Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The question came up on a group on social media where a student was asking the community how to perform the Emergency Descent maneuver (PA.IX.A). Establish and maintain the appropriate airspeed and configuration appropriate to the scenario specified by the evaluator and as covered in POH/AFM for the emergency descent. PA.IX.A.S4

Descent 52

Descent Aeronautical Decision-Making Airplanes Turbulence 52

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 28, 2025

We need to slow to 87 knots and we can push this lever here, he said, pointing to the release lever between the seats. Walt trimmed for 85 knots and we watched for a light. Eighty knots, nothing. The speed and descent rate looked about right to me, but what did I know of Pipers? Yeah, right, he said. Lets do that, I said.

Knot 54

Knot Airplanes Runway Pilot 54

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing. The helicopter was at treetop height with an indicated airspeed of zero knots when the right yaw ceased. The pilot reported two miles out.

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Torque Indicated Airspeed Tail Knot 98

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.

Runway 89

Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.

Runway 98

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

And so we landed without any issue and taxied via Charlie to the Apron, arriving at the first location of the Blue Spruce Routes because we saw all the old WW2 hangars in various state of repair or disrepair … Wick is a classic stop-over for ferry pilots in both directions. So we could continue to Iceland.

Weather 52

Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Air Facts

MAY 29, 2024

but a terrific wind with a velocity of 75 knots, had closed the Greenland strip. It is 75 miles inland from the coast and it is a continuous descent to the field, which is set at the end of one of the numerous fjords of the land. The Air Force, fearing for its safety, offered hangar space for it. he was called to the phone.

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Weather Jet Pilot Descent 93