seaplane tender -navy -pacific -war -military +yacht

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“What that is measuring is simply the health of the wing.” So far, so good.We welcome well written contributions from Website members on almost any aspect of Model Boating with a particular emphasis on practical hints, tips, experience and builds. It’s used a lot in military aircraft and is something that Icon has really employed very well,” he says. “It is what we call an AOA, an angle of attack. “Something that is interesting in this aircraft is this gauge right here,” Curry says, pointing to a small screen pictured in the training manual. Icon conceived the A5 to be accessible to a wide range of people. An ex-military guy, with lots of flying hours under his belt, he talks really fast and I have to focus, which takes care of any fretting. But pretty soon, I am engrossed in a conversation with Warren Curry, director of the Icon Tampa flight centre. I have flown on small planes but never before piloted one, and a tragic accident involving an A5, which happened just days before, is on my mind.

My emotion meter wavers between excitement and dread.

Icon has two flight centres, one at its headquarters in Vacaville, California, and the other in Tampa, Florida, where I go for my second A5 experience, an abbreviated introductory pilot course.

This set-up is compact and user friendly, with a touchscreen Garmin GPS screen in the middle, and fighter jet style flight control stick

Seaplane tender -navy -pacific -war -military +yacht