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The parachute is not designed to save the aircraft. It's there to save the occupants. The redundancy in engine components like dual mags are not there to make the engine run better, they are there to reduce the risk of an engine failure. The extra mags are not needed to fly the airplane...

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For those struggling to understand the value of the all-airframe-parachute consider the 'advances' made in car safety since the 1950s. In those days you had non-padded steel dashboards, no seat belts, no ABS & autonomous brakes, leaded gasoline, no rack & pinion steering, no crush zones, no...

Remember, altitude is your friend. If you have an engine problem you want to be high so you have more time to get down on something flat, hopefully a runway.

The BRS parachute has saved 324 lives to date and they are not the only company making the product. http://www.brsaerospace.com/brs_aviation_home.aspx Here is a list of manufacturers that have them: Cirrus Cessna (STC'ed by BRS) Flight Design Pipistrel Sting Sirius Zenith Air Velocity Here is...

Cirrus was granted ELOS (Equivalent Level Of Safety) for the combination of the cuffed wing design from NASA which reduces spin risk to a very low level. And by testing and proving the BRS parachute can be used to eliminate non-recoverable spins entirely. The Cirrus can recover from a spin...

Fly with the glass and don't look back.

A digital PFD has altimeter and airspeed tape. A VSI, attitude indicator, turn coordinator, baro (kollsman), HSI-compass rose and directional gyro (combo heading indicator and CDI). Other useful information include density altitude, outside air temperature, TAS & ground speed, wind...

You will have plateaus and possibly some backsliding. There are no magic number of hours. The minimum hours are not the actual hours it takes for most. The keys are patience and tenacity.

You just classified every pilot of a jet aircraft as lacking basic airmanship. And every pilot of aircraft built in the past five years as lacking same.

You busted the airspace if you did not have the 2-way and were inside a layer. Best to circle outside the airspace until you get the two-way established.

Prepware is cheap and works well also. Bring what you would be expected to have in the cockpit when you fly. You can skip, they will instruct you how the test works. You do have a time limit. The real reason to miss as few as possible is because you will have to answer missed questions on...

The ICON A5 has a lopsided price/value proposition. The first 100 aircraft are said to cost $245,000 each. To own and operate one requires a sport pilot license and a seaplane rating. The 'light sport' aircraft is heavy (1500lbs), slow (Vh of 92kts), short range (420nm), small useful load...

An autopilot usually has two modes. Automatic (fly the flight plan) and Manual (fly current heading and altitude). There are also 2-axis and 3-axis autopilot servo setups. Those being pitch, roll and yaw. The more complex autopilots can ascend and descend automatically (at a rate dictated...

Agreed. Make sure elevator trim is set to neutral before takeoff. Also, make sure the flaps are set according to the POH for calm wind takeoffs. If you have max flaps set you are basically asking the plane to do a short field takeoff.

The AIM is best practices. You can violate the FAR too and no one is gonna pull you over and give you a ticket. The only time ignoring the information matters is after the crash. People get tense when flying around non-towered and see others ignoring the AIM. And why not, the chaos is...

IFR in non towered airport? The likelihood of VFR traffic competing for the runway in IMC are probably pretty slim.

No one said all at once. But the full stop landings are required by the FAR.

You don't need permission to enter and fly thru an MOA. But if you are concerned there is a phone number associated with MOAs. Contact them as ask about traffic and activity if you are concerned.

It makes no difference saying 'departure' or 'approach' if the same frequency is given by the tower on departure. But since you are departing, call them departure. As long as you get 'radar contact' (and not silence) you are good to go...