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I think the earliest may have been with a trike

Didn't someone do that a while back and follow migratory Geese with very basic U/l's down the West Coast? The Imagery was fantastic. It must be still around. Nev

I have had a bucket list plan for a while, just was not sure how to execute it. I wanted to fly cross country trips in the U.S. in a FAR Part 103 aircraft. But it’s not doable without a support team. So over the weekend I rethought the whole thing and have 12 months. I buy the plane, ready to fly or close to it. Complete assembly and fly off a few test/familiarisation hours THEN I organise a staging area in Wisconsin and……I fly into Oshkosh 2025, in MY aircraft for the event. THEN I fly out at the end, and organise disassembly and shipping home to Australia. Don’t ask what happens after that 🤩🤩 I have found a shipper, just need to organise the rest. People will say, but this will cost a heap of money blah blah, well I am hear to say I don’t F….g care because you only live once, and I will spend as much as it takes because I CAN. Would not care if I went to my grave stony broke…….I will have done what I wanted to do.👍 And trust me, I have done a lot of crazy crap in my life 🤩🤩

Name your property CASA MIA USA.

Well I am researching the purchase/assembly situation for Aerolite 103, so I can fly in the U.S.?

Like the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland (I lived in County Waterford for a while). If you do the factory tour they show you people blowing glass, then you go to another room where you stand behind a rope curtain and watch half a dozen skilled workers painstakingly cutting the grooves into the crystal glasses by hand. Then you kind of think... hold on, how many sets of glasses do they sell each day worldwide? And we're supposed to believe that 3 glass-blowers and 6 people with Dremels are supplying that...?

Didn't take long for a discussion about ultralight aircraft to become derailed! More importantly, I don't believe that anyone with a workshop that spotlessly clean and beautifully tidy, ever does any work in it!! He must have a real workshop nearby!!

It would be a sad thing to break your back and it's not that difficult to do in draggy planes if you lose power at a low height in climb. Canards are inherently twitchy in pitch and many today are not au fait with 2 strokes. Firing up and roaring off as was done there is not best practice. In reality while it looks like fun, you might have a lifetime of regretting it. Boring and ever safety conscious, it's paid off so far despite others trying to kill me. Nev

That's what they recommend for part 103 in America. You don't need any training but they encourage people to get some first.

Wouldn't it be wiser To have a few ' practical ' lessons. With an instructor . To have an ' experienced ' pilot make the first test flight . Cuts down on mistakes. A first timer will make . If it doesn't work . A few good mates to take you to ' hospital ' , if it doesn't work for you ' this ' time . LoL spacesailor

I know someone who was doing that and he went up more than he planned, panicked and cut the throttle. Stalled onto the runway , wrote off his new $30,000 flightstar then went to hospital for a couple of days.

The crow hopping at low airspeed is actually a fairly difficult manoeuvre for pilots with no real experience.

Those pterodactyls like in the above video are a handful I have heard. Methusala on here used to fly them I think.

I did the self taught thing age 21, in a mk3 Scout, 6 months after the Australian ultralight federation AUF was formed. I guess it was legal, the Thruster Gemini two seat trainer didn't come till 1985 I think. Only scary moment I have had was getting into a holding pattern with 20-30 other aircraft going to Avalon East for the air show. Stupid organisation. The "junior GA reporter" on Facebook is a great resource of what not to do in general aviation aircraft. Read one or two a day will keep you safe.

If you don't take passengers and keep away from people on the ground. Who cares. Your not hurting anyone. There are so many unlicensed rec pilots flying around that raaus don't have enough resources to go after them all.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them ALL yourself.. SOME people should NEVER fly. They just won't GET it. Situational awareness. Attitude flying and dare I say it. Something called Aptitude and accumulated EXPERIENCE. IF you've flown for a while and not crashed, you are extremely lucky OR you've Learned a few things. Know YOUR limit and the Planes. Nev

I was talking to a very well regarded Aviator about the video. I sent it to him for comment, he got the laughs I got from it and he simply said ‘that’s how we used to do it’ 🤩 We have people on this Earth who should not be driving cars, but they are. We have people who should not be flying aircraft, but they are. The difference is a poor pilot is soon to crash, and a poor self teaching pilot is going to crash SOONER?

Not sure I'd want the possible consequences of that on my conscience. At least it has a tricycle undercarriege. Canards are usually touchy in the pitching axis. That one doesn't seem to be but it's for entertainment I reckon. and not flown by a REAL non trained pilot. Ignorance is rarely a plus. Nev

Back in th good old days we we can never see again UNLESS you have a go at FAA FAR Part 103 Aircraft in a secret place from prying eyes 🤩🤩 https://youtu.be/GuPNfrfJVP0?si=5GD6QnoNEo0Mmzip

Nice sideslip straight to 3 pointer there. That's not that easy to do. Nev

Flying Sense - US Navy basic flight instruction 1944 https://youtu.be/8kLxBr_nal8?si=ZoIj-h9FMiHGNff9

I don't think we know the details sufficiently to know the exact context and manner this was done. . I KNOW the seat of the pant's works in everything, except simulators. Don't turn your back on anything that is going for you. Nev

Yes , I do remember. But as you said a Angle of attack indicator is essential, as is knowledge of the aircraft feel to get that seat of the pants ability. Remember this was a instruction flight and instruments were inoperable, so I deduce the AofA was also inoperable. I will assume an instruction flight means the pilot is either learning or getting current. Either way it should not happen. We should never encourage no instruments been operable and still taking off regardless, it's a very bad example for a instructor to allow. If the instructor said " the instruments work, but we will fly as if they fail in flight ( cover with post-it notes) and see how you fly using the your learned skills " that is different. I am not having a go at the pilot or glider flying but the attitude of the instructor and how that flows into the skills and attitudes of a training pilot.

IF you have good seat of the Pants feel you will avoid stalls if an instrument and/or your calculations are wrong. Every different flap setting has a different stall figure and is weight and Cof G position affected as well. Spoiler float will require added speed and so will icing. AoA or Reserve lift Indication is essential to be safe. IF you don't have that seat of the Pants is a definite help. When you first did S & L , as you slowed you noticed the controls getting lighter and less effective , wind noise reduced and pre stall Buffet when you did stalls . Remember? Nev