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PlasticPilot's Blog

Url:	http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog
Author(s):	Vincent Lambercy
Language:	English
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Description:	General Aviation - Aviation in General
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Popularity:	3 Followers

Things I will never forget if I ever stop flying

I was reading Vincent’s recent post on the things he does not miss while not flying and it made me wonder: what are the things I learned through flying that will always be useful to me, even ...more

2009-11-08

The best of 1000+ aviation blog posts

I read a lot of aviation blogs, and feeds from aviation information sources. When everything goes fine, I do it daily. But for the last three weeks, I had less time because job happens, and when I ...more

2009-11-05

Touch-screen Glass Cockpit: Meet the Garmin G3000

Earlier this year I posted about the idea of mixing glass-cockpit and touch-screens. Call that chance, talent or vision, but Garmin announced the G3000 recently, which includes two touch-screen con...more

2009-11-02

Readers Poll – Political orientation

This one has been on my waiting list for a while. This is may be not a politically correct question, but I’d like to know…Do you have a political orientation ? Are you more left-ish or ...more

2009-10-30

Not flying – What I don’t miss

I’m not flying for the time being, to save money for the Flying Across America project. I’ve been in similar situations a couple of time and it’s never easy to stop flying, be it ...more

2009-10-24

Why is center of gravity’s position important, again ?

When I was preparing for my PPL theoretical exam, a fellow student asked our teacher at the end of a lesson about mass and balance: “Do all aircraft have a center of gravity, or is this an op...more

2009-10-18

7 flying videos with music

Music and flying go together well, together well…1 – “Go West” with pictures from Blue Angels cockpit2 – Basejump – The art of flying without an aircraft3 –...more

2009-10-13

Short field or soft field – So what ?

Take offs and landing from grass runways require special technique and not all pilots are comfortable with that. Take-off at very low speed followed by acceleration in ground effect or approaches a...more

2009-10-09

Flying the alphabet: R, U and Y missing

Like all pilots, I love my logbook and like doing statistics about my flying. One not so important, almost stupid goal I’d like to reach in my flying career is to fly the whole alphabet. As I...more

2009-10-03

Readers Poll – Just after your first solo…

No pilot can forget the day of his first solo. Flying along on board for the first time is a once in a lifetime experience. I can still remember the details of the day I flew my first circuit on Ge...more

2009-09-30

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