Results for the site category: Safety

  • Heated clothing for cold weather flying

    By TrikeCFI

    Categories: Trike Talk, Tech, Equipment, Safety, Weather

    Part of group: Cold Weather Flyers
    Paul Hamilton shows his design of electric heating for cold weather flying. He shows the clothing he uses, how the trike is set up for electric heating, and how to run the numbers to decide what you can use for your ultralight, trike, open air...
  • Spot the issues!....

    By crayonbox

    Categories: Safety, Video

    Comments (8)
    Recently uploaded - may not be there for long. See if you can spot all the issues and safety concerns with this video. The laws are probably not that enforced or even existent in this country.
  • Air First Aid- Disaster Relief by Trike: Any Volunteer Pilots ?

    Last updated by XC Triker Comments (6)

    Categories: Trike Talk, Safety, News

    "Air First Aid aims to bring immediate relief to victims of natural disasters by organizing a worldwide network of weight shift ultralight pilots and supplying them with the resources and equipment they need to participate in humanitarian...
  • Small Plane Crashes at Big Airport- but No one notices!

    Last updated by XC Triker

    Categories: Safety, ATC & Communication

    Authorities struggled to explain how a small plane crashed at an international airport, erupted in fire, but evidently went unnoticed for hours.  (fortunately not a trike, but ......
  • Unmanned 'tower' of the future takes shape in W.Va.

    Last updated by XC Triker

    Categories: Safety, ATC & Communication

      It began when a small airport in mountainous West Virginia, the only nontowered airport in the state with commercial service, failed to convince the FAA to fund a control tower but refused to take...
  • Passive Detection Systems.

    Last updated by YFT Comments (4)

    Categories: Safety, Cross Country / XC

    Passive Detection System - Power lines.         One of the most effective systems in keeping aircraft high over the land, or on the other hand, destroying an aircraft that wants to fly low, is the passive...
  • Rotax 912 Carb Mounting Flange

    Last updated by GeoBlaze Comments (4)

    Categories: Trike Talk, Tech, Equipment, Safety, Maintenance

    Is anyone familiar with the JBM Carburetor Flange Socket Boot for the 912 shown at this link: http://jbmindustries.com/912FLANGE.html