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When rolling out of a steep turn you need to lead the rollout by 10° or so. We talkin' 'bout practice, man.

"Does not appear to move much," is how I would say it. You can't instantly go from one side to the other, so there's a second or two where you're in a side slip if in fact you succeed in keeping the point stationary. I'd go for the "feel" and the ball will stay in the center, but the point will...

The irony is not lost on me.

Same group that buzzed cornfields in Kansas at night a few years ago? I'm sure the thousands of Chinese nationals breaching the southern border are vetted for drone operational experience, right? Nah, see: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/chinese-student-charged-for-drone-shots-of-u-s-shipyard/...

You CAN get lower — 7700 MSL right after crossing UVCEH if you go straight-in, but you're aimed right for a 7500 MSL peak. At high IAS and turn radius you're possibly going to get too close for TERPs comfort, imo. TERPs might assume a random pilot could fly over the waypoint and descend immediately.

I swear to you this is true. Last night I opened the eBook, read the front matter and skimmed the contents. Then I jumped to page 25 to read what Einstein says about time. Two pages later I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open and fell asleep over an hour before my usual bedtime with a life...

Yeah, sorry. If you understand space-time, then I have no cure for insomnia for you because I have no other theory. If I did, I couldn't get to sleep. :(

I never understood special relativity, so I just start trying to come up with another way to reconcile the speed of light being the same for all observers and BAM, I'm out.

THAT looks like it attracts frozen Cornish Hens.

My fear would be loading the poison, ymmv.

When I was a new A&P and an aircraft owner, I learned the importance of having an AI keep tabs on my work.

Party animal. All the way from Oakland?

I thought the slide rule was the white thing in the bottom and the big cylinder was an air filter, which is why it lasted this long.

Prop control was found full forward. Overspeed? Gear box going to direct drive, how could THAT happen? I have no clue. :dunno:

Thanks for posting this. The irony is that it looks like there were better options straight ahead, especially if he had enough airspeed to make the landfill. Still, he almost threaded the needle, though, but for that vehicle. https://www.globalair.com/airport/germack-7d9.aspx

Brainstorming with you, why is GPS needed? Each location, say pixel on a map of, say, Florida, would have one set of theoretical bearings that should exist over that point. So, the device would only need to find the pixel with the highest number of matching bearings — and there's where you...

Yeah! That was MY post! But you might agree that with 592 AM radio stations in Florida it would be nice to have a simple device that keeps a running estimate of your position by utilizing them as a backup to GPS. https://radiostation.info/am/florida/

Isn't WAAS stand alone? Then no "approved backup" is required, and anything is better than nothing.

Well, I'm not the one seeking IFR-approval for a GPS backup device. I just don't want to hit anything because I can't tell where I am. If continuous triangulations using numerous AM stations are feasible, it just seems to me that an algorithm could smooth out the aircraft's location with a...

Yeah, it didn't take long for the digit heads to ruin a simple concept by making it complex, modern and expensive. DME/DME is line of sight, so not seeing how that does much good for atmospheric bottom-feeders in the GA fleet — rooting around in the valleys and below the horizons of DME...