Recent content by PeterNSteinmetz

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2025/04/07/a-beautiful-biplane-represents-a-future-that-never-was/

My 1964 S35 Bonanza has an old Brittain B5 autopilot. If it worked I would find this sort of quaint and fitting with the aircraft. However, the vacuum lines are apparently in fairly bad shape and so it seems unlikely to be worthwhile to replumb the whole thing hoping the controller will work. I...

So Max Trescott’s book “G1000 and Perspective Glass Cockpit Handbook” is actualLy rather useful on autopilots as well. It does not contain the state diagram, but does have good descriptive text compared to the Garmin manual which helps with building an understanding.

Basically privatizing the providers. The first step in the plan at http://realairlinesecurity.org . Oh how I do hope they can do this!

Everyone survives with one hypothermic adult. I have flown these and they are fun planes. I am puzzled by the statement that there was no ELT. Maybe they just mean it did not activate? One reason why I always carry a personal locator beacon (PLB) on my person when flying cross- or...

I have seen those and they are handy for understanding all the different items that might pop up. But I am thinking more of like a state machine diagram. You are presently in VPTH verticaL mode with an ALTV to capture and you press the APR button, what happens and under what conditions.

I have been working on flying with the G1000 and the GFC500 autopilot in an SR20. Does anyone know of a good diagram of the states and modes of these? The manual has a lot of very detailed descriptions along the line of - to do this, take these steps - but I would like something more like a...

Preliminary report is out - https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199620/pdf Main point is safety reported events were frequent and not acted on. Resolution advisories each month near DCA involving helicopters. Video discussing this -

Land outs in gliders are much more common. One argument has been that these are qualitatively different than landing a powered plane due to weight and the frequent presence of a nosewheel. I have landed out in the desert a few times and given the choice would follow the usual glider advice of...

asperatus undulatus Clouds over Illinois https://archive.ph/wrBe2

Thank goodness this was deferred for now. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/march/06/faa-postpones-medical-certification-changes

https://www.foxnews.com/us/southwest-plane-forced-go-back-gate-passenger-strips-naked

I have been having this discussion with my powered airplane flight instructor. In Arizona. Is the desert with shrubs or a plowed field preferred for an emergency off airport landing?

Description of radio calls in this interview - https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/02/22/pilot-describes-midair-collision-marana-airport/79490209007/

Anderson, former CEO of Northwest on the congestion factors involved. https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2025/02/former-delta-ceo-assesses-risks-at-reagan-airport-where-crash-occurred/