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DaveG601XL
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Location: Cincinnati, Oh
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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: First Flight Currency |
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Dan Dempesy,
On your question of maintaining currency in flying during the project build, here is my tale. When I stared building my 601XL in 2006, I had not been current for 21 years. I had gone flying with people over the past two decades, but not as PIC. About halfway through my build I decided that I had to get off the dime. I got my biannual and a taildragger endorsement wrapped into one over the summer of 2007. I did this at a local grass strip in a Champ and a Cub. I had no real time in low wings so a fretted about deciding which local school had the most appropriate trainer between a Cherokee, a Tomahawk and a Katana. In the end, I did not go to any of these. When I was planning on going to Sun-N-Fun this spring, I found that CAMS Flight in Clearwater had an S-LSA 601XL. I got on their schedule and flew a checkride on the Thursday of SNF. The straightforward flight characteristics of this airplane convinced me that I was ready to fly my own creation with out further time in another low wing. Chris Heintz’s designs are honest like that. I just kept flying the Champ because it was so much cheaper than the other schools and more of a challenge to land anyway. Now somebody can flame me for not doing 20 touch and go’s in a like model at the same airfield the day before with all sorts of emergency scenarios, but I did not. I did go over them in my mind, though. On July 24, 2008 I flew my new creation and the flight went well. I hope your does also.
Good question Dan, it would be interesting to hear how others prepared too.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: First Flight Currency |
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Dan, Here is my story. Yours will be different.
I got my private license Dec. of 1951 at age 16. I continued to fly (30
hours) until 1959 when I got married.
Feb. 1959 to Aug 1998 zero hours (raising a family etc.).
Aug. 1998, when I decided to by a kit, I got one hour of dual in a
Cessna 152. After the hour I decided "It is just like riding a bicycle."
I got my kit in Dec. 1998. and finished construction in April 2004. I
started taxi tests and slowly increased speed until I was "short
hopping." This phase lasted about two hours while I conquered heating
problems.
I found the plane so straight forward, stable, no surprises and such
a pure joy to fly (at 5 ft.) that I decided to test fly it myself.
This is where many may disagree. In my case, I was very confident, not
concerned nor nervous. I enlisted the help of my neighbor (another
builder) to man a hand held radio to monitor our airport common freq.
(no tower.) I followed the FAA recommended schedule for test flight.
After one hour I had had no surprises and wanted to get down and do a
post flight to see if anything was loose/leaking. I found none. Damn
glad I did it. Nothing beats putting your own baby in the air. I got
to really wring her out in the 40 hour Phase I test flying.
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Leo Gates
N601Z - CH601HDS TDO
Rotax 912UL
DaveG601XL wrote:
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Dan Dempesy,
On your question of maintaining currency in flying during the project build, here is my tale. When I stared building my 601XL in 2006, I had not been current for 21 years. I had gone flying with people over the pasttwo decades, but not as PIC. About halfway through my build I decided that I had to get off the dime. I got my biannual and a taildragger endorsement wrapped into one over the summer of 2007. I did this at a local grass strip in a Champ and a Cub. I had no real time in low wings so a fretted about deciding which local school had the most appropriate trainer between a Cherokee, a Tomahawk and a Katana. In the end, I did not go toany of these. When I was planning on going to Sun-N-Fun this spring, I found that CAMS Flight in Clearwater had an S-LSA 601XL. I got on their schedule and flew a checkride on the Thursday of SNF. The straightforward flight characteristics of this airplane convinced me that I was ready to fly my own creation with out further tim
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| Quote: | e in another low wing. Chris Heintz’s designs are honest likethat. I just kept flying the Champ because it was so much cheaper than the other schools and more of a challenge to land anyway. Now somebody can flame me for not doing 20 touch and go’s in a like model at the same airfield the day before with all sorts of emergency scenarios, butI did not. I did go over them in my mind, though. On July 24, 2008 I flew my new creation and the flight went well. I hope your does also.
Good question Dan, it would be interesting to hear how others prepared too.
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David Gallagher
601 XL, first flight 7/24/08.
In Phase I flight test.
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