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How prevalent is PAR these days? Enough to be considered an emergency back-up?

Thanks! I tend to spend a lot of time up front researching... that's where I am now. Trying to do a fairly deep dive into understanding the model to help me decide which aircraft I'd like to build. A long time ago, I found through a not-aviation topic, that discussion forums like POA can be...

No delay...don't lollygag, if you can't roll NOW then don't cross that line. and the taxi at a brisk walk pace.... nobody really seems to know what that means....pretty much nobody. I reckon I've only seen it done by some really small stuff on very much unimproved grass strips.....oh and there...

agreed about the airshow. I do enjoy watching parts of it.... Hard not to like a fast mover coming overhead low in afterburner...or other interesting/different acts. I'll sometimes head back to my motorhome in the campground and enjoy the thunderbirds (or blues) from a perspective other than...

Do you NEED ANR? No, most certainly. Assuming you're flying a typical trainer..... Myself and many thousands of others trained and flew millions of hours with passive headsets. Now I would not suggest that anyone step back to what folks before my time did.... no headset at all. Hearing is too...

I'm with Chris in post #2. I like them both, so flip a coin Question, what's with the flags? I can't see them well enough to see what flags they are...State flags I assume, so States visited? Ho sorry, I see you are UK, so probably countries visited..... nice!

I think my biggest questions at this point 1) What is NOT included in the kit?.... I understand most kits don't include paint, avionics, and sometimes engine...but some do. I was looking at Sling at Sun N Fun and their kit pretty much can cover pretty much everything I think but paint. That of...

I would have assumed they had the "come home" button somewhere on their joy-stick..... loose control, and one push to toggle the computer to go wings level and come home.....

I'm just looking for experience with Rans kits in general and I'm most curious about their S-21 Outbound and their S-7 Courier, or maybe their S-20 Raven I was really hoping to have a look at them at Sun N Fun, but sadly they weren't there...and I didn't spot any on the field. Interestingly...

We thought we had our old house sold when we bought our current house, then the deal fell through about the same time as the market tanked.... we ended up renting it out for a few years. The best thing I did - after a time trying to manage everything myself and self-repairing most anything that...

now that's funny right there.... I can think of a sort-of passable reason beyond costume.... and I know not much about how these guys operate.... but I assume they are sitting in a cockpit simulator-type set-up probably for hours at a time...an environment that is similar in some ways to a...

I too have always been envious of folks that could play a "sing along" type instrument. I learned trumpet as a kid... that ain't one of them! started to teach myself fiddle years ago, but every time I pulled it out my wife would ask "do you have to play that now?" Yeah I know it wasn't great...

You got some nice pics there. This one especially hits home to me. As I mentioned, My son joined me for a couple of days there from college, so it was some really great father & son time.... for me anyway. I hope it was half as meaningful to him as it was for me. Anyway, my wife... who has...

I was wondering about that. They had campers (the on-road type) parked out on the West end where they used to have aircraft camping. I couldn't get a feel for aircraft numbers compared to previous years but it seemed light. Meanwhile the RV campground was pretty much packed (on road trailers...

I was going to reply along similar lines to what RussR wrote in his first paragraph...sample size, geography and also what he said about "looking for something different" I have no history in the military myself so this is only just a parallel speculation but as an example.... I still to this...

I said the same thing about the windows!...well actually both sides. For me it's not so much for photography though, mostly about ventilation. I said to one of the Sling guys that those windows have got to open....and he looked a little surprised. Not sure who he was and if he's in any sort...

yeah, we were looking for water refills too! I went looking where I remember them being years ago and they were gone. I reckon maybe taken out for covid. Found a hose bib near the FAA building, and later found one jury rig attached to a tree, I think it was near the walkway in from the main...

Just back home from sun n fun. Checked my notes, this was my 16th. (I'd rather go to Airventure, but I live in FL) This year I drove in my class C motorhome, arriving Wed after the airshow. A couple days just roaming, primary focus was a hope to narrow down a short list of kits as a...

my experience is quite old now, but foggles always bother me too (not a headache exactly, but eye strain from the glare and distortion for sure). My solution back in the 1990's was a fine tooth saw and I hacked away the clear part of the lenses. That helped.

As a rusty pilot I do wish that I'd have done better about keeping more of a mini journal for my flights. Looking back many of those flights seemed unremarkable at the time, but now that memory has faded I wish I'd written more.