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With this explanation I can really appreciate why the circling approach is so much more complicated and potentially dangerous.

Oh, that's a really good idea!

I think the biggest challenge with this design is going to be getting sufficient traction while trying to push a relatively heavy airplane up a hill with gravel. Those front drive wheels will need to have enough traction to generate forward force, and that will be difficult in that...

I'm trying to put my long term aviation plan together, and I think it involves an RV-10. I think I'd really enjoy building one, and in a few years the timing will be right to start. There is just one small problem, I don't think I'll like a control stick rather than a yoke. For those of you...

Can you elaborate on what your design is? I have a couple of questions. 1) Have you thought at all about gear reduction? Any size motor will be capable of moving your 206 if you have the correct gear ratio and enough time. The power output of the motor will dictate how quickly you'll be able...

No. I'm not instrument rated. My point of reference is doing a five mile straight in final vs. flying a normal pattern entry and landing at a towered class delta airport. For me the normal pattern entry and landing is more straight forward and standardized. But like I said, my experience is...

I'm curious about this too. I don't understand what is inherently dangerous about them.

Completely agree with this. There is certainly a lot of speculation going on. I've seen lots of discussion about possible medical issues and I don't see the evidence to support it. And ultimately it is the PIC's responsibility to fly the airplane. But let's tug on the, "he still FAILED to...

I work in Aerospace engineering. What I do is not directly aviation related, but it's close enough for this discussion. Root Cause analysis is EXTREMELY important in everything we do. Blaming "operator error" in my world is the equivalent of claiming "pilot error" in the aviation world. To...

This was the exact point of view our tour guide took. I guess the one bit of value that it has is that all the discussion and debate draws attention to astronomy. The increased interest of the public helps to support funding of organizations (both private and public) that want to study and...

I put this together based on the Flightaware data and the reported impact location. Elevations come from google earth.

Yes, that one. Our guide told us that those films constituted a one square inch portion of the ~11 x 17 exposure. They'd look at the plates one square inch at a time and try to find changes. I absolutely would not have the patience for that. lol

Completely agree with this. This criteria is extremely vague.

This is tower frequency (note - I'm not sure if these time stamps correlate with the approach time stamps) 14:24 - Tower - "Copter 129 traffic ahead 1/2 a mile uh Eastbound a twin Cessna one thousand one hundred" 14:35 - "uh tower the aircraft just crashed about a 1/2 mile in front of us into...

From the audio recording: Note - I removed some of the irrelevant 12:47 - ATC - "22G Turn right heading 090 climb immediately, maintain 4000" 12:52 - 22G - "four thousand climb immediately 22G" 12:56 - ATC "ok, it looks like your descending sir, I need to make sure you are climbing not...

The media and general population would call a PC-12 a small plane. Come on, it only has one engine.