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:yeahthat: When you aren't working, hang out at the flight school/airport, Talk everyone you can, see what they are doing, offer to help. Most of my students are now referrals, but if I get a bit slow spending a few weeks just hanging out at the airport and talking to people will often get me a...

My thought is a clogged/restricted injector. Conditions just right to show the issue? An engine monitor would easily show this, especially if you did try to lean it out a bit. I have had this happen, engine runs great but when you tried to lean it out one cylinder EGT decreases while the rest...

My 1st computer science teacher in 1981 summed it up at the beginning of the 1st class I took from him. The Lecture started something like this... Back when Henry Ford Designed the Model T, He mostly guessed at how strong to make the parts for it. Important parts he over built, while others...

We have one airport like that, I think I have had every DPE in our area tell me they have rejected flights that applicants have tried to claim it as a cross country. You would the think their CFI's would get the message that has to be Greater than 50 miles. Brian CFIIG/ASEL

I couldn't really decipher your flight for sure, two so simple questions.. Did you.... "includes a point of landing that was at least a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical miles from the original point of departure" If yes then Yes it is a Cross Country... Did you....." flight of...

Was my thought as well and what I remembered from practicing power off approaches in one.

As with most myths/Old wives tales there is an element of truth to it with airplanes with laminar airfoils (Mooney's, and others). Most have an area of l/d called the drag bucket (see example image below), is fairly obvious why they call it a drag bucket. If you get into a situation where you...

Depends on how you want to set it up. From the regulator you showed I assume you want a two place system. That regulator works best when you have the bottle within reach of you and you can set the altitude you like as well as turn it on and off at the bottle. If that is what you want then forget...

My observation from sailplanes. We often have tail water ballast tanks that let us adjust the CG location. Yes flying at aft CG location does provide a small reduction in drag. Better glide ratio in gliders, slightly faster in power planes. BUT, and this is something I think something we don't...

Oh, I had already made that decision that landing in a field would be OK. The actual scenario was that I just climbed up high enough from the field I thought I was going to land in to make it to the airport that I knew had a closed runway. What I didn't know, and Flight Service was of no help...

We had the rotary phone, but it was a party line. I think I was senior in high school before we got a private line. Was always fun to listen in on the neighbors phone calls:) had to listen to the ring I think ours was a long ring and the neighbors was two short rings. Just read Walboy's post...

:yeahthat::yeahthat: My 1st guess, one altimeter is not connected to the Static port and is just vented to the cabin. Brian

Not sure if it is valid especially after hanging out with some of the motorcycle groups. But the perception is Motorcycle Accidents tend to be caused by other drivers. Most Aircraft Accidents tend to be caused by pilots. So as the pilot, becoming a good pilot that doesn't take risks and it is...

Was doing a tower tour once and standing next to the ground controller we hear. Cessna XXX at XX FBO ready to taxi for departure. We then see a Yellow Cessna Bobcat taxi out. The controller comes back and asked are you that Yellow Twin that just taxied out. With affirmative response, he answered...

ADM is me circling over the closed runway in my glider, unable to climb, trying to decide if I should land on the closed runway or in the field next to the airport.

Most likely you are overcontrolling the Rudder. The only time you need to change the rudder pressure is when you deflect the ailerons. You may need to hold a bit of rudder during the turn due to overbanking tendencies. As you deflect the ailerons it will take a bit more rudder to correct for the...

Exactly why I said "as of the date of the inspection", The FAA notifies Operators(Owners) of New AD's, but they don't notify Pilots. And it really isn't reasonable for me to keep up on all the AD's for the 12 different aircraft I might fly in a week. If a new AD comes out it is the Operators...

I think epoxy resins are more common with Carbon Fiber, at least that is what was used in the sailplanes and Thunder Mustangs I have worked on. But then Polyester resins mostly aren't used even in fiberglass for the sailplanes. I recall epoxy burns pretty well, but maybe not quite as well as...

It has been almost 20 years since we bought our Scout from a broker. I thought they were reasonable, they provided images of the Logs, Let us have a local IA we knew come inspect the airplane for us. But they made it clear there was no negotiating on the airplane. It is what it is and the price...

I have never understood this fairly new thing of pushing pilots to know all the AD's are complete on an airplane they are going to fly. I am not sure if the is a DPE/FAA thing or something instructors have dreamed up. 1st of all this really isn't the pilots responsibility it is the operators...