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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Chairboy on May 02, 2007, 10:02:12 AM
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Heading up to Shelton, WA today (weather permitting) to pick up a Cherokee Warrior. I split the cost of getting a fresh annual, have an insurance binder as of midnight (EAA via Falcon), and I've got my route planned out. Two hours flying later, and I should be at my home airport this afternoon.
Wifey and I are driving up later this morning, and she'll bring the car back home. We debated possibly having her fly the plane back while I drive home, but then decided to go with the original plan considering she isn't a pilot.
This is the plane I bought:
http://www.barnstormers.com/classified_166844_1975+cherokee+warrior.html
The MX 300 NAV/COM is has can apparently drive a glideslope indicator with a GS receiver, but I'm going to need to sit down and do some math. It might be worth it to spend the extra couple thousand to just get a Garmin 430 or something to replace it, that has NAV/COM w/ built in VOR and GS, not to mention GPS. Something to think about for the future...
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Nice Chair! <
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Leather seats. Nice. :aok
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"We debated possibly having her fly the plane back while I drive home, but then decided to go with the original plan considering she isn't a pilot."
Ummm...yea, stick with that plan
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:aok
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congrats chairboi :)
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Originally posted by Curval
"We debated possibly having her fly the plane back while I drive home, but then decided to go with the original plan considering she isn't a pilot."
its got wheels? tow it home ? (http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/FunnyFace6.gif)
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Where are the cup holders?
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"Previously used by escaping convicts ...only on sundays "
:noid
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Did you specifaccly ask for Arctic Blue in the family Truckster?
Cause I think peatmoss green is preety sharp
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The family truckster: You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it!
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Remember not to try to take off directly from the hangar. I hear in the real world they have these things called "Taxi-Ways" and "towers" and "clearances" and "rules" to mess up your fun at the airport.
Anyway, congratulations on your purchase! May you be blessed with clear skies and no icing.
- SEAGOON
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Congrats bro.
I've seen used G430s for a little under $6k, but if you are keeping it a VFR bird - save yourself some cash and get an Anywhere Map or something you could throw on a Tablet PC with a Solid State HD. If your making the bird IFR capable - put aside 10K. But as a VFR ship, the Anywhere Map will do the job for $500 bux.
Wolf
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OMG Chairboy's gonna be a gear-down-noob!
(p.s I hate you.... I'm so jealous)
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Looks like a nice plane, congrats and wishes for many happy hours of safe flying.
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:) enjoy!
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If you plan on getting the bird set up for IFR figure it will be very expensive and you won't get the investment back on the resale. I'd go with a handheld GPS with moving map that you can mount on the control yoke so it's easy to see rather than a panel mount non IFR unit. I used of those for several years and was very happy with the way it worked. The newer Garmin's are far more capable and even more accurate than traditional IFR equipment like VOR's and NDB's. You just can't use handheld equipment to replace any panel mount equipment especially IFR units.
If you do go IFR it's a decent platform for it but the equipment is only a part of the cost. You minjght want to check with a radio shop for their experiance in number of hours in getting it doen on a new install for an older bird. In a lot of cases getting a premade "stack" might save you a significant amount of money but the install is still going to be a killer.
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What is the point of owning a single engine aircraft for pleasure purposes if you are going to stare at computer navigation displays instead of looking out the window?
Get a $100 handheld GPS for emergency only use and navigate the old fashion way.
Less money, more fun and you will be a better pilot for it.
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Ah something ya aint got to build ... and wait years to fly!
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Congrats! :aok
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Congratulations -- fair skies and tail winds!
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A funny thing happened on the way to pick up the plane today...
We left this morning and drove north. 4 and a half hours later, we pull into the airport. I park the car and shut off the engine.
Wifey suddenly sits bolt upright with shock on her face. She looks over at me, completely horrified. "Honey, I'm so sorry..."
It's at this point that I realize something has gone terribly wrong.
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...and?
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She left the check at home?:huh
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RPM nailed it.
We had switched vehicles at my office, and she had left the certified check in the glove compartment.
At first, I was shocked, just sitting there gaping. She had told me, and while I understood the individual words she was using, I could not comprehend what she was saying.
Eventually, I laughed. A few minutes later after we talked to the seller and had left, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breath. I was alternating between reassuring her (she felt like crud) and chuckling, because it was just so dang silly.
I'm working on figuring out the logistics for tomorrow, no worries. 9 hours on the road today, a few more tomorrow... yowza! But it's ok, the weather wasn't great today anyhow, so here's hoping it'll be better in the morning.
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Two words my friend...
Wire transfer.
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You should have gotten him to fly you to your home airport and then taken a taxi to get the cheque.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Heading up to Shelton, WA today (weather permitting) to pick up a Cherokee Warrior. I split the cost of getting a fresh annual, have an insurance binder as of midnight (EAA via Falcon), and I've got my route planned out. Two hours flying later, and I should be at my home airport this afternoon.
Wifey and I are driving up later this morning, and she'll bring the car back home. We debated possibly having her fly the plane back while I drive home, but then decided to go with the original plan considering she isn't a pilot.
This is the plane I bought:
http://www.barnstormers.com/classified_166844_1975+cherokee+warrior.html
The MX 300 NAV/COM is has can apparently drive a glideslope indicator with a GS receiver, but I'm going to need to sit down and do some math. It might be worth it to spend the extra couple thousand to just get a Garmin 430 or something to replace it, that has NAV/COM w/ built in VOR and GS, not to mention GPS. Something to think about for the future...
Now youll have to change your avatar to a pic with the cherokee in it!
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Got the plane back home nice and safe! I'll write up the flight later and post some photos to bore you all to tears.
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Sweeeeeet....! :aok
Kind of reminds a bit of the Beech Mentor T-34-A I used to fly. :confused: :huh :cry
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Congratulations Chairboy :)
Now it is time to start converting it into some sort of flying death mech thing :t
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WTG Man
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Thats great! Grats!
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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 ) :D
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(http://hallert.net/misc/newplane/Plane%20fun%20105.jpg)
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.
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Thats a nice looking Bird Chair! Grats again.
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Maybe you need to relocate southwest. There's a reason the Air Force doesn't have any flying training bases in the northwest.
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Gratz, Chair no longer, I hereby dub thee Planeboy.
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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 :D
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I knew I should have said PRIMARY training, as in Air Education and Training Command (AETC). No post is complete without caveats and footnotes. :o
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.
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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?).
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Just land backward and the canards won't even notice.
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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.
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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
(http://hallert.net/misc/newplane/Plane%20fun%20116.jpg)
BTW congrats on the new ride.
Maybe one day. ::sigh::