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Risk should be evaluated by looking at both the likelihood and the consequence. The likelihood of a nuclear meltdown is very low, but the consequence is devastating. I think it is likely that nuclear energy will be a part of our energy solution. It can provide huge amounts of energy, but we...

Amen. We could do our dirtiest to Mother Nature with petroleum and she can probably get it cleaned up within 100 years. Its a naturally recoverable process. Screw it up with fission and you have a problem that is going to last longer than recorded human history. Can I interest anyone in...

Check your employers policy on travel reimbursement. My company specifically describes how to calculate reimbursement for personal aircraft use (one perk of working for an aerospace company). They won't cover actual costs of flying a personal plane, but they will cover up to what it would...

That's a bummer. I attended one on "How to crash...and stay alive". It was given by a guy who was a former laywer for defending Cessna. He had a lot of good anecdotes, was a good presenter and convinced me to go get shoulder harnesses for my plane. So far, I haven't been to one that I'd...

Wait a second! Didn't you just recently pass some sort of test that gives you priveleges that obviates this problem. The seminars I have been to have always been very close to an airport (as in on the airport). I've enjoyed all of the seminars that I've attended. The latest one was a...

At your service. :wink2: Azure is a physicist also I believe. This is vector addition. If the two acceleration components are perpendicular then you can add them using the pythagorean theorem to get the combined magnitude. However, in an airplane if you ever feel more than 1 G that is not...

You are selecting the mag that is on. So item B was correct.

So if you activate the ground clearance switch in flight does it cause the plane to climb?

I fly a '66 PA-32-260. Its got lots of leg room, lots of shoulder room, lots of seats, lots of baggage room and a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE useful load. My plane can actually carry 6 200lb adult sized adults. I load it with the wife, the kids, the dog, full fuel, and 150lbs of camping gear and I'm...

You need to pull 2Gs in a 60 degree bank to maintain a constant vertical speed, not just level flight. I suggest you all do a turnback and carefully watch the DG, it won't start turning, until you start pulling.

I was under the impression that the IMC death spiral was much much greater than 1 G. Which is why several people have broken their planes in the air in the spiral. They see the altimeter unwinding and pull harder, which loads up the wing more and more. As noted in the previous post, you'd...

My footrests vibrate too much, so I stopped putting my feet on them. ;)

As others have said a longer prop is more efficient in that it turns engine HP into thrust with the least loss to noise, and turbulence. A small diameter prop (regardless of how many blades) will have to accelerate the air to a higher speed in order to translate HP into thrust as compared to a...

My takeoff performance graph has a little note that says "Speed at 50 ft, 3400 lbs - 82 MPH" This is much less than Vx (95MPH). I assume that the test pilot rotated as described in the takeoff procedure and then tried to get as much altitude as possible in the shortest distance. By staying...

OK, I'm going to pile on another question. Who accelerates in ground effect before climbing? I usually accelerate to Vx in the ground effect (~10 feet AGL) before I let it start climbing. This means that at most of the airports I frequent that I begin the climb at about the departure end...

Word, I highly recommend the Mustang Beach airport. I haven't gotten to visit Jay yet, but plan to in the near future.

http://www.37000feet.com/report/121383/Small-aircraft-pilot-landing-on-grass-strip-at-390-knots-hits-ditch