Author Topic: Bought a plane (Read 1478 times)

Charon · « **Reply #30 on:** May 04, 2007, 12:49:38 AM »

WTG Man

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 04, 2007, 01:04:17 AM »

Thats great! Grats!

Roscoroo · « **Reply #32 on:** May 04, 2007, 01:16:45 AM »

now what Chairboy doesnt know is a herd of Squirrels stowed away in his new plane ,,, and are currently flying it to Texas to Shell Skuzzy's house. (with nut shells of course )

Chairboy · « **Reply #33 on:** May 04, 2007, 03:01:51 PM »

I did a quick writeup with pics here:

http://hallert.net/misc/newplane/

Some more details, on the way back, I was driving maneuvering around to stay out of rain as much as possible. Near Chehalis, the route ahead was looking really crummy, with ceilings below 1,000ft plus poor visibility. I had a big clear spot where I was, so I circled and climbed up to about 9,500 to get over the clouds. I puttered along up there for about 40 miles until I was past the worst of it, then dropped down at another big opening near Kelso and zipped over to Troutdale for a break.

The one hour trip from Troutdale to Shelton (his airport) took two hours to make going the other way because of all the crud in the way. Plenty of safe routes, was never doing anything daredevilly, and my VFR cloud clearances were all intact, it just took longer.

It was 1.5 hours from Troutdale (Portland, OR TTD) to my home airport (Creswell, OR 77S) because of a headwind, but the weather was nicer. I was able to avoid most of the rain (I know, I know, the plane won't melt). The Cessnas seem more likely to want to drop out of the sky when you chop the power, so my setup for first landing attempt was all wrong and I decided to go around and give it another shot halfway on final. Second time, it was a squeaker, so all was good.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #34 on:** May 04, 2007, 05:39:18 PM »

Thats a nice looking Bird Chair! Grats again.

Halo · « **Reply #35 on:** May 04, 2007, 08:21:01 PM »

Maybe you need to relocate southwest. There's a reason the Air Force doesn't have any flying training bases in the northwest.

AKIron · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2007, 08:33:33 PM »

Gratz, Chair no longer, I hereby dub thee Planeboy.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2007, 08:35:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Maybe you need to relocate southwest. There's a reason the Air Force doesn't have any flying training bases in the northwest.

no we have two AF bases McCord and Fairchild. they train most of the cargo, B-52 bombers and refuelers up here.

... the climate is split up here and very diverse we go from Rainforest to mountains to desert to rolling plains.

the summers here on the coast side are actually pretty nice for flying.

(Ducks as Halo tosses shoes at me ) Neener neener

Halo · « **Reply #38 on:** May 04, 2007, 08:42:32 PM »

I knew I should have said PRIMARY training, as in Air Education and Training Command (AETC). No post is complete without caveats and footnotes.

And although most in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, plenty in Mississippi, Georgia, California, Alabama, Arizona, and Arkansas too, although I was surprised to see UH-1N at Fairchild.

Okay, no, I didn't memorize that. ~~to Air Force Magazine 2007 USAF Almanac issue.~~

Chairboy · « **Reply #39 on:** May 05, 2007, 08:26:50 AM »

Thanks guys! Well, I'm heading south today to Columbia, CA (weather permitting) for a canard fly-in (Canards de Mayo). Hopefully they won't hassle me too much for showing up in a backwards airplane (who puts the propeller in the FRONT?).

Halo · « **Reply #40 on:** May 05, 2007, 09:49:59 AM »

Just land backward and the canards won't even notice.

Chairboy · « **Reply #41 on:** May 06, 2007, 05:10:52 PM »

With some of the winds out there yesterday, landing backwards was almost possible. There was also sharp gusting, and a Cozy IV on short-short-short final had lost 15 knots airspeed and dropped the last 10 feet to the ground on landing. Prop strike, shredded his Sensenich wood propeller and broke some bracket off of the engine. I guess I know what he's going to be working on for the next couple days...

It was a great trip, I'll write up one of my long & boring trip logs in a little bit. One thing of note, I saw 150knots at one point on the GPS. But I paid for it today, boy howdy.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #42 on:** May 06, 2007, 07:07:11 PM »

Now look at this I tell ya!
These trees aare WAYYYYY to tall. completely overdone!
Nowhere do you ever see trees that tall!

LOL where was this pic a couple years ago when people were whining about tree height

BTW congrats on the new ride.

Maybe one day. ::sigh::