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  1. pmccarthy
    I challenge whether a properly maintained Rotax912 has a higher failure rate than say an O320.
  2. pmccarthy
    Yes, it will stop the coffee tasting funny.
  3. pmccarthy
    The main requirement for DRA used to be carriage of a HF radio.
  4. pmccarthy
    Still on the gold mining theme, a super sucker can lift big lumps of broken rock up to 120 meters from a shaft. That’s why your prop can lift bits of gravel half a metre or so from a taxiway if you don’t keep moving.
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    I had a 912 engine without a carb heater and it never needed it. My present plane has one and it has been needed a couple of times, quite effective. But it has no effect on RPM during a run up.
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    The bird thing is important. I put rubber seal strips on the edges of the doors.
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    That’s one of the most flared landings I have seen.
  8. pmccarthy
    I still like the gyrocopter girl
  9. pmccarthy
    If you lose your ASI fly crosswind and final at the usual speed in the usual configuration. If the attitude is right you should see a rate of descent of about 500 fpm. If not, adjust.
  10. pmccarthy
    Never have grabbed a beaver.
  11. pmccarthy
    Skyrangers have been making some interesting trips!
  12. pmccarthy
    I you can’t do it, Jerry can.
  13. pmccarthy
    Finnegan' wake was wake turbulence.😀
  14. pmccarthy
    If you can sit in a drone then it is not a drone it is an aircraft.
  15. pmccarthy
    We have a lot of motards around here.
  16. pmccarthy
    Headline here - Pilot Dies in Horror Crash. What is a Horror Crash, and how is it worse than a regular crash?
  17. pmccarthy
    Agreed. They are not pilots. I think pilot somehow means out in front, leading, like pilot whales or the pilots who bring ships into harbour.
  18. pmccarthy
    He was a great contributor here.
  19. pmccarthy
    My wife gets that alarm every time she chops wood.
  20. pmccarthy
    They are designed to fail under excessive vibration, but it is hard to understand. A dead engine would fall away, but one producing thrust will go ahead and then back into the aircraft, as has happened I other cases.
  21. pmccarthy
    Hope they don’t do virtual repairs on real aircraft.
  22. pmccarthy
    Another traumatised pilot looking for closure.
  23. pmccarthy
    Yeah, I have never understood what a forward slip is. And yes, I have read lots about it. You cross the controls, and the aircraft increases its rate of descent. It travels in a direction that you can decide. I have been doing that forever, it is a sideslip. I can go in whatever direction I choose.
  24. pmccarthy
    I had forgotten it was the Firefly, with VTOL in the wings and rocket propulsion. One of my favourite authors as a nine year old or so.
  25. pmccarthy
    Who remembers Simon Black and his fan in wing?
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