It’s called a reverse flow turbine because the air in the combustion chamber makes two 180° turns before the power section, not because the air enters the rear of the engine and comes out the front. The PT-6A-66 (or 66b) is still considered a reverse flow even though the air enters the front and exhausts out the back.…

Sitting in my hotel room. Oh to have a different color pen!

Or it's simply on the takeoff roll. Even with all that thrust, when they're taking off with full fuel and ordinance it can take a lot of runway to get airborne.

That sounds like a typical pattern for a Pitts. It's impossible to see the runway straight ahead in a normal approach attitude due to the low seat position and long nose, so the slip method is used to enable visual reference to the runway.

I agree.

Absolutely untrue. If you declare an emergency due to an indication in the cockpit and subsequently land normally, you'd likely be met by the ARFF crew at the airport to make sure you're ok and that's usually the end of it. Paperwork usually only gets involved when you break a regulation to meet the needs of the…

My second and third cars were an 83 auto and 84 manual. I miss them.

studying for my 6m check: it depends on latitude. 3 minutes at equator, up to 17 minutes at higer lats! Its not just gyros, its the inertial reference system, I guess they need time to figure out where they are. Usually in the states its between 5 and 7 minutes. Not much of a problem, we're usually doing other…

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I bet a large majority of that time is spent sitting there waiting for the avionics to spool up. Can't start taxiing until the solid state gyros and accelerometers or the inertial nav system are aligned. 6 minutes in the case of the airplane I fly.

Same here, but dark blue. Dad called the storage under the rear floor the "basement" and the storage compartment behind the left wheel area the "dungeon." Dad kept a first aid kit back there and over the course of raising three of us from tots to near-adulthood it was called on many times. We always knew for…

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I used to fly the PC12. Yes, it's the weather radar. Single engine airplanes don't have the luxury of placing the radar dish in the nose like multi engine piston, corporate jets, or airliners. The radar needs to have a clear look at the sky ahead and the propeller would interfere with the returns. So you will see…

Southwest? Skywest? Westjet?

Glastar Sportsman. WANT.

I listened to the LiveATC recordings. The aircraft had already made one approach to the runway and went missed due to the strong tailwind. (He says 30kts). The ATIS info for the airport was reporting 14kt with gusts to 25kts, very bad for tailwind, doable if it were a headwind, but Aspen is a one-way airport due to…

What's a Cherokee 180 doing landing at Laguardia anyway? The FBO there is not exactly light GA friendly. Hell they're not GA friendly even for turboprops and light jets. You park a half mile away in no man's land and have to get a shuttle van back to the marine air terminal just to take a leak. Really it's a crap…

Technically it's an Avanti II!

My Avanti: