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There are plenty of backcountry haters in the broader aviation community, the response of many in this thread was quite predictable. They're no different than the anti second amendment gun fudds who believe the only type of legal gun should be a single shot 12 gauge and think all...

When in icing conditions in larger jets, it is often necessary to do a run up in the 5-30 second range right before applying takeoff thrust. Sometimes pilots will make a “rolling” call to tower when this run up is completed, but I don’t unless requested. I doubt it is useful unless requested...

Did it once in the sim with 2 engines out in a 747 many years ago. I was heads down running the checklist to put out out the fire on the second failed engine while the captain, who was flying, got slow and I wasn't watching him closely enough. A kiss of stick shaker, so he added full power on 3...

Trench preferably. There is a huge insurance question though, I am having extreme trouble getting any kind of policy, even liability despite 11,000 accident free/no claim hours and a 1 week factory approved training course for 17 hours in type. If I can't get liability insurance I will...

I think it's important to seek out crosswinds when you're learning a new airplane and develop some comfort either by yourself or preferably with an instructor. In a training/practice situation it's easier to make the call to go around while you refine your technique. As a fairly low-time (60...

Looks great! $500,000 airplane these days! Any before/after weight & balance numbers? I imagine anything south of 1800 lbs is pretty good!

The engine is an experimental lycoming that cubcrafters calls a "cc363i". Lycoming calls it the YIO-360-EXP128. It's pretty much an IO-360 with 9:1 pistons that's been lightened a little bit and is dual lightspeed electronic ignition only. The Propeller is a Hartzell Trailblazer 80" 2 blade...

I have AC 90-89B and plan to use it as a template. I don't think it will take the entire 40 hours to accomplish most of what's outlined though. I realize that the builder assist programs are looked down upon by many and the accident record isn't helping, just trying to avoid ending up the same...

Thanks. At least two brand new airplanes of my type have been wrecked during their flyoffs or very shortly after in the area in the past 6 months. One at the Dalles and one at PDX for sure. Ground loops.

Hello, I'm taking delivery of a Carbon Cub in Late May and am required to accomplish a 40 hour Experimental/Amateur Built Phase 1 flyoff within 75 NM of Hood River, OR (4S2). I'm looking for any advice/tips on flying in this area including fun places to fly and/or safety/weather tips and local...

Hi Robert, Unfortunately I still have not flown my airplane. It is still in production! It should be done in June, I'll let you know what I think when the time comes.

Took advantage of the first day of spring to knock the rust off my tailwheel flying. Boring video mostly meant for my own performance analysis, but it was a nice day. Citabria 7ECA Merrill-Goose Bay-Birchwood-Merrill in the Anchorage, Alaska area.

The main thing, in my very humble and limited opinion is to check the winds aloft. If the winds aloft forecast at mountain top level are more than about 40 knots and I'll have to fly downwind of said mountains within 3000-5000 feet of the mountain tops(depending on the mountains' prominences)...

The one thing I like about foreflight, and this may seem silly and ridiculous - is the functionality to view and make bookmarks in the Chart Supplement. My home airport has a ton of Visual procedures that are only published in the chart supplement and it is super helpful and quick to find them...

If there's even an inkling that you'll want your own R44 or R66 I'd try to do the training in an R44, or at least an R22. If it's just to get the rating with absolutely no possibility of ownership then the Hughes should be fine. I got my commercial add-on in an R44 a few years ago and it was a...

Welcome to airline bureaucracy, where no good deed goes unpunished!

When I took my Instrument checkride in 2002 the examiner showed me his C-180. He had recorded a VOR check with a marker on the inside of the windshield and asked me if this was legal. I said "probably not" and he said "you're wrong!". So, unless things have changed in the last 20 years...

Tech types love to fantasize about single pilot/no pilot ops for some reason. It's been a continuing theme in online aviation social media for decades. Why the obsession with putting an entire class of workers into unemployment? I'm not sure. Industry can't even fully automate fast food...

400.1 hours for the year Work Routes in the 747 as First Officer or Intl Relief Officer. 1/3 of this time probably spent sleeping in a crew bunk, still logable per the FAA! Flying the C182B, Citabria, and some Super Cubs around south Central Alaska: Carbon Cub training at Tac-Aero in...

How much more expensive to maintain? I never had a slant tail, so not sure. The maintenance expenses are probably highly variable from airplane to airplane as well. It was about $6k per year to maintain our 182B including the annual and oil changes (oil done by me). In the 2 years I had it we...