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Ben-PA

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 44
Location: Berwick, Pa

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: Night flight

Who flies conventional gear at night? I need some pointers.

Thanks!

Ben

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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: Night flight

I do .  This should have been taught to you in flight school . If not then 

you did not have a very good instructor . Of course this is only my opinion 

and no one twisted my arm to make me say this .

The way  take off is ,look down the side of the cowling and keep the runway 

lights parallel to you until tail lifts then can see where I / YOU are going 

no problem . I have very good landing lights . landing is done with mains 

touching first straight down runway watch left edge of runway lights while 

pulling slowly back on stick till tail touches at around 20 mph . The plane 

then slows to a crawl and I taxi in watching ahead and doing slight s turns 

to make shure nothing is in my path of travel .



Fly safe fly low fly slow



John Perry

Kitfox 2 N718PD

582/ subbie soon

TD/ Straight floats

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Ben-PA

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Location: Berwick, Pa

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Night flight

Thanks John, I'm in flight school. I have about 15 solo hours in my Model 5 and would be doing x-c if it wasn't for the morning fog. I think I scared my instructer when I told him the runway lights were too far apart to use for reference when landing! Seems he is having second thoughts.



That makes sense to do wheel landings for the visual reference. Thanks for the advice!

Ben

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eskflyer(at)lvcisp.com
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: Night flight

LMAO.  OK I now understand . hmmmmmm If your instructor is scared he is a 

smart instructor lol . Jk . Hopefully he will give alot of night time flying 

most instructors i have met now days do very little instruction at night for 

the reason alot of mishaps happen but i you learn to land in the daytime 

with a TD doing wheel  landings and full stall three pointers then you 

should not have  much of a problem . Keep on the rudder and do not get 

complacent . I have not found another plane as fun as the Kitfox yet .  On 

my plane i have the original bungee gear and not had any problems . She has 

almost 600 hours on her .

I  love it keep up the good work you will get your ticket soon.



Fly safe fly low fly slow  FLY FUN FLY KITFOX

John Perry

Kitfox 2 N718PD

582/subbie soon

TD/ Straight Floats

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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: Re: Night flight

You need to make sure your instructor gives you adequate night flying.  I had my ticket for 4 months before I ever got in my first night flight due to the long days of summer here.  I could not find an instructor that would go fly with me at 2:00 AM for a marginal 30 minutes of dusk....



Even though my ticket stated that night flight was prohibited, I found myself trying to get home from one heck of an adventure that we like to call hunting trips... night flight in close mountain passage with a first time ever night landing... not what I would ever recommend to anyone else but by divine intervention I am still walking... by all rights I should have become one with the mountains that night.  It was a lesson I will never forget.



I started night flying with an instructor the very next day and picked up a few things I had not learned the previous evening.  Like how to keep the plane going straight down the runway once the tail settles.  John gave you good advice on that.  Good luck with the instruction, you will be ready for that check ride before you know it.

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