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Jeffrey Joe Hinton
Weird how the whole “pay it forward” system seems to work. Thanks go to you Mike for reasonable and fair opportunities to assist the pursuit of hobbies and safe fun.
Mike Bennett
Weird how the whole “pay it forward” system seems to work. Thanks go to you Mike for reasonable and fair opportunities to assist the pursuit of hobbies and safe fun.
Dude I so love your avatar. Reminds me of the Gong Shows Unknown Comic. I snicker every time I see that.
SCOTT EVANS
Art does a great job looking for rockets flying around but he has a few disadvantages that I would not. He has to wait a day or two after the launch to fly in the area. I would be on-site to fly right after the waiver closes or before it opens. He flies in a plane that has to be at least moving 50 MPH and technically over 500 feet AGL, I can fly 5 to 25 mph and fly one foot off the ground not to mention that I could land and take off to pick up a rocket if the area was ok to land in and the rocket was small enough to carry back. I could also use a GPS and just click off waypoints and radio back info to the flight table.
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50 MPH at 500 feet! 😯 Thats Stall speed of a 172-Flaps Down. Maybe Stall Spin Speed! Might end up on AOPAs Accident Database. 🙁
Had a guy do that from our Eaa Club up in Greeley last year. Right about 500 feet. Not here anymore. He is on the Database. 🙁
ScotteMike Bennett
Art does a great job looking for rockets flying around but he has a few disadvantages that I would not. He has to wait a day or two after the launch to fly in the area. I would be on-site to fly right after the waiver closes or before it opens. He flies in a plane that has to be at least moving 50 MPH and technically over 500 feet AGL, I can fly 5 to 25 mph and fly one foot off the ground not to mention that I could land and take off to pick up a rocket if the area was ok to land in and the rocket was small enough to carry back. I could also use a GPS and just click off waypoints and radio back info to the flight table.
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50 MPH at 500 feet! 😯 Thats Stall speed of a 172-Flaps Down. Maybe Stall Spin Speed! Might end up on AOPAs Accident Database. 🙁
Had a guy do that from our Eaa Club up in Greeley last year. Right about 500 feet. Not here anymore. He is on the Database. 🙁
ScotteYeah , yeah, Hey I did not know what Art was flying. It could have been a Cub.
SCOTT EVANS
Art does a great job looking for rockets flying around but he has a few disadvantages that I would not. He has to wait a day or two after the launch to fly in the area. I would be on-site to fly right after the waiver closes or before it opens. He flies in a plane that has to be at least moving 50 MPH and technically over 500 feet AGL, I can fly 5 to 25 mph and fly one foot off the ground not to mention that I could land and take off to pick up a rocket if the area was ok to land in and the rocket was small enough to carry back. I could also use a GPS and just click off waypoints and radio back info to the flight table.
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50 MPH at 500 feet! 😯 Thats Stall speed of a 172-Flaps Down. Maybe Stall Spin Speed! Might end up on AOPAs Accident Database. 🙁
Had a guy do that from our Eaa Club up in Greeley last year. Right about 500 feet. Not here anymore. He is on the Database. 🙁
ScotteYeah , yeah, Hey I did not know what Art was flying. It could have been a Cub.
Could of been PZL 1O1 or a Storch or a Twin Otter, Probably not.
Bet he will say its 172. 🙂 wana bet? 🙂Mike Bennett
Oh am i sure he is in a 172. The speed posting was more for just showing the slowest speed a plane could potentially fly. But yes you are correct the slowest speed of a 172 is around 65, but I know my dad while playing around has flown close to 50 without stalling. He used to love having the stall horn come on and drive my mom nuts. Can’t you tell I come from a family of pilots.
Remember those are just safe book specs.
SCOTT EVANS
Oh am i sure he is in a 172. The speed posting was more for just showing the slowest speed a plane could potentially fly. But yes you are correct the slowest speed of a 172 is around 65, but I know my dad while playing around has flown close to 50 without stalling. He used to love having the stall horn come on and drive my mom nuts. Can’t you tell I come from a family of pilots.
Remember those are just safe book specs.
Its not so much the book. A good pilot, maybe better than me 😉
could do it or recover from it, even at 500 feet. But your options become more limited if the engine coffs or quits low and slow.
I had one instructor with me flying at 100ft at 100-110 knots up north across the flat grass lands. Kinda fun! His coment was you gotta know theres no power lines or obstructions in front of you and you gota be fast, so you can pop up and look around if the engine fails. He was one of my younger instructors. The oldest, and favorite instructor (he quit counting at 8000 hrs) would not do either of what we have been digressing about. 🙂 With 7 engine failures under his belt you dont really wonder why. 😉You may know, most stall training is done at 2000 AGL. My limited amount of spin training started at 3500 AGL. Old guy musta had a reason. 8)
“I read some where 40% of all accidents were “impacted terrane while manuvering” They were to low. Another 30-40% were weather related.
Kinda gota wonder if some private pilots are not very smart.Ill save the rest for the Pilot Forum. 🙂
mule
Has to be a 152…… Cheaper to fly isn’t it????
No, I don’t have a license, but I have several hours at the controls of a 182 and a couple 310s, 421, P-Navajo…… Dad’s a pilot and I use to co-pilot for him when he took naps or he got a wild hair. I may get my license later this year though. Who knows….
mule
I had one instructor with me flying at 100ft at 100-110 knots up north across the flat grass lands. Kinda fun! His coment was you gotta know theres no power lines or obstructions in front of you and you gota be fast, so you can pop up and look around if the engine fails. He was one of my younger instructors. The oldest, and favorite instructor (he quit counting at 8000 hrs) would not do either of what we have been digressing about. 🙂 With 7 engine failures under his belt you dont really wonder why. 😉
I’ll save the rest for the Pilot Forum. 🙂That wasn’t Rick B. was it???? He’s our family’s instructor. We have his extra Sukoi (maybe and Extra) engine in our hanger….. He was my body building coach/helper years ago.
Mike Bennett
Sounds like we need to sit around and talk/tell some flying stories. Heck that is why I am selling my rocket stuff so I can go fly. Just PPG is cheaper but it is still real flying…right?
Jeffrey Joe Hinton
Mike Bennett
SCOTT EVANS
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