Recent content by kzadora

Basic aircraft control in IMC is the foundation of IFR flying. You must learn this regardless what nav. equipment you use. There is more GPS approaches available today than any other approach types combined. Do you really want to not have them in your bag of tricks from day one of your IFR...

Dave, I really like your little "ditty". Very easy to remember, logically reflects the execution of an approach, and, if you take care of all the items thoroughly, you won't miss anything important. For example, when figuring out how to identify the "Fix", I will naturally tune and identify the...

A simple answer to your original question, Calvin, is that maneuvering speed is representing a limit on acceleration. A wing travelling at the same speed and angle of attack produces the same amount of lift. This does not change with the airplane total weight but does change with the...

:yeahthat: CS propeller is not complicated to use once you learn what to do--but you must go through learning. Landing the '40 also might be a bit of a challenge initially--it likes to stay in the air and you want to be fairly precise with speeds and power settings. Again, it is not...

During my PPL training the school I was using focused strictly on the PTS. So no accelerated stalls, no falling leaf stalls and no spins. I was flying what is perhaps the most forgiving GA trainer (Diamond 40) and even when doing power-off stalls, I could be very slow on the rudder and still...

+1 for the Serengetis, non-polarized. I have them in dark orange and they are just awesome on these not-quite-sunny days around Seattle, with a lot of haze-diffused light that makes things surprisingly hard to see. I wear contact lenses too. Recently my doctor got me a new generation stuff...