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What did you do with your RV this weekend? (9-10 April, 2002)
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PilotjohnS
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Ed_Wischmeyer
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A young friend is doing bookwork in preparation for initial CFI. We went up in the RV-9A so that he could practice evaluating and doing CFI kinds of things.
This was also a chance for me to practice things I hadn't done in years, and without embarrassing myself. Did the first part, anyway...
Steep turns at 45° and 60° gave hints that I once knew what I was doing. Slow flight went well with the stall warning just starting to beep, but I could have gone slower.
With the Master's golf tourney in Augusta, there were a bunch of jets on the ramp at Savannah. Add in Sun 'n' Fun down south, and they announced on the ATIS that they were not doing practice approaches. No problem! When we were done with the air work, I told approach I wanted Rwy 28 via WORIB and TELOE. In other words, I was going to fly the GPS 28 approach but not call it that and not ask for the approach. Approved as requested!
We were putting along at 110 knots when approach asked for maximum forward speed. I didn't go full speed as that would have put us into the yellow arc, but I did give him 150 knots, which he appreciated. Things were a little hectic and I didn't do the decelerating approach as gracefully as it would have been on autopilot. I need to practice hand-flown IFR, also.
Afterwards, we reviewed FARs (his CFI course is studying those now). For the last few biennial sessions, the Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic has not included a module on the FARs (why?), so it's easy for FAR changes to sneak up on you.
Want something to do you in your RV? Go see if you can do those maneuvers you needed to get your license...
This was also a chance for me to practice things I hadn't done in years, and without embarrassing myself. Did the first part, anyway...
Steep turns at 45° and 60° gave hints that I once knew what I was doing. Slow flight went well with the stall warning just starting to beep, but I could have gone slower.
With the Master's golf tourney in Augusta, there were a bunch of jets on the ramp at Savannah. Add in Sun 'n' Fun down south, and they announced on the ATIS that they were not doing practice approaches. No problem! When we were done with the air work, I told approach I wanted Rwy 28 via WORIB and TELOE. In other words, I was going to fly the GPS 28 approach but not call it that and not ask for the approach. Approved as requested!
We were putting along at 110 knots when approach asked for maximum forward speed. I didn't go full speed as that would have put us into the yellow arc, but I did give him 150 knots, which he appreciated. Things were a little hectic and I didn't do the decelerating approach as gracefully as it would have been on autopilot. I need to practice hand-flown IFR, also.
Afterwards, we reviewed FARs (his CFI course is studying those now). For the last few biennial sessions, the Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic has not included a module on the FARs (why?), so it's easy for FAR changes to sneak up on you.
Want something to do you in your RV? Go see if you can do those maneuvers you needed to get your license...
Dan Langhout
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Pilots N Paws
Coco was trying to get to Chicago. I picked him up in Corinth, MS (KCRX) and flew him to the Shelby County, IL airport (2H0) about 100 Nm south of Chicago to meet the second leg pilot.
CoCo was the friendliest and sweetest dog you could imagine - and he was great on the flight. But from the expression on his face, I'm not sure he really enjoyed the flight much!
Coco was trying to get to Chicago. I picked him up in Corinth, MS (KCRX) and flew him to the Shelby County, IL airport (2H0) about 100 Nm south of Chicago to meet the second leg pilot.
CoCo was the friendliest and sweetest dog you could imagine - and he was great on the flight. But from the expression on his face, I'm not sure he really enjoyed the flight much!
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goatflieg
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Pondered Completion
Saturday was rainy, so I fussed over a few minor items, then just sat with the plane for a couple hours, looking it over. I was finally really sinking in that I had a flyable airplane now.
Sunday was sunny and finally starting to warm up a bit, so the hangar was opened. Even though it was a complete waste of time to do so, I put the wheel fairings back on the plane. They'll come back off for first flight and engine break-in and like the wing tips, they still need paint. But I wanted to get some photos of it completely assembled. She got her first bath, washing off the accumulated hangar dust, then posed for some glamour shots.
One more week of waiting, for weather and recurrency training. Then the fun begins.
Saturday was rainy, so I fussed over a few minor items, then just sat with the plane for a couple hours, looking it over. I was finally really sinking in that I had a flyable airplane now.
Sunday was sunny and finally starting to warm up a bit, so the hangar was opened. Even though it was a complete waste of time to do so, I put the wheel fairings back on the plane. They'll come back off for first flight and engine break-in and like the wing tips, they still need paint. But I wanted to get some photos of it completely assembled. She got her first bath, washing off the accumulated hangar dust, then posed for some glamour shots.
One more week of waiting, for weather and recurrency training. Then the fun begins.
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jselvatici
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wjb
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Congrats! We saw you at about 3 TTSN down in Hollister .. happy to see you're now in Phase II.
