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09:17
Gaah. No flying this weekend either.
If i want to buy a proper yoke and pedals without going completely broke, which ones should I get? Im considering the ch products throttle quadrant to get enough levers for a twin. But other than that, I don't have any preference
09:34
i'm going for Saitek, probably in the next few months. I have 2 Saitek sticks, they're of descent quality.
10:07
@falstro same for me :-( the weather was lovely apart from too much crosswind
 
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17:53
@kevin yeah, I was too for a while, then I found this:
so I did some more research, and it appears people can't make up their mind :p
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Q: Asymmetric icing, counter-rotating props, and Down Between Engines

UnrecognizedFallingObjectIt is suggested by some (and somewhat substantiated) that twin-engine propeller aircraft which do not have counter-rotating props (all modern regional turboprops are this way) can develop asymmetric wing icing due to the airflow pattern generated by the propellers: (from the FAA FFFSCR report, ...

I'm surprised nobody's even remarked on this question -- should I slap a bounty on this when the opportunity comes up?
18:38
@falstro -- real fast -- can an IFR flight plan terminate in midair? (i.e. you exit the IFR system and become a VFR flight halfway through your flight)
18:49
@Shalvenay absolutely. People do it all the time. Sometimes people just file IFR because their departure area is IFR, but they intend to cancel as soon as they're VFR because their destination area is clear.
You of course have to be below 18,000ft and in VFR conditions, and you have to transition to a VFR cruising altitude.
19:14
@BretCopeland he asked about the plan not if you can cancel the plan in midair
oh, yeah, no, I can't imagine they wold let you do that.
I don't think a flight plan can terminate in midair (as filed i mean, you can cancel it of course )
You might be able to file a out and back flight plan, where your destination is the same as your departure airport, so if you're trying to go somewhere for sight seeing, but you don't break out then you just head back.
@BretCopeland and @falstro -- ty
19:30
@Shalvenay Europe have Y and Z flight plans which switch flight rules at a given way point, but it just turns into a vfr flight plan at that point, it's still a flight plan all the way to the destination
@falstro -- makes sense.
also -- I proposed a tag wiki for the special-vfr tag if anyone saw it
approved...

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