Comment on "EAA pushes for ultralight training reforms- Instructors plunge from 3,200 in '02 to FIFTY !!!???? More WTF"
Regarding the 3200 instructors, that number is bogus. Most of them were guys just wanting to take the wife aro...tch. It really sucks that good instructors like Ole and others got screwed by Sport Pilot...Comment on "Keel-fixed versus keel free: Spectrum 144: self-sustaining yaw-roll oscillations"
Note that pilot attached methods (only some of which are actual center of mass towing concept invented by Donnell Hewett) have an adverse yaw force imposed when you shift to the sides. Trikes...Comment on "all my flying interest has been birdlike flight .so here is my question.with all the increases in performance in the triking world is there a point where we should just put a tail on it and attach the wing with ailerons .or should we keep the cost down and in the spirit of more the hang glider birdlike flight."
These polls on AT are really interesting- what you think is the industry / sport position based on a lot of talk, is not necessarily the position of the sport...ard everyone having a stake in the safety of the sport....Comment on "Flying the NW Maverick /JCV-360 / 13M Pacer at the 2013 Father's Day Fly-in"
Fun video, Joe. Must have been pre polar vortex and a bit of lumpy air? Is the engine monitor the box in the lower center of the panel? Curious that the camera cannot display the numbers if it is.Comment on "Keel-fixed versus keel free: Spectrum 144: self-sustaining yaw-roll oscillations"
Hey W.E. all that technical speak ab...do most at Wallaby is called "center of mass towing." A V-Bridle attaches from the pilot's chest (with a weak link and...release / weaklink on the tug pilot's end as well. A lockout (...when beginning to roll). The pilot and the tug can both release w...Comment on "Another new product from Air Creation- The Pixel"
That photo and the writeup here doesn't do it justice. Prior to reading more I was a bit like @Rizzy Thank...ke a nice machine. I could see lots of people that aren't in to the whole sport pilot...Comment on "Battens falling out of a trike wing during flight"
Ken the case iam refering to was unreported. But from what the pilot told me was the sprog after take off came out. Instead of landing the pilot keeped flying and the wing ti...the failure of more battens from the tip. The pilot...