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I started flying four years before he came along.

Lol - not going there :-)

Fair question. It was late 2003 when I had >500hrs, commercial/multi/instrument, acro, etc.

1) Sorry, I was looking at the search/rescue mission reqs which want 200hrs. You're right. 2) Don't know yet - haven't met them. 3) The first pilot said so many off-the-wall things about flying that made me wince. Instrument approaches being flown with a "ball and string", for example. Or...

I have a friend who refers to hotshot pilots as "Chuck Jagger", apparently mixing up Chuck Yeager and Mick Jagger. It's kind of caught on around the home drome and I apparently use it without even thinking about it :-)

So question for the larger group - how do you assess the abilities of a potentially low-time pilot to fly a family member around in a Cessna 172? The situation isn't quite as generic as that perhaps - my son is in a CAP squadron and has the opportunity to go for an "O-flight". One of the...

I've tried both over the last couple thousand hours - they both work of course. I think both can track the GS accurately; try my way with *very* small power adjustments to maintain a desired descent rate based on groundspeed and staying on the GS becomes pretty much automatic with little if...

If that's the first time you've seen a similar thing, you need to get around online more often :-) It depends on what you're flying, I'd imagine. How pitch sensitive is a 182 vs. an RV (for example)? That makes a huge difference.

That's way too much work. Pitch to airspeed, power to altitude. I'm trimmed to airspeed by 1000AGL and use small power adjustments to stay on glideslope. Not a whole lot of pitching to be done, unless you're into that whole chase-the-glideslope game.

Ah, thanks. Now it reminds me even more of Jim Bede for some reason...

Maybe I missed it, but their page calls out a stall speed of 65kts. FAR 23.49(c.1) calls out 61kts for single engine aircraft, so how is the Raptor getting around that?

They tend to happen during Better Formation Math (BFM) / Aerial Coordination Mechanisms (ACM). Lots of fun :-) And the Pretend-a-stang is a neat bird for sure.

Wiki (lead) and Polack (wing) departed today for a great formation flight that included fingertip, breakups, and rejoins as well as scissors, yo-yos, rollers, and more. The air was smooth, and the well-below-freezing temperatures provided extra performance which made the day even more fun. Days...

If you're going by aerobatic, I'd say that started with the RV-9/9A. And I'd point out that the -10 borrows some design points from it such as a similar airfoil and a constant chord stabilizer. Anyway, it's not a big deal. You can consider yourself correct if it helps.

Ken Kruger succeeded Van as the engineering honcho, and when he left five or six years ago was replaced with Rian Johnson. How much Van is still plugged in is an open question I think.

The change was comparing the aerobatic two seaters. Of course the RV-10 is different (duh) as is the RV-12 and RV-9 for that matter.

I don't disagree, just pointing out that it's a shift and the company is far from being under the same leadership it was originally. As I said, time will tell if this was a good or bad thing for Van's.

Not sure what this means. Van himself stepped back from day-to-day operations a while ago, and they've been through several company presidents as well as chief engineers. I'm really curious to see how their new strategy does. They used to be all about performance and economy; the RV-14...

According to Avweek, it was developed in cooperation with Fedex, who will buy 50 with options on an additional 50.

Lol. You may be surprised to find out that whether the airplane has a training wheel or looks like it's squatting to pee has little effect on it's maneuverability.