Scudrunners

Colonel wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:40 pm Sharing an airplane is like a marriage. Need to choose the right people
or you're going to wish you never did it.

The club setup is a great marriage! The daily driver for me is the 180, that is all mine. Just like my wife, no sharing.

Speaking of over priced projects, I stumbled upon this on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/323982500187?V ... OTORS:1123



I sent the guy an email, telling him he's nuts for asking $28k. He responded back with "make an offer." Dave: she's all yours!

how things stay the same zero time 90hp grasshopper j3, floats, wheels and skis was less than 7 grand when I learned to fly. Translated to 57 grand in today's dollars, inflation - damn

After shiny let me fly his conventional gear 172 in a cross wind that would not be too bad if I had tricycle gear. I realized I'm no hot stick like big Pistons or that flight chop guy.

I even said, "I'm going to go confess how tough that was on the forum." He laughed and said I should brag about it being easy. Maybe it would not have been as bad if I had not gone after being grounded for a year because of TC waiting to give me my medical back.

I think I need to be flying a couple times a week for a while before trying that again.

No J3 for me right now.

Tailwheel is only difficult on dry pavement. The four bars love it, but dry pavement
is the most treacherous surface you can operate a taildragger on, especially when
the wind gets gusty and strong. Richard Bach wrote that, over 50 years ago.

It helps when the runway is wet, or snow-covered. It's better when the runway is
100% clear ice covered with standing water on top, so you can land in a crab in a
strong crosswind that you couldn't possibly handle on dry pavement.

Now, it might be impossible to turn out of wind when you're taxiing, but that's ok,
you can shut down, get out, pick up the tail and turn it around by hand, then climb
back in, start up and taxi away. Shit, I've had to do that in a jet, taxiing on ice.

I remember the Ottawa tower having a cow one day, when I told them I had to do
that in the Maule, and then I did it. They like it better when pilots run off the end
of runway 07.

Unlike that Draco guy who wrecked his airplane to keep ATC happy, I couldn't give
a shit.



Another day, another CADORs. Paper goes away, but wrecked airplanes and dead
people are forever. That's a little secret TC will never tell you.

We were on gravel and I didn't harm the plane but I also never bounced a trike like that.

I simply need a fair amount more practice.

One time I took an instructor riding around the circuit at YBW and when we got back people were coming up to me and saying, "I heard you fly really well in cross winds."

I partially blame you for the good tips while chatting about it at the other place. Followed that up by flying with shiny at the airport with only one runway that has a cross wind most of the time.

Now I'm back to not flying. Yay.

I partially blame you for the good tips

Don't gamble at the Casino?

I also never bounced a trike like that

You probably got behind the aircraft, with possibly a PIO in pitch in the flare.

While it is easy to say, "Don't do that", and with practice you won't ....

When it does happen, throttle forward. Lower the nose as required, accelerate level in ground effect.

If you ask yourself the question, "Should I go around?" the answer is always
throttle smoothly all the way forward. Unless your name is Bob Hoover or Rob Holland,
in which case you need advice from me, like you need a 3rd nipple.

I'm not positive but I think we were running out of space and there is a bank at the end of the runway there, just for fun. I believe I finished that one, yoke all the way back, light braking after retracting the flaps. It worked out but it wasn't one I would brag about.

David MacRay wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:39 pm I simply need a fair amount more practice.

That’s an easy fix. Fly a bunch.

I used to think that.