Comment on "Installing a BRS (recovery parachute)- Preference / use by Country"
...ch that have full BRS types, and a few old rocket powered HG 'chutes (very few), and some compressed air chutes (can be shipped / taken on an airplane)- Dave Salter has a gas power...Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...ther, Yes this is a problem for sure same as airplane stalls. I train stalls someon...in, same problem as you mention above. In big airplanes they are type certified to a...piral recovery it is just like the stalls for airplanes. It is not perfect but we wi...Comment on "all my flying interest has been birdlike flight .so here is my question.with all the increases in performance in the triking world is there a point where we should just put a tail on it and attach the wing with ailerons .or should we keep the cost down and in the spirit of more the hang glider birdlike flight."
...companies- imagine a Honda engine !!) but I guess those companies are afraid of being responsible to support an aircraft engine. That leaves the airplane manufacturer responsible to s...Comment on "all my flying interest has been birdlike flight .so here is my question.with all the increases in performance in the triking world is there a point where we should just put a tail on it and attach the wing with ailerons .or should we keep the cost down and in the spirit of more the hang glider birdlike flight."
...nswer here from fast to slow trikes. The first poll question suggest that there are those of us that would still choose a hp trike over an hp ga airplane. The second quest suggest tha...Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...t, the student pilot was seated in the forward seat of the light sport airplane, and a pilot-rated passenger...t equipped with flight controls. The student pilot was maneuvering the airplane over open terrain about 300 t...Comment on "Call to Action. Adding Spiral recovery Tasks to the Practical Test Standards (PTS)."
...slope launch, airtow launch, winch launch, truck launch, tandem, etc.etc. etc. It is to the point that it is probably easier to get an ATP in an airplane than an advanced hang rating...Comment on "Ken Brock Freedom Fly-In El Mirage CA Sept 27-29, 2013"
...hopefully (if winds out of Tehachapi not honkin') land at Mohave (KMHV) Spaceport on their 12,000 foot runway and see if we can check out the airplane graveyard and/or Burt Rutan...