Monthly Archives: February 2019

What about practicing by yourself? Most of us end up flying by ourselves, many of my single seat flights are mid-week when it is slower with students. The problem becomes that you do not have any other pilots to base your flying against. There is no way of knowing if you made the best decisions. Thankfully we have

The topic is how much water ballast are we going to use? This is not an all or nothing type of tool. Some pilots will takeoff full everyday and dump down in timed increments (20 seconds for example). However if you have a stock water system the tail ballast will dump at a faster ratio, meaning it will drain the tail before the wings are empty, moving the CG forward as you dump. So you might still be

Inspections

Currently, we are doing yearly condition inspection and inspecting the water system. The bags have not been used for a long time and the current owner has never used them. We decided to start out first by leak testing the bags, pulling them out of the wing and leaving them full for a few hours to make sure there were no signs of leaks. The

Your practice Assigned Speed Task (AST) can vary depending on the day and your focus. You could have a few turnpoints around the airport that form laps. Maybe it is time to work on one of your badges, just make sure you go past the center of the turn, not just nicking the closest edge if you want to claim that badge.

It is even better if you have some friends to race against to compare decisions.