FlyBoy1960

Yes of course, It's like a huge trim tab but at the front of the aircraft rather than the back. I remember reading about some very fast aircraft in the US that with the flow without wheel pants even though it is a requirement of the manufacturer. On rare occasions the wind would catch the front wheel doing 150 kn and turn it to the maximum limit instantly. It caused some of the doors to blow in on the aircraft and people actually got hurt because the heads hit the doors or reach other. The response was extremely violent. I will see if I can find the article, it was on the EAA website

this is the problem with newly all of the people in our segment of aviation (including myself) we are all too old, worn out and put away wet ! I would much rather see complaints coming through that people needed to shave for the first time or something like that looking forward to a career or hobby in aviation rather than dropping off because we are past our use by dates.

Who cares, they are having fun and not growing old behind a keyboard like the rest of us !

especially in the USA, let's say the guy was pulled out of the wreckage but became a paraplegic and he would sue the rescuers saying that the way they pulled him out of the wreckage caused his paraplegia. A lot of people in the US are simply afraid of litigation to offer assistance in an accident

I had a straight tail 182 for years and I know they are heavy, but they are not that heavy you can't control them. This guy was a pro from what i am seeing online

I think he is off on A tangent because he seems to be so personally invested. I have never seen an aircraft where you cannot overpower the trim, I doubt it would even get through certification if it was something close because there are limits on the amounts of control forces that are allowable through the design

I knew you were going to say this even before you did! The little chip you had implanted during your injection told me. Seriously, I agree with you. It is now gone too far not to get vaccinated

Hirth are no longer made from the last news i heard, that was about 2 years ago. The new Yamaha might fit that market perfectly !

They stopped building new ones last year with the start of Covid, they are selling factory inventory stock at the moment, this is expected to last till the end of 2021. You must be reading a different report to me ?

https://www.rotax-owner.com/en/component/k2/item/75-rotax-582-end-of-production

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/60164/do-birds-ever-fly-in-clouds

All of this and it can only lift 10 tons and do 80 kn ? I saw the good year blimp at Oshkosh trying to land just before a storm front. It was one of the most dangerous things I have ever seen. As it happens they were actually doing a live cross at the time for the Chicago news which got replayed just about everywhere and the reporter was getting violently thrown around, one minute she was on the floor, the next minute she was on the roof and she was screaming "we are going to die" they cut away from the story after that but said afterward she survived without a scratch. She did a follow-up later in the evening bulletin saying they hit some minor turbulence and she apologized for swearing etc. in calm winds, these things must be fantastic but if you get anywhere near a storm front I think you are lucky to live because not only does it go up and down it also goes left to right, sideways and every other direction at the same time. After the storm it passed through we went over and spoke to some of the guys who are looking after the mooring mast and they said it was the closest to disaster they had ever seen. This blimp pictured above is about 4 times bigger which probably makes it 10 times less maneuverable

You really are a glass half empty person Spacey ! 😇

To do this properly you need to run a trailing pitot and static. I will see if I can pull-up the report on all of this. Its very interesting how you can't use the built-in system for absolute accuracy. the photo was a design from the leading edge on an extension pole which could take normal readings and also readings without angle of attack measurements and you could see of the differences, sometimes many knots. They also trailed sensors out the back about 30 m behind the aircraft away from influences, there was a retractable system that came out of the wingtip. The report was done by the café foundation in Sonoma California. I will have to have a good dig to see if I can find it, but the end result was, the system used on the aircraft is nowhere near accurate enough for critical design information and it must be done properly with independent instrumentation and calibration

The Mudgee aeroclub brought a thruster that did exactly this, it would porpoise at different power settings, really aggressively. I know one of the guys down there and will see if they can remember the cure. It must be at least 30 years ago now that they got this aircraft and they crashed it on Boxing Day rolling it up into a ball but it did fly again. I have a vague memory it was something to do with the fabric on the tail feathers but I will have to ask them because I just don't remember.

You are missing the inspection of the aircraft step, It HAS to be inspected by L2 or a CASA appointed person, then issued with a CofA, THEN you can fly

I do believe you need some clarification here. the RA-Aus will register anything, registration is only one of the processes of putting an aircraft into the air. Honestly, I could register a wheelbarrrow with a plank across it but that doesn't mean anything it just gives it a registration number. If you don't progress to the next step in the regisstration process your registration will automatically expire after I think 12 months. The next step after registration is to get a certificate of airworthiness. The registration doesn't mean anything at all, it is the certificate of airworthiness which is the document that allows you to go flying. The certificate of airworthiness is available to the owner of a new aircraft after inspection by the appropriate authority, these vary from what I understand depending on the category of registration and the origins of the aircraft (e.g. kit built from an approved kit, factory built or designed yourself) Saying that the RA-Aus deregistered your aircraft is not true, if you did not proceed with a certificate of airworthiness within the 12 months or you did not pay for the renewal of the registration then your registration simply lapses just like it would give you registered a car for 12 months and didn't renew it. Remember just like a car, it has to get inspected and signed off before it can be registered and in some states it needs to be inspected every 12 months or whatever it is based on the year of the car and the RA-Aus is exactly the same.

it proved one thing to me, hot chicks like science ! Shame I am not smart enough !

CASA is there is a safety regulator. To get the absolute best safety results you need to minimise your exposure. In this case if you stop aircraft from flying then you are significantly reducing your exposure risk. In a perfect world from a CASA perspective, I am sure that they would only like to see Qantas and Virgin type of operations which are by statistics very safe, they can then, pack their back, give themselves a wage rise and declare they are doing a fantastic job. All they need to do is to get rid of GA and RA-Aus because these are the segments which are affecting their safety ratings. It can only be in their interests to reduce their risk exposure by stopping GA and recreational aviation for the reasons given above

it is by their own admission that they had mistakes in the POH and all of the weight and balance documents. That is one simple fact that they can't avoid. The other fact is as I have mentioned previously, they lied on the weight and balance documents in Australia so that the aircraft were not overweight. Some of them were listed 60 kg underweight !

Now they have cancelled AusFly at Narromine ? What's going on.

Sweden = cold. More people inside = more spreading Just guessing

NOT HAPPY JAN !

Just received an update from the organisers that Queensland health is not restricting the event because it is an outdoor event and people have purchased tickets for attendance which satisfies the registration requirements for visitors. Depending on which forecast you look at it is either going to be raining on Saturday and clear on Sunday or clear on both days, hard to work out which one is going to be correct. I have my bag packed, my camera charged and nothing can stop me attitude ! Bring on the Brisbane airshow !

Apparently not, several have been caught out from what they were saying today so the new rule stays in effect forever. You would think so but its now not enough - a few rotten apples have ruined it for everyone !