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  • Pilot's Tip of the Week- Keeping your Medical

    Many of you chose trikes because as a Light Sport Aircraft, a medical is not required.  However, there are...dical certificate. How much truth should I tell on my medical? Many pilots with high...

  • Cloud Soaring Record set on Airborne XT-582 Trike !!! In Oz !!

    William Olive known to his mates and others as Billo has been a consistent visitor to the Gulf of Carpenta...pates.  The cloud base is usually only 100 – 200 metres (330-660 ft) high...

  • Common Dog 01

    "Common Dog" ... 01 Welcome to "Common Dog" number one. As...f you are left or right of track. Or if you are too high or too low. The left and right bit is very obvious. But if you are too high...

  • Scott Adair

    By Larry Hughes Scott (Skyman) Adair was killed in a tragic accident at Valkaria...ntly Scott decided to progress from balancing on the mains to first flight. The winds were 10-15. I am not aware of...

  • When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD

    ...inimally soar, but we'd fly in winds up to 40+ (you'd want a...ot;-- the wind prediction would be high (enough), we'd drive up t...entially very dangerous.  The higher the difference in airspeeds...cloud and follow it further North, high up over the reservoir dam. &nb...

  • Gibbo Manta 17 wing First Impressions

    So today I test flew my wing for the very first time. I was quite nervous to tell you the truth, partially b...g flat dirt area so no biggie...but I had to land and even though I was high but not high...

  • Dead Stick Mondays

    ...se altitude at which you decide to cut power.  Also gradually experiment with cutting power with increasingly more challenging conditions, higher winds, more cross wind component, k...

  • Dean Batman

    --- In FLY-UL@yahoogroups.com, mpoliak@... wrote: > > > > Friends, > > It is with a hea...Force aboard an AWACS plane, an FAA systems engineer at ATC, a computer > high...

  • There are Ultra Lights....and then there is the other end of the spectrum

    I wouldnt like to meet one of these on an intersecting course....or get caught in the wake turbulence!!...Not many photos were saved from those times because of the high...

  • First Flight

    This was my first flight lesson in any aircraft of any kind. How I waited so long I’ll never know, as I ha...cidence. I recall first seeing ultralight trikes being flown sometime during my high...