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- Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:02 pm
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: Cirrus G1000NXi ESP experience
- Replies: 3
- Views: 217
Re: Cirrus G1000NXi ESP experience
Excellent points on the automation. I no longer change lanes for myself on the highway and since buying the new car I have had zero of those pulse-quickening moments where I was hoping to change lanes and someone zoomed up into the lane or somehow managed to evade my blindspot checking.
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:36 am
- Forum: Public forum
- Topic: DA40 Max Landing Weight
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2515
Re: DA40 Max Landing Weight
I agree. My first real flight in a DA40 demo plane I dropped it from six feet onto the concrete at LGB.
A month later I bought that plane.
A month later I bought that plane.
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:57 am
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: Citation crash 1/9/21
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1301
Re: Citation crash 1/9/21
I have a three mistake rule before I take off. If I make three mistakes I scrub the flight and park. I've made it to two, but then I get real careful and it tends to be a spotless flight because I'm on high alert. It is so hard to imagine what it is like to have three controllers correcting your hea...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:37 am
- Forum: DA42 Forum
- Topic: Chapter 42 begins
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2059
Re: Chapter 42 begins
Chris,
The flight school DA42's had the little mirror David mentions. On each side, so I guess the instructor could also confirm gear down?
The flight school DA42's had the little mirror David mentions. On each side, so I guess the instructor could also confirm gear down?
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 4:42 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: Aileron/Wing Skin Question
- Replies: 15
- Views: 719
Re: Aileron/Wing Skin Question
I would be extremely leery of sticking anything into the gap of a primary control surface. The very first Cirrus crash was their first test pilot and the gap between the wing and aileron was too tight and the controls jammed. He was too low for the chute. So I would have it looked at and, personally...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:59 am
- Forum: Hangar Talk
- Topic: DA42 incident at KVNY
- Replies: 3
- Views: 347
Re: DA42 incident at KVNY
I bet they had it off there in a hot minute. Lots of shops right there along that side of the airport. For little planes 16L is fine.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:40 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Checking gearbox oil level
- Replies: 7
- Views: 696
Re: Checking gearbox oil level
I like seeing that little window. For some reason it feels very high-tech when I open that port and peek in. I also asked my mechanic how often they had a plane at the flight school grounded because someone spotted that level low on the pre-flight. Never. It also changed levels depending on which sp...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:37 pm
- Forum: DA62 Forum
- Topic: Coolant leak
- Replies: 17
- Views: 741
Re: Coolant leak
This is why you have two engines, right? I mean, as long as it takes off you can probably make it to the shop. (My original DA40 salesman was in a DA42 1.7 and lost one engine over KSBA. He turned around and flew back to KLGB on the other engine. When I was surprised he said, "You've been flyin...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:10 pm
- Forum: Diamond Gadgets & Extras
- Topic: O2 for Kids
- Replies: 1
- Views: 454
Re: O2 for Kids
Our 7 year old did okay with it. He didn't love it. He took it off once and fell asleep. When he woke up on the ground he complained that he had a headache and I said that was because without the oxygen hose his brain didn't get enough to stay awake and gave him a headache. He never took it off agai...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:53 am
- Forum: Travel & Destinations
- Topic: Alton Bay, NH
- Replies: 2
- Views: 240
Re: Alton Bay, NH
One of my Facebook friends has landed there a few times in his Piper. I would be SO nervous.