Search results

I never suggested using power to attain said speed. At the speeds we're talking it's mainly about wetted area. The airplane just has to be small. I assumed 2 seater to that assertion from the jump.

It is nowadays, yes. We used to joke about Iran and NK pilots yearly hours. US fighter guys don't make that joke anymore. We've also wasted our capitalization fighting BS engagements overseas with the wrong tools (chasing goat herders with a nuclear strategic bombers, among other equally...

FTFY. On the rest of the quote above, 100pct agreed. As my signature intimates, this is all about affordability at the end of the day. The cost structure for rec use in current circumstances is completely FUBAR'd, price-inelastic 'it iS wUt iT iS' merchants poor-shaming the critics...

Well, two things can be true at the same time. Nobody's arguing the aircraft can't be attitude oriented in IMC by use of the little backup PFD. The issue at hand here is the spatial Disorientation induced by loss of primary information presentation in a fixed wing aircraft that dabbles in hover...

Let's gooooo! :biggrin: (my user checks)

The importance of using commas. I believe WWI started because of it. :biggrin:

nah, I legit enjoy living rent-free in certain usual suspects' head space. Cheaper hobby than owning turns out. You know you're doing it right when they follow you to other forums. Remember bois, if you're catching flak.... you've found the target. ;)

yikes. Stockholm syndrome is real.

speed flex in cosmic cancer land? *yawn* ....try again on radar downwind. And that's after going to idle, as I needed to get the gear down before overshooting the State of Texas. Lol. I'd show ya the 500'Agl version but ADSB doesn't pick me up (twofer!) in the canyons surrounding Big Bend...

I mean, at least when it comes to the powerplant side, which is the one I blame the most for the cost gridlock in this hobby anyways, I believe the premise to be an oxymoron. Certification burdens in present language is the primary obstacle to the very economic facilitation required to lower...

If the sequence of events is as described in post 11, yeah I wholly concur with the decision to punch. These e-jets, to say nothing of the smoshmortion that are jump jets, were not meant to be controlled with the big infotainment monitors blank. It's a big opportunity cost of having gone down...

Of course they do. We are cheap. My wife gets a measly half a mil if I mort, and my contraption is 60yo, equipped with the latest Auto-nothingTM and more fly2fail parts than you can shake a stick at. Any cheaper and I might as well be flying for the PLAAF. Altruism_is _for_suckers didn't quite...

nothing to add. 182 would be the safer bet long term. It's all orphany stuff these days anyways....

alleged defamation. Sorry, couldn't help myself in light of the basket of insufferable pedants that comprises this forum. :stirpot::rofl:

Indeed, the paper trail is what I find astonishing. That's some straight up hubris. And the status quo sycophants on here have the temerity to gaslight rec owners as cheapskates that need to be corraled for their own good. You mean these self-dealing gatekeepers? gluetus clowns.

In the sector I've been stalking passively for 4 years and actively for almost 2, asking prices can already be found below 100k. It's still outrageously expensive for what they are, and the open listings are sitting junk. These sellers are merely trying to obfuscate the turd and pawn it off as...

Given he's already saved a good clip on the teardown labor, i'd chuck the case for a different one and press with the re-assembly. Whether he got had by shoddy worksmanship from the prior IRAN repair, is a sunk cost at this point. I'd def use use loctite on that thing this time around; it's not...

Climb.

He knows what he was doing.....

A stark reminder that terra firma, just like IMC, is experience-level agnostic. In the end, those who loved and knew him will likely (and should) celebrate his accomplishments and personal affability as a private and public figure alike. As to low-level acro, I don't see the point nor appeal in...