Tyger
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Can you rephrase that? I honestly don't understand what you are trying to say.Anyone hear a question mark about engine time and usage to protect the same?
Can you rephrase that? I honestly don't understand what you are trying to say.Anyone hear a question mark about engine time and usage to protect the same?
That may be possible at untowered airports, but in this case the tower probably wasn't going to be too keen on pedestrians on the active part of the field.Do instructors never move from the very start of the runway when supervising a solo? A runway of 1981metres is just over one mile long, but, if the instructor places himself halfway along the runway after the initial take off he will be no further than 990 metres from the craft on the runway at any time. Much easier to observe what is occurring.
My instructor equipped himself with handheld radio and managed to take a stroll to the runway midpoint.
Just the idle thoughts of a newly released student pilot.
phil
Ah, well it was a 15-yo aircraft. What info do you have about the engine and its hours?Sorry was cryptic just because its an email I received that doesn't reflect that well on the aircrafts operation if true, just something about high time and no use of the boost to protect the motor.
In the USA at an airport with an operating control tower there is a non-movement where typically the hangars and the self-service fuel are.Do instructors never move from the very start of the runway when supervising a solo? A runway of 1981metres is just over one mile long, but, if the instructor places himself halfway along the runway after the initial take off he will be no further than 990 metres from the craft on the runway at any time. Much easier to observe what is occurring.
My instructor equipped himself with handheld radio and managed to take a stroll to the runway midpoint.
Just the idle thoughts of a newly released student pilot.
phil
Ah, well it was a 15-yo aircraft. What info do you have about the engine and its hours?
When you say "the boost", are you talking about the 5 minutes allowed at 115 hp?
I doubt it. Gyroplanes of this configuration just don't roll over on the ground when they get powered up unless the pilot does also do something wrong.Torque rollover! "The pilot throttled back up, causing the gyrocopter to flip over".
FYI, Greg pretty much retired from primary training back in 2019:
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Mike Busch wrote a book called The Savvy Aviator and regularly writes articles about the “myths of TBO”. This particular excerpt is from AVweb. It is based on real world experience rather than gossip. The whole article is available here: https://www.avweb.com/ownership/the-savvy-aviator-4-debunking-tbo/Flying with a motor beyond TBO in the UK is called "flying on condition" and is legal for private pilots own use but not if the aircraft is used for instructional purposes. I've no idea what the situation is in the US but strikes me that electing to put a student into an aircraft where the use of part throttle is to protect a motor that is beyond TBO is exceptionally poor form / utterly stupid. If that was the case I should think the instructor is thankful that his customer was able to walk away. The NTSB report will be interesting.
The FAA registry still shows the previous owner, who stated, above, that he had sold it a month prior to the accident.It appears from the registration that N316MG does not belong to the flight instructor.
Part of the FAA practical test standards is a short field takeoff.Well I guess in a way none of it something to scream bloody murder if you isolate the view to thoughts of having 6000ft of tarmac available and so you can take your time. Yet these things get filed away and come back to bite.
My own view on take offs generally is that you use all the power because then your climb performance is improved and the day the engine quits I have either cleared the thing I didn't want to hit and/or I have more height to sort out my issue. It is why I don't like the more recent trend where some are advocates of "take off power" where it means something less than full throttle which is done to make things easier for students, especially in the wheel balance phase.
The other element about training without the use of full power is that not only can you never achieve the POH take off numbers [which all makes a mockery of student exams that talk about performance...none of them talk about using full throttle because in the past that part has been a given!] but the day the student becomes a pilot in his own right he has two potential snags waiting. The first with his muscle memory / default what it is - he isn't used to going through the detent, and so doesn't. The second is he now needs to use all of the power available to him in order to take off successfully and now the process and speed of actions is a shock.