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Beech Musketeer? Rockwell Commander?

Looks like a blast. I wish we saw more posts like this on here.

I suggest better headsets. Easiest, cheapest solution.

Man that guy is hard to listen to. Also, how hard is it to get the type of aircraft right? It’s a Monnett Moni, the Mini Max is a completely different design made of wood, not composites, and it’s an ASEL, not a motorglider like the Moni. He even showed the FAA database up where it clearly lists...

As a glider pilot you can also fly IFR if you have an IFR rating. As a sport pilot you cannot. https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/GL_7110.11.pdf https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.57

Schenectady has an air museum on the airport as well that iirc is better than Cape May. They had a Mooney Mite which is one of my favorites.

The OP mentions potraits/group shots and landscapes. Landscapes are typically taken on wide angle lenses. Portraits/group shots are typically taken between 50 and 135mm (35 mm equivalent). The iPhone has a 65mm equivalent, which puts it right in this range. And it does a fantastic job with...

I think you’re hard pressed to find something better than the latest generation of phone. The computational algorithms that use are pretty amazing and way ahead of what’s in point and shoots. I know people using phones regularly for commercial photos published in magazines. What do you see as...

https://enchroma.com/pages/how-enchroma-glasses-work Not sure if you all have seen this before, but there are now glasses that can correct for some forms of color blindness. I saw these the other day and thought they were fascinating.

https://www.goosehangar.com/multiengine-seaplane-rating

some of our ‘worse outcomes’ is because we’re willing to try where other countries give up. Take infant mortality for example. The US is more likely to count a birth as a “live birth” compared to other countries. So while our infant mortality may loom higher, it’s really that we’re willing to...

You can also look at the types of care we get here vs. elsewhere. We have many more options available to us for treatment than in places with state run care. even with something as routine as a pregnancy we in the US have access to more up to date diagnostics and methods than our friends across...

But not all doctors are the same. Some are better than others. Some are more up to date on research and using the latest techniques. Others are using procedures that went out of style in the 90s. Just because 2 people get the same procedure it doesn’t mean they’re really getting the same...

The T28 prototype had the little wheel in the right place. Maybe a conversion is possible (with enough money)? https://avgeekery.com/t-28-trojan-north-american-aviations-next-last-great-prop-driven-trainer/

legally or physically?

I was thinking through this earlier this morning and the problem with using an average acceleration is that thrust, drag, and rolling resistance all vary with aircraft velocity. As a result, acceleration isn't linear and plugging an average acceleration into F=ma may provide wrong information...

yeah, I know of people that have flown IFR without talking to anyone in class E airspace for long distances. Seems dumb, but people do it.

When you work out all the numbers building isn’t really any cheaper than buying. Even a Sonex is likely to be over $40k. A Zenith over $60k. And a Vans will easily be approaching if not over $100k if you want to fly rather than build and like the homebuilt designs more than certified designs...

It’s fun. Night time is even better than daytime. taken from a Mooney.

The best description I read about hovering noted the following: The helicopter starts drifting to the right, so you apply left cyclic to counteract the motion. This shifts the rotor thrust vector resulting in less vertical thrust resulting in the helicopter starting to descend. To correct this...