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SAGPA helps with:
Promoting gyroplane flying in South Africa
Helping the gyrocopter student become the pilot in command
Putting pilots in contact with each other
Sharing useful information
Telling the story of the autogyro/autogiro/ultralight rotorcraft
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1. SAGPA membership application form
2. Gyros for sale Updated March 2012
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4. Low Level Flying - March 2012
5. Dragons behind the Power Curve - March 2012
6. Motion Induced Blindness
7. Runway Slope - 16 April 2012
8. Amageza - 11 May 2012 |
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Runway Slope
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Motion Induced Blindness - Attention all pilots, drivers & riders
Motion Induced Blindness
This is frightening! It works exactly like it says, and is one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU. From a former Naval Aviator. This is a great illustration of what we were taught about scanning outside the cockpit when I went through training back in the ...
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Gyro's do's and don't's - Eric Torr
a) Let's start with the emergency situation. Engine goes and you are about a 1000 feet off the ground. Result is that you have about 45 seconds before ground contact. A gyro will typically descend at about 1200 to 1500 ft/min. A smart pilot will fly at an altitude that will allow his safe glide to a landing spot, therefore if over a forest area, 10,000 feet may not be enough. I have found tha...
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Stellenbosch 2010
Gariep 2011
