Janet taught us this technique, then we went out and filmed it
In this trike, the charts can easily rest on the dash board during flight. I sti...places, like LAX, require that you have a current TAC chart in the trike.
This is the 5th "9000 Miles Trike Journey" movie. I made the first one in 2011. This year was a bit diff...ishments. The first, I became a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor for trike). The second, I got the new SLSA trike,...
A bit of a boring video I know, and yes it is much easier when the landing site is one that is very familiar and available. But still, a good bit of exercise now and then to learn to judge your descent and distance judging skills.
'orrible weather, can't go far, no-one else in the air ... so I made the most of it and played around the airfield doing a few engine outs and low fast passes with...
Watch this 9 minute short story about a loser trike pilot that cannot make the payments on his trike and the Repo guys are out to take it from him. If you like this short story please leave a comment.
How about a trike trainer on a string? This one is a wind powered trike, the string might not be included :-). Anyways, I want one too. I bet is a lot of fun and cheap to fly, as long as you don't have to pay the "string guy". Fly Safe!
There we had all there: nice weather, nice XC flight, landing at "new airport" for me and adrenaline too. My friends engine stopped and he had an emergency landing at field.
He was quite good, then I decided to simulate him lost of engine power after take off. As you can see he did two mistakes very shortly step by step. Because the view to the approaching ground is terrible, he decided push the bar out. I had to correct it.