Resolutions and goals.... - Page 2

Crazy_pilot · #16 01-02-2008, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RSVX

Flying it is easy...

It's the landing that can **** you...

As a licensed flight instructor, I know this well. Damn noob pilots...

crazyhorse · #17 01-02-2008, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Crazy_pilot

As a licensed flight instructor, I know this well. Damn noob pilots...

I resemble(d) that remark!
In high school they offered an aviation course. Your senior year exam was your checkout flight in the instructor's Cessna 150. I passed, even though I pancaked it from about 6ft. Hey HE told me to cut the throttle. I was nervous & did what he said when he said it. Of course I missed the part where he said, "when the wheels touch down".

As I cut the throttle before he said it.

I wish I hadn't been so damn poor that I couldn't afford the solo time.

bwb3 · #18 01-02-2008, 08:50 PM

Landing the Cessna 150 in a strong cross wind and no runway lining up was when I gave up resolutions. It's like a paper airplane. And my instructor didn't panic. It's an experience you should all should try. I think flying makes you appreciate the cars you drive even more.
Gene

Crazy_pilot · #19 01-02-2008, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by bwb3

Landing the Cessna 150 in a strong cross wind and no runway lining up was when I gave up resolutions. It's like a paper airplane. And my instructor didn't panic. It's an experience you should all should try. I think flying makes you appreciate the cars you drive even more.
Gene

*shudder*

I once landed a 152 (think 150 with 10 more HP) in a 17-25 kt 90 degree crosswind, on a gravel runway about 12' wide. Not one of my favorite flying memories, but definitely an important one.

RSVX · #20 01-03-2008, 01:46 AM

I took a few lessons in a 172... I need to go back.

svxistentialist · #21 01-03-2008, 03:21 AM

Hey I notice nobody picked up on my resolution #6, post #11.

You guys are all keen flyers by the sound of it. Do any of you live in a flight path near a small airport?

I live about 3 miles from a small airfield near the western motorway from Dublin. They use the motorway route as visual reference. On a fine day when you want to mess about in the garden or have a barbeque we get a steady stream of small planes and choppers streaming over our house from the airfield.

Some of them make so much noise they would be banned as a road vehicle, yet the airplanes are allowed to fly low below commercial traffic. Conversation has to stop as they pass over at what looks to be 500ft, but you'll probably all jump in and tell me it's a 1000ft or 1500ft, or whatever.

In my opinion they are under regulated compared to road traffic. They should be banned unless they can keep the noise levels in decibels below an acceptable level for those populated areas they are crossing. They have already got the jets acceptably quiet, it's well past time they made these small propellor planes have less noise pollution.

Joe