Bob Tait
Bob Tait
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Re: Criteria to become a Professional Pilot

Hi Raj I see no reason why your height should have any negative influence on your ability to obtain employment as a CPL holder. There are plenty o...

13 years ago
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Re: How do you know when to shift weight??

Try looking at these questions from the point of view of the examiner. If the examiner is going to allow people to shift, add or subtract weight at t...

13 years ago
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Re: Difference between CG Limits & CG Moment Envelope

The centre of gravity moment envelope defines the combinations of weight and moment that prove the aircraft is safe to fly. Any combination of weight...

13 years ago
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Re: Flow chart or Graph?

If you are going to add fuel to the main tanks, the CofG will have to move forward. So this is a forward limit problem. If you are adding weight to ...

13 years ago
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Re: exam prep question regarding LSALT

WOW Andrew, that's a fantastic score! I'm impressed that you did that well with home study. It's not often that students who do full-time courses do...

13 years ago
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Re: exam prep question regarding LSALT

The question asks for the semicircle that includes the tolerance area. The extra five miles is part of the tolerance area so you would have to consid...

13 years ago
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Re: CPL Air Law - first light departure

First light is first light. Why on earth would anyone suggest that you depart any time before that? You do not have to wait until ten minutes after ...

13 years ago
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Re: Cpl subjects completed, thanks to Bob's books

That's great news. It always gives us a thrill to learn of another student who has finally achieved his/her goal. Thanks for your kind words regardi...

13 years ago
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Re: Aerody Passed! Question on Wake Turbulence

A simple way to look at it is to remember that vortices behave like smoke. Smoke lingers in the atmosphere longest when the air is dead calm. Strong...

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Re: Speed Limitations in a Holding Pattern

That question would require more information before you could give a definitive answer. If you calculated your holding fuel at normal cruise rate, I ...

13 years ago
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Re: Speed Limitations in a Holding Pattern

Gidday Burgess That question has got nothing to do with old or new charts. Yorke Island is a new chart but what is important is that under the cat...

13 years ago
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Re: Hi!

Gidday Huldoch Welcome to the forums. That's a strange combination of aircraft - a Cherokee and a Cirrus SR20! The music degree sounds interestin...

13 years ago
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Re: LOC RWY 21 Perth

Gidday Vedder Would you believe that the visibility for that approach has been changed in the August DAP. It is now 2.0. So with the .9 added on ...

13 years ago
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Re: Speeder Spring Failure

The most likely cause of failure in a propeller governor would be the speeder spring breaking and allowing the flyweights to send a false 'overspeed' ...

13 years ago
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Re: Tapered Wings

Gidday Almost every discussion on aircraft design contains many instances of the word 'compromise'. The most obvious solution to the spillage of a...

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