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Offline Tupac

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Watched a stearman ground loop today
« on: December 28, 2011, 06:56:31 PM »
Was terrorizing the pattern at 5C1 practicing my xwind landings and was on downwind, and watched a stearman ground loop and end up in the grass. He got stuck, but managed to get out of the mud. Nothing got bent except his ego, I saw him flying later in the day and he actually had his xwind correction in for takeoff. He actually learned something.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2011, 07:08:00 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on December 28, 2011, 06:56:31 PM
Was terrorizing the pattern at 5C1 practicing my xwind landings and was on downwind, and watched a stearman ground loop and end up in the grass. He got stuck, but managed to get out of the mud. Nothing got bent except his ego, I saw him flying later in the day and he actually had his xwind correction in for takeoff. He actually learned something.

Big words from a little 200 hour wonder flying the most docile training wheeled airplane ever built.

Wait till you scare yourself and hope you live through it, ace.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2011, 07:20:29 PM »
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Offline Tupac

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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2011, 07:28:48 PM »
*300 hour wonder

I've got 30 hours in the most docile tailwheel airplane ever built, too.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2011, 07:30:05 PM »
I meant to say I was terrorizing the pattern.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2011, 07:40:31 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on December 28, 2011, 07:08:00 PM
Wait till you scare yourself and hope you live through it, ace.

I don't think there is a pilot anywhere who hasnt scared themselves.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2011, 07:48:52 PM »
Quote from: Golfer on December 28, 2011, 07:08:00 PM
Big words from a little 200 hour wonder flying the most docile training wheeled airplane ever built.

Wait till you scare yourself and hope you live through it, ace.

Looks like we're dealing with a bad-ass here.

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Offline Tupac

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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2011, 08:05:10 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5fs8-MF9g

This was at T82, they werent quite as bad at 5C1. I guess I am biased against the stearman guy because I watched him almost have a mid-air with my friend in the cub over the summer. I don't like him as a person, he is a real turd.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2011, 10:14:48 PM »
It's not like all I've done is fly around the pattern. I've flown my docile little airplane all over the central part of the united states. My plane will ice up if I fly into visible moisture below freezing just like anything else. Ive made go/nogo decisions, and have had plenty of opportunities to kill myself. I towed gliders during the last bit of the soaring season this year. My experience is limited, but I am not an idiot, and do not deserve to be talked down to.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2011, 10:46:34 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on December 28, 2011, 10:14:48 PM
It's not like all I've done is fly around the pattern. I've flown my docile little airplane all over the central part of the united states. My plane will ice up if I fly into visible moisture below freezing just like anything else. Ive made go/nogo decisions, and have had plenty of opportunities to kill myself. I towed gliders during the last bit of the soaring season this year. My experience is limited, but I am not an idiot, and do not deserve to be talked down to.
:aok  dont let him talk you down.
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Offline jigsaw

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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2011, 11:17:52 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on December 28, 2011, 07:40:31 PM
I don't think there is a pilot anywhere who hasnt scared themselves.

I've never scared myself. I have had a student scare the dickens out of me though.
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Offline Golfer

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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2011, 11:24:20 PM »
You don't deserve to be talked down to? I'm not but what's the point of this thread?  Authoring a few condescending sentences from the perspective of someone who hasn't been humbled by Fate in an airplane doesn't count?

When you've been truly humbled by an airplane, and you will, I hope you look back and feel shame for authoring such a deplorable paragraph.  If you're lucky you won't bend any metal.

I'm not talking down to you. I'm talking right between your eyes hoping something takes. I'm not your mother not am I your instructor but have you given consideration that you might share eerily similar hazardous attitudes/traits to those who have come before you. Which basically includes most who had 300 whole hours at some point.  I'm not saying you're a bad pilot. I'm not questioning your uber pilot skillz. I'm telling you that the creation of this thread and what you wrote had no business being created. A 300 hour wonder kid who doesn't even know what they don't know is a dangerous thing to be. I know, I was one.
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Offline Tupac

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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2011, 11:32:06 PM »
Honestly if it was anyone else besides this guy I wouldn't have made the thread. You're right, it's kinda a dickish thing I did making this thread. The most ponies I've ever PIC'ed behind is 235. I think a stearman is 350, tw, with a narrow wheel base. It's not an easy thing flying one I'd imagine. Good night, guys.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2011, 12:20:20 AM »
Quote from: Golfer on December 28, 2011, 11:24:20 PM
I'm not talking down to you.

Typical jet hotshot.
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Re: Watched a stearman ground loop today
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2011, 05:06:38 AM »
I would be willing to bet the ones that don't get what Golfer is trying to say, haven't :salute :cheers: :aok been alive as long as he has been flying.......... :aok :salute :cheers:




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