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That is what I do and it makes me happy. One thing, I don't think there is actual sink when retracting the flaps, but a momentary reduction in the climb rate. Like the Vomit Comet mentioned, if you are going up at 700 FPM, and it drops to 650 FPM, you will feel a bit light in the seat

More RPM and Less MP or More MP and Less RPM. Both can lead to the same amount of power

To save a $350 wingtip cover if you forget to turn them off after landing? Priceless.

True, except that motor gliders are gliders. But I can see that fuel systems might be part of a the Engines rating, or Powered Aircraft - Piston or Powered Aircraft - Turbine. More just tossed out some ideas. The idea being, that maybe the time could be shortened by separating the areas into smaller bites. No need to learn turbines if you are going to be at a small field with only piston planes. If you move to a shop with turbines, you spend some time under direction and add on that rating.

I bought my plane last summer. It took 6 months for the registration was changed. AFAIK the old registration is not valid upon the application and issuing the new temp. But would Canada be able to tell that?

One more time, initially they went nose high, once the plane was fully stalled the nose was about on the horizon. Swept wing aircraft to not behave in a stall like straight winged aircraft. And you are assuming the the AI would know what do to in every circumstance. But that assumes the people who programmed it can think of everything. Oh, and yes, the Airbus does that in Normal Law, and this caused the crash at the Paris Airshow as the AI would not allow the pilot to try to eek out an extra 1/10 of a degree of AOA to avoid hitting the ground. Sorry Dave, I cannot let you pull the nose any higher even if doing so means we will hit the ground.

Wow, AI decided that the way it was done was the right way. Which is not news. But, if this had not occurred before, would the AI be able to handle it?

First problem, find a new wife. But then you may not be able to afford and airplane. Tailwheel can be fun. But the big question is, even then, will you fly it?

Start slowly. Fly to some $200 hamburger. Then fly out to somewhere on Sat morning, come back Sunday. Then make it a 3 day weekend, etc. Plan a week vacation flying somewhere. Over Xmas, we did a nice trip to Space Coast. 4 days today. Did the Space Center, GatorLand (actually fun) and got to see a rocket launch. And logged about 11 hours.

That is how it started. But it reached a steady state with full aft stick control. At least from the reports and analysis I have seen.

Not according to the reports and analysis I read. Supposedly there is a button, that when pushed, gives to command to that stick. If it averaged, they would not have crashed. One was full stick aft (in control) and one was full stick forward. Average would have been stick neutral

The captain, once he got to the cockpit, DID know what to do, but it was too late by that time. How was he assisted over what would have happened in a Boeing?

Sort of They were holding attitude and power. But swept wing aircraft do not stall like straight wing aircraft. The nose does not drop, it stays about at the horizon. So, the AI showed level, but the VVI was showing massive down. But level with climb power should have meant increasing airspeed or climbing, and they did not notice that. I still recall doing a full aft stick stall in the T-38. And, the two pilots were making contradictory inputs, but in the Airbus, only one of them has control at the same time. And the sticks are not interconnected, so the one pilot thought he had control, but he did not. And he did not know the other pilot, who did have control, was making the opposite control input.

Since you are winding down, start taking some longer trip. Fly to interesting places. Fly further afield to sample airport restaurants.

Not exactly helpful

Flying is hours and hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror. AI can handle 99%, or 99.9% or even 99.99% of flights. The problem is the other ones. Like AF447, like United 232, even Sully's flight.

Hmm, so why do systems have bugs???? And, you are assuming that the AI system doing the testing does not have any issues.

I had a total electrical failure in a friend's T-34. Master relay failed. About 2 minutes after dropping out of a solid cloud layer, after about 1.5 solid IFR. If it had happened 5 minutes to 1.5 hours earlier, it would have been UGLY. FYI, T-34 instruments are all electric.

And EGTs

Where have you been the last 8 months????? They were announced around Oshkosh 2022, and I placed my pre-order. I made final payment a couple of weeks ago and expect them to ship very soon. 12 volt models are already shipping

Piston or turbine. Tube/fabric or Wood or Metal or Composite Common to all would be basic systems training, such as fuel delivery, electrical, etc

This what I was thinking. For pilot certificates we have levels (Private, Commercial, ATP) and Category and Class. So why not A&P sub categories. Like A&P limited to Metal Aircraft and Piston Engines. Or Composite and Turbine, etc.

Try flying from the right seat VFR. Then under the hood. It is not a big deal. Instructors do it all the time.

Mike Busch and George Braly agree.

And what happens if more than one of the aircraft being monitored has some issue/failure?