Comment on "Keel-fixed versus keel free: Spectrum 144: self-sustaining yaw-roll oscillations"
Lockouts on the old control bar towing were much more radical...and were before the days of any weak links. Scary stuff those lock-outs...especially if the release failed. Much easier to avoid nowadays, but still possible.Comment on "Keel-fixed versus keel free: Spectrum 144: self-sustaining yaw-roll oscillations"
The scary part was the old towing methods...no weak links, release failures, rope connected to the control bar, rope breaks=tumbles, and...LOCKOUTS....the only thing that ever put me in the hospital in 40 years of flying everything.Comment on "Pilot detained, searched for mysterious reasons"
This incident as this pilot experienced it, is a scary story and the scariest part is that it is becoming more commonplace in this country by the day. The rights we think...