Sport Pilot Talk

Jim Stewart wrote:You can still get DUATS. You have to call them up and explain that you're a sport pilot and they will manually enroll you.

Would this be for any pilot with any certificate who is flying on the DL exercising sport pilot privileges?

The commentary speaks volumes about the practicability of the ASTM vs standard certification. The flight schools with SLSA are stuck. I can at least go experimental. The flight school has very few choices. Flight Design being the top one for having the infrastructure to provide support quickly enoug...

Its one thing to have an instructor "fail" something and fly partial panel - its another when the failure has already put you in an unusual attitude and nothing on the panel makes sense. As a fellow CFII, I couldn't agree more. After all, partial panel training is merely designed to prepa...

A local flight school had a bunch of C150's, a CTLS, some C172's etc. He got rid of the C150s as being maintenance hogs.

drseti wrote:I'm curious what his response was, Jim. (Probably not printable...)

Actually, he was kind of oblivious. Which is even more scary.

My agent explained that a deductible of $5000 only saved about $20-30. Certainly not worth bothering about. Her explanation was that there were very few "cheap" repairs on airplanes.

The new premium is $1646.

I was giving Charlie some good-nature ribbing because he is passionate about some subjects (but he's never displayed an ire to any of us that I know of.)

Saw a guy climb in the club glider the other day with what looked like combat boots. I asked him if it affected his sensitivity in sensing rudder inputs.

You are right - I should question the deductible.

I don't even carry hull on anything else I own - only airplanes. !

FastEddieB wrote:

jnmeade wrote:
For example, how many high wing planes can you count with push-rods?/quote]

Mine?
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I concede your point. But they are rare, I think.

jnmeade wrote:

CharlieTango wrote:Jim,

For some, like me upset training might be more important than spin training.

CT, should you go for upset training or go right on to anger management?

Hey, Charlie Tango, I thought that was funny as hell. Either it slipped by you or you disagreed?

If I remember correctly, three turns is part of the definition of a "fully developed spin" and less than that is still part of an incipient spin. It has to do with the airplane characteristics but I'd need to look it up to be sure of just what. I do recall that the Cessna Aerobat would go ...

I just got my quote for the 2007 CTSW w/$90k hull, $0 deductible, $5k medical, $1million & $100k. No claims. Provided proof of CFI renewal Provided proof of completion of WINGS phase Flew over 90 hours, including good hours recently. The quote went up by 17%. The policy says that my ELSA can onl...

CharlieTango wrote:Jim,

For some, like me upset training might be more important than spin training.

CT, should you go for upset training or go right on to anger management?

We all should know more about the aerodynamics of a spin - how and why the aircraft spins, how to prevent entry and if in a spin how to get out of it. I enjoyed my spin training and use to go out and practice on my own in a Citabria. I did not go into a fully developed spin (more than 3 turns). I wa...