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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

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That is consistent with this accident, in that witnesses reported seeing the airplane descending with both wings folded up before impact. The pilot of the accident airplane being a physician has rekindled a lurid stereotypical expression involving V-tail Bonanzas. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

That is consistent with this accident, in that witnesses reported seeing the airplane descending with both wings folded up before impact. The pilot of the accident airplane being a physician has rekindled a lurid stereotypical expression involving V-tail Bonanzas. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots.

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Managing the wind

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Though wind is reported using such simple numbers like 270@15G20, I’ve come to believe that 20 knots here is not always the same as 20 knots there. I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. Then came the landing in 20 knots in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin.

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Riding the Mountain Waves

Plane and Pilot

Anything in the airplane not tied down floated, even dust from the flight deck carpet, then slammed to the nearest surface moments later as we were caught by the next wave. Eighty-knot tailwinds aloft and higher-than-normal temperature difference between the surface and aloft. Nose up but descending fast. What had I missed?

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How to fly a rectangular course

Flight Training Central

The airplane will be flown at 1,000’ AGL parallel to and at an equal distance from the field boundaries – about ½ – ¾ miles from the boundary as you would fly a traffic pattern. The entry into the maneuver should be accomplished downwind as you would enter the traffic pattern where groundspeed will be the greatest.

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Plane and Pilot

A drone was used to locate the airplane and steer two airboats to the crash site. Around halfway, cruising at 3,000 feet at 180 knots, onboard avionics data indicates increasing temperature in one of the cylinder heads lasting about five minutes. Can you hear me?” Marianne, this is A.J. The boats are on the way.” Marianne, this is A.J.

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How to use the Sentry Plus advanced features

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Automatic Tracklog Import > When this setting is enabled, ForeFlight will automatically transfer tracklogs when your groundspeed drops below 10 knots after landing. turn on the airplane’s Master Switch), and turn off when the power source is removed with GPS groundspeed less than 10 knots for 45 seconds.