It just so happens Piper’s VLJ will have a single Williams 33 jet built into the base of the vertical fin. I would have serious concerns though about single engine ops in anything larger for redundancy reasons. Anyway pylon mounting an engine is far simpler lacking extra strutural complexity required for the tailfin.

Have you tried adjusting the shutter speed to a fixed period? There should be a S or shutter priority mode. You can also do this in full-manual but you’ll need to fiddle with aperature also. As you point out there’s can be a balance between aircraft speed and prop speed. Start at say 1/200s and work slower/faster from there

Hi,

I need to get my night qualification too!

Night flying is a factor of a) when night falls b) if there is someone in the tower/fire cover for airfield licencing purposes and c) if your instructor is willing to work late.

From October-March when UK time is not on daylight saving is perhaps the better period to mee the above criteria. Nights are longer, for the instructor is just working a few extra hours, likewise for smaller fields that are not 24 hour operation. However weather can be a larger problem, though cold clear nights do occur. In the case of smaller fields, they will prbably allocate one or two days a week for night flying – it can be pot luck as to getting flyable weather and a night flying night coinciding.

When night falls later i.e. after the clocks change over to BST, you would probably need to start hunting around those schools based on H24 fields. This can mean those schools offering commercial training so be prepared for slightly higher flying rates.

You can apply for both your PPL and NQ to be added at the same time. I believe this saves you a fee.

Entering a location into either http://fly.dsc.net, or http://www.weather.co.uk, then clicking the “Climate Statistics” link will get you local SS/SR times.

Beavers on floats are occasionally flown onto grass , I think they use a dolly for take off .

Floatplanes can have wheels that retract into the floats, so that combined ground and water operations are feasible, e.g. Beaver, Maule, Cessna 208, Twotter etc.

Bear in mind you can register any airframe or manhole cover, but gaining a CofA/Permit to Fly is another thing entirely.

That’s a lot fo work involved if you have to do any from scratch. Designing verified flight dynamics for some of the rarer stuff could be tricky 😀

See you at the bar in the sky, Sir.

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