Trevor Sayer
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Lots of good info here, provided the student is reasonably competent I tend to only do 3 to 4 hours airwork before moving to the pattern – main exercise I do before moving to the pattern is flying a ground reference rectangle in level flight, in full power climb and an idle decent once they can do this we move to the airport and fly the pattern first do go arounds from approach, then low passes, then the landing – I teach idle approaches and landing if it is a slow wing then I initially apply a little continuous power which we hold to touch down – give the student more time to sort things out.
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Unless you are using 100LL, I personnally would not use fuel more than 4 weeks old – Though I have seen people start and run there 912s on fuel at least 6 months old!
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In my experience heat can cause mylar to delaminate some types better than others I’ve seen a number of Mylar Trike wing LE delaminate, also I’ve had mylar windsurfing sails kept in a hot but dark Florida garage for 4 years completely fall apart – Dacron does not seem to be impacted by heat.