Comment on "Secrets of Cost-Effective Maintenance and Recommended or Required: The Savvy Aviator #61 & #63 Mike Busch AvWeb"
Maintenance induced failure. When my rotax 912 rolled past 600 hrs, I sent my carburetors to Lockwood Aviation for an overhaul. They did a great job and I had no pro...Comment on "What degree of subtlety should we use to critique a pilot video who is demonstrating dangerous skills as cool?"
...just how fast and unexpected the snap of the tuck happens.it must be imposible to resist the actual snap. The rest must be very violent then the failure of the leading edge mid range...Comment on "A Surreal Timelapse Of A Supercell Forming In Wyoming"
...instead of behind your non-dominant shoulder on one side-- if you're reaching for the BRS, it's likely because of catastrophic structural failure-- you are part of the structu...Comment on "Installing a BRS (recovery parachute)- Preference / use by Country"
...I've also heard the only time the BRS would be useful is in the extremely rare circumstance of catastrophic failure. (There were actually more than one catastrophic failures in the past couple years)....Comment on "Opinions needed......What is the best communications helmet setup?"
...anyway. With Lynx, even if you have a modern radio, you still have to add that damn box (expensive) and all that wiring (pain in the butt, failure point, extra weight). F...Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...7, 2005, Air Creation Clipper 912, wake turbulence encounter from coast guard heli and then developing spiral into the ground without structural failure, 2 died). I knew the student...