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This makes the most sense I think. Looking at the pics it's a long way from the centre line of 15 to where the tail of the Citation is. The wind didn't do that, not if it was 140 @ 14 as someone posted earlier.

Congrats dude!

From my understanding, they are actually turbo fans, just with a very low bypass ratio - in other words, they're mostly jet and just a little fan. You can see how they compare here.

I remember seeing a documentary years ago where they said that an F-15 could burn through all it's fuel in 8 minutes if they kept full afterburners on!

Gyros get the xkcd treatment :)

Is it just me, or are a lot of the responses about trying to get to an airport based on the assumption that the visibility and ceiling are going to stay at 800 and 2 miles? If it went from 2500/4 miles down to 800/2 miles, why should it stop now just because you want to go home? Suppose it gets...

I'm only a student pilot, but I would land in the field if it was safe. Look at it this way: nothing stops you from reevaluating the situation once you're on the ground. Whatever options you had about flying somewhere, you can still have those options if you take off again. But would you? If...

Fair enough. My issue is that it's inconsistent with the most common usage of those terms that students are used to (i.e. the pattern). By the standards they're using, the crosswind leg of the pattern should be called "upwind" and the base leg "downwind", since that's where they are with respect...

I think you're right that there's a problem with the picture, but it's not what you think it is. They're showing the bank angles correctly, but they're labeling the "upwind" and "downwind" sides nonsensically. With their labeling, half the time you spend in the "upwind" part would be spent...

The weight changes. Which is why you must find another ratio of fuel mass to air volume that results in the same fuel mass to air mass you had before, if you want to keep the correct ratio. Hence you must adjust the fuel mass to air volume ratio ;) I get what you mean now...and I won't be...

Because it sounds like a contradiction - "answers 2 and 3 are correct but only answer 2 is correct". Unless the "because" part is to say that answer 2 is the only one that's correct for that particular reason, i.e. answer 3 is correct for some other reason. But in that case I don't get why the...

I don't quite get that bit! In hindsight I see why I was wrong to rule out #2 - I can see a way of interpreting the wording where that's true. If the air mass/fuel mass ratio is wrong, and you adjust the control, well then you're adjusting the air mass/fuel mass ratio. Fair enough. That...

I'm using the Cessna Pilot Center ground material. One of the questions is: I picked 3, and they say I'm wrong. They say it's 2. Their explanation is: Who is right? Obviously the goal of adjusting the mixture for altitude is to maintain the correct ratio of fuel mass to air mass ('mass'...

Wow, thanks for taking the time to write all that! It's a big help, and a lot for me to think about. I have done the trim exercises you describe in the practice area, although it has been a while now. Back then with my first instructor, we used to fly downwind fairly fast (90+), and when I...

Better yet, buy a plane with one high wing and one low wing. Thread.

Or a middle-wing helicopter.

As a student, besides the usual hard stuff like the flare, the trickiest thing for me has been trimming. If I'm honest I still haven't really figured this out yet. I've had 3 instructors and they all say the same thing: "trim away the pressure". But it takes me forever to get it anywhere close...

Great info! A lot of these questions are actually answered on their website, which I take to be a good sign. They also say that they can provide guest access to the schedule to give prospective members a sense of what the contention is like for the planes. They have a 1/hr per day minimum that...

Thanks for the info everyone, there's a lot I didn't think about, such as debt. Sounds very similar to the one I looked at. They have 5 planes and around 70 members. When I look at all the costs though, the saving over renting is not as big as I thought it would be. I'm really only toying with...

So the original members must have ponied up the 10K and then taken the hit when they sold their shares?