That is short for obtain best glide speed first to give you more time for everything else. You will want to touch down at the slowest speed possible. Without the engine running, you will have to reserve some energy to flair.

Back in 2013, I asked the DAN members for ideas on ditching a DA40. After three years of flying for the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and refining my checklist, I have a DA40 ditching checklist I am satisfied with for my purposes. There is nothing about wearing life vests, because we are required to wh...

Another vintage you should look at is the 2005-2006. I have a 2006. My useful load is 890 lbs. with the two blade Hartzel prop. It has 40 gallons of fuel, so the full fuel useful load is a very respectful 650 lb. I fly it regularly between Wisconsin and Florida and usually can make it with two fuel ...

Does anybody know where the weight would be located in the aileron?

A year or so ago, I experienced a failure of my attitude indicator in flight in my 2006 DA40. With some helpful advice, from this forum, I cleaned the contacts and re-racked my line units and that seemed to take care of the problem. Within the last month, the failure is happening every flight, with ...

Well, please keep me posted if you have any success with the Comm1/2 Split. I have not changed any settings, that I am aware of. I will take a look at Rich's suggestion the next time I get to the plane.

I don't remember this issue before. Lately, when I am transmitting to ATC or in the blind, the co-pilot and passengers can barely hear me over their headsets. When the co-pilot is transmitting, I can barely hear what he is saying over my headset. I have tried headset volume adjustments and the pilot...

Just a follow-up. Dave was right, reseating the line units was fast and easy. But the best part is that it appears to have resolved my issue of the intermittent attitude indicator. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
Bob

I was taking someone on a short sightseeing flight in VMC today and about 10 minutes into the flight, the attitude indicator failed. I saw the red X immediately, but wasn't too concerned as I looked to my back up. We were at 1000 ft. and slow. About 5 minutes later it came on and staged on for 5-10 ...