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Topic: My first flight hour!
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li'l bastard
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posted 08-26- 05:03 PM
   
I've decided to take a flight license for light planes (we call them ultralights...), dunno how u call them in your country guys, but anyway it really rocks! Today I reached one hour and 15 mins in my logbook and I had a nice one with my instructor as we dived upon a railway from 500 ft with a train passing by!
There's a small red button above the control stick for the intercom, and he yelled "Squeeze that trigger and blast that train away!"...
I let u figure out whatta crazy jackass he is!!! 
Btw after a while we were reached by another plane and tried some evasive actions! Not very safe but guys: TOO MUCH FUN!!!!
The instructor told me that I fly good and asked me if I use any flight simulator: now he wants to try SDOE too!!!!li'l b P.S.
So now I can say I'm really involved with planes: I fly them, restore them and LOVE them!!!! IP: Logged |
Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 08-26- 05:52 PM
Restore them eh? Cool stuff, yeah I'm thinking of getting mine also. Here in Canada there is a gaggle of licences and permits. Ultralight permit, recreational licence, private licence and stuff. and a TON more, thats not even mentioning commercial and multiengine and stuff. I'm thinking of going private or rec. Cause with them you can do stuff under them. [This message has been edited by Spanky the Mad Dog (edited 08-26-2001).] IP: Logged |
li'l bastard
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posted 08-26- 07:26 PM
about the restoring, check out my post in the WWI forum, I'm working on a SPAD VII and that's prolly the best experience ever... next job we'll take will be the polishing of our P51 mustang, can't wait 4 that!!!!!li'l b IP: Logged |
li'l bastard
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posted 08-26- 07:36 PM
uh, btw here's a pic of the cutie I fly with
lovely, isn't she?My dream would be to buy a Kitfox Classic IV with a config like this
and paint her like the Piper Cubs used in the D-Day! OD on NG and big invasion stripes!!!! li'l b IP: Logged |
Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 08-26- 10:16 PM
oh man that second plane is so freaking cool. Looks really STOL. IP: Logged |
Sv
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posted 08-26- 10:54 PM
NEAT!I eat lunch every day at a diner along a grass strip... all the training there is done in old Piper Cubs. I am in line for lessons, but they are booked out until quite late. Well I assume this since they keep telling me, "another two weeks" - every two weeks  So what are lessons like? ------------------
-Sv
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li'l bastard
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posted 08-27- 01:28 AM
yeah the kitfox is wonderful, but u need at least 20 hours to fly w/ her, since the taildraggers are more difficult to handle on the ground and to keep straight on takeoffs/landings...li'l b IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 08-27- 04:57 AM
I've flown in a Kitfox, one with floats.IP: Logged |
Biggles
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posted 08-27- 07:02 AM
I think you need to change your name to LUCKY Bastard!The first plane looks pretty funky, but the kit fox is a beut looker all the time. Though, have they got a Lycoming/Continental up front? It doesn't look as streamlined as the usuall Rotax.
Biggles
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li'l bastard
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posted 08-27- 10:31 AM
they're both Rotax engines, the former is a 582 while the latter's a 912, a good 4 strokes engine, pretty heavy but very reliable...li'l b IP: Logged |
li'l bastard
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posted 08-27- 10:33 AM
and btw this Kitfox here is for sale  li'l b IP: Logged |
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