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I'd be extremely interested to know how you separated "measurable" roll effect from the exhaust over the massively greater left roll effect from prop torque.

Racing is set to return in 2022, just without Red Bull sponsorship. But nobody would have known what I was talking about had I not said RB. If you prefer, try to find a trike fixed gear Reno racer.

These discussions always devolve and few point out the real reasons tailwheel airplanes are still being designed and built- they are mechanically simpler, lighter, easier to build, generally more rugged, more prop clearance, and take easy advantage of a naturally strong mounting point on any...

Grumman Tiger and Vans RV trikes. Castering nosegear- zero taxi rudder pressure. ;)

To each their own, but his "analysis" of lots of accidents he comments on is just keyboard captain puffery....like the crash in LA he blamed on the pilot not shoving the nose down hard after an engine failure on climb out suggesting he just stalled/spun right then and there when the pilot...

Dan is the dude who claims everyone who loses control and stalls/spins attempting to maneuver to a landing following a T/O engine failure is simply due to the pilot not getting the nose down fast enough and quickly stall/spinning. It's not that simple and he doesn't seem to care about the facts...

It's fun watching acro planes with carbs do an aerobatic sequence where the engine dies for several seconds on lots of figures and the tanks spray a cloud of fuel out of the vent. Metal props easily keep windmilling and the engine instantly starts back up under positive G. Doesn't hurt anything.

Plenty of acro planes lack inverted systems. Inverted systems give you oil pressure and fuel flow under sustained negative G. You can do all the basic aerobatic figures without seeing negative G, either momentary or sustained.

No, the gist of the negative reaction to some rental pilot wanting to do aerobatics in a Warrior has been covered. It's largely people who understand aerobatics and how anyone who actually WANTS to toss around a Warrior is in the high risk of F-ing up group. Any experienced aerobatic pilot knows...

I'm assuming you're serious. It sounds like you don't have enough aerobatic experience to understand what a bad idea that would be, and all the inventive ways budding acro pilots find to screw up. An experienced aerobatic pilot will have little interest in doing acro in a plane like this, so...

So true. It's all frame of reference and experience. And those who've only slipped Champ/Citabria types will likewise be shocked the first time they experience a full slip in a Pitts type.

Well, Cub-like airplanes can do a full turn snapped spin and recover to level flight with no more than 400' of altitude loss, but you must let it come around a full turn rather than recovering right away after a half turn or so, the latter causing you to end up on your back with a long pull...

OK fair enough but c'mon...how many airports have you flown into where the runway is hidden from view from the downwind abeam numbers position? Not many. We're not generally talking bush ops where a strip is carved into the jungle on the side of a mountain.

Load an approach to avoid flying a regular VFR pattern at an unfamiliar airport?? Whatever happened to visually gauging your aircraft's glide angle below the horizon and turning base when it looks right? The sight picture is the same at any airport, you don't need landmarks. Do you never fly...

Neat. Though 2:1 is a 27 degree descent angle. Your glider clearly doesn't hold a candle to the descent of a 140 Cherokee. :D

LOL...maybe his Cherokee had an STC for massive dive brakes, or a chute. I'm pretty sure a Cirrus under parachute descends at around 58 degrees or so with any wind on downwind. :D

LOLOLOL...you still don't seem to realize how ridiculously impossible it is for a Cherokee to achieve this descent angle in zero wind, much less downwind. I'd guess you'd need about 60KTS of wind on the nose to achieve a 58 degree descent angle. I'd say this claim makes me suspicious of your...

Absolutely, you can see in the video that as the airplane is settling onto the runway, barely any bank angle was needed to maintain track. This effect is why whenever discussions start about crosswinds, and people start telling war stories about high x-winds they landed in, you have to remember...

10 years or so later you are still claiming this absolute nonsense. You actually claimed 8K feet on downwind - Yeah...58 degree descent angle with a TAILWIND. Too funny. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Then you clearly haven't actually tried deliberately spinning out of a slip in many airplanes. Unless you jerk the stick back as if to snap roll, most airplanes will not even stall properly if you creep the elevator back too much in a slip to land condition due to blanking of the elevator in the...