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Probably just due to moisture absorbed by the feed after packing.

Your humble bookflyer here again, with one (possibly dumb) question: No ELT? Why not? Doesn't that seem odd?

The write-up of this incident on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390) doesn't add much detail, but does add this: Less than five months after the accident Lancaster was working again. He later retired from British Airways when he reached the company's mandatory...

That's kinda what I thought. My GA pax experience predates the use of headsets for all aboard, and I recall hearing a stall horn a couple of times. Maybe in a Cirrus they're piped through the audio. ;) But I guess it would be surprising in your average older GA plane. So, the question then...

Dumb newbie bookflyer question: are the gear warning and stall warning horns piped through the audio system, or can they possibly be excluded by ANR headsets?

That I have no problem with. I have experience of that from nautical navigation, college physics, and engineering mechanics. It's just getting the sum of vectors to be the desired course. Yay, physics! This makes sense to me.

Well, then, I'm really not understanding what you meant by "downwind is when you are pointed with the wind". To me, when doing a circle about a point, that happens at exactly one point on the circle. To be clear, there's a downwind component of your velocity on one entire half of the circle...

Thanks, that does help! In particular, it makes clear the angle of the plane relative to the ground track. So it seems to me that the reason the downwind point is the point of greatest bank is that it's the point where you're making a transition from pointing to the outside of the ground track...

Unfortunately, that's not an option right now. I'm also the sort of person who tends to research the hell out of things before I take action, anyway.

I'm not sure what's led you to believe I don't know or understand those terms. But on a circle, you are only going downwind for a very brief moment, and we're not talking about the downwind (or base, or final) legs of the pattern.

I said absolutely nothing about the legs of the landing pattern. I was only talking about different points on the circle, and thinking about it on a graph with x and y axes. I'm sure this will become clearer once I'm actually flying. So far, I'm only book-flying.

Perhaps they should have used windward and leeward.

Resistance was a poor choice of words. What I was trying to say is that at that point there's no component of your velocity that is anything other than dead downwind, so that's the point of maximum ground speed (only true for a moment, of course, since you're turning). At any other point of...

Yeah, as you’re heading downwind, you’re offering no resistance to the downwind component of the wind, so you have to turn tighter to stay on track. When you’re crosswind, you ARE offering resistance to the downwind component, so a lesser bank angle is sufficient. I think my error was looking...

Yeah, I think I’m getting it. Because the wind is pushing you as you’re heading downwind, you have to start turning tighter at that point to avoid being carried too far downwind.

Please explain that to me. Why isn’t the maximum bank angle required when the airplane is crosswind, i.e., needing to turn more toward the wind? Is it a matter of anticipation?

Have I forgotten everything I learned about physics, or does figure 6-5 in the FAA Airplane Flying Handbook (see attached screen grab) show the bank angles for a circle about a point 90 degrees from where they should be? Shouldn’t the maximum bank angle be on the downwind side of the circle and...

Non-aviation advice: check closely on conditions in Santa Barbara. They've just had fires and mudslides and floods in the last few months and may not be fully back up to tourist-level operation.

Yeah, well, nobody wants to do that! :) Maybe the hangar next door is as far as he can carry it. Or is there maybe a patch of grass there?

How old is this guy? Is it possible that: 1) He's got bladder trouble and can't make it to the restroom in time when the urge comes on, so that's why he uses the bucket? And: 2) He's physically incapable of carrying the bucket to the restroom, or is too embarrassed to do it? Why not talk to...