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cristalclear13

Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Posts: 363
Location: Southeast Georgia

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: sweltering summer

I don't understand this crazy weather.  We have been having incredible heat and humidity for two weeks straight now.  It usually doesn't start this stuff until July or August and even then the heat index doesn't usually stay in the hundreds this long.  Ugh!



I couldn't wait any longer to fly though.  If the heat isn't going to leave then I just have to fly in the heat.  The good thing about flying is the higher you go the cooler you get.  Even at 1000 feet this evening it was a nice break from the heat.  The air was pretty smooth around 7:30pm.  Heat index was over 100 and the density altitude was 2500.  It was a nice flight.



I headed southeast from the airport and flew over my house and then over the shooting range where my husband and son were having fun with their guns (didn't get too close though) .  There were very few clouds.  Then I headed back and after I landed I looked back toward the southeast and saw the big cloud (in the attached picture).  It wasn't as close as it looks, but funny how those things can sneak up behind you.  The coast was probably getting a big thunderstorm.  I stopped at the store and on the drive home got to see an amazing lightning show.



I really enjoyed the flight.  I love my Kolb!

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Kolb Mark II Twinstar Rotax 503 DCSI Sept 2007 - sold Sept 2012
Private Pilot Aug 2008
ELSA Repairman for N193Y April 2008
Rotax 2 stroke maintenance April 2009

cristalclear13

Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Posts: 363
Location: Southeast Georgia

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:39 am Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

Did I hear right that some people in New York got snow yesterday?  Can you send some of that cool weather down here to South Georgia please?  I've got some minor work to do on my Kolb but it's too HOT.



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Kolb Mark II Twinstar Rotax 503 DCSI Sept 2007 - sold Sept 2012
Private Pilot Aug 2008
ELSA Repairman for N193Y April 2008
Rotax 2 stroke maintenance April 2009

slyck(at)frontiernet.net
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:10 am Post subject: sweltering summer

No snow here.  Mid-70s yesterday and dry clear air.  I went canoeing.

The Kolb is near perfect now with the exception of having it quit at  

idle (after touchdown) two evenings ago.

Erratic idle too.  Pulled the carb off last night and it looks like a  

break in the base flange gasket was letting

air leak in.  I'll open it up and take a look anyway.  -always  

something.

BB

Scottsville, NY

On 17, Jun 2009, at 9:39 AM, cristalclear13 wrote:



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 Did I hear right that some people in New York got snow yesterday?   

 Can you send some of that cool weather down here to South Georgia  

 please?



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aoldman(at)xtra.co.nz
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject: sweltering summer

Good here yesterday ,started at 30F and went to 44F, No wind ,no cloud, a 

great day to fly. Work sucks even in winter



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lucien

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 721
Location: santa fe, NM

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

 	  aoldman(at)xtra.co.nz wrote: 	
		  Good here yesterday ,started at 30F and went to 44F, No wind ,no cloud, a 

great day to fly. Work sucks even in winter



Downunder

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The monsoon season is almost upon us here. Even with that and the stronger winds and convective activity, I don't miss that heat down on the gulf coast where I lived the last 30 years.



Only other bummer is the density altitude. Back when I had my FSII, my max climb rate was only about 400fpm in 10F temperatures. On a summer morning or evening, 300 was about all I could do. That was with the 503 3.47:1 C box cranking that big ol warp drive taper tip too......



LS

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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

They sneak up on you, and also have a way of building rapidly from nothing when they have friends in the area.   I have been chased back to the field a couple times to land in a bunch of wind and turbulence as one built from nothing one evening.



1000 feet, did you take your oxygen with you crystal    I think I go that high in the pattern just to stay legal, but I never stay that high long enough to get cool or hypoxia !   My Kolb is really happy flying around 10 feet over the middle of nowhere like John W. used to do in his videos.  Glad to hear you having a good time, thats what its all about.



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cristalclear13

Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Posts: 363
Location: Southeast Georgia

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

 	  JetPilot wrote: 	
		  

1000 feet, did you take your oxygen with you crystal    I think I go that high in the pattern just to stay legal, but I never stay that high long enough to get cool or hypoxia !   My Kolb is really happy flying around 10 feet over the middle of nowhere like John W. used to do in his videos.  Glad to hear you having a good time, thats what its all about.



Mike 	




Our "middle of nowheres" are nothing but pine trees and swamp.  I prefer to stay high to be able to get to some landing point if need be.  Besides, I love heights.  I love to get on a high mountain (of which we have none for hundreds of miles) and look out across the valley to the towns and countryside below.  Flying gives me that same pleasure.  I've always loved and collected miniature things and the earth looks so miniature from 1000+ feet.  I love it when the trains (of which we have tons here in Waycross) are moving around while I'm up flying.  It makes the earth look like a miniature train set.  The cows and horses appear so small you almost can't tell them apart.  Coming in for a landing today I saw some baby goats jumping around in a field.  So cute.



