I think the difference between a “Read and Do” checklist and a “Challenge and Response” checklist is probably self-explanatory. The bigger the aircraft, the more motors and systems you are dealing with, the more extensive the checklists become. When you …
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Well, if this were universally true, I know some people who would be very fast. I also wonder how you would write this down as a mathematical formula and if the output speed would go to infinity, because of a …
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This comic simply came out of a conversation about how gliders use water ballast to increase the speed of best glide. I had never heard of such a thing before even though I have a glider rating. In my defense, …
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Considering that airspeed is basically the net speed at which you move through the surrounding air or vice versa, the surrounding air around you, I can safely say that I have achieved quite significant airspeeds just by standing in my …
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