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Topic: My instructor/Grumman early adopter gets the W. B. MPA toda |
Doug Doty
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:59 pm Subject: My instructor/Grumman early adopter gets the W. B. MPA toda |
Ralph Rodgers, Wright Brothers master pilot Award today...........
To be completely accurate after hearing in the presentation he had 5600 military and 24200 civilian pic hours to date and the l ... |
Topic: My instructor/Grumman early adopter gets the W. B. MPA today |
Doug Doty
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Views: 1252
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:25 am Subject: My instructor/Grumman early adopter gets the W. B. MPA today |
Going out to the airport today to be with my instructor, he is receiving, from the FAA, the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of safe piloting. He was in the Air Force from the mid 50 th ... |
Topic: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
Doug Doty
Replies: 7
Views: 3666
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:58 pm Subject: Re: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
That was some great additional help, thanks, I am back in town the rest of the week and it is raining kittys and puppies here so I'll go out and work on it tomorrow eve. I will use your advice to dig ... |
Topic: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
Doug Doty
Replies: 7
Views: 3666
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:49 pm Subject: Re: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
Gary,
I have put a lot of pressure on it and when it started creeking and sounding scary I quit, but I would be willing to guess that 1/3 to 1/4 of the offset appeared to be gone after doing this ... |
Topic: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
Doug Doty
Replies: 7
Views: 3666
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:30 pm Subject: Re: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
No they are off by the .8 degrees I mentioned as checked with a digital level. |
Topic: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
Doug Doty
Replies: 7
Views: 3666
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:00 pm Subject: Split elevator on my plane, with Picture. |
I wanted to start a different thread as I realized this was hijacking the flying with a level thread that is so interesting in itself. Sorry !!!
Any way I got the tail cone off this evening and loo ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:22 am Subject: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Thanks Gary I will be looking at it this afternoon
Doug Doty
On Nov 27, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Gary L Vogt <teamgrumman@yahoo.com> wrote:
The bolts on the elevator are crowded out. ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:25 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Flew today and the weather is going to be lousey for a few days starting at this very moment as I hear the rain on the skylites, so I will pull the tail cone tomorrow morning and get into it, it needs ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:22 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Back to airplanes, On my tiger during preflight today I was looking a lot harder at a few thing than normal as a result of this and the other threads and I found that if I aligned the left elevator t ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:06 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Started with big block Camaro's in the middle 80's then into the 5.0 craze in the middle 90's and back to big Chevys in Camaro's in the 05' and out and done in 08' Here is a couple of pic's of the las ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:40 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: Flying with a level |
I am always looking for some place to go so maybe I'll swing over that way and compare notes some day, I am going to Florida to get warm soon and Louisiana to visit a son healing from an Afghanistan ... |
Topic: Fwd: Flying with a level |
Doug Doty
Replies: 16
Views: 11506
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:25 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: Flying with a level |
You are right about Lurkers. I drag raced for 25 years and crave speed and efficiency, so don't think I am not enjoying the exchange of information, I am dying to pick up a little extra MPH and smoke ... |
Topic: It was fun while it lasted. FAA to charge for "free" charts |
Doug Doty
Replies: 3
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:55 am Subject: Re: It was fun while it lasted. FAA to charge for |
As I read, the biggest impact is actually on the folks like Foreflight, WingXand likely Adventure Pilot's IFLY 700 as they actually have no cost in the raw data they are gathering and repackaging for ... |
Topic: It was fun while it lasted. FAA to charge for "free" charts |
Doug Doty
Replies: 1
Views: 1160
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:35 pm Subject: Re: It was fun while it lasted. FAA to charge for |
On 11/16/2011 03:51 PM, Wes Chapman wrote:
Here we go.....
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/FAA_To_Charge_For_Online_Charts_205722-1.html
Whitehouse petition addressing this:
h ... |
Topic: Fwd: Panel Overlay |
Doug Doty
Replies: 4
Views: 1930
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:50 pm Subject: Fwd: Panel Overlay |
I could see his GPS in the top left of the dash picture you put on the web site the other day of a plane with you overlay
Doug
Doug Doty
On Nov 15, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Gary Vogt <teamg ... |
Topic: Fwd: Panel Overlay |
Doug Doty
Replies: 4
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:57 pm Subject: Fwd: Panel Overlay |
Gary, do you have a pic of how his garmin aera was mounted on the left side of the canopy. Dash lookes great, It's on my list.
Thanks,
Doug...
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, G ... |
Topic: Curious about how full to fill oil |
Doug Doty
Replies: 14
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 6:42 pm Subject: Re: Curious about how full to fill oil |
I left out for a trip Friday and it still had about 6.4 or so after the last oil change and I ran it at 2550 both ways about 6 hours and re-checked it this morning after cooling overnight and it was 6 ... |
Topic: Which plugs for our planes these days |
Doug Doty
Replies: 15
Views: 7964
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:41 pm Subject: Re: Which plugs for our planes these days |
Wow !!! That is great... "mags cover their asses" I'll change to that for remembering.
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I found the below text in a FAQ section on another site and believe it was originally pub ... |
Topic: Which plugs for our planes these days |
Doug Doty
Replies: 15
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:23 pm Subject: Re: Which plugs for our planes these days |
Found it, left mag. fires the lower left spark plugs of cylinders 2 and 4 and the top spark plugs of the right side cylinders of 1 and 3 The right mag. .....I guess that is obvious now.
I use assoc ... |
Topic: Which plugs for our planes these days |
Doug Doty
Replies: 15
Views: 7964
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Forum: TeamGrumman-List Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:15 pm Subject: Re: Which plugs for our planes these days |
After cleaning up my REM40E's I found 4 fairly nice condition and 4 older so I actually ordered 4 of the 38BY's and will put them in the bottom for now to see how things go and then change the tops at ... |
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