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Comment on "Some low level flying in a North Wing ATF and practicing a couple engine off landings"
...glad to hear you include a lot of emergency landing training at your school.&nbs...Early on I used to practice around 70% of my landings engine off. Kind of a no braine...e. W.E. That is the Simonini Mini 2 plus engine rated at 26hp. Yes, I co...- Hi Guys, I don't like commenting too...are reading to much into the GTS 450 landing at Balranald. Chris has flown...did have a very good X-wind for the landings. Chris missed one pool of wa...ouncing around. When you look at the landing in slow motion it looks very...
- Thanks Hedgeview, you forgot to mention the baron landing strips dotted with granite all over the top of the hills, again very accessable by chopper. Landing could be a bit bumpy though!. AQR
- Thank God, trikes have only one engine...it saves all of us from the complex calculations of how long it will take to get to our destination with an engine out... :) That's why I love them.
- I think power-off and gas/throttle off are the same thing. Engine off (out) is different, obviously. I heard there's a rule prohibiting actually shutting the engine off for practice purposes-- anyone know?
- Thank you Ken, it looks good. At first we will see what will be the result from Mr. Verner. Do you have any experience with BMW engine? I mean what I would need for mount the engine to my trike. What is optional setting, what reductor...etc
- Hi Christopher, the engine in the Minimax was from a Trike so that white thing you can see at the back of the engine is a large poly pipe to get the air into the fan on the Rotax 503.
- Yes he wants to fly again. Maybe he will be my next student. In that time he had the first trike with R503 engine in Slovakia. We all envied him the engine. All others we flew with Trabant or better Citroen C2V engines...
- XC Triker, no I don't have any used ones for sale but if you are interested I can get you one without the engine, just the buggy and the wing. And like ULtrikepilot said you could put your own electric engine configuration on the trike. Rizzy
- At least out in my part of the desert one of my largest concerns is power lines. I'm frequently eyeing dirt roads as potential landing sites in case of an engine out, and more often than not the po...