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Post by tudorpilot on Feb 19, 2012 20:06:47 GMT -5
Kool Joe Klingler..... Flying Ace   And Maddie Moo... The Red Baron's worst nightmare...  Josh |
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Post by kawasakifreak77 on Feb 19, 2012 21:57:02 GMT -5
Nice Josh! Actually just got back from taking the 172 up myself. Practiced saving stalls today with grandpa. Talk about butt pucker!  |
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Post by kingkirk on Feb 20, 2012 10:22:15 GMT -5
your the man #29.. for sure.. presidents day all us gainfully un-employed folks get the day off..~ should be flyin'.. butt.. off to the garage for me. yup. kk#38k  ~
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Post by tudorpilot on Feb 24, 2012 7:57:27 GMT -5
Come up for a weekend some time Ray... We'll go do some barnstorming...
Josh
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Post by kawasakifreak77 on Mar 31, 2012 23:22:57 GMT -5
Here's the trainer I've been in Josh.  1939 Taylorcraft. A fine example of one I might add. Today I finally feel like I've made some progress. I can actually take off & land her decently most times, even slipping into a good 'ole Kansas cross wind. I've accumulated about 6 hours so far. Done quite a few things, the most gut wrenching was full power stalls while banking. Especially to the right, since her right wing stops flying a measurable bit before the left. I had left rudder to the floor & nosed her down before we ended up on our top. Once the speed was up to get the wings flying again, we were alright. There's been some sketchy times though. I found out un-consciously dragging a brake on landing will put me in the grass real quick like & at that point, we were just along for the ride. Ended up no damage to us or the lovely little T, thank goodness. My light hearted instructor just told me she wanted to go grazing, since the tail dragger lends itself so well to 'rough & short' fields. We've done those too. Quite comical when my instructor says, 'land down there, I gotta take a leak' HA! So I set her down in a nice field. I could get into this barnstorming stuff, lemme tell ya. He made me practice an emergency engine failure, told me to pick out a spot... Best I saw at the time was a wide dirt road without any poles near it, hehe! Good thing there weren't any cars down there... They would have nuts there pants when a plane came at 'em! |
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Post by tudorpilot on Apr 2, 2012 8:20:40 GMT -5
Diggity Dang Ray..... I can dig it all day. Being a taildragger pilot aint for the fancy boys... They can't fly 'em. Takes a real man.... In fact, our boy TJ put almost an hour on the Champ yesterday. Yeah, pavement stinks when you're flying these old girls. I avoid it most times. Can't really do any good barnstorming from a paved runway...   Josh |
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Post by kawasakifreak77 on Apr 2, 2012 19:47:20 GMT -5
Awesome!
& that ain't no doubt. The tricycles are 100x easier to fly than the taildraggers!
What is your plane? I don't recognize it, bein' new to all this.
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