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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: Gonna be DEAD |
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Bob, Richard, Beaufort, Jim and the rest,
Please be kind with your advice to James. He won't be around long. He
doesn't get the message very easily. He seems to think, and I quote "
Also have spent some time talkin with this fellah. I guess you'd call it
ground trainin." passes for ground school. It is clear, unless he changes
his present approach to flying, HE WILL DIE.
Taking flying lessons is cost prohibitive, he says. I mean, after all,
crow hopping is EXACXTLY the same as flying at 1000' agl, isn't it? I'm
sure he has read a book that told him what to do, so there just isn't ANY
justification for spending "too much money" on proper flight training.
Right??!
The reason I even commented to you, James, was I DID what you suggested
(crow hopping to teach myself to fly). I figured 35 hours of formal flight
training in a Cessna, a few years earlier SHOULD be good enough. Shouldn't
it!!?? NO!!!! I damned near died when I stalled it and nosed in the dirt.
That hurt like a son of a bitch!!! I took out a reinforced downtube
with my NECK!!
Gentle persuation didn't get through to you, James, so please allow me to
say this: Get proper training or you WILL kill yourself. I'm damn
lucky MY STUPIDITY allowed me a second chance. I learned my lesson. I do
not take flying (or my life) so lightly anymore. Now, I take lessons BEFORE
I actually do something. When I finish building my Kolb MkIII you can
guarantee I'll search out someone to give me lessons, prior to me "lifting
off."
Mike in SW Utah
PS Life Insurance does NOT cover death due a private aircraft accident.
(Only Commercial Airlines).
Special "riders" have to be purchased to get that coverage, and they won't
do it for cheap!!!
DO NOT ARCHIVE
| Quote: | From: Bob Noyer <a58r(at)verizon.net>
Reply-To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com
To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: Gonna be
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:59:13 -0400
In the hope that by just mentioning this, it wont be tried. I'm not in
favor of the old self-teaching method of "crow-hopping." I say this
because it frequently comes up. The sometimes fatal outcome of
crow-hopping comes when the learner, doing a little fast taxiing, gets
light on the tires, then a foot up, and a sudden gust or movement of the
stick, and wheeee, yer up 50 ft and don't really know how to get down.
Panic closes the throttle, pulls the nose up, and it's Lawn Dart City.
And, No, I haven't done it!
regards,
Bob N. FireFly 070 Old Kolb
http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/
do not archive
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