Larry Mednick
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Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions and ignorance regarding trikes. If I had to guess, they probably think you are talking about a powered parachute, which does not takeoff from a runway like an airplane and needs to be set up on the runway and doesn’t have a radio. Many of these pilots and airport owners had negative experiences with pilots that didn’t have an FAA license back in the day. But it’s their airport and they can do as they wish. Public airports cannot deny you access. Unfortunately, when you don’t know enough to know enough to say the right buzzword such as that, you have a radio and know How to use it and what the speed of your machine is and that you understand airport procedures, etc. you are going to run into road blocks that may not be there otherwise.
I remember reading the rulebook for a grass runway 7 miles away from our big airport we fly out of with all of the Jets and skydivers and Flight Training schools with Cessna and twins, and everything in between. The rulebook said, powered parachutes, trikes, and other aircraft with limited controllability may not operate out of their field. If that’s not ignorance, I don’t know what is.
Many pilots once they’re trained do get the opportunity to go and talk and show and tell about their Trike. Many of those restrictions get lifted for individuals at least when you know what to say.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard stories like this. So it is happening, but definitely not The norm.
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Hey everyone, we now have a full time A&P to do your annuals! Come down and do a little advanced training while you are here. We are even getting a Ryker for our guests to scoot around on while they are here. Not to mention our cool little on site apartment.
This has been a huge request from our customers. And we have the solution now.
On the other hand if you just tell the A&P you will help and show him everything and how it works, many A&Ps will be glad to expand their services to trike. They can be intimidated, and it’s your job to show them how simple the trike really is. We have check list available in our REVO manuals that should work with little modification for most trikes to help.
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I can say there is not much that makes me happier than when our customers do SO MUCH with their new toys! It’s so amazing to hear and hopefully watch (videos) of our Team REVO family living their best life flying trikes. Awesome Chris. Just awesome. You are an inspiration!
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I just contacted Michael Percy, and he does have his DPE still. This is not only good news that he is available, but others must also be available that are not on the FAA list.
Really the best thing is to get them to flag themselves on our world map on this website.
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I’ll contact him and find out. I wouldn’t be too surprised if he let it lapse as well. It takes a lot to do it and the FAA does not make it easy on them either. The amount of check rides they do each year is not a business, but more of a service to the industry. So let’s all say thanks to our DPEs for doing what they do. I know Abid Farrouqui is considering getting his and he would be in the Tampa area.
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Yes, you will see the option to “zero” your airspeed in the airspeed menu. It quite common to need to do this from time to time. Why? I have no clue. Only know how to fix it.
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I just talked to Frank Dempsey and I did not even know that he let his DPE lapse. I also believe that Michael Percy may still be a DPE in the panhandle of Florida.
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Regarding head wind and trail wind 180 off. The only time you will have numbers that “add up” is if there is no Xwind creating a crab in both directions. So you need to hunt down your slowest ground speed heading and THEN you can turn 180 and calculate. Mind you if you did that and showed a 12 mph difference your ASI could be off 6 mph. and THEN you can adjust your 121% down to reduce your indicated 6 mph. but it won’t be a 21% adjustment most likely. Also without a static port your ASI will only be truly 100% accurate at one speed. So its possible to throw off your other numbers when calibrating at one particular speed.
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Man Jeff, that is a lot…. I’ll try to answer all of your points.
ASI reading 20 when stopped is the ASI menu “zero air speed” This needs to be done from time to time.
The MGLs come factory set at 120% and seem to be accurate at that setting. Without a static port, adjustments are necessary.
You can do a “wind triangle” to verify your airspeed.
Just because the wind on the ground is 0 doesn’t mean there isn’t 15 mPH wind at 1000′
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We have plenty of large liners in stock. Just give me a call to order. 813-810-9262. Thanks.
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Yes pitch reversal means being confused which direction the controls move for pitch. Pitch control includes both attitude control as well as AOA control. If we never “ask” our students to perform a pitch control task, they may never begin to learn pitch. My first clue was the student could not coordinate a turn. The nose fell below the horizon repeatedly and once developed into a full blown spiral. Then we did pitch exercises and he started to develop the skill. I’ll make a video to show what that exercise is exactly. A short version would be to fly from trim to near stall and back to trim without changing altitude. But there is more, much more, to practice.
In any case so many pilots push out to flare BECAUSE that’s how you flare. But they have no control because they don’t know how to fly pitch. Ultimately we had a panicked reversal that got my full attention during a flare.
So many CFIs use throttle and the wing’s natural pitch stability to fly. They let the nose “self correct” and go along for the “ride” (oscillation) until the trike stabilizes. They fly it like a PPG with throttle and roll and push forward (not pitch CONTROL) for takeoff and landing.
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I know our former students flew around the world and they did it by having a private pilot weight shift control license. Sport pilot is worthless outside of the US.
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See if it’s there now. I asked our admin to approve your pin. I have a meeting with him Friday to see if we can take the moderation off the pin drop and speed this site up.
Thank you VERY much for pinning yourself on our World map.
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They cut the good stuff!? That’s too bad…
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Hey Ken, thank you for this info. Yes it seems like they have the best deal around! Falcon/Star is the only other trike policy I am aware of. Who knows of another company offering insurance?