Recent content by PeterNSteinmetz

This sounds like a substantial improvement based on a sort of micro roughness - https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeronautical-engineering-has-been-overturned/

Appeals court finds the companies liable - not much of a fine though for an incident which should have bankrupted AF out of business. https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/air-france-airbus-convicted-manslaughter-155046838.html

There is also this article - https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/2/1/10

So it looks like the odds of an engine just failing are about 10-20 per 100k hours of flight. That is not much for the typical GA pilot over their lifetime or for people training and just moving on to turbines. But it adds up if you like flying small airplanes and accumulate several thousand...

I found this works rather well. There are a lot of places out west here where there is no ADS-B reception. Yet this device will provide pings on something like every 10 minutes so people can follow you on a web page you can provide them. Additionally it will send and receive messages in flight...

We will see what Beegles thinks can be done with the ship. It is unclear if one really wants to repair this and fly aerobatics in it.

This is what happens when your union cranks up your wages too high - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/japan-airlines-tests-having-robots-instead-of-humans-handle-travelers-luggage/

I am excited to take a trip up to MN and IL this week in the S35. Enroute I will be trying out the Garmin inReach Mini2 communicator. Supposedly this does a better job inflight with messaging than a cell phone and also permits tracking position more reliably than ADS-B by using the Iridium...

How do you find the AV-30? I have heard bad things about them, like them never really being configurable properly.

The prices are perhaps a bit exaggerated here. But it is steadily increasing. Perhaps more and more of us will just convert our certified planes to experimental. We will have to deal with the 100LL issue though.

https://airguide.info/warnings-ignored-before-deadly-dc-midair-crash/ So two near misses just the day before! But you know it is so important those politicians did not have to drive over the bridge on the Potomac -

I think a good thing - https://avbrief.com/faa-ends-see-and-avoid-for-helicopters-at-busy-airports/

RIP Chuck Norris, obviously best known for his appearance on an airplane safety card, on his way to seek revenge on whoever brought down his plane

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