danny_galaga

Yeah, damn that's a LOT of movement 😲 Can't quite think of the brand of mine, but I decided not to cheap out on it. It's American, quite a reasonable price and is OEM on Beechcraft etc. Now I've seen how it's NOT supposed to be, I think I'll be fine. Mine definitely dampens nicely 🙂 Edit: Air path is the brand https://www.aircraftspruce.com.au/catalog/inpages/airpath_compass3.php

Fair point. I may find myself in a similar situation later this year I guess. No gyro though, so will have to really concentrate on that compass 🧭

Phoenix AZ. 3 onboard, unharmed. There has been a huge increase in emergency landings on roads lately. I read recently that the FAA are getting twitchy about it. One I saw a little while ago (did I post here?) landed on a road and hit a car, very luckily not killing the driver. There was a swamp next to the road. Land there, don't risk other people's lives.

But it's a gyro. It will constantly precess. How have you kept it accurate in the past?

Aren't you suposed to calibrate the gyro against your compass every 15 minutes? I vaguely remember learning that when i started doing navs in the 90's.

So I think I'm going to go with the pilot exams subscription, but I'll wait until I come back from holidays as the clock will be ticking. But I might get the Dyson manual as well. Together that's the cost of only 30 minutes instruction

Now I get it ☺️

How is that IFR? Or am I missing a joke?

Yes, having grown up in Darwin, I had no real awareness that our weather was so different. I knew in an academic sort of sense, but didn't really appreciate it until I lived in Vancouver for about six months, and the two warmer seasons to boot. I thought, oh this is civilised ☺️. Then eventually moved to Brisbane and discovered they had say 8-10 months of lovely weather, instead of Darwin's 2-3. Still tropical thunderstorms are fantastic to watch. From the ground 🙂

I first learnt to fly I. Darwin. You could always just follow the Stuart Highway 😄

There's an ra Aus kit plane in the hangar that has 3 axis auto pilot, two glass displays etc. it's a beautiful rocket ship, the owner did an amazing job, even upholstering the seats himself. He loves it, and each to their own, but yes I fully agree. In the same hangar is a Drifter, the pilot of that flies 727s normally. Clearly for him, a small plane is definitely there to connect with. Keeping it real and reminding himself of what attracted him to flying in the first place.

Well, just one more thread I've started I'll just have to unfollow I guess

Ok, you are too YOUNG to understand? 🤷‍♂️ Let me explain - if you make a Confucius joke, then a funny one is- "Confucius say- Man who stands behind car is exhausted". That is still (somewhat) funny. Here we make a play on words to create an absurd analect, as proposed by a wise ancient philosopher. This may cause you to laugh. A laugh is a sound that comes from the back of your throat when you hear something funny. If the joke is only about how someone speaks, then it's just not funny. Sorry if I've hurt your feelings.

You are too old to understand. So let's leave it at that.

What I'm saying is that nowadays, your 'joke' is at best, antiquated. Times change.