Search results

#3 is just plain funny. Do you think anything in your plane has been weighed accurately to the hundredth of a pound? Have you been weighed accurately to the hundredth of a pound. That W&B is carrying around more significant digits than it should. I would guess it is not accurate to 5 lbs. I...

Word. I consider 10G15 great weather along the Colorado Front Range. I departed KAPA about 2 weeks ago and the winds were 28G42. My biggest concern was taxiing. It was aligned enough with the runway that the crosswind wasn't very bad. It did take a lot of pushing an pulling on the knobs in...

It is ambiguous. I simply chose to interpret it in the most humorous way.

Well no wonder they hit a light pole. They taxied all the was from Los Angeles: And there was only one passenger on the flight???? Poor, poor, poor editing.

Whoa! Then the problem is finding a woman who can endure a man with a dozen ED pills!

I got told to stay clear of the Delta at KAPA on Sunday morning (I've never had that happen before). They had 7 planes lined up for runway 28. I and another plane were asked to circle outside the Delta for a few minutes until they got things sorted out. There was plenty of activity.

We are heading from Denver to Ft Lauderdaele on Fiday for a cruise too. We have a plane, and I couldn't convince my wife to go by GA. We have too much history of being stuck somewhere for several days while waiting for GA weather (I even have my IR) or waiting on airplane repairs. I'll take...

I took the family down to Colorado Springs today to get some 100 dollar hamburgers at the Airplane restaurant and got to see a V-22 Osprey do a very short takeoff. Check it out. (I don't have zoom on the camera phone so its a bit small, but cool anyway) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Nk3E--E1U

We haven't even discussed football momentum, which can change without the application of an outside force.

We flew down to Mustang Island in 2008. It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool. Boring flight, but excellent destination. We hopped in the water immediately after dropping our bags off at the condo (rented, not owned) it was like warm bath water.

Momentum is the mass of an object times its speed. Or in mathematical form p = m*v. So something has to be moving to have momentum. A force is required to change an objects momentum. Intertia is (sort of) an object's resistance to change in momentum. An object at rest will resist...

Yep, it sounds like an OBS to GPS communication problem. I had the same thing happen on my Garmin right after it was installed. The GPS read more than 30 degrees off at some OBS settings, and right on at others. It turned out the avionics shop had accidently grounded a pin on the nav head and...

A buddy of mine who was a Naval Aviator Instructor, said they were limited to 4.5G's for their overhead breaks (in the SE turboprop trainers, the number is escaping me right now, T-6??). Of course the RV drivers would call the Navy guys wusses.

Student Pilot's Guide: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/media/faa-h-8083-27a.pdf Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook Aeronautical Information Manual: http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ATPubs/AIM/aim.pdf...

I think it is reasonable to expect him to fly in accordance with the limitations and recommendations in the POH. If the POH provides a recommended leaning procedure (and altitude) then he should follow it. For the prop RPM, I'll bet the POH makes no recommendation on what RPM to use, but does...

The more you fly the more you learn that the primary mechanism behind the "See & Avoid" concept is luck. I flew to KLMO a few months back. Listened to the CTAF from about 10 out and knew that there were 5 planes in the pattern. I managed to find 1 of them, then decided that there were other...

The question came up on my checkride. The DPE wanted to know how I would determine what a safe off-route altitude would be (I guess for filing purposes). He was fishing for both the OROCA and the MSA from the approach plate. I kind of ignored assigned altitudes since that doesn't help explain...

MSA is the minimum altitude over a large area. If you happened to be offf airway and arriving at that airport you might use the MSA until you are established on a published portion of the approach. Likewise if you flew the approach, but botched the missed, you should be climbing to the MSA ASAP...

Negative. LS would still reduce the code to noise ratio even on P(Y), though the reciever may still be able to track. The bigger problem is that P(Y) recievers need to track CA (civil code in the vernacular) to lock onto P(Y).

It doesn't sound as nice to say we're mooching off of OLSW though!