Recent content by Scott 'Gunny' Perdue

The flight is known as 'Air Force One' only with POTUS on board... ditto with 'Marine One'.... at other times it is known as Reach 'tail number'... standard AMC callsign. Special Air Mission... not a call sign.

JD- Good to see you on the air again. I recently bought a 150 for training as well... not commercially, but for family. I just put new radios in and an Airtex interior... only one panel had to be repalced (repainted them all)fr om Plane Plastics. Airtex is very cheap. Where are you planning on...

Chip- Interesting... I'd be very curious about their effectiveness... from the photo it looks like they are mounted very close to the hinge line... couldn't quite tell with the shadow and all... I haven't seen any n Model 12's or Sukhois. Could it be from the school of 'a little more of a...

Adam- I've got to agree with Dave on this one... It sounds like a reasonable assumption to count it as an overprime.... you don't know the airplane... you pointed it out and your friend was very likely paying more attention to the problem... nobody's perfect and you did what you thought was...

What airplanes have spades on the rudder? I've seen vortex generators... but not spades. I don't see how it would make a difference though... spades are all about lessoning the breakout force... but I don't think they would mask it totally.

Lance- [That is something I don't have much experience with at all. I have wondered how well this would work in some of the experimental airplanes I've flown in which have big spades on the control surfaces and very little control pressure. IOW in such a plane would it be difficult to identify...

Lance- This is good stuff... it is what I teach for spin recognition and recovery... with a couple of additions. I teach that you look over the nose... never left or right... determine which way the ground is going.... look directly above you if you see blue then you are upright... dark then...

Big Sky little airplane... until everyone uses the same navigation point as a reference.... an example... Coming home from Sun'n'Fun this year... west bound 6500' to the Marianna Vortac (to run the Eglin AFB airspace corridor)... right over the Vortac I see one, two, no three RV's in...

Well, you don't have to wear a parachute if you do aerobatics by yourself here in the US.... but regarding parachute wear I've got one comment.... I'd rather bailout of an airplane than die in it.... even if I'm the one that screwed up badly enough to throw away a perfectly good airplane...

Diana- I can do all that for you except for the Citabria part... sorry.

Troy- You've gotten some good words... reading those books gives you a good perspective. If you would le tme throw my two cents in... 1) Use your feet... you don't dance on the rudder pedals you use them to keep the nose straight (or pointed where you want it to go). This is easier said than...

Spike- The short answer is yes... let's figure out a schedule. And Dave is right I do this in the Extra so we won't break an airplane when things get 'unusual'.

No worries.

Mark- In this case it is you doing the pin dance.... I suggest you re-read this thread to get a better feel for who said what and what it related to. I responded to someone's assertion that 61.183i allowed spin training without a parachute for any other student... my response was don't see how...

Most POH's I've seen have very sketchy direction on spin recovery. Your comment about the F-4... I'd be curious where you got that? Navy? Generally speaking in swept wing airplanes In-Spin aileron is the best control input (the rudder is mostly blanked in a stablized spin)... for the F-15E...