Recent content by MauleSkinner

Where’s the ambiguity?

Your avatar is the power-off glide attitude?

But it cost millions! It must be valuable!

At least it’s the same best man.

It also failed to notice a 4th person in the airplane…I’m starting to think maybe part of that family is computer-generated to start with, and doesn’t really exist. ;)

Good to know…My understanding when it happened to me was that it was a single antenna, but it also want one of the popular Garmin or Avidyne systems.

I’ve been chastised more than once for teaching/doing that, but at the very least, it’s an effective way to break a fixation on the departure end of the runway that often has people trying to flare near treetop height. As far as I’m concerned, lifting the tailwheel a little bit after landing is...

I’m assuming there will be a reg written similar to 61.11.

I had a customer who bought a Piet and wanted me to do his tail wheel endorsement in it. That’s what killed the idea…I didn’t mind the lack of instruments in the front seat (pitch+power=performance still works, and I’d have put my dad in the back to give me those sight pictures. I told him I’d...

Good question. ;) Just note that it’s largely a terminology change. You still have to keep it current via the same methods formerly used for renewal, but the certificate itself doesn’t expire.

Make sure you get a good contract with the Sports Channel for coverage of the knock-down drag-out all-instructor fight. ;)

This brings up another point… @Aceman how much airwork have you done?

Just my opinion, but I’d say you have a crappy instructor. “Dancing on the rudder pedals” is simply compensating for, and encouraging, poor technique. The only time the rudder pedals need to move is if the nose is either not pointing the right direction or is starting to move away from the...

At the end of your third lesson, either you’re doing normal-length lessons and progressing normally (although I agree with @Lindberg in that you should have 3-point landings down before trying to master wheel landings) or your 3-hour lessons are going way beyond the point of diminishing returns...

So who do you log as your date?