Tag: avionics

Editor’s Note: With this issue, we’re going to begin a loving look back at...

Proving compliance with the 51% rule, licensing ELSA or E/A-B, using an LSA commercially.

Its said that sailors make good floatplane pilots because they understand the nature of wind on the water. Sailboat racer and pilot Rick Orchard took that sentiment to heart in a big way when he decided to pump up an already large homebuilt (the Murphy Moose) by adding Aerocet amphibious floats and a 550-horsepower Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20 turbine engine.

A prop strike, even at very low speed and power, is a serious matter.