Scudrunners

I know my opinion won’t be popular but …

From a physics standpoint, the only thing that matters is your height and airspeed over the threshold. All else is New Age Feel Good BS.

The reasoning behind so much in aviation is that because some pilots are shitty, we all have to do something stupid.

How about we pass a law that all bicycles have training wheels permanently mounted? That would be good for people who never learned to ride, right?

The incredible arrogance of people, that aviation is just another vehicle for their egalitarian politics.

Why is everyone so proudly infantile today? It’s a goddamned embarrassment.

Colonel wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 1:20 am I know my opinion won’t be popular but …

a) Why are you worried about that? and b) Why are you so certain?

From a physics standpoint, the only thing that matters is your height and airspeed over the threshold.

In other words the airplane's energy. All of the physical act of flying is managing the airplane's energy to be how you want it, where you want it, when you want it.

See? We agree!

Squaretail wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:25 pm

From a physics standpoint, the only thing that matters is your height and airspeed over the threshold.

In other words the airplane's energy. All of the physical act of flying is managing the airplane's energy to be how you want it, where you want it, when you want it.

See? We agree!

Your vector is also fairly important.

digits wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:50 pm

Squaretail wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:25 pm

From a physics standpoint, the only thing that matters is your height and airspeed over the threshold.

In other words the airplane's energy. All of the physical act of flying is managing the airplane's energy to be how you want it, where you want it, when you want it.

See? We agree!

Your vector is also fairly important.

I was going to mention that, but I didn't want to be argumentative for the sake of it.

Most people fly a 3 degree glideslope.

I suspect I am the only person here who routinely is in a vertical downline at 500 feet at 180 mph and full throttle, looking at the runway numbers :^)



Full throttle at max design G at Clmax, levelling out at the surface.

If a four bar tried that once, he would crap his pants.

Colonel wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:13 pm If a four bar tried that once, he would crap his pants.

As would I, and I’m no four bar.

Like Juan Browne, you have the coveted “three bars” and as such can still fly. :^)

Saw a video of him landing a taildragger - off-airport! He'll probably be required to stop doing that once he goes left seat. Union rules or something.

Reminds me of the time Peter Martin, the pride of AC, tried to land a Maule. I think it's still in pieces, in Arnprior. It will never fly, again.

Has anyone ever noticed the incongruity? Clowns in white shirts screeching at me for decades what a shit pilot I am, and what great pilots they are ... then they crash?

Were the Three Stooges airline pilots? If not, why not?

That's a good point.

I've never once heard of a great aerobatic pilot that crashed.

No wonder you guys are paid so badly.

"I've never once heard of a great aerobatic pilot that crashed."

TT: that's because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: if they crash, they're not great aerobatic pilots...