Mac writes a monthly column in EAA Sport Aviation
Below is a complete archive of his columns appearing in the magazine.
• January 2012: “The Myth About Glass Cockpits” (PDF)
2011
• December 2011: “When LPV Becomes Only L” (PDF)
• November 2011: “What’s Up With Heading” (PDF)
• October 2011: “Avionics Can Give a Helping Hand” (PDF)
• September 2011: “Flying Into, and out of, Oshkosh” (PDF)
• August 2011: “Weather Briefings and Satellites” (PDF)
• July 2011: “Good Flying Qualities add Safety” (PDF)
• June 2011: “Checklists Are Just Too Long” (PDF)
• May 2011: “How to stay current” (PDF)
• April 2011: “Quality Assurance: Safety management makes us better pilots” (PDF)
• March 2011: “Aborted Takeoffs” (PDF)
• February 2011: “Simulator Training Makes Better Pilots” (PDF)
• January 2011: “Goodbye to Broadway” (PDF)
2010
• December 2010: “Why Synthetic Hills are Rock Hard” (PDF)
• November 2010: “It’s All About the Flying” (PDF)
Hi Mac, your piece “Good Flying Qualities…” (July SportAv) reminded me of the time I brought back an odd little homebuilt to Tulsa from Fort Worth as a favor to a sort-of mechanic at Harvey Young airport…it actually had negative stability in roll and pretty much neutral in pitch. Can’t recall what it was called now but I lost my sectional out the top of the open cockpit when I tried to re-fold it and the thing started to fall off into a rapid spiraling descent. Anyway, I wanted to take issue with the picture/diagram at the beginning of the article – pitch, roll and yaw are associated with lateral, longitudinal and vertical axes, respectively. The diagram is okay as a general attempt to introduce the concept of stability but really isn’t correct.
Regards,
Karl S
Hi Mac, your piece “Good Flying Qualities…” (July SportAv) reminded me of the time I brought back an odd little homebuilt to Tulsa from Fort Worth as a favor to a sort-of mechanic at Harvey Young airport…it actually had negative stability in roll and pretty much neutral in pitch. Can’t recall what it was called now but I lost my sectional out the top of the open cockpit when I tried to re-fold it and the thing started to fall off into a rapid spiraling descent. Anyway, I wanted to take issue with the picture/diagram at the beginning of the article – pitch, roll and yaw are associated with lateral, longitudinal and vertical axes, respectively. The diagram is okay as a general attempt to introduce the concept of stability but really isn’t correct.
Regards,
Karl S
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