Larry Mednick
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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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Who knows where to get bar mitts that leave the control bar exposed inside the mitt? That is my recommendation. And I urge people not to use bar mitts that have material around the bar because you have to death grip the controls to hang on. I like to use a rubber coated “box handler” glove inside the bar mitt which is as “sticky” as my bare hands on the bar grips so its just like flying in the summer.
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Hi Blair, I assume we are talking about sliding in sideways? The 40′ is plenty wide/long since your wing span is right around 34 feet. The wing is very close to 12′ tip to nose. The angle of the wing will have a lot to do with the overall length on the trike since it will get shorter as it gets taller when the bar is moved forward. But I don’t have a machine here to play with and measure with that wing at the moment. If the door is on the side, how wide is the door? And how tall? A 14’X14′ door opening would probably be ideal with some room to spare so you don’t get hangar rash going in and out.
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Hi John, so pretty much any soaring trike will be part 103 which doesn’t require a license at all. And I am not 100% sure if you can add on a WSC rating to a Glider license, but that may be a possibility. I haven’t had the need (yet) so I am not sure. I know many people on here will know and hopefully chime in.
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Hey Sean, give me a call or email and let me see if I have their info. We debated about puting contact info publicly on this forum. But decided to keep more privacy.
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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?