akflyer
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akflyer added a post in a topic anything new?
would be nice, but my avid does not have the center console... I pulled the radio, loran, and transponder out of the middle of the panel si I will put it right in the middle, with a slight angle towards me.
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akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
anything new?Morning asshats <it is not bashing I am one too
Anyone working on anything or doing any flying? I got stuck with daddy duties and took the family camping for 10 days last time home so I did not touch the Avid at all last time home. I made it clear that I had a free apss to spend my entire hitch on the plane this time and no daddy duties and very limited husband duties (as in only when the urge strikes me lol). With a little luck, I canget my head out of my ass long enough to the actually get the plane in the air.
I just picked up a 295 and I ordered the airgizmo in pannel docking mount for it. Anyone ever used one? comments good or bad? Dont want to take the time to install the mount if it has issues such as the plastic breaking and spitting the GPS out in your lap on short final etc.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox and high gas prices..... it's a good thing , sort of.
shit it costs more than that to fly Johns KF II with the 582. Gas was 4.34 at the pump yesterday and it burns 5.5-6 hr at cruise on floats...that does not include oil at 15.00 a gallon or figure in the real operating costs to include maintenance etc.. It is still the cheapest fun I can have with my clothes on.
I went for a flight Monday to maiden his Fox on the new floats and was supprized at the traffic in the area. I had a stinson playing peekaboo with the trees below me, a couple citabria's playing in the pattern, a 185 back taxiing on the lake, a 206 on a 6 mile final a beaver on a 2 mile final and a renegade in a cub take off a dirt strip that runs into the lake at a 90 degree intersept while I was on short short final... I bout shit. I was 50' of the deck and here comes a cub filling up the passenger door headed right at me from about 300' out. No radio communications or anything. I shoved over and plopped her on the water real damn quick.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Another "gross weight" post....
lol... oh oh so I guess even the manufacture is agreeing with what you have been saying?
damn that looks like a tough place to work. <jealous brew
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akflyer added a post in a topic Got'er flyin'!
Have you checked it out yet by measuring the fuel you put in the tank? It does seem high, but how hard are you cruising it? I have seen posts of 3-6 g/h depending on cruise. You have the CAP prop to if I remember right. Does that seem to help you out? What kind of perfomance numbers are you getting? I am thinking of replacing the 582, but am torn trying to find the highest power lowest weight and trying to balance the fuel burn in there too.
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akflyer added a post in a topic inclineometer gauge installed....
Have you flown with it yet? I am curious as to what deck angle you stall at It would actually be a damn good instrument for testing the VG's. I would like to know how much more deck angle you get with them installed. That would tell you the most about placement I think.
you still have another one of those damn things?
<fer experimentin with the experimental
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akflyer added a topic in Hardcore Avidfoxflyers
hey Mr. cant play nice with othersare ya bored yet LMAO.. sorry, just had to get a dig in. It is a sumbitch when you see something on there that you just have to shout out about........ and cant reply huh..
Thats ok, you cant be banned over here, I dont play well with others and love a good fight (read "discussion")
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akflyer added a post in a topic ok guests what do you want to see here
I know that several of the guys have retired and they are hurting bad. One local outfit has been waiting over a year to have a conformity inspection done on a new plane they want to add to the fleet. May be able to work out a part time gig? Yes it is working out of the ANC FSDO from what I have been told. A buddy of mine was a witness in a case against a 135 operator he had worked for in the past and the feds hit him up trying to get him to come to work for them. They cant find anyone with alaska time or knowledge. Atleast that was the story a few months ago.
Spudding one in due to small arms fire is a plausible excuse, I guess we can let that one slide. Thanks for your service! That is what has given us the right to have open formums like this one.
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akflyer added a post in a topic A picture for float-boy.....ehhh.. I mean Leni.
just pull out on the runway. As you accelerate with the truck hold full down and wait for about 50-55 then firewall it and take off... save you from draggin it through the woods. Course we want video of it all to
they are very fun flying planes and are pretty damn close to the kitfox on floats except the KF is alot lighter and more responsive on the controls. Either one they are very relaxing to fly. Nice plane! Most of the J-3's and T-crates around here are on EDO 1320's I could not tell for sure but from the pics I think that is what he has on there also.
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akflyer added a post in a topic ok guests what do you want to see here
dont know if you are interested or not, but the FAA is way behind on conformity inspections and I heard that they are looking for someone or several people who have a clue about Alaska flying and bush carriers. If you were interested in coming back up and wanted a little work on the side it may be an option.
now to hack on you.... were you the dumbass that overloaded the heli and turned turttle on takeoff?
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akflyer added a post in a topic ok guests what do you want to see here
nobody was hacking on ya, just trying to acertain the facts. I have looked at several guys paperwork up here and NO ONE has anything in the paperwork about a mystical gross weight. I am sure as a military aviator, you are aware that the MAXIMUM Takeoff Weight and the gross weight of an aircraft are two seperate things.... the same as a maximum landing weight. Why everyone insists on using the term gross weight instead of "takeoff" weight is beyond me.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Another rebuttal.....
keep it up mister, you are one step closer to a total
Keep those panties bunched up I like the fire in the keyboard!
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akflyer added a post in a topic Opps...my apologies The site is stiil there...
