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Is a T&B or TC still required for IFR so you can fly a standard rate 2 minute turn, or do the newfangled electronics take care of that? I had a venturi driven T&B in my T-Craft, no other gyro instruments... it saved my butt once when I got caught under a lowering overcast and had to climb 500'...

Technically, is 1/2A but .051 is A. Cox made both versions so modelers could fly the same plane in both classes just by swapping the engine with no other changes. I went to fly at the Jamboree once back in the mid 1970s, had a beat up Morane-Saulnier N model (covered with German logenze...

Depends on the engine. On a Lycoming (I know this one was a Rotax, which is different) the concern is the sudden stoppage, with the bolts holding the magneto drive gear on the back of the crankshaft potentially fracturing so the accessory case at least needs to be removed.. That wouldn't be a...

Picky, picky. OK, fine, it will be more precise... and more accurate, too, IF the altimeter setting is correctly set.

Pressure altitude will always be more accurate than GPS... with the caveat, as others have pointed out, that pressure altitude may or may not correspond with the actual altitude unless the altimeter setting is correctly entered. Here are two altitude plots from the same flight when I was doing...

Kerosene

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To the newscritters, anything but an on airport landing is a crash. Why do I suspect alcohol was involved in this one?

Airports with a lot of ultralight activity often put the ultralight pattern at 500' AGL, often on the opposite side of the standard pattern. Same for PPCs, which fly at about the same speed. You don't want a Bonanza trying to stay in the pattern behind a PPC flying at 30-40 mph. PPCs almost...

Cherokee

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/stolen-plane-crash-atlantic-county-new-jersey-robberies/3938760/

As is the fear of hand propping.

Or when they announce their position as an IFR fix that VFR pilots in the pattern have no clue where it is.

Court

Bzzzzzzzz

Until you have to snake it out of the drain...

Gee

Fixation

Many have done so, but not legally... and what happens if you crash or have a forced landing beyond the boundaries of your property?

Ordnance