If You Want To Play Carnegie Hall
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:04 am
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall
Get a Pitts S1 (or better yet, half of one).
Fly it for 1,000 hours. At the end of that, you
will be the best stick you can be.
Here is my suggested plan:
Four times a week, every week of the year, fly
0.5 surface acro, at the end of which you will be
exhausted and sweating.
That's 2 hours a week, 50 weeks a year for 100
hours a year.
Do that for 10 years, and you will be able to
jump into ANY aircraft and fly it. Ok, learning
about momentum and radial/turbine engines
might help, but like plumbing, you can pick
that stuff up in one day.
I might opine that there are perhaps 10 pilots
(not even) in all of Canada that are limited by
the Vg diagram of the humble S1. Everyone
else in Canada is limited by their own performance.
Please don't tell me, as you are standing in
front of your $60,000 SUV, that you don't have
$15,000 for half of an S1.
Be honest. You are making choices. They have
consequences. Don't blame anyone else for your
choices.
You probably think I'm not much of a pilot compared
to you, but I have over 2,000 hours in all types of
Pitts, two ATP's and an SAC, and with no checklist
(gasp!) I will happily jump into a new type and do
surface acro in it.
Do you want to play Carnegie Hall? Well, it's going
to take a little work. I've been flying for over 40
years now, and I'm still working at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall
Get a Pitts S1 (or better yet, half of one).
Fly it for 1,000 hours. At the end of that, you
will be the best stick you can be.
Here is my suggested plan:
Four times a week, every week of the year, fly
0.5 surface acro, at the end of which you will be
exhausted and sweating.
That's 2 hours a week, 50 weeks a year for 100
hours a year.
Do that for 10 years, and you will be able to
jump into ANY aircraft and fly it. Ok, learning
about momentum and radial/turbine engines
might help, but like plumbing, you can pick
that stuff up in one day.
I might opine that there are perhaps 10 pilots
(not even) in all of Canada that are limited by
the Vg diagram of the humble S1. Everyone
else in Canada is limited by their own performance.
Please don't tell me, as you are standing in
front of your $60,000 SUV, that you don't have
$15,000 for half of an S1.
Be honest. You are making choices. They have
consequences. Don't blame anyone else for your
choices.
You probably think I'm not much of a pilot compared
to you, but I have over 2,000 hours in all types of
Pitts, two ATP's and an SAC, and with no checklist
(gasp!) I will happily jump into a new type and do
surface acro in it.
Do you want to play Carnegie Hall? Well, it's going
to take a little work. I've been flying for over 40
years now, and I'm still working at it.