turboplanner

Not really

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

(Catch22)

.....you take another photo of the placard with the sun setting on it, and viewed in the obverse, along with the measurements of the tyre make and specification numbers, and..........

Most U/L's don't have an accurate enough ASI due installation etc. There are other variations in build and rigging too. If you just jump into any plane and expect it to fly to the sort of figures a Cessna 172 will for example , you are going to get a shock one day. Some static vents (or lack of) will give very inaccurate speed indications. Nev

The low inertia and much greater possibility of the lighter aircraft being more severely affected by things like crosswinds and gusts is another reason to stay away.

while researching RV10 aircraft ownership and building, some owners during their 25 hrs flyy off restricted area flying, do nothing but performance testing to get the data for their POH's.

....and, dear NES readers please don't repeat this, a lunch between Red Herring and a certain little guts of any type of food after they finally took their aircraft over MTOW with the junk food consumed en route to the Townsville casino, where...........

Of course you can FH but it's the clowns who make a habit of not bothering about approach speed or short field technique, or even which way the wind's blowing that make it necessary for a property owner to make sure he has a very comfortable margin.

A sad day, to lose a Rattax from our community is devastating, even though it was only ever flown when there was no alternative, except........

...the pitts (avref).

This opinion was shared by the workers at the Marian suger mill when Madge backed off the throttle approaching to land, and the Rattax backfired and sent the sprag clutch into a series of clangs which had the workers rushing for the lunch room thinking it was the dinner bell.

They weren't at all pleased to find it was just a rich guy playing with his toy, and one of the photos shows Madge attempting to get the aircraft back under control after being terrified by cannonfire from a strange aircraft which suddenly appeared over the factory.

What could it have been lurking there for? Why was it armed? What was going on at that factory other than squeezing sugar cane?

"............side slip which is a very bad habit, particularly for female pilots" at which point Loxy chipped in and said "......................"

Yes landing and take off are similar, in fact landing is more stable number BUT biggest factor is pilot as you say

I've seen plenty of Jabs float way past the 600 metre mark.

No doubt on a calm day, a good pilot can hit the optimum touch down spot, but he's not the one you have to worry about.

The one that's going to take your house and all your assets is going to be the one who THINKS he can, or the one who did all his training in calm weather.

.......weather, the smell of his shoes and the state of the Loxenvagen which hadn't been washed since it was detailed for sale, and the Rat's...............

"I could land there no worries" said Jaboru2255

"The uphill slope would help to slow it down, but people are ba$tards theses day" said Foxhunter

"I've got you on IGNORE!!!" said Harriet ho somehow had broken the ignore code but not the bore code.

"You should be OK with a J230 on that" said J230, who'd always wanted to hbuy one but never got around to raising the money let alone the training.

"It would depend on the scales" said Texas confusing the fish with Loxy's hand

And so a chance remark by a CASA employee typing a warning which he thought was neither too explicit to get him into trouble, nor too vague to get him into trouble, was the start of an eight month 2000 post thread which got precisely nowehere, but then................

" thread a safety pin and chain thr0ugh the eye of a...................."....

"...........Madge" which was quite appropriate because the Rat had been greasing up to Madge for weeks [see posts referring to "Madgesty" etc], but was about to play a nasty practical joke.

Turbo wishes to advise the gentle readers of NES (as against the feral fruitloops airing their educations about immigration and how to run the Country) that he had nothing to do with it, other than accidentally mentioning the dusky beauties of To$%^&%&&*.

Rat had immediately reacted to the low prices, and signed up four of them for a week for $50.00 the lot incl GST (in case Dazza is reading this).

He then went to Madge and told him he'd signed up the Supremes for a week at the BOB, and offered Madge $30.00 to sing with them for the week.

Well, has a dog got fleas, Madge nearly fell over himself confirming.

"What's the BOB.............................?"

........sperique travers le bluter, which...............

....Ukelele (they even get that wrong)

"Stop!" he said "Show me your........"

.........but Beginning-O had been to slow with his usual verbose responses and a huge spray of brown...................

.....the net is too small to let resident vermin including fleas, cockroaches and other parasites to escape to the surrounding population.

There had been some friction at a recent board meeting where Epaulette had said "Don't tell the members, but you know how you f,nQ's have that terrible body odour could you at least................"

.....that Madge was one of those......

".........why are you giving me money?"

"You were the one who told me which side of town they were on Madgesty" said Turbo with a smirk and.........

Franco, he wasn't participating in the serious technical discussion, he was cracking a joke.

If for example you are arguing that the chooks laid zero eggs today, it could be said you are arguing about "nothing" a play on words for zero.

600 metres ,,,1800 ft approx,,,,,,,that's a lot of runway,,,,even with half a bit lumpy ,I'm not saying anyone should go in to anywhere they're not comfy with ,but with a bit of practice 600m is plenty for just about any of our lighties. It comes down to getting in tune with your plane, it's nice to have 3km of bitumen in front of you but it can be restrictive if you never learn to short field it confidently , and as a side ,when the fan stops if your current at getting it in tight your survivable paddocks suddenly become a lot more numerous,Matty

The "experienced Jab pilot" should be able to carry out the Performance and Operations calculations he's supposed to be doing before each flight, and subject to correct grade, surface, etc be able to tell you now.

That saves you the public liability costs if someone thinks he can but can't, in the light of the sound advice coming through this thread.

Many seem to float for most of that 600 m the landing roll is OK, but you can't start it 50 metres from the end fence.

Depends what you want - quicker arrival or lower fuel cost.

The engine has to make enough power to overcome air resistance at cruising speed along with some other things like accessories and mechanical resistance.

Frontal area is a major part of the equation, offset to a small degree by streamline coefficient.

Power required to overcome air resistance goes up exponentially, so you have to burn a lot more fuel to cruise at the faster speed, given two basically similar aircraft.

So the percentage disadvantage of the slow aircraft is offset by lower cost. (I know a four place touring aircraft kills a Savannah for cost per pax per Nm, but that's another equation.)