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Well maybe the range has only increased by x2 or 3 but then I bet that 1905 car didn't carry 5 people and weigh 5000lbs. Or do 155mph, or meet modern safety standards for that matter. Take all that stuff out of the Tesla Model S and I'm sure it would do many times the range of that car. Put...

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Yep it looks like you are renting a little space form the advertisers :) I know that nothing is free and there may be a balance to strike with ads vs content on a website, but this isn't it. It's that big one at the top of the page that kills it imo.

Recently I had some tests and they only gave me a summary for the results. AME said that's not enough, go back and get the real thing (10 pages). I went to the hospital to ask and they flat out denied that anything else existed (more than 1 person). I could fill out a form if I wanted, I was...

I'd recommend getting started on the TSA AFSP soon because it can take a couple of months. It's good for a year, but if you still aren't finished after a year, it's easier to renew (you only have to do the fingerprinting the first time). You need to pick the school first though because they have...

I'm still early in my flight training, but getting a medical certificate has been by far the biggest pain point so far.

I've never had a credit history when I have rented apartments and I've never had to pay more than 1 months rent as a deposit in various states. OP, I'd look into getting a secured credit card to build up a credit history. Just make sure it's from a bank that reports to a credit reporting agency...

No I'm talking about the section from when you turn downwind to when you reach the numbers.

No what was confusing me was that I thought that you had to maintain constant aileron correction to crab into the wind, and therefore it's the same as a constant turn. Now I'm learning that that's not the case, but I could have sworn that I had to maintain pressure in this situation. I've never...

Lol why do I get the feeling a Monty Python meme is coming soon...?

With the turn over they have in this place, they're doing well if they learn each other's names lol. Instructor #3 is actually the 4th instructor assigned to me, but I didn't count one of them because he left before I got a chance to fly with him. And the guy I call instructor #3 is also leaving...

Some of it may go up, but more will go down because of the angle of attack. For more air to go up than down, you'd have to have a negative angle of attack. At least that's my understanding of it...

OK Eddie/PaulS, I think I'm beginning to get it now lol. What I was missing was that when you're crabbing into the wind, you're not really banking, you're just flying a certain heading. I still haven't figured out why that works. Why isn't there a bank angle? I need more crosswind practice!

The attitude indicator? I have never flown with a really strong crosswind, but I presume that since you have to turn into the crosswind with the ailerons, there must be some bank angle?

No worries, I don't take it as condescending at all. I'm happy to have the chance to learn something. I will think about it some more :) I have Stick and Rudder but haven't finished it yet.

Moving relative to what? I am saying that if the air is moving in a certain way relative to the ground and your plane is not, then the air is moving relative to your plane. If that is true then I can't see how the air would not be exerting a force on the plane.

I think you're mistaken about this, but maybe I'm missing something. I think if you turn the plane to establish a crab angle to correct for crosswind, you are effectively flying into the wind. That means the wind is pushing back at you. Think about it like this: you take off heading north...

Pushing - i.e. force - isn't necessary for movement. It's only necessary for acceleration. When the balloon is first exposed to the wind, the wind exerts a force on the balloon (it "pushes" the balloon) and the balloon accelerates until it's moving at the same speed as the air. At that point...

Only if you correct for it. If you do nothing, you'll move along with the wind. But that's my whole point - when you're moving along with the wind, it doesn't exert a force on the plane! It only does that if there is relative movement between the plane and the wind. For example: * the plane...

Where I fly the temperature varies quite a bit, and performance along with it. Today, 2300rpm probably would have been well over 100. I had the power down around 1900 and we were still getting 85-90...