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Slick Goodlin
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Colonel wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:35 pm Yes, go flying!
I did! Put .5 or .6 on the Champ, first time flying for fun this year. In all of last year it only got off the ground for 3.6 which is just disgraceful. I can do better.


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Colonel
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Oof. I hear you. I’m a weekend warrior now, I try to fly once a week. Overjoyed with 2. Hard to be any good, doing that. I’m terrible at straight and level.

Note I flipped on the autopilot in the Pitts on the trip home. On final I had to slow to 140 mph. My airport is infested with 172's that ground 70 mph.
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ADS-B is neat. Creepy, but neat. Dunno if you guys up north are into it or not. You like "diversity" in your mode S?

Anyways, with nothing between me and the numbers, I like a Vne approach. Airport elevation is 400 MSL. Wide open throttle in the descent until very short final, then throttle off, touch the mains on the numbers at 120 mph.

Good Canadians™ probably don't do that. I'm ok with that. Sean Tucker, Skip Stewart, Freddy Cabanas all approach and land like this. Probably none of them are even allowed in Canada.
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Colonel wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:06 pm ADS-B is neat. Creepy, but neat. Dunno if you guys up north are into it or not. You like "diversity" in your mode S?

Anyways, with nothing between me and the numbers, I like a Vne approach. Airport elevation is 400 MSL. Wide open throttle in the descent until very short final, then throttle off, touch the mains on the numbers at 120 mph.

Good Canadians™ probably don't do that. I'm ok with that. Sean Tucker, Skip Stewart, Freddy Cabanas all approach and land like this. Probably none of them are even allowed in Canada.
Not gonna lie….when I read your post my mind does it in Trump’s voice…. ;)
Slick Goodlin
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Colonel wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:06 pm ADS-B is neat. Creepy, but neat. Dunno if you guys up north are into it or not.
I’m more of a ‘look out the window’ guy, our ADS-B mandate is still pending AFAIK and eventually it will be the space version, I think. Don’t really care, I trust the work plane will automatically comply and the fun planes barely have radios so I’m kind of airspace restricted anyways.
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I miss the 20th century



That must be an HR violation. Someone somewhere just burst into tears and will need therapy.

I remember Jeremy Clarkson being told by HR at BBC when Top Gear was still on, if ONE MORE person complained about him, they were going to fire him. He laughed and told the woke BBC to fire him now, because there was no way he was going to keep everyone in the world happy.
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