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  • Comment on "Echelon Left"

    Hi Bill, It is simple. Each aircraft must be ten foot be...I have been flying formation and training formation pilot from 30 years. If it is done...o problem. The aircraft I am in is being flown by a pilot that is on his third hour of...

  • Comment on "cooler"

    Jozinko, It sounds like you have a very cautious approac...ed but also in comfortable speed range for HG wings/pilots.  However, as you correctly said, it also requires that the towing pilot feel quite comfortable with t...

  • Comment on "Installing a BRS (recovery parachute)- Preference / use by Country"

    Good thoughts Tussock.  One thing you said caught my attention.  How does a pilot that is incapacitated go for...happen is a steep spiral dive is for pilot to black out in which case th...comment about the tumble and also if pilot still retains some control in...

  • Comment on "100 hours - a Century"

    Thanks Noel.  I cant find an instructor that does c.... Joz, thanks for your comments too.  As a pilot, knowing how to gently expand...staying safe and becoming a better and more capable pilot.  I have been improving...

  • Comment on "Pilot crashes on first solo"

    Wow, the YouTube comments as usual...age.  Most bashed on the pilot, or even the type of airplane...le and how he's a student pilot entirely based on the videos...crash. It was an experienced pilot, that reported power loss aft...get in their way of bashing a pilot, plane, or sport they know no...

  • Comment on "John Farmer died in a Trike Crash"

    Tubsocks, i appreciate your 'un-foible-ing t...the dificulty of rating wings. Rating pilots would open up a can of worms...than we already have, but, each trike pilot, in his own mind,should have...'ability' scale, rating say a 4 or 5 pilot with a 8+ wing would leave a...

  • Comment on "fatality in trike crash in buckeye az."

    How terribly sad. I can't know everyth...hat overconfidence killed this pilot. Some possibly contributing factors: 1. Newly-minted pilot flying at new airport, under...ke off downwind. I suspect the pilot had not learned to differenti...ding on instruments. Also, the pilot may not have been used to the...

  • Comment on "CMT - championships"

    That's awesome. What a great exercise of all round pilot skill. Does anyone know if these types of events occur elsewhere...ast supper) whereby at such an event, one activity involves each pilot being designated a task of ob...

  • Comment on "Should Trike wings be rated just like Paraglider and Powered Paraglider wings?"

    Actually, some of the EN-D and in par...ly, requiring constant active piloting - very rarely suffer colla...atic and demands a lot of the pilot to straighten things out - th...all desirable features, and a pilot trained from the outset on su...s required. And ultimately, a pilot who has learned his craft tho...

  • Comment on "fatality in trike crash in buckeye az."

    Sorry Rebel I don't want to malign an...ts here. High time fixed wing pilot, 15hrs and most of them from...in my mind: quite experienced pilot but accustomed at different t...his is problem a lot of plane pilots when they are learning to fl...t an unreal story? Everyone pilot is picked up his ego than hea...