Nothing is infallible. Question everything. Check everything. Fly with a backup plan (plans B, .... C, D, etc), sufficient altitude.
In most systems there will always be a single point failure spot--- even if equipped with a backup fuel pump.
Revo
Pilots tip of the Week: Forced Landing Checklist
Question:
"I had an engine failure on down.... I walked away without a scratch, but did $50K damage to my airplane. At what point is...
Pilots have no rights in war on drugs:
A federal program trains its agents to treat the pilots of detained ai...ly, this is a continuation of multiple reports like this or pilots held at gun point re...
...per human flying a trike. The top of the mountain, a remote meadow are all w...;t".
I am continually tested on this point and have to actively suppress...ty, and that's my cattle over there." pointing a mangy half starved herd of...
Here's an article that will definitely help a Trike Pilot on XC journey's:
Though the quote i...p;or phrase and reach a different conclusion as to its meaning. A case in point is...
...n 123.050 at6 mandatory reporting points. We talked between ourselves...0and as we approached a reporting point, Barry would switch back to12...cky to be seeingher from this viewpoint.We circled a number of times,...hereare hills and what passes for mountains around here along the route...
This is all I can find now. I remember reading about it when it happened, O...ca, ¨the conquest of the Andes", in Chimborazo, Ecuador's highest mountain (6310 meters ASL)
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Before I back fill you in on Craig's adventures so far, here's a recent report:From John Williams:Craig and I depa...f on fuel in Ocean City, NJ. We were about 1 hour south of our planned meeting point wi...
...mooth flight with light tailwinds past Bakersfield, over the Tehachapi Mountains then south of Edwards AFB...Earth.
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Post Script Note:
I flew through the Zuni Point Corridor, Dragon Corridor and Fo...
From emails exchanged and posted by a friend:
Craig's been battling winds and thunderstorms and all sorts of adve...r (he had been pinned down by winds in a tiny New Mexico town for days at this point. E...