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No, you can go off heading in turbulence while sitting there flying coordinated. You can correct it, but you can't totally preempt it.

P-factor is the tiniest mouse fart of a force for 99% of the airplanes that people here fly, but it always gets elevated to a grand magnitude for those wanting to sound learned.

Weathervaning is the wrong term to use when the airplane is not in contact with the ground, but gusts/wind shear can still act on the vertical stab and yaw the airplane around. Any gust/shear that yaws the airplane and quickly passes will have caused the airplane to have turned ever so slightly...

This is a GOOD thing in a trainer, assuming the Tri-Pacer has the rudder/aileron interconnect removed. Champs and Cubs require more rudder attention than the Pacer, and they are classic trainers that really force you to learn to fly properly unlike what most flight schools have on the ramp.

But you'll be better off if you learn to keep your eyes outside the cockpit and learn to fly coordinated without having to look at the ball. You can feel it easily. You just have to pay attention and build the muscle memory.

If you flew a J-3 Cub, would you read the POH first?

Extras have a quick-release canopy jettison in both seats.

Dacron fabric practically never wears out, assuming it has the proper UV coat applied. You generally recover not so much because the fabric's worn out, but because of the condition of the underlying airframe and how scruffy and cracked the paint might be after 40 years or so. But yeah paying...

RV guys are huge into gizmos and AOA since military jets use them. Pilots of bush, acro, antique/classic types and pretty much everything else just learn to fly the airplane.

I must have been multiplying 12 by 1.3. ;)

Wow, it took 15 posts before it was simply stated that IAS vs. CAS x 1.3 is the answer to the OP's question. No wonder flying is so hard.

The 172 rental pilots at the flight school at my airport like to fly final 80KTS power on, 20 flaps...and float out of sight down a 6K' runway.

In some communities, especially the aerobatic community, there is a reluctance to discuss factual info related to fatal errors a pilot made. It's all under the idea of respect for the pilot and family. I understand it's painful if it's a friend, but the pilot's family is not reading aviation...

It would require an extremely heroic effort to spin inverted out of a hammer attempt in an Aerobat. They barely have any energy left after pulling vertical, not to mention limited rudder and elevator authority. This can happen in Pitts types if you REALLY botch it by kicking way too early with...

https://jasonfloodairshows.com/contact-us/ also offers acro/spin training in a Pitts S-2C. Located in NJ.

OP, don't listen to the naysayers who say there's no value to spin/acro training. Those who say this generally have little or no experience with it themselves, and are also probably scared of it. They've chosen their own level of inexperience, but you can do better. Getting acro/spin training...

LOLOL clearly your athletic ability extends to thumb wrestling the TV remote. Top tennis players are top athletes...but yeah not quite the level of these guys. :rolleyes:

Dayum is your CFI correct.

Cubs are the easiest and safest planes to hand prop after you learn the very basics. It's just part of the fun of flying these things. Starter and battery is just unnecessary weight.

Odd trivia question, considering it had been done 60 years earlier.