Mark I am getting fairly close to that first flight and you said that you should stick it on with forward pressure every time. Why? I have read others say not to try to 3 point it like I do the Ciatbria or Pacer. Why ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Cc: "Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft" <corvaircr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:05 PM Subject: KR> cover your ears...another flight report
> NetHeads, > > Today I flew down to my father's grass strip, turning a grueling 4 hour > drive that I used to hate (I don't do it any more) into a 1.5 hour excuse to > fly somewhere. The landing was my best yet, because after bouncing three > times yesterday on Moontown's grass strip, I was determined to "plant it" > this time and during future landings. Apparently I've become lulled into > three pointing it such that I don't need to "stick it" with forward stick, > but that's something I really ought to do on every landing. > > And the bonus is that my father is on the other end of that trip. He's 75 > years old and still way sharper than I could ever hope to be. What a > character. My mother's there too, and although she's physically in great > shape (thanks to my father), she's basically about a year old mentally, > thanks to Alzheimers. That's particulary sad for somebody with a PhD that > ran the county school system for twenty five years. The funny thing about > that is you never know if she's going to kiss you or bite you! > > We spent a few hours sitting around talking, driving around the farm looking > at the cows, looking at all the cool stuff in the barn, driving the back > roads, scoping out the irrigation pipe (potential KR fuel tanks), and just > generally talking like we've rarely had the chance to do over the years. > But now that I have my own personal time machine, it's pretty easy to do. > And he gets a kick out of me using the 3600' long 80' wide grass runway that > he built for me and my brother to come visit on. > > On the way back I had what was definitely the closest encounter I've ever > had with another of the "aircraft" species. I was in some scattered clouds > at 9,999' or so (any higher and I would've needed my transponder that's out > being repaired) and admittedly not really looking hard for any other > trafffic, since I rarely see anything up that high anyway, and I certainly > wasn't looking west where the sun was frying me from. Something caught my > eye to the west, and in about 2 seconds it went from a suspected bugsplat on > the canopy to a KingAir or SomeOtherTwin that I was definitely going to hit. > I never imagined how quickly something going 160 mph could converge on > something going 250 mph from a right angle, but it happens so fast that it's > futile to even consider watching out for. I was listening to the nearby > Birmingham approach, and neither one of us was talking to him, although if > I'd had my transponder working (it's on a workbench somewhere in the > midwest), they'd have been watching out for me, at least. I'm not sure what > the moral of this is, but it's the first (and hopefully the last) time I've > thought to myself "if you don't haul back on the stick in the next half a > second, you're going to hit that guy". I pulled up (I think I was supposed > to dive) and then turned right to get a departing glimpse of him, but he was > so far gone I never saw him again. I'm pretty sure he never even saw me. > Just something else to contemplate on your next flight! > > I parked it with 294 hours on the clock, and opened another Amber Bock... > > Mark Langford, Harvest, AL > see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
