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  1. Sapphire
    Those 4 by 5 inch transparancies would have more resolution than any electronic camera on the market. Where are all those girls today wanting to work on a/c. Fly all day and have the wife maintain your a/c at night.
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    Old age
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    You wouldn't want to do that with an a/c used in "mile high club" operations. Besides lipstick, toys, etc you would have used condoms splashing against your canopy.
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    A round wire or tube has ten times the drag than if it is shaped similar to an aerofoil. Or, a thin wire say quarter inch dia. has the same drag as an aerofoil shape with a cross section two and a half inches. All those insignificant looking thin wires on a wire braced a/c are real big drag. Think again when an exhaust pipe sticks way out.
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    You had to do the priming exactly according to temp. If you flooded it you needed a long time to start. Biggest worry if the throttle cable snapped or disengaged and you had a high speed throttle setting but the lever was on idle. ratchet said: started to roll toward the hole in floor where joystick joins the control links Lost into plane coins, pens, hair pins, tools all move around during aeorbatics. Do them high and have a chute.
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    Like that late for his flight golfer who tried to get the attention of the pilot taxiing and ran into the prop. My scariest was hand proping my Varieze first time. It had been shipped over from the States, fuel from the main tank drained, and I had it pushed nose first against the hanger. I put the fuel selector to off, throttle to idle, mixture off, no throttle priming, but mags on and thought I would practice hand propping and maybe if I was lucky, get a pop out of it. Very very slowly turned the prop and the impulse magnito clicked. The engine roared into life for 3 or 4 seconds infront of my face-unbelievable. Didn't need a shave that day. It sat for more than a month in a shipping container and longer before and after. Even if your engine is completely disassembled, never trust the prop when turning it over.
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    I heard it tends to be relatively unreliable when it was compared to a Rotax
  8. Sapphire
    Depends what you do in them.
  9. Sapphire
    #4 sounds pretty realistic and who follows the rules all the time?
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    Both have their advantages. If you want to see where you are going, have track destination up. If you want to nominate position of places around you, put north up. When flying the Varieze on a bit of a hazy day, a small town on track would disappear under the nose before I was close enough to see it. So it didn't matter which way I held the map.
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    Navigating north up is how birds and bats must do it. They don't have a rolling map but use magnetic lines. That is changing as in parts of the world north and south have reversed. I think every 100,000 years poles reverse, so keep an eye on your compass.
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    Now we have to apply all that to flying.
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    I have the one I bought around 1979 and it has written "Kane Dead Reckoning Computer" Though I wish they did not use the word "dead" My first navigational training had this contraption and maps laid out on my lap in the cockpit working out time and distance and eta. using a wac scale and a lot of mental computing. After that nonsense I taught myself how to navigate and all you need is the map infront of you and some simple caculating using 10 minute markers.
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    :wtf:Lost limbs, partial paralysis, burned in plane crash? And that's before they even get to the South Pole.
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    Next they will have one you can put in your back pocket.
  16. Sapphire
    That would have been taken in the 1960's and dead reconing was the cheapest way to navigate.
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    Next statistics you may have to change back.
  18. Sapphire
    What sort of of carby is on your 503 that has carby heat?
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    Someone described to me a short field landing technique where you decent the a\c at stall angle with sufficient power to keep it there. With all that drag you would be using a fair bit of power and generating a flow of air over the wing at that stall angle. At correct height you gun full power to arrest your rate of decent and land heavily, but not enough to collapse the u/c. Good for getting into places only a helecopter can go. Havn't tried it, but probably will one day-practice the decend bit high up and see if you can always keep the wing level. I think once a wing drops near the ground the game is up.
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    Of course if you have fixed u/c you are going to flip over nose first. Wonder if you kick in full rudder just before entering the water, you will sideslip in and your wing will have enough boyancy to keep a/c upright. If anyone want to try it, tell us how it went.
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    I was told on several occasions to do illegal and unsafe things and got reported when I didn't. Even flying privately got pushed around at a fly-in with minor damage to my a/c. If I never find my next a/c I am quite happy to just go sailing.
  22. Sapphire
    DK said: so incredibly aggressive and so lacking skill & experience That's the way I like them:naughty:
  23. Sapphire
    Popcorn sales should increase.
  24. Sapphire
    Commercial pilots have no choice but to go. When I flew commercially I wasn't a pilot, I was a stuntman on low wages.
  25. Sapphire
    Decide what you want to gamble your life on. Fly over tiger country in a fast plane and you will gamble your life that your single engine will keep running. Not maintain your fuel system and gamble you won't be creamated next to it. Of course a lot of pilots find that thinking distasteful and so go flying without thinking.
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