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I don't see a 360 on the 45 being as much of an issue, because, technically, what you did was break off the pattern entry and come back...

The story goes that the Naval Institute (who originally published the book) gave a draft to a retired submariner to get his take on it...

The ROW was written in an era WITHOUT aircraft radios being common. What you say on the radio doesn't matter. Would the CAA have...

Owned a Versa for about ten years. Really not a bad little car. Good quality; didn't have any major issues. However, it does...

I'm inclined to thing they aren't; the basic story is that SLSA airplanes suffer Pilot Miscontrol accidents at about the same rate as...

Last time I went through TSA screening to get to a private airplane, I had the following conversation: TSA screener, as my passenger...

The trouble is, the conditions you're describing are extremely rare. There were about 4200 homebuilt accidents from 1998 through 2018...

The main message for the Light Sport-vs-172s-152 plot is that nothing stands out. There's enough froorah about how Light Sports have...

<blush> Garsh! Part 2 should be the real eye-opener: Comparing Special Light Sports to the Cessna 152 and 172. Here's a graphic from...

Or he was going to "teach the Cessna pilot a lesson" for "cutting him off." Ron Wanttaja

Cost is the major one. A new O-200 costs something like $35,000, a Rotax 912 about the same, but a typical auto engine conversion may...

"Rhetorical." Then again, rhetorically speaking, how many hours have you flown in aircraft powered by certified Lycomings, vs. hours in...

There is also https://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/ This is the place to do a search for conversions on various types. One has to...

I get pressed...a lot...to discuss the accident statistics related to Viking engines. The problem is the small sample size. In my...

The sonar operator's technical term for this is "screw noises". Ron Wanttaja