Recent content by Tantalum

What I'd love to see is a cost effective FADEC capable turbine in the 150-300 hp range. THAT would be a nice advancement. Get a small turbine down to the cost of a new Lyco / Conti I guarantee the STCs would start popping up to retrofit the legacy fleet. Since 99.99999999999999999999999999% of...

Why did you hate it? Understanding that might help you know if this is for you or not. Hate it because of nerves, hate it because of the CFI or school? Hate it because you just don't like it? EXACTLY! Aviation to me is an addiction, but one that keeps me out of trouble and pushing hard in...

Genuine question, outside of the yaw damper issue on the 737, where their well-known and well publicized technical issues with the 757, 767, or 777? I'm sure the 707 through 747-100, 200 likely had but dawn of the jet age can be forgiven to some extent Unfortunately, perception is reality. What...

Disgraceful

Twin. Or for those scared of VMC roll issues and proficiency, you have the Skymaster. You can pick up a Skymaster well below $200K.. but they seem to sit a long time. The same ones I was scrolling through months ago are still there. Oddly, people are spending well over $200K for singles. The...

I want my people coming out of a checkride thinking it was easier than expected.. and, more importantly, with real tools they'll use in their aviation journey

New-ish CFI here, but after about 500 hrs of dual given I find the iPad to be a HUGE distraction.. at least for people who are pre-solo. Keep your head out the window, learn the local landmarks, all that jazz. I had a few people show up early on with shiny new iPad and Foreflight they got as a...

LOVE CAPS.

Here you go.. I live in and fly around the Southern California area for the last 10+ years -Centurion, get one with ice protection --pros: very stable, honestly flies like a big heavy 172. The biggest learning curve will be learning to slow it down in your descents and getting used to the heavy...

As much as I hate waiting for years, and agree in principal that there's value in discussing an accident, I acknowledge a huge knee jerk risk in making conclusions before everything has been vetted.. We have many examples of recent history we can look at where we acted prematurely without all...

..this thread is wild. What does Occam's razor tell us? Human error is the leading cause of accidents. Not suicidal passengers who then run from the plane after somehow managing a dual engine failure yet manage to glide the plane down to a relatively okay landing Someone on blancolirio's...

Tomahawk! Such a sweet little plane, underappreciated

Sorry to the OP The metrics are skewed. Do you have data on the hours of successful twin training that occurs daily with these kinds of maneuvers? Twins demand more. Unfortunately that means during training sometimes to use accidents will happen. I'm surprised they would try any kind of...

well. I'm 0 for 2 today with replying to your posts. Sorry man. What I can say is that I empathize. We've been through a few printers and they ALL SUCK. Hewlett Packard is the most disgraceful of the recent purchases. You cannot print unless you download their app and software, and subscribe to...

Hey! I see this all the time. What trick worked with me, and my students, is don't think of this as memorizing what they said and reading it back, but rather, understanding what they're asking and then telling them what you think they'd like you to do.. For instance, I assume you have the taxi...