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Looks like there was a crash of one of Airborne Tactical Advantage's Mirages a few days ago. Both pilots are recovering. https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/02/26/two-pilots-injured-in-tyndall-air-force-base-crash/...

Yep. Lake Amphibian. Fun plane, but renter's insurance got to be too high to continue renting.

Oh, I see. You're talking about landings knowing that the landing gear is up but not being able to do anything about it. The word "purposeful" had me going down the path of "let's decide not to put the gear down even though we could and land anyway." That, I couldn't really wrap my head...

Okay, now I'm quite curious. Why would one do a purposeful gear up?

From Wikipedia: Considered the world's second-most venomous land snake after the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), based on its LD50 value (subcutaneous) in mice, it is responsible for about 60% of snake-bite deaths in Australia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I've found a very easy way to transfer files back and forth between my i devices and my PCs. My Asus router has a USB3 port on it, and I've attached a USB SSD to that port. The router makes that drive available to my internal LAN, and I use the files app which comes built into IOS to mount the...

Glad I'm not the only one. I would have used Piper Mirage in the title instead of just Mirage. To me, a Mirage aircraft is, always has been, and always will be a French delta winged fighter jet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Anyone else besides me think of one of these when people talk about Mirage airplanes? Made me wonder how a Mirage could carry 3 plus a dog. Similar effect to when someone posted several months ago that they saw a B-36 flying. No way they saw a Cold war era super bomber made by Convair...

I have a Jackery 240 for camping. Just purchased it recently. Works great to blow up air mattresses and recharge my ipad and iphone. It is limited, however, in how much power it can provide. Won't operate a higer power device. We tested my wife's hair dryer, and it didn't power that. Check...

I didn't say or even imply that. Not sure how you got there from my comment. However, I would be royally ****ed if someone did aerobatics in my plane, not necessarily because I'm worried about structural damage (I know Super Viking can handle aerobatic flight) but because of the potential...

That’s true about the engine and the structure. However, the gyros know when the plane is upside down, and most mechanical (non-mems) gyro instruments in normal category planes are not designed to deal with pitch and bank excursions outside the limits. Doing these kinds of maneuvers can...

Nope, I read it that way as well! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Thanks for that clarification.

Yeah, I thought his point was nonsense. I have no pilot accessible fuses, so my set is the empty set. His advice was to go to Radio Shack and buy some fuses, any type. Total nonsense. I tried the 3 extras of zero and a complete set of none, but that didn’t work with him. He didn’t like...

Kinda wish you’d quoted a bit more of my post to show that those were the DPE’s words and not mine. I personally think his stance that one has to have some fuses in the plane even if there are no pilot accessible fuses is complete nonsense. Ridiculous.

I went round and round with the DPE on this point when I took my commercial. He stated that 91.205c(6) doesn’t say anything about “unless the plane doesn’t have pilot accessible fuses”. His firm belief was that unless one had a set of spare fuses, one was not legal to fly at night. My plane...

Money no object at all? Definitely something like this. Land and camp anywhere. Airborne RV.

Yeah it’s a real bummer those carbonator leaks. Not being able to make one’s own custom carbonated beverages in flight is just so ... uncivilized. [emoji3] Don’t ya just love autocorrect!

Most of my annuals for my Bellanca Super Viking typically have been about one week. My last one took eight months. It all depends on what discrepancies are found and how long it takes to resolve. I’m taking my plane in for annual today, and I’m really hoping that it will be the one week...

Agreed that the guy clearly was out of his element. However, I find myself wondering why the tower didn’t give him a heading to fly. “Turn right” is a bit vague. “turn right heading 080” or something like that seems like it would have been more effective. No? Now, of course, that...