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  1. Ada Elle
    I ended up doing it at Curtis (1 hour in the sim, and I've done 1 hour familiarisation time in the Warrior and Citabria so far, no flight instrument time yet). been told I can do some of the rest (the straight and level stuff) on the nav to canberra, and then the last little bit (instrument unusual attitudes) before doing some circuits, to get CTZ/CTA.
  2. Ada Elle
    Well done! I muffed my first couple of circuits in the Warrior (-JAZ) but once I got used to the feel of the plane it becomes second nature. A lot more energy to burn off than what I'm used to, and I'm not a fan of the right hand circuits.
  3. Ada Elle
    What size antenna do you need for 1090?
  4. Ada Elle
    http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/pilot-talk/more-pilot-talk/guest-speaker-safe-turnarounds.html discusses the advantages of climbing at Vx to give you a chance at turning around. Also, one thing that may be required is a plane that has a better glideslope than climbslope. A J160 has 10:1 glide and about 10:1 climb, so turning around might not be advisable. 7.5:1 climb and 11:1 glide (published numbers for the foxbat) give you better chances. An Alpha Trainer has 6.2:1 climb and 17:1 glide, so as long as you can do the turn without losing too much altitude, you should be able to essentially turn back or go ahead on a lot of sealed runways.
  5. Ada Elle
    That's not the point. YWOL, for example, has just under 6000ft of runway. In a Foxbat, Vx is 49kt (650fpm) and Vy is 54kt (690fpm). So if you have an engine failure 45s into flight, at Vx you've gone 3700ft and are 430ft up; at Vy you've gone 3900ft and are 460ft up. So if you've been climbing at Vx, you might have a situation where you either have runway ahead of you (including slipping/flaps/etc) or you can turn around. At Vy you might consume all the runway before you have enough altitude to turn around.
  6. Ada Elle
    I didn't really want to do tailwheel, unusual attitudes, controlled airspace, all at once.
  7. Ada Elle
    The other day at the Oaks we came up with the idea of putting two containers the right distance apart, then bolting on a roof and maybe some protection at the far end. I'd really like one that was double height, too - but would probably need some I-beams across the top to support the roof.
  8. Ada Elle
    I've always been taught to do the initial upwind climb at Vy to maximise total performance available. However, on a longish runway (5000ft) you might be able to get to 500ft and the crosswind turn just past the end of the runway. Would climbing at Vx (so that you got to 500 ft later time-wise, but earlier distance wise) be safer in case of EFATO? The logic here is that by chewing up less runway per height gain, you can either land on remaining runway or turn back more easily. The tradeoff is that if you have an engine failure you need to nose down to not stall on the turn.
  9. Ada Elle
    When is the right point to do unusual attitude recovery training? I had my first PPL conversion lesson yesterday, but when constructing the course the question was whether to do citabria conversion at the start or after I got my PPL.
  10. Ada Elle
    I've flown with quite a few instructors in quite a few schools now, after I moved away from Sydney with a fresh bare RPC and 25-30 hours on the clock. I've seen different styles and I've come to appreciate the benefits and deficiencies of my ab initio training. However, none of the subsequent instructors thought that I was incompetent or deficient. (I essentially did straight and level flight, and coordinated 30 degree turns in my TIF, then did about 5 hours of circuits, a few stalls, emergency procedures, another 5 hours of circuits, then went solo. So I'm really good at flying circuits....) How do I go to an instructor and say: I can already fly a plane, but I don't trust myself in these situations, can you help me rectify them? Also, I'd like to do the FAA commercial pilot maneuvers, but I don't trust myself to do them solo straight up; what's the best way to get trained in these (since they're not part of CASA CPL training)? http://flighttrainingcenters.com/training-aids/commercial/commercial-manuevers/ Anyhow, in retrospect, I got through my flight test with what I regard now to be possibly inadequate training. I don't know how you protect against that. It's only since I took two years off flying and I've gone back that, through reading, I've gotten insight into this.
  11. Ada Elle
    One thing I want to do with my (eventually to be obtained) NVFR rating is to just fly in circles staring at the stars. I used to love being a passenger in a convertible, lying back, watching the stars go by while driving through B roads in the national park.
  12. Ada Elle
    How do you use ground effect with a best rate climb?
  13. Ada Elle
    I did a nav from YWOL to YMRY via the inland route and then through NWX controlled airspace/R420 - good practice talking to controllers. Great views.
  14. Ada Elle
    What are you flying? I've heard that jabirus in the Western sydney GA lane might be a no-no. Even if you take the laneway, cutting around holsworthy and then down the coast to Albion Park can be very pretty, although be wary of wind and cloud over the escarpment. On the weekends you can usually fly south down the coast (again very pretty) to Moruya and then turn in. I have no experience south of Moruya.
  15. Ada Elle
    At Gostner, the VH registered 160 costs $20 per hour more (solo or dual) than the 24-registered one.
  16. Ada Elle
    Both very nice planes to fly, but both completely different in terms of characteristics (I've only flown a 200, mind you, not a 230).
  17. Ada Elle
    Speak for yourself!
  18. Ada Elle
    I did some training in a Pioneer 200 - really liked it. Too bad the aero club no longer cross-hires it.
  19. Ada Elle
    Motz is there going to be flying at Jaspers this wednesday/friday? the airfield's been pretty deserted the last couple times I've driven past!
  20. Ada Elle
    Forgot about the vertical component of thrust - but if the wings are past a stalling AoA, how does power help?
  21. Ada Elle
    Power should not affect stall speed, right? It's a purely aerodynamic phenomenon: the speed at which the gravitational force is balanced by the lift force at the stalling angle of attack. That's what I mean by stall speed, not the published speed. They're not the same altitude after one minute - that example was BRoC with a headwind and without a headwind. Best angle of climb usually has a lower speed and lower rate of climb than best rate of climb. You use best angle of climb to clear fixed obstacles. Otherwise you use best rate of climb because altitude is life and you want to gain options as rapidly as possible.
  22. Ada Elle
    Winds only affect those things that have a ground component. Best rate of climb is not ground referenced and thus headwind is unimportant. Stall is related to angle of attack. However, at speeds less than the stall speed, you cannot get adequate lift to maintain level flight at the critical angle of attack. So you can fly an aircraft at less than stall speed, and not stall the wings, but it will be descending. How is this affected by weight? At higher weights, you need more lift, so at the critical angle of attack you need higher speeds to maintain level flight. essentially: mg = Cl A v^2. At the critical angle of attack you will have a certain Cl. A is fixed. so either v goes up as m goes up, or you can't maintain level flight.
  23. Ada Elle
    An Alpha can glide across the channel from 7000ft. So if the batteries will let it climb that high...
  24. Ada Elle
    Thanks! My ATC CPL set arrived today... need to find the time to go fly, though!
  25. Ada Elle
    I'm looking at the form 61-1RTX, the conversion from RPC to RPL. To get the nav endorsement, you need raa nav, 5 hours solo crosscountry, and 2 hours of instrument time (of which one can be simulator). Does anyone have suggestions for a GA school (around Sydney, or within two hours) to get instrument time on?
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