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rickofudall
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Location: Udall, KS, USA
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 Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:24 am Post subject: Up on a soap box for GeoB |
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FIRST: Give up all engine swap, kitplane, or ready to fly plane ideas, right now. DO NOT: spend another moment thinking about these topics. For darn sure, DO NOT SPEND so much as one thin dime on any of them.
INSTEAD: Go to your local airport and take an introductory flight. Take as many as you can get from different instructors as you can. You are interviewing candidates to teach you to fly. Get recommendations from anyone you know who has SUCCESSFULLY completed a pilot's license. Doesn't matter if it's a Sport Pilot or Private ticket, just that their instructor was capable of getting them through the process and that when the money was on the table, that instructor's teaching got them through the tests required for the ticket.
Spend all the money it takes to get SOLOed. Once your instructor is satisfied you know enough to fly around by yourself on HIS/HER ticket, you are ready to think about other things.
REMEMBER THIS ABOVE ALL ELSE: Aviation is like a self cleaning oven. It deletes the stupid, the ill prepared, and the unlucky with equanimity. The best you can do to prevent becoming a statistic is training, training, and more training.
MHO, you will, of course, do as you wish.
Rick Girard
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:18 am Post subject: Up on a soap box for GeoB |
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Getting Hooked...I remember my first ride (aside from a twin convair). It was a perfect sunny early summer day in south central Ohio. I was 18, my host was 19 and a member of the idle rich. We rode out to the little grass airport in his Italian sportscar
with numerous imposing sidedraft carbs on it.
The plane was red, tandem, and had wood floorboards with cracks to see the ground below. He had a student license.
What a ride. All kinds of flawless aerobatics, he even put one of those little plastic change purses on the top of the panel
to show how he could keep it there in all positions. The guy was more competent than many pilots with a zillion hours.
The impressive part, to me at the time, was how he could figure a perfect glide slope over the wires when we landed.
Of course that isn't so mysterious to me now. -But I was hooked.
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On 17, Jul 2010, at 11:22 AM, Richard Girard wrote:
[quote]FIRST: Give up all engine swap, kitplane, or ready to fly plane ideas, right now. DO NOT: spend another moment thinking about these topics. For darn sure, DO NOT SPEND so much as one thin dime on any of them.
INSTEAD: Go to your local airport and take an introductory flight. Take as many as you can get from different instructors as you can. You are interviewing candidates to teach you to fly. Get recommendations from anyone you know who has SUCCESSFULLY completed a pilot's license. Doesn't matter if it's a Sport Pilot or Private ticket, just that their instructor was capable of getting them through the process and that when the money was on the table, that instructor's teaching got them through the tests required for the ticket.
Spend all the money it takes to get SOLOed. Once your instructor is satisfied you know enough to fly around by yourself on HIS/HER ticket, you are ready to think about other things.
REMEMBER THIS ABOVE ALL ELSE: Aviation is like a self cleaning oven. It deletes the stupid, the ill prepared, and the unlucky with equanimity. The best you can do to prevent becoming a statistic is training, training, and more training.
MHO, you will, of course, do as you wish.
Rick Girard
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Thom Riddle
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Buffalo, NY, USA (9G0)
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Up on a soap box for GeoB |
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Speaking of training, training, training...
I just got back from my 2 hours of instruction required by the FAA every two years at a minimum, which used to be called a BFR. To expand my flying knowledge base, I spent a lot more money than would normally be required in a "just get it over with" BFR. I got arguably the best tailwheel instructor in western NY to give me an hour of ground school on aerobatics and an hour in-flight in his Pitts S2B. It was not cheap but well worth the expense for several reasons:
1) I learned how to safely get out of unintended unusual attitudes, like might occur in wake turbulence or wind shear or other big unpleasant aeronautical surprise.
2) I learned how to do decent aileron rolls, semi-decent loops, piss-poor chandelles, and fly inverted straight and level for extended periods, among other things.
3) I learned what it feels like to fly a locomotive engine with little stubby wings and lightening quick roll response and incredibly quick, sensitive and powerful rudder.
4) I learned what it is like to fly with two wings and an enormous engine cowling blocking your vision except rearwards.
5) A 260 hp engine doing aerobatics for an hour burns more than 20 gallons of 100LL.
6) MOST IMPORTANTLY, I RE-LEARNED HOW MUCH I LIKE FLYING KOLBS, which are far more forgiving than a Pitts with infinitely better visibility.
This was an unforgettable experience which also allows me to continue flying for another two years. To see his Pitts and several other of his airplanes click on the following:
http://www.countrypilot.com/
Wolfgang (also an A&P I/A) is building a single seat Pitts too.
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