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  • Pilot's Tip of the Week- Keeping your Medical

    Many of you chose trikes because as a Light Sport Aircraft, a medical is not required.  However, there are many trike pilots with Private Pilot License  (For differences between Sport & Private Privileges click HERE) Subscriber Question: "The greatest fear among pilo...

    Tags: Medical Exam, What to say on the form, Private Pilot, Sport Pilot, medical, pilots, private, truth, click

  • the Tag Cloud and Tags (graffiti)

    Another cool tool is the "Tag Cloud"   Whenever you post a new page, photo or video, there is a box below  the Text box for entering "Tags."  Enter in that box whatever word would be a key word to search for  if someone wanted to find your topic....

    Tags: Tag, Tags, Tag Cloud, Graffiti, Help, Site Help, How to use this Site, About this site, Organizing tools, tagging photos, Trike Flying, Trike Pilot, posted, interested, pilots, members, various

  • Quote "Pilots have no rights in war on drugs"

    Pilots have no rights in war on drugs: A federal program trains its agents to treat the pilots of detained aircraft as if they have no right to refuse the search. "What they taught law enforcement officers and agents was that all aircraft can be detained since they all fall under the .....

    Tags: War on Drugs, Ramp Check, Detain, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), detained, searched, enforcement, agents, pilots, alltrikes

  • Is Your Transponder “On?” New Regulations for Taxiing

        Is Your Transponder “On?”   You may be accustomed to switching your transponder to standby (STBY) mode while taxiing, but with the changes to the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) in 2012, the FAA now recommends you activate your transponder p...

    Tags: Transponder, Regulation, Taxi, Standby, STBY, pilots, operate, airspace, systems, surface

  • Why Pilots Love to Vilify Other Pilots:

    I always wondered why pilots are often like this ... Why Pilots Love to Vilify Other Pilots The desire to find easy answers to incidents like the wrong-airport landing of the 747 in Wichita isn’t that hard to understand. Soon after the wrong-airport landing of the Boeing 74...

    Tags: Pilots picking on Pilots, going-direct why-pilots-love-vilify-other-pilots, blogs going-direct, why-pilots-love-vilify-other-pilots ohkgkqrdqtivma, boeing dreamlifter, jabara airport, landing, wrong-airport landing, pilots, wichita, answer

  • Flying is for the Birds- (Excellent article on how cool birds are)

          Proficient Pilot: Flying is for the birds VFR creatures that stay out of the clouds         January 17, 2014 By Barry Schiff      “Once you have tasted flight, y...

    Tags: Birds, Barry Schiff, AOPA, clocked, birds, pilots, flight, pilot

  • Pilots prepare for world record-setting flight in microlight - XC from UK to South Africa & BACK (not trike, but still cool and fun to follow)

    Pilots prepare for world record-setting flight in microlight  Pilots Richard Foster and Richard Bird are putting the finishing touches on their Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft, which they plan to fly next month 12,500 miles from Goodwood in the U.K., to Cape Town, South Africa. Their tri...

    Tags: Microlight, World Record, UK, South Africa, C42, pilots, month, foster, richard, microlight

  • Strobe location

    Hey everybody, Just looking for the current consensus on strobe location for a small single seat part 103 trike like ours. Personally I prefer a mast mount about 6 inches above the average pilots head height and facing the rear of the trike. Seems like it provides the best coverage to make you...

    Tags: aerotryk, part, 103, safety, provides, pilots, visibility, regards, position

  • Topic 1) fear of landing, no fear of takeoff

    This is from my own personal reflection. When I first learned how to fly, I thought taking off was no problem, but landing was scary.   It wasn't until I got my own trike and did 30 touch and goes in row that I started to enjoy landings.  It was much later, two years later d...

    Tags: intermediate, syndrome, dangerous, pilots, flying, runways, takeoffs

  • Quotes

    “Pilots begin their journey in the sky with an individualistic fervor.  They guide the raw skill of flying by the personality that passing years, influences, and genetics have created.  Some are meek and timid, some are bold and prone to rash decisions.  These traits large...

    Tags: experience, define, largely, years, pilots