Recent content by bqmassey

I’d be interested in the airplane academically, just because I think alternative airplane designs are interesting (I think the aircraft like the Facetmobile, Rutan designs, etc, are cool). If by “interested” you mean having an interest in buying the building plans or buying the finished...

The article is somewhat misleading in whole. However, there are certainly companies who have successfully learned to abuse the system.

Yea, practically the entire helicopter is time limited to 12 years. When you hit 12 years (or 2200 hours) the whole thing is supposed to be overhauled. It's practically a brand new helicopter when you get it back. This keeps the cost of maintenance really low. There are very few things that...

Just a POI: there's a difference between high descent rate (FPM) and steep descent angle, and you'd handle them differently.

Sure there is. I'm asked to report it often.

Affirm.

The FAA isn't particularly concerned with your intentions. Their concern, when issuing a pilot certificate, is to verify you have certain experience and have demonstrated a certain baseline skillset. I can't speak for the FAA as to why they want they want commercial pilots to have complex...

If you restrict yourself to traditional aviation weather products, it's kind of limited. You can make some guesses based on the long term surface prog charts (watching the fronts and isobars). For something past 30 hours, I'm checking other weather sources; weather.gov or commercial weather...

There's a bit about it in the Instrument Flying Handbook.

On the ASI, you set pressure altitude (7,200) opposite outside air temperature. Positive temperatures are on the left. So, in those pictures, you've configured it for 7,200 PA and +16C or so. If your OAT gauge is reading 16C, you've set it up correctly, but I'm guessing that your OAT wasn't...

If you're tactic is to simply appease the vocal and persistent unhappy customers, instead of trying to prevent unhappy customers, I'll take my business elsewhere.

Most of my flying is in helicopters, but I fly airplanes as well. I've transmitted quite a few "Seattle Center, heli-Cessna 1234,... "

Sure, but I recently was told different by someone. I'd like to be able to show it to them in writing.

Do you have a reference for that off the top of your head?