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by jnmeade
Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:40 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

It's your forum, Paul, and you always win the arguments. You'd think I'd learn.
by jnmeade
Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:22 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

Well, Jim, then we're pretty much in agreement. We teach the FARs, make sure our students know the legal limits, and then set personal or company limits that are more conservative. My objection was that you didn't make any point of teaching the FARs, you just set a company policy. Plus, you set lim...
by jnmeade
Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:18 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

Where do you set the limit as an instructor for a student to be on the ground by? Do you think you should let them to fly right up to the end of evening civil twilight? What if you have to make a go around and are now beyond civil twilight? Here is a definition from the US Naval Observatory "C...
by jnmeade
Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:51 pm
Forum: Training
Topic: Soloed yesterday...
Replies: 18
Views: 8693

Re: Soloed yesterday...

Horatio wrote: The next challenge will be manipulating a chart, E6B and plotter while flying a stick.
Attention to trimming pays big dividends.
by jnmeade
Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:43 pm
Forum: Hangar Talk
Topic: FBO Tipping Etiquette
Replies: 4
Views: 3095

Re: FBO Tipping Etiquette

In all my flying privately or as a charter pilot I have never seen FBO ground personnel tipped. It is their job and they should be paid adequately. If a person does something far over and above the call of duty perhaps a tip might be in order. At my local FBO, where I'm well known, I'll bring by a b...
by jnmeade
Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:43 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

No, I would not send students on a cross country with 3 miles vis. I can think of very few times I'd fly with 3 miles vis. I would be reluctant to fly with 5 miles vis even in a slow plane.
by jnmeade
Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:44 am
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

Eddie, you bring up an excellent point. I don't think the two situations are at all analogous. In one case, we are talking about safe-siding a very predictable, controllable activity - for what purpose? On the other side, we are talking about the student's ability to apply a skill set. I would like ...
by jnmeade
Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:19 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

Nothing wrong with a flight school having procedures to ensure students stay well within the envelope. Yes there is. Procedures to not exceed, yes (such as don't fly before morning civil twilight). Flying 1 minute after morning civil twilight is perfectly legal and easy to prove. If you are talking...
by jnmeade
Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:45 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

Aviation Instructor's Handbook FAA-H 8083-9A p 2-11 Primacy Primacy, the state of being first, often creates a strong, almost unshakable impression and underlies the reason an instructor must teach correctly the first time and the student must learn correctly the first time. I restate my concern tha...
by jnmeade
Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:11 am
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Day VFR -- when is it night?
Replies: 30
Views: 16429

Re: Day VFR -- when is it night?

I tell my students and renters to flight-plan to take off after official sunrise, and land before sunset. The civil twilight rule gives them a safety buffer. This sort of advice drives me crazy and I would never do it. Here's why: 1. Using this rule consistently, one forgets how to look up or calcu...
by jnmeade
Fri May 31, 2013 2:07 pm
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Useful Life of Composite Airframes for S-LSA
Replies: 21
Views: 14640

Re: Useful Life of Composite Airframes for S-LSA

http://www.jams-coe.org/docs/JAMS08_presentations/1.Salah.pdf I couldn't cut n paste, so you'll have to read it yourself. One test on the Star and one on the Beechcraft Starship and one on the B-737 rudder. You can skip to the conclusion page at the end of each discussion. The results seemed quite p...
by jnmeade
Thu May 30, 2013 9:17 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Sport License in progress!
Replies: 18
Views: 12030

Re: Sport License in progress!

Those ground reference maneuvers develop skills you will employ throughout your flying life in pattern work and landings. Be sure to don't treat them as "school maneuvers". A critical aspect of flying them well is to always know the wind direction and speed. Sometimes you know that, someti...
by jnmeade
Tue May 28, 2013 9:59 am
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: LSA For Ground Observation
Replies: 7
Views: 3177

Re: LSA For Ground Observation

Maybe a small camera but nothing big or fancy. Mainly human eyeball observation, most likely with one pilot only. Not a great area to cover and probably not landing on gravel bars or anything that rough.
by jnmeade
Tue May 28, 2013 8:09 am
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: RV-12 Questions
Replies: 16
Views: 9407

Re: RV-12 Questions

Howard, A couple of thoughts - if you decide to go with the SkyView, check to see if you get the opened up version or if there is a Van's version that you can't modify much. Flight Design has SkyView but you can't go in and change it all around as you'd like. The wing attachment is similar to many m...
by jnmeade
Tue May 28, 2013 7:55 am
Forum: Light Sport Aircraft
Topic: Who will the survivors be?
Replies: 32
Views: 13408

Re: C-162 Skycatcher appears to be gone!

Jack, I think your commentary is thoughtful and useful. I might consider the low-volume manufacturers more as a special case of E-AB than a viable SLSA/ELSA when it comes to long term sustainability. That would imply to me that if one bought a low-volume plane and didn't have a driving need to keep ...