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Offline colmbo

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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #150 on: June 28, 2011, 12:24:48 AM »
Quote from: Tupac on June 27, 2011, 06:28:30 PM

Today I worked on wheel landings and 3-point landings, so my airplane might be a tricycle, but I will be legal to fly the ones that arent!

After flying the B-17 and B-24 for a couple of years I went back to flying a 206 hauling skydivers.  One of the jumpers has a nice Super Cub, I'd never flown one so we hopped in and he (a CFI) talked me around the pattern a few times.  He asked if I had any tailwheel time, I said a little over 300 hours.  He asked for a full stop and got out and said go play with it a bit.  COOL!!  I did 3 full stop landings and takeoffs before parking his airplane.

As we talked later that night I told that 320 hours of my tailwheel time was in a B-17 and that I had never acted as PIC on a tail wheel airplane until he let me fly his.  :D

He called me a couple of names, laughed and threw me a beer.
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #151 on: June 28, 2011, 12:27:09 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on June 28, 2011, 12:24:48 AM
As we talked later that night I told that 320 hours of my tailwheel time was in a B-17 and that I had never acted as PIC on a tail wheel airplane until he let me fly his.  :D

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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #152 on: June 28, 2011, 08:32:23 AM »
Quote from: Tupac on June 27, 2011, 06:28:30 PM
I started working on my tailwheel endorsement today in a 1946 Piper J3 Cub.

The very same one that landed on I10 http://www.ksat.com/news/22544400/detail.html

Today I worked on wheel landings and 3-point landings, so my airplane might be a tricycle, but I will be legal to fly the ones that arent!


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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #153 on: June 28, 2011, 11:16:23 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on June 28, 2011, 12:24:48 AM
After flying the B-17 and B-24 for a couple of years I went back to flying a 206 hauling skydivers.  One of the jumpers has a nice Super Cub, I'd never flown one so we hopped in and he (a CFI) talked me around the pattern a few times.  He asked if I had any tailwheel time, I said a little over 300 hours.  He asked for a full stop and got out and said go play with it a bit.  COOL!!  I did 3 full stop landings and takeoffs before parking his airplane.

As we talked later that night I told that 320 hours of my tailwheel time was in a B-17 and that I had never acted as PIC on a tail wheel airplane until he let me fly his.  :D

He called me a couple of names, laughed and threw me a beer.

Semantics FTW!

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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #154 on: June 29, 2011, 12:37:46 AM »
Heres a picture from our flight today, flying the cub again tomorrow and thursday and going to get tailwheel endorsed this week.


edit: Notice my farmers tan....isnt it attractive?
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #155 on: June 29, 2011, 12:42:25 AM »
In the opposite fashion for what is normal, I learned wheel landings first (boerne usually has a crosswind) so we are doing three point landings tomorrow, hopefull we can find somewhere without a crosswind
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #156 on: June 29, 2011, 09:14:55 AM »
I think it's really cool that you're doing this.  What an awesome hobby for a kid to have  :rock  :salute
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #157 on: June 29, 2011, 11:00:54 AM »
Quote from: colmbo on June 28, 2011, 12:24:48 AM
After flying the B-17 and B-24 for a couple of years I went back to flying a 206 hauling skydivers.  One of the jumpers has a nice Super Cub, I'd never flown one so we hopped in and he (a CFI) talked me around the pattern a few times.  He asked if I had any tailwheel time, I said a little over 300 hours.  He asked for a full stop and got out and said go play with it a bit.  COOL!!  I did 3 full stop landings and takeoffs before parking his airplane.

As we talked later that night I told that 320 hours of my tailwheel time was in a B-17 and that I had never acted as PIC on a tail wheel airplane until he let me fly his.  :D

He called me a couple of names, laughed and threw me a beer.
Collings Foundation right? i think we talked in game about that once.

As soon as i get my private, i want to start torwards my tailwheel. I want to fly our L-21B so badly, but I have to have 200hrs tailwheel time before i can even be put on the insurance for it :( What will be hard is that there are no tailwheels on field available for rent...
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #158 on: June 29, 2011, 09:20:16 PM »
Learned how to do three-point landings today, and how to hand-prop. Video to come later.......
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #159 on: June 29, 2011, 09:28:16 PM »
That is very cool Tupac!

Have fun and be safe buddy!

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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #160 on: June 29, 2011, 10:03:28 PM »
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #161 on: June 30, 2011, 08:22:09 PM »
Got my tailwheel endorsement today after 5.5 hours of dual instruction in a 1946 J3-65 Cub
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #162 on: June 30, 2011, 11:23:50 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on June 30, 2011, 08:22:09 PM
Got my tailwheel endorsement today after 5.5 hours of dual instruction in a 1946 J3-65 Cub

Congrats!
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #163 on: August 10, 2011, 11:34:42 PM »
It gets out of the avionics shop tomorrow, ended up putting in a 530w, 330, kx155, and got all the instruments rearranged into a standard layout. It's nice, I can't wait to see it.
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Re: Owning an airplane
« Reply #164 on: August 11, 2011, 12:21:20 AM »
Quote from: Tupac on August 10, 2011, 11:34:42 PM
It gets out of the avionics shop tomorrow, ended up putting in a 530w, 330, kx155, and got all the instruments rearranged into a standard layout. It's nice, I can't wait to see it.

Nice!

Will it only work as instruments, radio, and GPS or will you have things like TIS, ADS-B, datalink, ect.. ?
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