Recent content by Eddie P

Anyone else flying RV’s?

I love it! If you can do weight and balance as well as confirm performance, then yeah. Be sure to account for the performance though. It’s one thing to be legal but entirely something else to be safe. And a 150 is not blessed with excess takeoff performance near gross weight. Recall that the...

I was trying to find a place to make a bunch of video clips useful and made this video for those with a spare 2 minutes. Fly safe to all!

Absolutely. In every competitive or high performance sport or activity I've ever been involved with I've used visualization to great effect. I doubt there is an elite athlete, fighter pilot or other performer out there who is truly great at their "thing" that does not use visualization. We...

I'm already an aerobatic pilot, already a professional pilot. I fly 80 hours a month in high performance jets and about 5 hours a month in light and slow aerobatic airplanes. Just was looking for something to help keep timing right, possibly an avenue for self innovation and something to...

Thank you Murphey, this is the kind of hint I guess I've been hoping for, with a little further investigation I found this. Check this link out for any who may be interested.. http://acrogimpfsf.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/flight-simulator-x-as-aerobatics-training-tool/ Obviously this is not...

You are right. We have to look at the right place at the right time and hold positions or move through them gracefully in aerobatics. The way sim guys do this these days (apparently I've only read about this tool) is they have an "IR Tracking" device you clip on to a ball cap and when you turn...

No, actually I'm joking. I thought I'd write up a long winded question for fun. :lol: Actually, there is a lot of precedent for sims in use for training as I'm sure you are aware, ha ha. I would not be learning aerobatics in a sim, I've already done that thanks in real aerobatic aircraft. I...

Hello all, I was wondering if there is a quality "home" flight sim that has a quality flight model of a typical sporty aircraft that would be a good place for procedural brush up int he winter months. You know, just something that works well that may have aerobatic features like smoke (to see...

Yup, above post says it all. No, owning an airplane is not practical. But "practical" rarely makes life worth living for the bold and curious human within us. It wasn't practical to dump tea in a harbor in Boston back in the day. And it wasn't practical to get in an outrigger and paddle away...