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Leni,
Here is a lifesaving tip I got from an oldtimer instructor:
If IFR conditions are a possibility during a flight, always carry a live duck with you in the aircraft.
If you inadvertently do enter IFR conditions, throw the duck out the window, and, since ducks are smart enough to know not to fly in IFR conditions they will head for VFR conditions.
So just follow the duck.
steve
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:D Get it?? Makes my head spin...? ;D ?-----? Never mind.
Anyway,
This insight is to good for the "List" and since this is the place where the only true intellectuals meet, I will post it here.
My hero, (I have few.. 'cept for Lenni,
) Wolfgang Langewiesche, states on page 38 in his 1944 book "Stick and Rudder" that:"With power on, just as with power off, the airplane stalls for just one reason only: because the wings are meeting the air at an excessive Angle of Attack."
In regards to stalls in a turn...page 58, "when an airplane flying at a certain speed, goes into a turn and loads itself down with 'g' load it assumes a larger Angle of Attack and thus gets closer to a stall"...... "At the higher angle of attack, the wings have more drag and thus the airplane will slow up unless the throttle is opened wider. The airplane assumes a still higher Angle of Attack and gets still closer to the stall."
He goes on to describe it in more detail but since you all DO have the book, .........
BTW.. Leni, if there was a icon for asskissing i would have used it instead of the
one.steve
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"field mechanics have had their grubby little dick skinners on it....
Hey... I resemble that remark!!
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holy crap... damn goodthing you did not fly through a temperature inversion... that could have been really bad!
on a serious note, that did not take long to rub the fire sleeve.. last cub I put an engine in I was ANAL about tying everything back / down with sleeves so nothing could chafe. Everyone who has seen it said they had never seen an alaskan cub with such a clean install.. I bet it looks like shit now as it has been 2 years of 135 work so I know lots of field mechanics have had their grubby little dick skinners on it....
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hey man, nothing but the finest redneck engineering for my kids! Daddy dont spare no expense onthe young'uns....
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Here is a picture of one of my oil lines....that was rubbing against a cowel fastener tip. This happened over about a 2 hr period without the top cowling being removed for inspection. A simple re-route with some tie-wraps cured the potential for more chafing but one can imagine the potential outcome if it hadn't been spotted.....such as slow loss of oil, then increasing oil temps because of decreased oil level and eventual loss of oil pressure.
Oh wait... we already covered that.
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ya bugger... I told you to stop in for a drink if you were in the area... last time I invite you to my fine dwelling
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Ahh Leni,
Sorry about the *itch
I drove by your Beach House today and snapped this pic....thought you might like it. Nice.
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the outcome is never good....
My ex-wife started taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year.
Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in Southern Tennessee because of bad weather. Thank God our kids were with me at the Beach House this weekend.
The NTSB issued a preliminary report, citing pilot error: Judy was flying a single engine aircraft in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.
Photographs below were taken at the scene show the extent of damage to her aircraft.
She was very lucky.
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I started to comment here about the most recent post that includeds the sentence..."It same old story lack of pilot ability and training. I really doubt tail heavy has anything to do with it."...then I said the heck with it.
I can only imagine the original poster (Name withheld in the name of ....whatever.) pictures himself as future astronaut Gorden (Gordo) Cooper, who, in the movie "The Right Stuff" looks over to his wife while driving and says....."Who's the greatest pilot ya ever saw?...... You're looking at 'em."
Damn ...my head hurts.... Oh ya...that's a good thing.
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Leni,
Feel free to cutpaste anything I say here... and put my name with it.
I will take the blame for whatever.
This is how it works..... I have (from the List) a "shooting licence..."
Have you ever read "All Quiet On The Western Front"?
Pg 154 (wounded Soldiers in a hospital ward...)
We were all curious. "But why did you say that you did it? It wasn't you at all!"
He grins. "That doesn't matter. I have a shooting licence."
Then, of course, we all understand. Whoever has a shooting licence can do whatever he pleases.
