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I don’t know Jason Kottke’s depth of knowledge about being a pilot, but I’d be willing to give him some credit. His father was a pilot and operated a small carg

I don’t know Jason Kottke’s depth of knowledge about being a pilot, but I’d be willing to give him some credit. His father was a pilot and operated a small cargo airline. Jason regularly few with his father in small craft. Blog posts about his father https://kottke.org/tag/Jerry%20Kottke https://kottke.org/tag/Jerry%20Kottke And his decades of blog posts about flying. https://kottke.org/tag/flying https://kottke.org/tag/flying

satisfice 4y ago
Well, okay. I'm a pilot from a family of pilots, too. I am looking at a plane landing and taking off in a stiff head wind and finding nothing remarkable about it. A Cub running with little fuel and cargo on a cold day at low altitude has a pretty low stall speed. Something like 40mph. It doesn't take an extraordinary wind to do a short take off roll.