Lynn Matteson
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: Kitfox passenger report...2nd hand |
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I took my second passenger up today since I got my Sport Pilot Cert.,
and he was thrilled by the visibility, especially out the doors and the
skylight, the responsiveness, and the "just plain fun" of flying the
Kitfox IV. He said you almost don't have to do clearing turns...just
clearing banks!
He is a Cessna 172 straight-tail driver, of the 1956 (50-year anniv.
plane) vintage, and has the hangar next to mine. After all the hours
that I've put in my plane since I soloed...about 110...it was strange
to relinquish the controls to someone else...I felt like I should be
doing something. At one point I told him he hadn't even touched the
throttle yet, and he said "I don't need to."
As he is a nose-wheel operator, I landed the plane and he was amazed by
how close it seemed we were to the row of trees we have to drop over to
get into our strip, and what the visual picture is upon touching down.
My first passenger (last week) was my former radio-control flight
instructor, and he was brave enough to climb aboard even after he had
witnessed the carnage I used to be able to inflict on a balsa
model...mine, not his. I used to tell him, "I know I could do this if
only I could get into the damn thing" Now he knows that I can...(knock
on wood) : )
Lynn
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