaller prop

Rudder is easy... Ercoupe originally had coupled aileron/rudders

Not enough nose to be a Trislander, so Britten Norman Islander

I've put a couple of files in the Downloads section that might come in handy. Simply put, they are the entire collection of designated airspace within Aus, all of the flight information boundaries, and the area forecast boundaries. I'll keep them all updated when any updates are published. The files are only shortcuts to the live versions on my server, so you won't have to do anything regarding the updates... all automatic. Naturally, these aren't to be used for navigation.

Sometimes when I'm not in a particular hurry to get to the destination, if the bumps are being just a bit too uncomfortable, I just throttle back to idle and ride the thermals. Suprising how well some of our aircraft will thermal. Climbing at 1000ft/min with the engine idling is quite amusing

IIRC, Mendelssohn's. I can't really complain about it anymore... I kept forgetting to get on to the job to get it fixed. Still haven't, so I just don't rely on the terrain map (shouldn't anyway).

At the start of the clip, it lists the tug as a Z-137T (Zlin). Google says 520hp Walter 601 turbine. Odd side note... It was developed from the LET Z37, so they kept the whole formation in the family (sort of)

Although the rate of climb was, ummm, a bit ordinary. Would have been interesting being #9 below everyone else, getting a real close up of the trees (and buildings) passing by

Missed out on this again this year... crappy weather again

Way to go T87, great to see another XL up in the playground

Can confirm N model POH just states: (6) Cranking -- CONTINUE

I'll just stick wth my comfy bed

Yeah, I was, until I read the 10am start time. Some people have to work still. Wonder which genius thunk this up

John was running that RV8a with a supercharged Subaru STi 2.5L. 100 TTSN

Squashed the first one in the hangar this morning

After helping rig VH-CRI the other year, so to started my dreaming. There's a list on the net of some of the potential engines http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/attachments/2-stroke-aircaft-engines/3462d1242360731-cri-cri-engines-cri-cri_engines_list.xls

I was going to fly over on the Saturday, but would have had to leave here before 8am (when the model jets closed the aerodrome), thus slackness prevailed. Bit of a poor excuse really

For one thing, he only made this flight 6 months ago (apparently)

We only managed to get there for the Sunday arvo, but was certainly a good excuse to get a bit of air below the wheels. Definately much better weather than last year though

While I've never seen the aircraft, there were some comments about wrapping the entire aircraft over on the VAF forums. Seems that the wrap looks great... from a distance Vinyl graphics wrapped over most of the plane - VAF Forums

I just finished watching it. It certainly raised my eyebrows to hear that ATPs don't practice stalls in the simulators. Just what are they doing apart from twirling knobs??? Just joking, but I would have thought they should be getting the aircraft into unusual attitudes and having to practice safe recoveries as part of their training, something that hopefully they would never need to use in real life. Hmm, and I've just booked tickets for a trip to NY :ah_oh:

An easy approximation for TAS is to add 2% of IAS for every 1000ft above MSL

What about that thing most of us strap to our wrists? It doesn't actually need to be mounted to the aircraft, just aslong as you have an accurate timepiece.