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Bob Hoover autographed my logbook in 1969. Still look at that page regularly. Worked with Dave Scott for a while, flew rc sailplanes with Paul Bickle (holder of world altitude records in glider for decades), Tommy Morgenfeld, Helen Dick ( possibly the best sailplane pilot ever), flew right...

I work about 12 miles from the crash site. We had low ceilings and icing pretty much to the surface that day. My students had a long discussion about ADM the next day.

A bit of flying r/c sailplanes upwind and downwind of tree lines leads me to expect strong sink just on the downwind side near treetops. Just adding to the accident chain.

Of course on approach you are probably going upwind and therefore optimum speed for covering ground will be approximately l/d max plus half the wind speed. Minor tweak. Related lesson: We had a guy in our club confuse spoilers and flaps in our l13. When he finally figured it out he had...

Excellent link Aggie. I am going to recommend the owner look into taking it there. I was hoping someone knew the tolerances for rigging, but I am satisfied knowing others would be a bit jumpy about this much droop too.

I talked with previous pilots. They said it flies with 15 degrees right wheel and has pretty poor climb. There is some rash on the upper right aileron skin neat the tip. I am thinking I want to see a lot more before I fly it.

Grrr. It's a 172, not that it would make any difference.

We were preflighting a Cessna 172G and noticed that when the aileron on the left side was aligned to the flap the right side was roughly an inch below the flap edge, and the control wheel is straight. If the aileron s are manually balanced left to right they droop a bit more than a half inch...

I am totally fascinated by the violent topic drift. Thank you all. I like the idea of using the FAA source documents. Our flight instructor uses Gleim at his day job so I can follow their general syllabus. Good enough, thank you.

Right.. I am an aero engineer teaching gnc and software gurus so there will be little room for sloppy presentation and sadly the FAA exams are pretty sloppy. The questions about aspect ratio make my skin crawl. I am getting the impression from sample sections that the standard texts are not...

It seems like most texts steer clear of showing the underlying math and geometry but I think this crowd would eat it up. I was thinking just use one of the standards then spice it up .a bit. But then I got lazy,..

They would do it and diagram the entire text in uml.

With any luck I will have my ground instructor rating in the near future, and my first prospective class is entirely composed of engineers and techies. What textbooks would be a good fit for a room full of obsessive compulsives?