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Just be glad you own it. Never had a taxi that long, but 45 min taxi at SnF in a rented aircraft hurts.... We joked a few times about shutting down and taking turns using the tow bar to pull it along.
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This is the reason I won't accept 9/27 for a homebuilt.
Fantastic show this year. Sunday afternoon obviously more attendees prowling the grounds. With HBC expanded it was a bit deceiving with plenty of grass still vacant, but riding Friar Tuck's bus showed the North 40 in all its filled in glory. Thanks to Jerry and the volunteers. My wife appreciated the reserved handicapped parking in recognition of the hitch in her git-along. The lady next to us was on crutches! John Siebold |
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After that, the only airplane I saw leaving the runway to the South was the Fairchild FC (the big radial engine antique that parked in the Federal building) which groundlooped off the runway to the South (right towards me for a second) and caused me to crease my folding chair's seat. And I'm pretty sure I can top the 1.5 hour taxi story. I taxied for a lifetime the day the Breezy had the fatality on 36 a few years ago. |
It is got to be frustrating when you made it All the way in and landed and within sight of parking only to not be able to get across a runway. My long taxi have always been for takeoff. Been fortunate always on 9/27 to have left into grass on arrival. They need to deconflict landing and taking off traffic on 27. Maybe taking landing traffic up to taxiway F around to E and the cross to J if that is possible.
Last year on leaving I was in line for 40 min waiting in line to take off on 27. No progress as runway was temp closed for some reason. Finally A nice guy on a scooter came over and directed most of use to go to 36. Waited there for another 30-40 minutes as a bunch of warbirds had been directed down that way just a few minutes before we were. Plus all arrivals were coming on 36 as well. A few years ago they had us all shut down for 30-40 minutes as they had a corsair coming in with only 2 green gear lights. |
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I was next to the lady on crutches, the yellow/blue 7. I chuckled when I first parked next to the handicapped sign, but when I saw her on crutches, it was validated. I enjoyed talking to your wife about Idaho. My wife & I will be spending the summer there next year. |
Oshkosh taxiing
"Always a party pooper... ha! This still might hold as an RV record!"
Alex you are more than welcome to keep that record......;-) Rick |
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Follow up to the long taxi...
Imagine my surprise when I took the cowl off for an oil change and found this on my backup (only purpose is to run the second ignition) battery:
It seems almost certain that this happened during the 1.5 hours of ground ops in 80 degree OAT at Oshkosh. The battery is a Panasonic glass mat model UP-RW1220P1. Voltage is at about 12.75, so it is still basically functioning. I won't bother with a capacity check on it. The Odyssee PC680 main battery is free from any visible distortion. Both are mounted on the forward side of the firewall. The PC 680 is low on the right, the heat damaged one is on the left, just below the upper motor mount attachment point. It would be interesting to know what polymer this battery's shell is made from. Obviously, I'll replace the battery. I'm also going to put a small thermocouple on it, and attach it to it with something slightly insulating. I'll simply connect it to my Fluke handheld inside the cabin. I want to understand what sorts of temperatures it normally sees. I might modify the hold down cover for it to be blast-tube able. While I'm at it, I'll put one also on the main battery, as well as in a few other areas at or near the exit. |
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