Comment on "Strongest Wind you would comfortably fly in with NO Turbulence?"
When you say "fly in", I interpreted that as takeoff and land in. I have flow in 40kt win...o find it was dead calm on the ground. For surface winds during takeoff and landing, 15 kts is my lim...Comment on "Here is the former instrument panel before the smoke came out."
This one emitted smoke when the large pressed metal nut that was holding in the 12 volt convenience outlet came off and shorted out the nearby hot lead. The large nut be came hot and melted nearby light gauge wires. Fortunately all this occurred on the ground before takeoff.Comment on "Brain teasers for those that believe down wind turns are "different"."
...begin to move. The conveyor belt accelerates at half of the acceleration rate of your trike, in the opposite direction. How does this affect your takeoff roll?Comment on "white eagles first engine out in soaring trike at elk river fly in"
...e to full then let off brakes (not your engine warm up). You know, so that you can squeeze a couple extra feet of useable runway out of the takeoff by not loosing several feet s...Comment on "How many engine outs have you had? Rough engine precautionary landings do not count, unless the prop is gone, then count that as an engine out. Running out of gas counts too. After voting, confess your sins. Everyone should have a story to share."
Mine was a 582. The external fuel pump failed about 2 minutes after takeoff at 1400 ft agl I had trouble with it earlier in the day, but we thought it was a fuel line getting air s...