Scudrunners

The prices are still a bit high, but they do seem to be coming down. I have seen a couple 150's this week for around $25k, one sold in a couple days so maybe by the time we move to Alberta the market will be back on track and I can grab something up.

This was posted last night, my French is non existent but I believe it comes with another complete dismantled 140,

Colonel wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:59 pm I personally would prefer the O-200 but it's not perfect, either. I remember a former
student of mine had an exhaust valve stick on a buck fifty and landed on an artillery
range. When they were shooting. She ignored my advice to run car gas, because
that poor O-200 was never designed to run on 100LL, and you can't get 80/87 any
more.

It gets better. Heading home, she was aiming for Brampton but never learned to
use the nav equipment in the buck fifty. Hazy day in Toronto, and she was getting
vectored by the guy running the unicom at Brampton, and landed instead at Pearson,
on a runway under construction, running her tires over the heads of the workers who
were on the runway at the time.

I am not making this up. She was a great musician, but maybe not the best pilot.

I think that one made the news. In the last 16 months, they would probably have considered her a hero for helping build traffic. I went through there in April at 7pm with one other aircraft seen taxiing.

Anyways, nice to see you back. Thought you were busy working for the FAA or something.

Thought you were busy working for the FAA or something.

Ha. Reminds me of my friend Fleahop, that was an FAA Inspector for 3 weeks.

Down here, I am nobody. It's fucking awesome. I highly recommend it. People
with more money than brains - and there are a shitload of them - crash every day.

I think we had three GA crashes in Norcal in 4 days, recently. If you look closely
at them, you will cringe at each one.

This is a strange fucking place, but I fit in, which should probably scare me. I
really like not being the weirdest person in the room, which was generally the
case in Canada and caused me no end of trouble for many decades. I don't
recommend it. Pro Tip™: don't own the fastest aircraft in your TC Region.

People down here get confused about my FAA ATP. I tell them the only reason
I have it, is that when I was trying to get a replacement for my paper FAA COMM-SMEL-IA
there was a nice lady at the Albany FSDO that was absolutely bonkers for big
block Chevelles, who insisted that I get a plastic FAA ATP. It was ridiculously easy -
one written exam, maybe 20 minutes, a medical and I filled out a form.

I tell people I'm kind of a fake. I have an FAA ATP, but I'm not quite sure why,
and I don't know very much about the regulations here. No one gives a shit
about Canada or Paraguay, for that matter.

I think I mentioned that I did my BFR in Tom Cruise's old Pitts S-2B, which
he taxied into a wall.



Can't say I'm a fan of the paint scheme, but the engine runs good. CFI was
amazed I had surface-level waivered airspace, so for my BFR we did surface
acro. Very nostalgic.

The kid and I are ridiculously busy. Nothing I did in Canada, ever compared
to what we do here. It would blow your mind.

Colonel wrote: Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:56 am I think I mentioned that I did my BFR in Tom Cruise's old Pitts S-2B, which
he taxied into a wall.

Better fly that F104. Then you will be able to modify that famous test pilot quote to:

"The sonic wall was mine, the hangar wall was Cruise's"

Well, my wife would be crabby and I would be outside the POH CofG chart but I know I can fly a 7eca, so..

https://www.controller.com/listing/for- ... e-aircraft

Found another one Dave,

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-buy-sell-other/ ... 1576708256

I like that one. Nice colour. Lovely antique radio and looks like it has a turn indicator for doing standard turns to the left.

Mr Patey flew Scrappy to AirVenture for static display. I definitely would have bummed around to watch it leave if I was there. He builds fun planes.