Recent content by Silvaire

From a scientific perspective they started doing these checks when they switched to UL94 so there is no comparative data for 100LL use. It would appear that they are jumping to conclusions based on a very small number of anomalies.

That winding road to Hana can start to feel as grueling as a New York to Paris flight by the time you get done with the entire round trip.

It makes you wonder what people, a few thousand years ago, thought when this unexpectedly happened and they had no idea why.

A little bit of last minute advice for anyone who drives to see the eclipse and gets caught in a massive traffic snarl afterwards: If you are using Google Maps it may announce that it has found a faster route. What it won't tell you is that it is 250 miles longer and there are no gas stations on...

and we are reading them

Interesting, this just popped up on youtube. In 1973 scientists used a modified Concorde to chase an eclipse and stayed in the totality shadow for 74 minutes

That kind of harks back to the days when the pilot was sitting behind the wing like a Jenny or a Stearman but is also apt for a J3 Cub. You just get tossed around a lot more back there and every pitch or yaw movement is visually apparent. You don't get so much of it when you're sitting pretty...

Well, since the engine is tugging on the airframe having the bolts face aft wouldn't do much for you anyway. At least this way if a nut comes off you have a chance of seeing it when checking the oil. When is the last time you had your head crammed up under the panel looking at the backside of...

Is that not true? Is there someone else who can take it away or issue it? And it's not "flying at the will of the administrator" there is a defined process which in this case has been followed. I take it that you don't agree with the results but that's not how it works.

Let's see, there was a charge, a hearing, a decision, an appeal...so if he doesn't win there's no freedom? Does the fact that you have to have a license to operate an aircraft and that there is an authority that issues and governs the regulatory aspects of it impinge on your "freedom"? Explain...

Yea well, there's no prosecution here. All they want to do is suspend the license THAT THEY GAVE HIM for sixty days. If he wants to get another license, from somebody else well, good luck on that Trent.

I started watching Palmer's youtube channel way back when he first started, maybe 4 or 5 years ago now. He was a complete newbie pilot, quite naive and I thought this guy is gonna kill himself but he was good at videography and created an interesting show with imminent drama. At one point he...

"Zero adult camping experience" My advice is buy a cheap tent and try it out. There's a good chance you might just want to toss it in a dumpster rather than pack it up and bring it back home again.

Wow this is still going on? If he had just taken the six month suspension it would all be a distant memory now but apparently he's been lying awake nights gnawing his teeth for the past two and a half years over what everyone else sees as a silly "oops, probably shouldn't have done that - lesson...

The whole ZDDP thing borders on a conspiracy theory. Sure you'll get testimonies from people who put it in their engines and had "good results" but then there are thousands of people who didn't put it in with equally good results. It all started about 20 years ago in muscle car forums but the...