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    Why David Clark is the best.

    Lightspeed did the same for me. Sent me 2 new earseals (yes the big ugly ones that go over your ears) and a new "fork" that holds the ear cup, all for no charge. I'm sure the fork broke because I sat on it or something. I've used DC, Lightspeed, and the Bose, and they all have advantages...
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    Satellite Airport Within Class C

    Chill out avbug. My original question was if I was interpreting the FAR's correctly. I had never taken off from a non-towered field within Class C before, but I knew what the FAR said to do, and I know what helicopter pilots do all the time when taking off from hospitals and such within Class C...
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    We sure can learn from this accident

    This is the whole essence of risk elimination, and yessiree, it most certainly is possible. Wow I want to fly the plane you're flying. You've eliminated the risk of an engine (or both engines for that matter) failure? You've eliminated the risk of a complete hydraulic failure? I'm sure...
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    Satellite Airport Within Class C

    I agree that which is legal is not always safe, but Toledo is hardly busy airspace. And the fact that I was flying WELL below any departures (<1000' AGL) and I wasn't even in the path of the departure corridor. I don't know how a 737 climbing out would even come close to any bug smasher at...
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    We sure can learn from this accident

    I don't believe in odds. If youre playing the chance game and playing odds, you need to get out of avaition before you kill someone. This isn't a guessing game. "Odds" probably isn't the best term. Risk management is a better term, and we all have to manage our risk. Even the airlines, who...
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    Satellite Airport Within Class C

    Yesterday I took off from a private grass strip (on the charts) that lies within Toledo's Class C surface area and called approach and told them I was just off (it's just inside their surface area, about 4.5 NM to the NW). The controller told me to remain clear of class charlie and of course...
  8. M

    Banner towing in unmodified AC

    Like I said, one would have to be a complete idiot to do those things. Throwing the hook close enough to the ground that it could bounce? Idiotic. Tossing and getting it looped through the rudder horn? Foolish, but possible...but failing to look back and check it and failing to have a ground...
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    Banner towing in unmodified AC

    Jamming controls when tossing a hook? One would have to be an absolute idiot to do that. Toss down and you'll never have that problem. You'd have to try hard to toss it up to get it over the stab, and even then to jam the controls...lots of people have jammed controls when throwing the hook...
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    Banner towing in unmodified AC

    I couldn't imagine trying to throw out even a letter banner in flight!!! Agree with above post...enough peole have had flight controls jammed just from throwing a hook out the window. And landing with it in tow is usually in emergencies only..as in the banner won't release. I can't imagine...
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    Something I've never seen before...

    Yeah that lead pole can DEFINITELY hurt something. That's my biggest nightmare (other than losing an engine over a busy downtown while towing). The problem with helicopters towing banners is that when you go too slow the bottom part of the banner folds under and you can't read it. Yes you can...
  13. M

    1200 hours

    Doggin' on the Caravan Back before I got my commercial license I knew a pilot flying freight out of GSO who let me sit in the right seat one night. Flying back into GSO ATC told us to "reduce speed to 160"...guess there was something slower ahead of us. Me and the pilot looked at each other...
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