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Offline Duckwing6

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« on: December 27, 2000, 02:17:00 AM »
HA had to share this guys ..

I got my first 2 flights i a turboprop this last wekend  

and the plane was THIS:

 

WHAT AN AWESOME NOSEART  

And this is why they say keep your seatbelts fastened at all times
 
Notice she's got GEAR UP and isn't even retractable  

DW6

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2000, 02:25:00 AM »
u euro's r weird

kthx.

Offline Toad

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2000, 02:50:00 AM »
Shorts Skyvan? The one that looks like the box it came in?

 

Congrats, Duck.
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Offline Duckwing6

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2000, 04:26:00 AM »
Sure is TOAD  
 A lot of folks say she's BUT UGGLY ! But i say it's a beuaty !

Was pretty cool flying her actually .. because it's going to be the most doctile "big" airplane i have flown so far .. no comarison to a Piston Twin too...

She rotates at 55 KIAS, then you let her build speed for a few secs and then rotate to a staggering 12-14° Pitch up in the climb at 90 KIAS.. hauls up to drop alt at FL160 in 11 mins (with a 1 min delay due to clearance required by ATC..
In the climb you're on instruments only because view ahead is nil, zapp, nada   just to the side you have a bit of view.. which is pretty wild climbing out of a mountain valley with 8000 feet peaks around  

Then after th drop it's flight idle and a 170 KIAS all the way down to final , that's a 15° nose down, which looks like straight down from the cockpit  
Having some thousand tow landings the approach from "unusual position" wasn't all to dificult and i nailed the final jsut perfect .. and she rewarded me with a really nice and soft landing (just to throw you into the sholder straps, when you pull the powerlevers into Beta range)

Easy to fly, super doctile, nimble as a i never thought of an airplane of that size ..
PURE FUN to fly  

DW6

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2000, 06:01:00 AM »
WTG duckwing!!!!

but what a ugly plane!..with a very funny
paintscheme :-)

does it fly like it looks like?

"guten rutsch ins neue jahr phillip!"

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2000, 07:47:00 AM »
 
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A lot of folks say she's BUT UGGLY !

Duck, that does NOT even come close to describing what a visual horror that aircraft is !!!!  



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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2000, 09:30:00 AM »
duck, does this mean you drop skydivers?

Do I get discount?  



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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2000, 09:34:00 AM »
  WOW!  I've always wanted to try that (fly and also parachute). No longer have the nads to try the parachuting though.

-Westy

Is that a FW??  

Offline LePaul

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Ahhww shucks OT but my first 30 mins of Turbine time :)
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2000, 10:49:00 AM »
You might consider having the hangar folks hire security guards so the other aircraft do not get vandalized as well  

Paul