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  • Tyre (Tire) wear on AC Trikes.

    My new Tanarg has just flown 50 hours and completed 99 landing all on a paved RWY. The Tyres (Tires) are all but buggered. Mos...use? How long do they last? What type of runway are you landing on?

  • Tips and tricks for Landings

    As a low time pilot, I'd certainly learn from some tips and tricks on landings from you seasoned pros....at the flare is significantly less on an engine on landing vs. a idle or deadstick...

  • Bush Pilot: 'Brakes were my enemy': Landing a one-way airstrip in Southcentral Alaska

      It doesn't look challenging -- it looks like a huge airstrip with a tiny b...uth is, it was hard work. The runway is plenty long enough, but it's a one-way landing because of that mountain domi...

  • The DC-8 and the Trike (joke)

    One day the pilot of a Trike was told by the tower to hold short of the active runwa...by, came back with a real zinger: “I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I’ll hav...

  • Funny flying quotes

    The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two.... — Benny Hill The light at the end of the tunnel is another airplanes landing light coming down head-on to...

  • Screaming babies...

    Words from a pilot  During a commercial airline flight an experienced A...r with a babe in arms. When the baby began crying during  the descent for landing, the mother began nursing the...

  • Flying the Air Creation Tanarg!

    ...r. The speed range is about the same, however you can't compair the landing the Tanarg B13 combo lands like it is on rails. I landed to nights ago in a 35kt x-wind and it wa...

  • Odd Spot: TIF anyone? Worst possible passenger

    http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/outr...g officials to block the runway and stop the plane landing, authorities said Monday....- to drive cars onto the runway and stop the plane landing, media reports said. The...

  • Santa and the FAA

    Santa Claus, like all pilots, gets regular visits from the Federal Aviation Administ...examiner walked slowly around the sled. He checked the reindeer harnesses, the landing gear, and even Rudolph's nose...