Sapphire

Offer her a reward. Richard Burton did to Elizabeth Taylor-multi million dollar diamond rings.

Oviously it was another Valdez. In that case the captain was drunk and this case asleep and just as not with it at any time.

Sounds like they had an ambulance there eveytime he flew.

I think there is some matey favoritism in passing bi-annual flight reviews especially if you own your own plane. Remember one pilot I casually knew who called downwind when he was wandering aimlessly around between the active and inactive side of the runway stumbling badly on his transmission. Wasn't worth my life to taxi out before he finally landed, parked and positively walking away from his a/c.

Gulp

No, my wife is good:naughty:

Oviously my post won't get riddled with people hitting the like button. [mostly the sex oriented posts get that] Lets look at the standard and amount of training required for a wife to get a plane on the ground and survive. I think in a couple hours of flying [two or three flights] could teach a wife to control yaw, pitch and roll sufficiently to do a survivable landing a lot of the time. If you are prone to flying over tiger coutry it may not make much difference if you have a back up pilot. So, the cost to put your wife and instructor together into your plane for two hours alone [know your instructor:naughty:] would be less than $200. That would be cheap enough to encourage use of the idea. Keeping her current could be helped just with verbal instructions as you are flying making sure of course none of her pinkies ever touch the controls. [of the plane] Motz said:You forgot about the 3rd evil. Your wife stuffs up the flare, you arent trained, experienced or competent in catching it, and you smash and SHE gets killed but you dont.. Good luck sleeping for the rest of your life. All to save a few bucks. Or you could stick to the rules and get an instructor to teach her.. I was promoting the idea of doing the training only around 4000ft. Of coure doing actual landing on hard ground would be too risky. But the rules are the rules and only trainung with an instructor.

Ok motzart, Lets work out the lesser of two evils. Evil no.1 is you collapse at the controls and your wife cannot fly and so you have two fatalities. Evil no. 2 is you illegally teach your wife a bit of flying. Again you collapse at the controls but your wife is able to bounce the a/c into a field. Your chance's of survival have dramatically improved. A commercial examiner I had told me at times in your flying you will have to break the rules. It's up to you to decide if you are still safe enough. This is an example of having an experienced capable pilot break the rules to improve safety. You have to honestly appraise yourself-having lots of hours only doesn't make you a good pilot. Also, another point to make is if you make it cheap enough more wives will be taught and have ongoing instruction to remain current.

Dearest Motzart, We know you are well intended. We are not looking at sending the wife solo-just some more capability in an emergency. If she can fly somewhat straight and level, decend, do turns and maintain a rough airspeed, thats better than the plane going completely out of control. You need some relaxing classical music to calm your nerves. BTW, what is FFS:crying:

I was just going to get into that. Just have the spouce follow along on the landings and teach a bit solo flying at 4000 feet. Even pretend there is a runway at 4000 feet and practice on that. Check for local traffic

I'll take that as a compliment:hug:

Why don't you teach her with the claytons instructional flights. The instructional flights you do when you don't. In other word, give her some lessons yoursef so she is good enough to do a survivable landing.

They want to know the weight and balance of your a/c, not some one elses a/c-where is Facthunter.

These videos are always good value. However, the shape the prop takes due to strobeing effect always worries me. A bit of free visual effects.

My Sapphire got charged a landing fee thousands of miles away. At the time it was in a trailer in front of my house for sale. How do they identify these a/c - a lottery machine?

Duane said: That said I'm still a big fan of both X-Air and the Jabiru engine as a hole. I agree as well.

Interesting, but why could they not recover from 10,000 feet when the captain took over the controls? Earlier the stall warning came on and the stick was being held back-even a first solo pilot work that out.

Having done 37 years reseach on this subject I conclude that your vertical component of lift comes from differential pressure applied to various structures of the a/c and the downwash from the wing's trailing edge. That should put the whole story to rest

I was ina high speed stall towing a glider. In the stall the center of pressure moves back and so the nose will come down without any control imputs- just help a bit easing the stick forward. FH said: On a very long trip being kept down by other traffic will cost a lot of fuel. Say you are flying Sydney to LA, would there be that much traffic that you cant fly your preferred altitude? How much separation is required?

Jet engines only work effeciently at high altitude and guzzle lots of gas at lower altitudes. A jet engine I saw at Oshkosh used for ultralights consumed 40 US gallons per hour flying below 10000 feet. If I put one on my phantom Weed Hopper, I will consider making a pressureized flight deck for it and put myself where the airliners fly. FH said: If you have an "upset" ie fall out of a a high level, you may lose over 10,000 feet before you recover, even if you do everything right.. Nev What flying configeration would the a/c have after having stalled. Would it constantly want to spin with you constantly kicking in rudder and "easing the stick forward" What do you have to do right to recover in 10000 feet.

gentreau said: Now, when you get silly high, like commercials and Learjets, the IAS at maximum cruise speed (TAS) starts to get quite close to the stall speed. Interesting, so when flying in that situation you are flying at an angle of attack close to the stall speed which is the high drag, slow speed end of the drag curve. That is inconsistant with wanting to fly at best lift/drag for most economical performance.

facthunter will probably respond to you as soon as he puts on his cape and eats his spinach.

Of course, that is the case when you are operating the aircraft controls.