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First time owner here. Nesting as I am a week from bringing the baby home. Oil Warmer: In my current club hangar we have a small insulated fridge looking box that someone built and it has a bulb keeping the quarts of standby oil warm. Looks like a small old fridge. Its great that the oils is...

If you are too low for a turnaround, then usually you took off INTO the wind. You may not have to turn much. It is another reason the currently best practice method is to land within the 60 degree v shaped area in front of you INTO THE WIND!!

IMO turn(or not) toward whatever will get you to a flat surface quicker, you wont have time to think of the wind….. You have less than a minute to live or die. Brain will go into flight or fright and wind direction will factor zero into your decision at 500 feet. Nor the silly green circle on...

Looks like they finished the investigation. https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/ResultsV2.aspx?queryId=f93f7dc9-faf5-4cd3-bc1b-56dcb4d9d9f3

Its kids Teaching kids sometimes. Although as you said many are responsible young adults, the probability your Young CFI has low hours and low experience is high. I was fortunate to have a 4000+ CFII and it was awesome experience. The most valuable skills were not flying the plane… a...

So sad RIP. Also Big loss to aviation to loose a pilot senator. One less advocate for GA https://apnews.com/article/utah-plane-crash-moab-killed-a7064a4f3a883be6f920fb647d10c6ca

I Feel the same way. We tell ourselves “we would have done better” but when those teaching safety go down its demoralizing.

Maybe he had no other options but to try turning. We still dont know altitude achieved and type of emergency.

All this makes sense but what the final straw was … the Cessna turning base into evil knievel without knowing exactly where he was or how fast. The Twin pushed the dominos instead of entering pattern. Seems like some that fly mostly towered develop certain habbits (including straight ins) and...

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Huh? Oh yeah there is sand in my plane from the dunes. Chilax, no im going to avoid it by not turning toward final approach lane until I know where he she or them is. Then after we land buy pilot a beer and tell em to get a fking radio… we are not in the stone age rebel. And if that does not...

I didnt realize they fly so low to spray….or so high to strike vehicles! Glad it ended well..ish

Lets wait for DTSB report in a few days before we jump to conclusions.

Did he startle the deer and it jumped ? I know they jump high but wow!!

Two things I would like to hear if someone is coming in straight while i am on downwind. 1. 5miles out (distance) at 100kts. Still I wont turn base until I know I can get to the final phase clear of you. 2. Sry for being a douche I had to use the john., or my plane is way cooler and faster...

Speaking from my memories as a student during that time I was flying solo before PPL….. in retrospect I had no clue, could barely keep up with managing fear, plane configuration so on… and would not have thought of the situation where I am in the pattern with other planes but another one is...

By the time you go through gumps and rules above, the newb focused on his airspeed and making sure second notch of flaps is in while on base, will surely find a way to delaminate your paint. Just teach proper merging technique. Rules are nice but at the end of the day I dont trust any of...

Lets not be silly. If someone declares Final assume they are on final. Of course if they are in another state do what you need to do. But if you dont know where they are for sure, you dont know how fast they are, or have not seen them dont turn base. It may be safer… in my opinion. I am...

I think some of this can be minimized in the future if pattern burner students are told to not turn base if there is a plane on final…unless they are passed that plane. I had a situation that reminded me of this and because of it I was more aggressive in self preservation. Tower cleared my...

Looks like they finally completed an investigation: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/261791 https://themessenger.com/news/pilot-fatal-plane-crash-posted-snapchat-investiagtion http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/05/cessna-182h-skylane-fatal-accident.html?m=1