Flight Training In the Winter

[Nark1]

Since your Canadian, you already have flannel, but did it come with a case of PBR? 

Hipster.... 😘

[Colonel]

Ugh.  Hipster?!  If I wasn't so revolted I'd be flattered.

Reminds me.  The kids call me a Boomer.  I try to explain to them,
that not everyone that is older than them, is a Boomer.

Anyways, the Honda Monkey is a hoot.  I ride it wide open, all the time,
which you sure as hell don't do with the Busa.  It's great for traffic - I did
a slalom through the traffic stopped at a light on the way home tonight.

I will admit the Monkey is a nostalgia trip for me.  It was 1973.  I was 10
years old, and I was in love with a red Honda Trail 70.  Centrifugal clutch
and the gear shifter went the wrong way - which screwed me up for years -
but it was love at first sight.  I was young.  They told me it was art.



In 1973, I loved riding motorcycles, flying and shooting.  I'm afraid I really
haven't made any progress since then.

[Eric Janson]

I landed in Mayo one day in a DC3 and the temperature was minus sixty four, there was a delay for about half an hour and I'll be God Damned if I didn't bust an oil cooler when I started up again to leave.

Spent the next two days there getting a new oil cooled installed.

It was my own fucking fault of course though because I should have thrown the engine tents over the engines while I waited.

-64c - that's cold!

Shows what a great aircraft the DC-3 is.

We ran 15W50 in the DC-3 which worked really well.  With the aircraft outside all the time the oleos also stayed inflated.

Apparently -40c is now the cut off - not sure why.

[Colonel]

-40C happens to be the pour point of 15w50