Recent content by kestrel

Re: My instructor nagged me because.. It appears that you didn't take the time to understand my posts. ...much as you have no clue to the meaning of the image I posted. Drop the adversarial style and we might be able to have a conversation.

Re: My instructor nagged me because.. This is about message 235 in this thread. I assure you that I had much more fun hiking in the Tetons than keeping up with all of the replies. Which would you think was more fun? :D Maybe. I'll leave it to the OP to decide if he considered the...

Re: My instructor nagged me because.. Might be a good time to pull up this one: I don't see any extremes here. Hopefully the OP can filter out the BS and add to his knowledge base. It doesn't take an experimental or bladder for things to go wrong. It might be something you can't...

Dang! I just noticed that you are at KJAC? I _really_ wish I had noticed that before and had a chance to see your plane! Edit: I was in Jackson all of this past week hiking. That I had been in the area was on the context of a post I had just made but disappeared. I have made a much...

Re: My instructor nagged me because.. Some planes don't hold their expected usable. The reasons vary. That is one hole in the OP's planning.

Some planes do NOT hold their documented usable. Things happen. I read about a dead guy who was a recognised expert on the type he was killed in. He was killed by running out of fuel in a plane that had been topped off. His planning was correct and reasonable. ...except that he did not now...