My cousin Ken died while flying the Alaskan bush pilot life. He made a bad
landing in a 172 on floats, survived the crash but died in the ice water.
The folks on shore could see Ken and his passenger climb onto one of the
still floating airplane floats, but it was still too cold and too far away.
On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 06:14:53 AM PST, Flesner via KRnet
wrote:
You write in good spirit Larry. Unlike you and most netters, I sometimes
indulge the unattractive tendency in writing to use exaggeration as a cheap
form of humor (regarding my "daredevil" reference).
Your post
On 1/26/2023 8:17 AM, Flesner via KRnet wrote:
than I do flying in the flat lands of Illinois on clear sunny days.
I guess that should have said "over" the flat lands of Illinois. My luck
has held and I've not yet flown "in"
On 1/25/2023 2:10 AM, MS wrote:
Pilots who fly, or just learned to fly up there become accustomed to
ignoring trivial things like CG or other weight issues and, as for
weather minimums and runway lengths, that comes (or not) with learning
from others and from the aircraft in question. Rules an
ItOn Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 08:30:40 PM PST, shafferj45...@twc.com
wrote:
Can " find "
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I'll be at the hangar tomorrow doing a prop balance and won't forget to take
pictures of my very simple yet foolproof secondary/emergency latch.
The only time it's bee
Can " find "
-From: shafferj45...@twc.com
To: "KRnet"
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday January 24 2023 11:26:49PM
Subject: Re: KRnet> Canopy Fix
You folks can also fing lots of canopy latch systems
You folks can also fing lots of canopy latch systems in Tony Bingelis
books.
-From: "victor taylor via
KRnet"
To: "KRnet"
Cc: "victor taylor"
Sent: Tuesday January 24 2023 9:36:50PM
Subject: Re: KRnet> Canopy Fix
While I mostly agree with Mark and also feel the canopy should be hinged at the
front: if you have one already hinged at the side there may be hope and a safer
method. I just build a Drongonfly canopy latch that is virtually identical to
the Long EZ latch for N47MG. I have a lot of time in Long
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