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I believe any stock factory airplane is legal. The big money schools have Cessna 150's that look nicer than our 152's. Those ones have the manual flaps that go to 40 degrees.

Tape is going on the strut tomorrow!

We still have those events. I am also doing the preflight event without any real practice other than what I do every time I fly lol. I have to say, in my admittedly short flying career (private pilot, 110 hrs), I am having more fun practicing for these landing events than anything else I have...

Well the last practice today made me more consistent but I still had some bad ones and a go around. What do you think is better? Adding 10 degrees of flaps immediately so that I lose altitude better, my pattern is smaller, and then add in 20 and 30 when the field is made. Or going for best...

I am going to try and do this in practice tomorrow. Kind of wish I did this all along but have been flying a bit by the seat of my pants.

I am not sure what you mean by this. Do you line this tape up with the runway abeam midfield so that you are always the same distance away on downwind? I already kind of do that by lining up the runway with the middle of the strut.

Hi guys, I will be competing in the NIFA regional competition this coming week for power off landings. The rules state that power must be cut abeam the target point, a rectangular pattern must be made, and any amount of flaps is fine but once extended, they cannot be retracted at all. No...

The Voyager could do it. A bit difficult to fly with full fuel tho.

What about shock cooling? Just have to grin and bear it?

I don't know if airliners are routinely assigned a block altitude to climb and descend at their discretion. Without a block altitude, going 100 or 200 feet or more above cruising altitude would be a big problem with ATC. Second, I believe airliners travel much closer to the critical Mach...

"On the step" as talked about in the original post refers to this magical extra couple knots that you gain, and are able to sustain, by going above the target altitude, and descending under cruise power until you hit your target altitude with the couple extra knots due to descending. The plane...

That is a great test. It shows that maybe climbing above the target altitude and descending on the step may result in quicker stabilized flight allowing us to multi task better or do other things sooner. It would be interesting to see a time-to-distance test to see which is fastest A to B for...

Nice plane. Congrats!

"We were off the lake after that. We didn't go back out. We were done. And, you know, your afraid, is he gonna come back? Is he gonna do this again?" That is word for word what the family said. I don't see anyone saying they were never coming back to the lake ever again. That is reading...

I am seriously asking this question because I have heard about the impending pilot shortage so many times. I have heard others talk about these shortages in the past. Some say it never came to fruition. Some say it is just counselor or recruiter talk to get you to commit to an aviation career...

I got the west of 280 at 3500' clearance. Didn't get any airliners fly under us but did get to see a couple climb from down low, get pretty close at eye level and climb out. Felt pretty cool to be sharing the same space with them. If flying north and denied Bravo clearance, is there a way...

If you bleed off the excess speed in the round out, isn't that increasing the total runway requirement(roundout + flare + groundroll)? The scenario that I envisioned was coming over the fence with an extra 10 knots at the correct height. Whether you dissipate that extra speed in the round out...

Yes both airline landings can and were meant to be compared with eachother. What I was getting at is that the extra braking airline distance was only 20% as long as the extra airline floating distance, making the braking option much more attractive. Since the braking systems are so vastly...

That reminded of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. Gave me a chuckle.

Aerodynamic drag in the flare versus using wheel brakes. Which would dissipate the extra energy faster or in less distance? I'll take wheel brakes every time.