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"Angus Davis" wrote in message
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Jim Fisher wrote:

Additional points should be deducted for him violating the TFR around
sporting events but let's not be anal.


I don't think those TFRs apply to Little League! I think cruising at 500
feet AGL puts him the running for a Darwin Award.
-angus


He is in Alaska, they all cruise at 500' for some reason. I picked up a
C182 in Anchorage that was bought by a student of mine and during the demo
flight we never got above 500'AGL. Don't know why. Everyone else I saw
flew that way too!

I'm thinking he was actually in violation of the FAR that says you have to
fly high enough to bbe able to land without undue risk to persons or
property on the ground in the case of an engine failure. Granted, he got it
down well, but it seems awful close to a whole lot of people.

If it was preventable fuel exhaustion, well...BUZZZZ...no credit.

mike regish

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message

I should probably take a point or two off for him cruising "500 to 1000
feet" AGL (according to someone in the video) without a really good
landing
spot picked out.

Additional points should be deducted for him violating the TFR around
sporting events but let's not be anal.

All points will be forfeited and the pilot disqualified if the cause turns
out to be fuel exhaustion.

--
Jim Fisher

Jim Fisher wrote:
Sorry, but this judge is gonna have to take off a couple of points for not
using flaps. Of course, he might have been trying to stretch the glide to
make the running track but the steep approach tends to suggests otherwise.

Why use flaps when you can slip and have more control over the descent?

"john smith" wrote in message
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: Jim Fisher wrote:
: Sorry, but this judge is gonna have to take off a couple of points
for not
: using flaps. Of course, he might have been trying to stretch the
glide to
: make the running track but the steep approach tends to suggests
otherwise.
:
: Why use flaps when you can slip and have more control over the
descent?
and how many pilots nowadays (apart from those trained back in the
flapless days) would be happy slipping for the first time under such
conditions ???

gblack wrote:

and how many pilots nowadays (apart from those trained back in the
flapless days) would be happy slipping for the first time under such
conditions ???

Are you saying a pilot landing under those conditions would be
slipping for the first time?

It's a required pre-solo maneuver

If a pilot doesn't practice it regularly enough to be comfy
when needed, they're missing a portion of their proficiency.

Sydney (has flaps, will slip with and without them)

"Sydney Hoeltzli" wrote ...
If a pilot doesn't practice it regularly enough to be comfy
when needed, they're missing a portion of their proficiency.

Sydney (has flaps, will slip with and without them)

My Cheetah has flaps, but the only time I ever use them (or check to see if
they even work) is during my BFR since some instructors want to see you do
flap landings even in aircraft whose flaps don't do that much to stall speed
(2 kts)... I can do some pretty radical slips though -- one wing down all
the way until just right before the flare...