Guest nunans Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 After twenty months and 41hrs all in a j160 i finally got my PC with Passenger endorsement today, Now i need 2 stroke, and low performance ticked off so I can get me a "real" ultralight and have some fun... :)
Guest Des Funslow Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Well done nun, it does take a while to obtain but now you can really move about the Country. Des
Guest nunans Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Well done nun, it does take a while to obtain but now you can really move about the Country.Des Yeah des, sometimes for me it's two steps forwards and three steps back but this is only the very beginning and I imagine i'll learn alot more when i get an a/c and start flying it around the countryside on my time and not the flying schools... Scott
Guest davidh10 Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Geat news Nunans. You can probably complete your X endo in your own aircraft too. Helps keep the out of pocket expenses down, if you ignore the capital cost. I was able to get my PAX and complete my X in my own craft in between just gaining hours and experience flying around the local area :-)
.Evan. Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Congratulations Scott! :thumb_up: I'm looking forward to my Pax endorsement! 3.5 hours to go!!! Who has agreed to be your first passenger?
Piet Fil Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Well Done Scott, I can only imagine what that feeling is like, its in my future somewhere and it happens when it happens. Congrats Phil
Guest nunans Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 Congratulations Scott! :thumb_up:I'm looking forward to my Pax endorsement! 3.5 hours to go!!! Who has agreed to be your first passenger? 3.5hrs isn't much evan you'll be there in no time, I made sure i had the 10hrs up when i went for my test flight so i could get both PC and Pax at the same time. I think it'll be hard to find a willing passenger and I can understand that, even in something as civilised as a jab. Often us recreational flying types forget that the general public think we're mad for even going up in a plane that has only one engine!! The funniest misconseption i've noticed is that many non flyers think that the only safe "ultralights" are trikes because at least with those if the motor stops you can glide down and land (you know being based on a hang glider and all)..... I'm not sure what they think happens to every other type of aircraft? Has anyone else heard similar tales? Well Done Scott,I can only imagine what that feeling is like, its in my future somewhere and it happens when it happens. Congrats Phil It sure can feel like it's taking forever and the minimum 20hr thing makes everyone else feel like a failure, I really think to get there in 20 hrs you'd either have to be a child prodogy or have some other background experience flying another type, Hows your training going and where are you up to with it?
.Evan. Posted May 17, 2011 Posted May 17, 2011 3.5hrs isn't much evan you'll be there in no time, I made sure i had the 10hrs up when i went for my test flight so i could get both PC and Pax at the same time. That sounds like a smart move - knock it all over in one go! I have a list as long as my arm of people wanting to go flying... However, I've given the first option to my Wife. She's moderately ok with it (I think!). When I finally get my endorsement, it will be interesting to see who ACTUALLY comes flying with me! I suspect the list will dwindle when they realise I can't fly them over to King Island for 'crays and cheese - until the cross country comes through... I think it'll be hard to find a willing passenger and I can understand that, even in something as civilised as a jab. Often us recreational flying types forget that the general public think we're mad for even going up in a plane that has only one engine!! The funniest misconseption i've noticed is that many non flyers think that the only safe "ultralights" are trikes because at least with those if the motor stops you can glide down and land (you know being based on a hang glider and all)..... I'm not sure what they think happens to every other type of aircraft? Has anyone else heard similar tales? I have a woman that I work with that has (quote) "a distrust of fixed-wing aircraft, and would much prefer to be in a rotary any day". To me that's really unusual, because most people can't even conceive a auto-rotation landing - they think that a helicopter simply falls out of the sky!
Guest nunans Posted May 18, 2011 Posted May 18, 2011 That's crazy, I've crashed a few good size model helis and when the rotor hits the ground the fuse starts spinning doing what us radio control people call the "funky chicken" in the end the tail tube smashes off the fuse smashes, eventually the the whole thing jams up and the clutch burns out leaving the engine revving at about 25000 rpm and no way to shut it down. I'd much rather be in a fixed wing crash. I watched a vid last night of a turbine powered single place heli flying (mosquito) and a crash in that with the ivery possible engine fire would be devestating....
Piet Fil Posted May 18, 2011 Posted May 18, 2011 Nunans, I'm at the 15hr mark and just gone solo, enjoying the bag out of the learning process, every flights a joy. Just wish I had more money and less work but then I'd still have to balance family and flying. Ahhh lifes good.
.Evan. Posted May 18, 2011 Posted May 18, 2011 That's why I've only flown RC aircraft on the simulator! Check out this guy in a Mosquito. A very good example of an auto-rotation landing (or at least I think it is!).
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