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I used to go into "North" Philly (PNE). See if that doesn't work for you.

Forgive me but you got me a bit off topic. I've been fortunate to have had some real great instructors, Student to PPL: Clyde spent WW2 instructing UK pilots in Stearmans. Bob took me through Com & inst. He had campaigned a P-40 from North Africa to N.Italy. His favorite thing was to fly every...

Each time that I came to a new club or glider school, I was given a check ride. Without exception, the Instructor had me spin it. (I say "instructor" because there was no CFIG until the early 80's. COMG's had instructor privileges.) No one was ever reluctant to do spins. Even the new, teen-age...

I started with the Rucker glider club when I was a student helo pilot at Ft Rucker/Novosel. They had a "hard rule" against any non school flying. Not strictly enforced. I was able to chat with my Flt Commander about it. The club launched with both aero tow and automobile tow. He was in awe when...

Local authorities are having a fit over the auto traffic jams at the back entrance to the NAS on practice mornings. This is a new thing for this year. Said to be epic.

Re: the base to final stall. I recall a conversation with an old timer that had run a CPT school during WW2. In one of the Carolinas. He said that the school had all Luscombe 8 Charlies. Lots of them. He told me that almost all the schools' accidents were on the base to final turn. I later dug...

The problem is that they made too many.

Sedate = Standard rate.

Actually, Boeing should be blamed for over use of the number seven.

Time to bring back the trimotors?

Right on Ron! If I recall correctly, this was a Navy project conducted mid WW2. Burn time was in seconds. Ever seen a Fat Albert RATO t.o.? (Fat Albert had access to the world wide supply of RATOs until exhausted. About 2 years) The unit on the Ercoupe's belly was about the size and weight of a...

Tailwheel gliders? Barnstormers has a Sonex Xenos 2 seat t.w. motor glider posted at this time.

Excellent info. And just because I posted that gliders land faster than cruise.

I know. I said that I put out my opinion and now I'm going to bed. I got my Glider rating when I was a military pilot in long term school. Forbidden to fly, but flight pay continued. I heard of the glider operation in nearby San Marcos and checked it out. Commercial glider pilots had instructor...

I swore to myself, that I would stay out of this. But I have to say ONE thing and I'm gone. Tail dragging airplanes and gliders land differently in one respect. First, I was taught to land airplanes kinda slowly. Tail draggers, nose draggers, ME's & helos. I got into gliders after a couple of...

Depends where you start. I learned in a Cub. I was at the glider field on a day that there was a X-wind across the RW. I watched a pilot land and while rolling out, the wind shifted, got behind him and ever so slowly, nosed him over on his back. We rushed over and flipped him right side up. No...

A little time to kill, I thought I would post the 2024 practice schedule. The practices are held at NAS Pensacola. Gates on scheduled days open at 0930 and T.O. time is 1030 CST. A gov ID was required in prior years to get in. It may have been dropped by now. Check the Facebook page. The 2024...

I'm going to guess. Flight Lead led the flight through a couple of right turns and the ones on the left couldn't keep up.

I bought 20 acres on a private sale in Florida. The title company handled everything to a "T".

I wonder if that could be Freemason Island. Been there, done that. Good place to go "sea shelling".