Recent content by GeorgeC

I never did buy the elliptical I was looking at, but am now pondering a treadmill instead. Which one should I get? Same rules as before, keep it under 1 AMU.

"Schiavo said people would be afraid to fly if TSA ended screenings at their local airports." https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...de850c-95cc-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html

Aside from the Velocity, is there anything in the 4 seat, 180hp, fixed gear, fixed pitch design space in the EAB world? Zodiac?

Saturday's supposed to be breezy. I was looking over the pipersport documentation and they list a max demonstrated headwind of 24 knots, distinct from the max demonstrated crosswind of 12 knots. Why would they bother including the headwind number?

tl;dr: Is it worth an extra 10% in distance to follow roads? One of my aviation goals for the new year is to plan and execute a long-to-me XC day trip, around 200nm each way. I've planned two routes, one that's more or less direct and has airports at most every 20 minutes or so, and another...

In the context of reducing spin accidents, has anyone made a feedback system that drives the rudder such that the ball is always centered?

For those among us with scientific/engineering tendencies, how do you balance the analytical vs. the intuitive aspects of flying?

I'm a pre-solo student pilot with a dozen hours or so in the 172. For the last little while, I've been practicing right-handed patterns on a runway with no VASI. To further complicate things, it's been breezy of late, up to 14 gusting 20. My C172 POH says that landings are okay with any flap...