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Of Flight Breakfasts, Air Races and Roll Your Own Fly-Ins It’s August in the Pilot’s Lounge. The heat shimmers off the asphalt, the trainers seem to sag into the air and the regulars in the big, easy chairs are out of sorts. Hack is complaining that he wants to go somewhere in the Super Cruiser […]

Robert L. Rasmussen was born May26, 1930, in Sacramento, Calif. and grew up in the small farming community ofRio Vista. He got hooked on aviation thanks to the barges full of warbirds thatparked in the river by his home during WWII. He had enough talent to win an artscholarship to a school in San Francisco, […]

Oneof the most difficult subjects an instructor ever has to teach is the awesomeresponsibility of being pilot in command (PIC) of an airplane carryingpassengers. Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 1.1 says, “‘Pilot in Command’means the pilot responsible for the operation and safety of an aircraft duringflight time.” And according to Part 91.3 (a), “The pilot in […]

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This column is a continuation of previous columns about manifold pressure(MP), props, mixtures, and engine management techniques. They are listed here for your reference. Reviewing them might be a good thing to do before venturing further into this one! PP #15: Manifold Pressure Sucks! PP #16: Those Marvelous Props PP #18: Mixture Magic PP #19: […]

In my previous column, we explored a bit of the history of supercharging, some of the many variations, and some of the reasons for it. We touched lightly upon the turbochargers, which make it possible for an aircraft engine to produce a manifold pressure greater than ambient pressure,and thus more power. We also mentioned the […]

It’sa Friday evening at the virtual airport and things are spooling down. Severalairplanes have departed with families heading out for the weekend. The studentshave pretty well finished up and I’ve plopped down in one of the big chairs tomake some notes on conversations I had over the last few hours. On arriving at the airport […]

Barbara Erickson London was bornJuly 1, 1920, in Seattle, Wash. Halfway through college she enrolled in theCivilian Pilot Training program. She was a natural pilot and workedquickly through her commercial and instructor’s ratings. She stayed at theschool and trained other CPT and Naval Transport Service students. In 1942, with the war in fullswing, she joined […]

Wepreviously discussed the subject of flying by “sight picture” asopposed to “flying by the numbers.” Now we will undertake to considerall the sensory cues that a pilot uses in manipulating the controls of anairplane and making the machine do what he or she wants it to do (or, at leastkeeping it from doing that which […]

Itwas a grubby day outside the Pilot’s Lounge here at the virtual airport. The VFRstudents had been scrubbed but a few of the IFR students were out flying withtheir instructors getting some actual experience in the clag. Most of theregulars were inside, sitting in the big easy chairs because someone had dug upa portable television […]