I dont know why people cant read for themselves... until I took the time to read the FAR link you posted last year, I was on the shut the hell up band wagon. Then I read it whala, right in front of you in black and white is the answer, not spun by some guys opion, just plain black and white.
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akflyer added a post in a topic two faced...or what??
damn I need to come up with a kicking the beehive emoticon. It was very hard for me to hold my tounge or should I say resrtain my fingers from typing a reply to Guy on that one... I pretty damn much had typed what you said pretty close to word for word lol.. I was gonna ask if he had read the ruling for himself and if so, what the hell more info did he need? I hit the back button instead of reply though as I knew he would give me the boot again for it.
At the end of the day, here is my bottom line. If I want to fly a plane, any damn plane, in any manner I wish I will do so. Just because the regs say I can or cant put X amount of weight in and be "legal" as long as I am safe, I will do as i want.
OK lets say that you have lost a medical and you want to fly under sport pilot, or just say piss on it and fly anyway, what is gonna happen.... not a damn thing. I personally know a guy that had 130 something charges against him (a part 135 operator that happens to owe me money for doing a dead of winter otter retreival operation for him) that was found guilty on all charges.. they took his A&P and AI away as well as commercial certificate.. guess what, the very next day he was flying clients. This past winter he re-built an otter and sold the damn thing. What happened to him... not a damn thing. fly the hell outa your plane at what ever weight you feel comfortable at as there is not a f#$king gross weight documented on your damn experimental plane to begin with.
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akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
ok guests what do you want to see hereI know there are alot of lurkers and guests poking around here, and I am wondering what it will take to get you to post up.
Dont be afraid to say or do anyting that will get you banned here.. within and very few rules nothing is gonna get you banned, we may hack on you a little but not too bad.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Stupid stupid stupid.....
lol.. we both did a few dyas ago.. in a thread that should have got a few guys over here.... I will see what I can work it into.
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akflyer added a post in a topic what to do if your IP has been banned from the list
ahh you know me, I can bring out the best in everyone!
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akflyer added a post in a topic Stupid stupid stupid.....
then one could say that for 6 months out of the year I am a professional hobbiest lol
I was just busting your hump and was more of a slam to mr. dickhead on the other site in the event that he reads it.. we seem to have alot of guests that read threads yet never reply.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Stupid stupid stupid.....
thats it mr. your in big trouble now ..... what a bunch of idiots. I cant beleve that Deke is allowd to say what he wants and put in a big ass dig to Dave then Dave is the one that gets his pee pee whacked for defending himself and not one #@%$#$ word is said to Deke....
Pretty damn one sided.
Guess I will ante up for another couple years for this site as I hope it gets more members and discussions on these kicks ass planes.
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akflyer added a topic in Hardcore Avidfoxflyers
what to do if your IP has been banned from the listdo a quick google search for "proxy servers" if you IP just happens to be banned from the list you can still get in this way. I use this on a certain snowmobile site that has seen fit to ban me for calling a moderator out. now I have fun poking the shit outa them from proxy servers and making up duplicate accounts... I keep telling them it would be easier for all involved to just re-instate my original account as I have lots of time to do nothing but make their moderating lives miserable as long as I am "banned"
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akflyer added a post in a topic Stupid stupid stupid.....
I think he is talking about phase I of the initial flight requirements. It still kills me that the guys cant get past the kit manufactures "suggested gross weight" and what you, the fricken builder decide you want to give it.
The other subject is the term "max take off weight" and max gross weight.. how can one be so damn stupid as to not be able to understand the difference between the two.
But alas, all this is just the rambling of an ameture hobbiest LMAO.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Deleting posts on the "list"
nice.... so they are up to the old tricks again huh... Damn how many times are you gonna get banned?
Too bad grown men cant wake up in the morning and pull on their big boy pants so they can deal with opinions other than thier own in a "grown up" manner. i see more and more complaints over their about the aloof attitude of some and the god like status of others.
One guy cant offer a professional, thought out and well worded opinion yet onother is allowed to post up a big ass slam on another member and justify it with .. oops sorry, I ment to say that behind his back not in front of his face where he can defend himself.
I wish others would find more use out of this site where you can say what you want and not be bitch slapped for it.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Got'er flyin'!
yep break up is in full swing.
ArcticMan has been going on since the mid to late 80's. It is a total riot with alot of good riding and worst case you end up hanging around a bonfire with your best friends and telling lies..
the "bar" was provisions for 3 people for 6 days, not counting the beer.
I thought about doing a kitfox flyin in along these same lines, but I think the hey yall hold my beer and watch this would not end quit as funny as it does on snowmachines...
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akflyer added a post in a topic Got'er flyin'!
congrats on getting her back in the air. I just got back from a one week drunk fest at Arcticman. www.arcticman.com
heck of a party and alot of fresh snow we tracked up! I have my wing on the saw horses and got a few new cap strips glued in lastnight. I plan on spending the next week getting her back on her feet and should have the wing covered.
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akflyer added a post in a topic Oil Change
SOOOOOO damn true
holy shit that is me last year! well except for the DUI, the BAIL, and the impound fee... oh and I just put the oil on the dirt road in front of the house to keep the dust down
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