"Yes," he explains. "I got a crack in the head and they presented me with a certificate to say that I was periodically not responsible for my actions. Ever since then I have a grand time. No one dares annoy me. And nobody does anything to me."
Works for me....
steve
PS...Luv the pic.
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damn... you gonna post up enough shit for me to smart off about that I am gonna get banned again..
but this is for the poster who does not like slow fun flying planes...
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Posted on the "List"...
--> Kitfox-List message posted by:
Odd how the media tries to "distort" things
REad the last 4 lines Sheeeshhhhhhhhh !!!
The Kitfox Web site says the plane "is a 2-seat side-by-side aircraft that has truly amazing handling characteristics and is just as comfortable in the back country bush flying as it is flying cross country into some of the busiest airspace."
It adds that the plane is a light sport aircraft.
The Web site carries this motto: "It's not how Fast ... it's how Fun!"
The article seems unbiased, factual and informative.
What did I miss??
What is the "distortion the poster speaks of?steve
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The engine had been started a few minutes earlier, but until I addressed the valve issue it still would still take a lot of cranking to get it to fire up.
The video was taken with my cell phone camera...hence the low quality.
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yep, I had to update my quicktime player... looks like she fires right up? was that a hot start? I want a 4 stroke now... sounds better than my ole 582....
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I would guess you need the "QuickTime" media player installed. done that?
DAmn I knew I was missing something lol.... nope.. I have it installed but maybe I need to update the codecs
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I have not run across any jetting charts for 912's.
I do read about others "playing" with jet and needle settings though but my motto has always been " if it's not broke, don't try to fix it".
Perhaps the colder free air temps now require carb adjustments. In the German Argus inverted V-8 there are three jets per carb. Idle, intermediate, and full throttle.... and we would change them according to season to avoid fouling spark plugs. Warmer air would give a richer mixture for a given jet.
Perhaps I am dealing with a simular situation..... colder air, for a given setting,will lean the mixture out.
That is what happens with our 2 strokes....have to run summer jets and winter jets..
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I have not run across any jetting charts for 912's.
I do read about others "playing" with jet and needle settings though but my motto has always been " if it's not broke, don't try to fix it".
Perhaps the colder free air temps now require carb adjustments. In the German Argus inverted V-8 there are three jets per carb. Idle, intermediate, and full throttle.... and we would change them according to season to avoid fouling spark plugs. Warmer air would give a richer mixture for a given jet.
Perhaps I am dealing with a simular situation..... colder air, for a given setting,will lean the mixture out.
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I am 4 stroke rotax ignorant...but will ask a question anyway.. Does Rotax have a jetting chart like they do for 2 strokes? With colder temps we have to go up in jet sizes for 2 strokes or we get real high EGT's...kinda like john has now lol..
If'n ya had infight adjustable, you could have just bumped up a little pitch..infact, if you are planning on sticking with 100ll you should repitch to keep RPM and EGTs under control.
Did you notice an increase in RPMs?
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Ok..here's the deal.
I have been using Premium auto gas and egt was always 1450 plusminus a few degrees at cruise. Today I put 15 gals. of 100LL avgas into empty tanks and egt runs hotter, 1500 and wanted to climb with increased rpm's. I noticed this about 30 seconds into take-off. Throttling back brought it back down, but application of increased throttle would make it climb again.
I circled the field for 15 minutes of so.... oil and cyl temps quite normal, if not lower the usual because we are now into our first cold spell (50 F.)
Is this egt increase a result of 100LL, or do I look elsewhere. Only one probe, just where it should be, and I checked for any induction leakage at that cylinder...none noted.
The engine ran just fine... as I said, everything as it's been, except for the higher egt reading. All that is "changed" is the type of fuel.
.......which by the way cost me $70.00 for fifteen freaking gallons. Why I can remember, in the good ol' days when Avgas was........
steve
Was: flying hard IFR with only a VFR rating
in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
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Must be where the old saying "wheres the f*^^ing duck" came from