Flying -- Theo might like this...

[kinzel]

Wanna think about flying your own brand new plane? Well, it migth be that you could go in with three or four friends and afford this one:

Srsly.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0612_icon/index_01.htm

OH yeah, we got the Saltation episode up on time...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Burton from Montreal

Well most new and recent general aviation in North America got the digital displays. It usually replaces whole clusters of analog readouts, since it displays multiple readouts. The new ones are also easier on the eyes at night and maintenance workload. There are still a few essential analog backups displays.

I don't think taking off and fly a small plane is that difficult in daytime with good weather for most people. Landing the beastie in one piece is however an art master by quite few.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"Isn't it difficult to fly a plane?"

"No, flying a plane is fairly easy. Taking off is more difficult. Landing is very very easy. Surviving the landing, however..."

(Most people don't learn in tail-draggers these days. I did, and it's true what they said, if you can do touch-and-go circuits in a tail-dragger, with a cross-wind, anything else is easy by comparison. When you have a flying speed of 40 knots and a 60 degree crosswind at 25 knots gusting 30, and the tail wants to 'weathercock' as soon as it leaves the ground, I think Theo would call it 'interesting' (my instructor called it other things not suitable for a family post *g*)...)