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- Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Always carry a spare if you have one
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12513
Re: Always carry a spare if you have one
Lost my tail wheel tire & tube on landing at Tegucigalpa Honduras once in the early 80's & of course had no spare!The head of the Aeronoutica Civil wrote an address for me to show the taxi driver where to take me to buy a new one in the city.Turned out to be the company that had all the ice ...
- Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:46 am
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Devil's advocate
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9589
Re: Devil's advocate
If it had the correct amount of horse power (which is all you can get) it could go lots more than that.(all the M.R.E.'s you can get into every empty space full fuel, except the aux tank +one lard butt to drive) take off from Tela direct Tegucigalpa no problem!!
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Dial Ups Beware: Arthur Godfrey & the Constellation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15635
Re: Dial Ups Beware: Arthur Godfrey & the Constellation
I was in the Navy so never had any experience with "C" rations, but if we had long transport flights (San Francisco to Honolulu) in a C118 (R6D in the Navy, DC6 in civilian life) they handed each guy a box lunch & there was a cardboard box of four cigs in each box tucked in with the fr...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:32 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Keeping a Plane Outside???
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12886
Re: Keeping a Plane Outside???
I built my hangar in 2001,the building cost $7,500 delivered to the site,the slab was $14,000 the front of the building & four bypass doors I built myself with locally purchased materials for about $2,000.I assembled the the whole thing myself (with the help of friends). The insulation was anoth...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:48 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Cessna 170 Ride
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4387
Re: Cessna 170 Ride
Hi Planecrazy, I am based in Senoia which is about 6 air miles from Falcon Field. I would like to sell my airplane(see my add in the trademart)so after reading the add if you want to call me or email me I could meet you at Falcon,maybe on the day when everyone else is gonna show up at Peach State fo...
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Damage records
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6192
Re: Damage records
Blue4,I have the O 360 Lyc. & the Jav.18 gal aux. tank that I hardly ever use since I stopped going back & forth to Honduras.I get two hrs. & twenty min on each wing tank till the eng. quits. (I only know that because of the aux tank of course) I really like having the extra fuel but wou...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: New York Tower Controllers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8040
Re: New York Tower Controllers
Yep,sure is a good thing that "controller" kept his cool or there would have been a big pile up there on final! We get so used to listening to someone elses directions that we sometimes forget who is in control & who is responsible.Non event except to fill TV air time.IMHO
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: 63 years ago
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9263
Re: 63 years ago
It's all a matter of economics,people who could afford it used "real wallpaper" mostly anything that was purchased at a store was referred to as "store bought" or more often "brought on" At first the purpose was not to decorate or insulate but simply to slow down the &q...
- Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Spark Plug Price
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9050
Re: Spark Plug Price
My hanger got so bad I had to recruit help from non airplane family members to clean it out.The dumpster is parked in front of the doors as we speak.
- Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:00 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Spark Plug Price
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9050
Re: Spark Plug Price
23 years with this airplane & the only "spares" I ever needed were not spark plugs! One spark plug WIRE,one tail wheel tire&tube,one tail wheel spring.I finally threw out that box of spare spark plugs I was saving for years. :D P.S. I guess we should be clear on what "spare&qu...
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: avatars
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2111
Re: avatars
Thanks for that info KG,been trying to do that ever since I joined the TIC170A.Obviously I'm not very computer literate, so again Thanx
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Texas Compass Rose
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6096
Re: Texas Compass Rose
I am very sure that nobody else on this forum has ever taken a nap in their airplane sans autopilot! Heck some have slept halfway home from work on the midnight shift two or three times a week & that's while driving a car solo on two lane roads.
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Pilot Lounge
- Topic: Slip with full flaps in a B model
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19244
Re: Slip with full flaps in a B model
Bruce, You didn't ask me but I well tel you anyhow that I have made many three point landings in a DC3.I may be less sensitive than some,but I think that the only dif in any of these tail wheel AC is whether or not they are multi or single eng.I wont go down the list but asymmetrical thrust is the b...
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Electric Oil Temp/Pressure Gauge
- Replies: 30
- Views: 19382
Re: Electric Oil Temp/Pressure Gauge
Yep,I wear one of equal protective quality as the one pictured when ever I make emergency landings or ride my HD FXR.
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Electric Oil Temp/Pressure Gauge
- Replies: 30
- Views: 19382
Re: Electric Oil Temp/Pressure Gauge
That was indeed a tongue in cheek remark,point being that imho flex lines in the acc. section don't need fire shield.It's full of flex lines already & no shield.In fact both the oil & fuel pressure indication lines on my particular A/C are flex lines,maybe they were changed when the eng. con...