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"Dave S" wrote:
Can I interest you in the Mazda Rotary line of power? Very few
catastrophic failure modes...

Don't get me wrong: I love the Mazda (more properly "Wankel"), too. But the
single most common causes of engine failure apply to it as well: fuel
problems. And because every Wankel installation is a unique experimental
installation, it is perhaps more at risk of problems than your
run-of-the-mill Lycoming installation.

As best as I see it, there's only one certain way to avoid engine or prop
failu fly a glider!

Russell Kent

As best as I see it, there's only one certain way to avoid engine or prop
failu fly a glider!

Russell Kent
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Fly a GLIDER?!?!?!?!?

Surely, you jest.

It has amazed me how many power pilots
would not give our sailplane club ships a try.
Every excuse in the book has been used to beg off.

IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

Barnyard BOb --

Barnyard BOb - wrote:

As best as I see it, there's only one certain way to avoid engine or prop
failu fly a glider!

Russell Kent

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Fly a GLIDER?!?!?!?!?

Surely, you jest.

It has amazed me how many power pilots
would not give our sailplane club ships a try.
Every excuse in the book has been used to beg off.

IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

Barnyard BOb --

Now Uncle Bob, I have flown a glider a couple of times and lived to
tell about it. Of coure it was not by choice, it was when the fan up
front quit turning on its own. I was not embarrassed at all when I
walked away from them. :-)

Jerry

"Barnyard BOb -" wrote:
IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

I'm reminded of the old gem: "How does one acquire good judgment? By making
bad decisions."

Russell Kent

"Barnyard BOb -" wrote:
IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

I'm reminded of the old gem: "How does one acquire good judgment? By making
bad decisions."

Russell Kent
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Great sound bite, and repeatable...
for Tiddlywinks or MS Flight Simulator.

In the real flying world, surviving multiple
bad flight decisions is nearly impossible.

JFK Jr. is but one tragic example.


Barnyard BOb - Fate is the hunter.

Someone said that we each start our flying careers with a full glass of luck
and an empty glass of skill. The idea is to fill the skill glass before the
luck glass is empty!
-Bob Korves

"Barnyard BOb -" wrote in message
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"Barnyard BOb -" wrote:
IMO, many power jockeys secretly fear embarrassment or worse,
when no engine is available to mask possible shortcomings of
basic skills and judgment required for true mastery of flight.

I'm reminded of the old gem: "How does one acquire good judgment? By
making
bad decisions."

Russell Kent
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Great sound bite, and repeatable...
for Tiddlywinks or MS Flight Simulator.

In the real flying world, surviving multiple
bad flight decisions is nearly impossible.

JFK Jr. is but one tragic example.


Barnyard BOb - Fate is the hunter.

Bob Korves wrote:
Someone said that we each start our flying careers with a full glass of luck
and an empty glass of skill. The idea is to fill the skill glass before the
luck glass is empty!

I mostly agree- I think the idea is to not empty the luck glass too
quickly (or at all), at least not empty it faster than the other one
fills

Or let's be less philisophical- don't do dumb stuff!