Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tupac on December 25, 2011, 07:54:59 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6_sqS-jSQ
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Awesome!
Great video, Just remember that all the cool stuff will happen without recording it, Just fly it and remember it.
Don't forget to log it, and have fun....If you are flying and not having fun...stop flying.
Remember, flying is Mans second greatest thrill... Landing Is the First!
RTR...30+years and then some, door is always wide open.
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Awesome!
Great video, Just remember that all the cool stuff will happen without recording it, Just fly it and remember it.
Don't forget to log it, and have fun....If you are flying and not having fun...stop flying.
Remember, flying is Mans second greatest thrill... Landing Is the First!
RTR...30+years and then some, door is always wide open.
Thanks RTR :) Landing is definitely the first greatest thrill
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You betcha.
RTR
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Thanks RTR :) Landing is definitely the first greatest thrill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4
*snickers and runs the heck away
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4
*snickers and runs the heck away
now you done it :devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDzaWbvYMg
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Always cracks me up Tup...
:aok
put on the kevlar the real pilots are coming :lol
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*puts on nomex pants*
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one piece of advise for you.
Believe your instruments.
I have been IMC with spotty instruments, but...shouldn't have. I was lucky.
Don't accept a faulty AI or VSI even if you are 100% you are flying in what you think is VFR conditions.
WX can change in a heartbeat.
Nothing sucks worse than being VFR in IMC conditions. Just don't go there.
There seems to be this idea that us helicopter types can skirt around that. Its not true...we like to see the trees too!
And we like to have all our PAX get home safe.
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I took off in some lousy weather (precip) and watched my ASI fluctuate as the water went in and out the drain in the back. It's unsettling. Was a good day to do some practice approaches though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCnfLrU2Vd4
I ended up not being able to get back into my home 'drone (weather was 200' above mins for the approach when I took off) and had to call my parents to pick me up in San Marcos. There was an approach that took me 50' lower but it was a circling approach and I figured the best course of action was to stop wasting gas trying to get into BAZ and go to San Marcos that has an ILS. (It's like a 15 min drive from New Braunfels)
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I'd never seen the ASI do that before, not even in training. They tell you about it but I really never thought I would see it.
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An Addendum,
When I fly I wear my helmet because.
I am still alive and kicking!
RTR
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I'd never seen the ASI do that before, not even in training. They tell you about it but I really never thought I would see it.
Be more vigilant about your gripes and specify what is wrong to your A/P
get that stuff fixed or get a new A/P,
I hold 2 licences in Canada.....CPH and AME 1&2
I can fix and fly anything you have short of supersonic. (with the appropriate training) and that is not too far off for me...
Just be sure what you are getting.
oh...did supersonic, but in my old RCAF days CF18 11 years but we don't have to count that.
RTR
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It's apparently fairly common in the late model skyhawks on climbout in rain. Along with the "cloud whistle"
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I'd never seen the ASI do that before, not even in training. They tell you about it but I really never thought I would see it.
Do you have the same idea with engine failures too?
RTR, I thought the USA had things pretty well handled with bureaucracy but on a trip to Newfoundland I found that her majestys influence has done a more thorough job so to speak. We had a small nylon washer fail and drip brake fluid out the left outboard line. I can fix this, I had the part, I had the tools and plenty of time before our departure to Phoenix. That wasn't the problem. Being on a drug testing program wasn't a problem. Finding a CAA mechanic wasn't the problem. The problem was I couldn't get a CAA mechanic to sign it off because none of them had type specific training to a Lear 45 in order to release the airplane after they tightened two fasteners. I had to drop the trip (20 hours over 3 days. Bank!) and airline up our DOM to put pen to paper.
Instead of making some good money we were on the hook for 5-6 hours of empty ferry legs from the business aspect. On the fun side, St Johns is a fun town for their 3 days of summer, the music scene is great and the local females are very friendly creatures. I'd love to go back and break again :)
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that is really cool stuff tupac, keep on sending those videos, they are truly awesome. when i win the lottery ill join you, ok? xD seriously those videos are amazing :aok
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Do you have the same idea with engine failures too?
Nope
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We flew in some pretty thick stuff up in Nebraska and it never happened, but of course it starts as soon as Im solo in IMC. I kinda figured it wasnt going to happen since it didnt before. I didnt hear the cloud whistle until I was solo either, and that it just eerie.
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Geeze Golpher. there is way more going on there than you could believe.
I'll post tomorrow when I am sober though.
Maybe have to PM some of it.
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Cool vid Tupac. I would have loved to have a GoPro mounted when I was hauling jumpers.
How did you mount the camera to the airplane? Does it require a sign-off from an A&P or IA? If you can't answer those you might want to check into it before you get ramped with the camera mounted on the airplane. I know in the past there was some noise made by FSDO inspectors about still cameras mounted to the wing strut.
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This coming year, I'm going to get a GoPro mounted on the outside of the jumplane I fly particularly, for the descent. Plus an a couple from inside. The quality I've seen is amazing.
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I used the suction cup mount, and I got off the phone with my A&P and he said that it's considered temporary - no paperwork needed. He's friends with one of the inspectors at the FSDO, and I thought he might know. There is an inspector on another board I go on and he told me the same thing.
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I told you on Facebook that one inspectors interpretation is one inspectors interpretation. Then FSDOs vary from other FSDOs.
No matter which way you go, suction cup or something better, prove it. Prove it to yourself, prove it to an ASI conducting a ramp inspection, prove it to anyone that asks.
If it isn't in writing, it didn't happen. Even if it is in writing doesn't make it right. Don't bet your certificates, especially something trivial and stupid on what someone else said or what you assumed.
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Now that's what I call Christmas. :D
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Come on people, no-one has thought of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkJvY96i8w
DO A BARREL ROLL!
:D
-Penguin
P.S. I kid, I kid, fly safely!
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Todays flight. I decided that the best course of action would just be to mount the camera inside of the plane, I dont want to worry about the dang thing falling off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deYzldrA0ss
Next flight will be inside the cockpit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzuaRXlXwKU
This one came out well. I think that is where I am going to mount it from now on.
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Nice camera & videos! :aok
I seen one guy (Wolfala) mount it to the top of the V-stabilizer, perhaps you want to give that a try? This way you have a good view of everything around the aircraft and when you analyze the flight you see what position your controls were in.