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    CFI's thoughts after one of thier studets has an accident?

    "I like to say we're teaching each other." Popcorn anyone? :D
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    Ah, the mag vs true wind raises its ugly head again

    It won’t take a hundred years to not matter if you are depending on others to tell you how to fly. They go home for supper, you get shoveled into a basket. So, the nice man says wind is 290 At five and you are cleared to land on runway two-seven. So why are you crabbing hard to the left to keep...
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    Crosswind Landing practice in the Cherokee 6

    The tail draggers I learned land with did not tolerate mistakes in a cross wind, so you just had to do it Some of the claims on here make me shake my head in wonder In general a long slipping final gives your leg a real workout and being lazy I avoid work outs A long banking final gives me the...
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    Cessna 310R down near Las Vegas yesterday (Oct 29); two dead

    The bottom line is that he did not fly to survive. He flew away from two airports that he would have reached without even breaking a sweat. Passed over open ground where a forced landing would have been almost a sure thing. He lost precious time arguing with ATC. He responded to losing altitude...
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    Cessna 310R down near Las Vegas yesterday (Oct 29); two dead

    In an airplane ya gotta have the mindset (always) that I do - that if things go wrong I will FLY the %^$*&! airplane to survive - NOT to make some spithead on the radio happy. Who cares what they think, when I may die because I lost critical altitude arguing with them? Aviate Navigate And...
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    Ocala FL sheriff plane crash

    Well, that is small - compared to a C5
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    Interesting report on the P-51

    What report? It's on a need to know basis - and guess what :D
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    Storing engines

    Let me strongly suggest that you do not grind your dry engine to death by pulling it through every few weeks or months. Once it has set long enough for the cam (and rings) to go dry you need to either pre-oil it ( not easy to do on most ga engines) or just start it so you get oil pressure as...
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    Congress Slams Boeing and the FAA to the Max

    Local CFI is a 737 captain laid off for 3 months now and trying to build a company as a cfi / air taxi / corporate flight department consultant. He came up through GA as a kid at our airfield, went from washing airplanes to flight instructor to crop dusting to to the feeder lines to the bigs...
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    Great Lakes crash in San Diego, Ca

    Ouch. That is bad country ahead. I agree, assuming the assumptions are correct, that going to port might have had more options. I would like to think that I would have in his situation (being a legend in my own mind ;) stuffed the nose down hard, stood on the left rudder and aileron to make a...
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    Ag plane "hard landing" - West TN

    Blades turning at impact. The time from the moment she burped to the moment she hit must have been short.
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    Piper PA-46 crash kills four people in Texas

    I'm wondering if the supposed invulnerability of turbines creates a mind set that you don't have to plan for that emergency any longer. And like the VFR into IMC crashes that we see happen with an IFR rated pilot, the pilot fixates and gets behind the airplane.
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    RV-9A weird pitch up

    My Apache altimeter rises 75 feet in altitude when the alternate static air is pulled on. Always has, always will. Nothing wrong. Instrument panel has a placard to that effect for correction if using alternate air in IFR/IMC flight.
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    Just getting started, Would you be so kind to give me some input on a career path?

    Ahhh, nothing more horrifying than watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know how it will end but you can’t take your eyes off it. 1: you are expert at one thing - selling. Reading the customer’s wants and needs (To spend money on something he really does not need) and finding a solution...
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    Columbia 350 questions:

    These pocket rockets have high wing loading and will whip stall before you are ready. Fly it like your life depends on it. No forgiveness, my son.
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    Chuck Conners or Chuck Norris?

    I prefer chuck roast..
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    VOR Approaches gone ?

    No, you don't need 3 or 4 approaches to a runway. But, when you eliminate ONE and all the rest are GPS dependent, you really only have one approach left.
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    VOR Approaches gone ?

    No, you don't need 3 or 4 approaches to a given runway. But when you eliminate ONE and the rest are all GPS dependent, you really only have one approach left.
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    NYS driver's license "Not for federal purposes"

    My E-DL has been working perfectly and allows me/us to use the domestic airlines, cross the borders with cooperating countries, yadda, yadda. It required me to produce certified copies of birth certificate, photo ID from a government agency, current utility bill to prove the claimed residential...
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    NYS driver's license "Not for federal purposes"

    Just to chime in. I just recently spoke with the Sec. Of State office here in Michigan requesting a replacement DL with the flag. If you have an Enhanced Driver License it Does meet the new federal requirement for boarding commercial aircraft. Also for entering Canada. Reason for the...
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