Trikepilot Social is Featured at Snap.com!

We were recently featured at Snap.com for our use of their product on our site. A nice post of a letter I sent to them. Check it out HERE

 

The "ultimate" Black Friday (shopping day) Purchase

Once again, hats off to my good friend Mick Balaban for an amazing find. Check out this ONE OF A KIND purchase for that "special someone" on Black Friday! Anyone got $80,000 you can lend me? LINK

New Widget to use on your Member Page

This one is called "Box" and can be found at www.box.net. It is a free upload and storage and sharing tool. It will allow you a quick, neat, and free way to upload and share "stuff" with anyone, create an RSS feed of that stuff, fax it for free, edit it, manipulate it, and generally do "anything" with it. The best part is that the "stuff" is all accessible through any place you put the widget. Thus, you can create a widget that you place in your trikepilot social page to share any types of files with anyone. This would be perfect to use for misc. things like checklists, pages from a manufacturer's manual, FAA documents, or whatever. Check out my sample BOX widget here:

Ahhhhh.... that "New Trike" smell... !!!

Juan Amestoy is the proud father of a brand spanking new Quik GT450, and he posted some awesome shots from the delivery room at the hospital in Thailand where the baby was born. I think he had twins because there is an identical Quik 912 right next to his GT450.... same father? Drunken night on the town?.. Either way, you can tell by the ear to ear grin that Juan is "seriously" pleased with his new machine. Check it out:




Kinda takes me back to March of 2006 when I adopted the first Quik baby to be brought over to America from England. I hired a Nanny friend named Paul Bass from Aerialadventures.net to help me with the birth. See my home movies here:

Aviatec Carbone

An interesting machine from France. Anyone flown one yet?

Equipment

• Ignition key with 2 magneto check
• Instruments switches
• Strobe light
• Battery charging light
• 12v plug
• Three on main wheels
• Digital Instrument Panel ALPHAMFD von Bräuniger
  
• Electric Fuel gauge and Visual gauge
• Compass
• Rescue Parachute
• Emergency engine stop
• Integrated fuel Tank 55 litre
• Travel Bags (Option)

Technical Specification

• Weight
• Max. Take Off weight 450 kg
• Empty weight 224 kg with Instruments - without Rescue
  system
• Max. Useful Load 226/213 kg.

• Performances (at max. Take Off
  Weight 450 kg)
• Max. Speed 135 km
• Vs0 61 km
• Min. Speed 65 km
• VNE 150 km
• Cruising Speed 80 – 120 km/h

More information, visit their website HERE

Some Seriously Cool Helmet Ideas!

From Icaro 2000, a hang-gliding specialty manufacturer are these full and partial shield helmets that might be "just the ticket" for those of us looking for an unusual and comfortable alternative to traditional Trike Buckets. Browse the site and get some ideas HERE

Video of the Day - Tustumena Glacier Trike Flight

Website of the Day - FlyingVideo!

Came across this little gem today. FlyingVideo, a UK based site that hosts a variety of flying videos, mostly trikes and microlights in the UK. They don't yet have a ton of videos, but what they have are pretty cool, and mostly by British pilots flying Quiks and GT450's, which is always nice ;)

Only downside is that they don't allow embedding of the videos, just links to their home page, which is a bit "old fashioned" in 2007, especially since many of their videos are "swiped" off other sites, including my pal Paul Bass' AerialAdventures.net ... what's the reason "not" to allow the videos to be viewed elsewhere as long as they have watermarks to the site?

Worth a quick peek!

Skybright Strobe Installation Detailed Instructions

Find more photos like this on Trikepilot - Social Edition
Check out photos showing complete installation. For written instructions, click on image and see details of each step.