Right rudder, right rudder ... right rudder!

[Colonel]

Food for thought: that guy is almost certainly flying a Boeing or Airbus now.

And remember, if you can't have a dolphin, you can always have a porpoise!

[Nark]

I’m quite certain I did his OE.


He’s probably at Delta now.

[Colonel]

On a related subject:



Or, how to convert a stable nosedragger into an unstable taildragger!

I keep telling the kids: you don't land a little airplane. You put it at 6 inches above the runway in the landing attitude
with the power off, and as it slows down, try to stop it from landing.

The above is obvious to the old pros here, but is news to the youngsters.

[Big Pistons Forever]

Food for thought: that guy is almost certainly flying a Boeing or Airbus now.

And remember, if you can't have a dolphin, you can always have a porpoise!

If buddy had been flying anything other than a C 172 they probably would have died in that “Go Around”. The C 172 is the worst trainer ever made, yet it is now ubiquitous in flight training

[Colonel]

C172 is the worst trainer ever made

It's far too forgiving.

These days everyone is doing their initial flight training on Cirrus SR22 at USD$500/hr plus instructor. What a weird choice for a trainer. They explain to me that they need to train on the aircraft that they will fly after they get their private certificate, because a pilot should only fly one type, because that makes them a better pilot, because they have more hours on it.

I spent yesterday being lectured by them on the importance of aircraft tire tread to landing distance, which in my last half century of flying - they have NEVER even seen ice or snow, and they never fly when the runway is wet - is about the least important thing I can think of wrt landing distance on a dry runway. Shit, my Dad used to take off in a F-104 with cord showing. They had 20 plies or something. They looked like sheepdogs.

Alrighty then.

What the fuck happened to aviation in the 21st century?

[Slick Goodlin]

Why’s that Cessna got invasion stripes? Headed to Normandy next?

[Squaretail]

Why’s that Cessna got invasion stripes?

Because they're cool. Not as cool as shark mouths, but almost.

[Slick Goodlin]

Why’s that Cessna got invasion stripes?

Because they're cool. Not as cool as shark mouths, but almost.

Hard to argue with that logic.

[David MacRay]

Yeah that’s legitimate. If something weird happens and I buy or build a plane I might have checkerboards painted on the tail.

[Colonel]

My Dad's old squadron in Europe?



I know Canadians don't think much of me or my family, but get back to me on how many people
done deadstick IMC approaches. He was 24 years old, in a single-seat F-86 Sabre on top of a
thick cloud deck with a flamed-out engine. Short igniters, no restart.