Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...aiting to pluck an innocent pilot, the only direct control inputs we have on trikes are throttle, pitch, and roll. Failed loops or extraordinary turbulence aside, poor pitch and throttl...Comment on "Lenticular clouds in Mountains North of Flathead"
...on ramp (first aborted t/o) no prob. Box pattern climb out, to avoid winds out of next canyon and rotor from mountains. Significant turbulence at 7500+, raced downwind with...Comment on "Buttonwillow-Calif Valley-Yosemite--Monterey-Oceano"
... but there is THIS video of us getting a brief glimpse of the Yosemite valley a couple years ago (wave clouds developing in the Sierras and turbulence turned us around-- a be...Comment on "learning to thermal and ridge soar a soaring trike"
...t do not have a HG background tend to dislike trike flying in thermal turbulence. Also not all former HG...h a soaring trike you will definitely feel (and have to react to) all turbulence related to thermic or mech tu...Comment on "Should Trike wings be rated just like Paraglider and Powered Paraglider wings?"
...high twist, gobs of washout, more dihedral), and actual 'safety' (pitch stability, roll dynamics, greater inertia and reluctance to tip stall in turbulence, penetration ability etc.) is...