I went to the airport early and went up for a bit but it was already getting pretty bumpy and it was oh so hot and humid.  Had a small piece of metal on the corner of my windscreen/door break.  It is too hot to work on it.  After having some cake and ice cream with some pilots at the airport, I left and noticed the temperature at Walgreens said 100.  My car confirmed it (see pic).  Feels worse than that with the humidity.  Maybe it's just getting us ready for summer so that 90-95 won't feel so bad.



Wish I had 2000 dollars to buy one of those big outdoor air conditioning units they sell at Tractor Supply.  I'd put one in my hanger and work on the little squawks that are beginning to annoy me.

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Rotax 2 stroke maintenance April 2009

lucien

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 721
Location: santa fe, NM

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

[quote="cristalclear13"] 	  JetPilot wrote: 	
		  



Our "middle of nowheres" are nothing but pine trees and swamp.  I prefer to stay high to be able to get to some landing point if need be.  Besides, I love heights.  I love to get on a high mountain (of which we have none for hundreds of miles) and look out across the valley to the towns and countryside below.  Flying gives me that same pleasure.  	




Ah, so nice to hear of another pilot that prefers the "up" experience to the "over there" one .



Most of my flying miles are vertical and few are horizontal. Flying for me is like a science fiction transporter, with this little machine literally taking me to another world.  The higher up I go, the further into that other existence I go. 



I've lost count of the routine trips to someplace X I've cancelled in favor of loitering as high up as I could go because the cloud formations were particularly good at my takeoff point. My routine mission nowadays is at least 2000' AGL. The only reason I don't go higher at the moment is the 10,000' MSL limit (barely 3000' AGL around here).



Never got much of a charge out of long grinding xcountries, or low flight over the ground. Seems I always just use the pickup for that experience. Can't explain it.



The plane, tho, is for taking me up up and up....



LS

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: sweltering summer

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		   Never got much of a charge out of long grinding xcountries, or low flight 

 over the ground. Seems I always just use the pickup for that experience. 

 Can't explain it.



 The plane, tho, is for taking me up up and up....



 LS


	


Maybe you don't know how to enjoy a good, long cross country flight.



Did you know you can fly high, low, or any where in between, in a Kolb?



Did you know there are some beautiful cloud formations encountered on almost 

every long cross country flight?



Did you know you can encounter some of the most beautiful early mornings 

flying over the mountains of Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, 

when the ground fog is in the valleys, the air is crisp and clear without a 

single bump in it anywhere?



Do you know of the excitement of flying nap of the earth for miles and miles 

of desert, watching antelop, coyote, mustangs, jack rabbits, in their 

element?



Have you discovered a herd of elk in a meadow above 10,000 feet where the 

snow is still in the shadows, and the valley is 100F?



Do you know the challenge of making decisions to get yourself across the 

Rockies when the weather is not the best it could be?



Have you shared the above, with your flying friends, after a long day of 

flying, sitting around the airplanes and tents, waiting to go to bed, get up 

and do it again tomorrow?



There's a lot more to flying cross country in a Kolb aircraft than grinding 

out the miles.  My questions, above, only scratch the surface.



Last month I, and a lot of my buddies, experienced all the above and much, 

much more.  Some of us do it every year, at least.



Sorry you get tired of hearing of cross country flying.  If you hang around 

the Kolb List you are prone to hear a lot more of it.



john h

mkIII

Woodville, Florida, without my Kolb.

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lucien

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
Posts: 721
Location: santa fe, NM

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: sweltering summer

 	  John Hauck wrote: 	
		  

Maybe you don't know how to enjoy a good, long cross country flight.

	




No, just don't enjoy it a great deal. I've done a lot of it, mostly back in my GA days, just doesn't float my boat. Done it since then, a couple trips in my FSII and a hefty one in the titan. Still doesn't. Couldn't tell you why.

I don't hate em, I just don't live for em...



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Sorry you get tired of hearing of cross country flying.  If you hang around 

the Kolb List you are prone to hear a lot more of it.



john h

mkIII

Woodville, Florida, without my Kolb. 	




Who said I'm tired of hearing about xcountry flying? Just said I liked hearing from others who also like the same experience I do.

Just because I'm an "up" man, doesn't mean all you "over there" guys are doing it wrong (or vice versa). I love to hear about em, keep em coming!



Oh, PS: I hate computers and have no desire to get any better at them. I fight the &&&& things all day at work and only want to watch TV or browse the web with mine once I get home. If it catches fire or quits, I won't shed a tear 



LS

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