Warbird Information Exchange

God, now not even the freindly skys are safe.

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The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. - Gus Grissom

Who said they were "friendly"? Don't ferget, we'uns is near DC...and we get the unbridled joy of dealing with the #$%&YU*(*(%^% ADIZ.

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Regards,

Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

You rock! Keep us posted on your progress.

Remember, no matter how long it takes or how strenuous it can get, screw all that, because you’re out there flying!

Be sure to smile through the dicey parts, it keeps you thrilled and keeps you focused. When it gets tough, just smile real big, and you’ll relax.

My instructor used to say, "It's a little gamey out there today." Which could mean it was too windy to fly, or sometimes it meant I could go give it a try. I always loved that phrase ever since. I'm not sure if he stole it or if it was original. Anyhoo, whenever the wind kicks up, I always think to myself, "Well, it's a little gamey out there today.”

I hope you get to fly when it’s gamey. It’ll make you a better pilot.

Kick some butt!

Trust me...it was "gamey" on Monday. Like I said, a few "OH CRAPs".

Mudge the game

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Land of the free because of the brave

Mudge..

Good to hear it's going well.....word of advice...learn to tackle the landings as SOON as you can...it's really the toughest part of flying (to my mind at least)....the sooner you learn how to land the sooner you'll know how to get yourself back to earth in one piece no matter WHAT happens...

Others might disagree with me...I only have 35 hours....but once I learned how to land it made me feel a WHOLE lot better about being up in a plane should an emergency arise....if nothing else works, basically you're in a heavy glider that WILL make it back to earth if you know what to do with it once you get there.

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Mark Morris

Corsair has a good point. THere are alot of times that people wished theyknew how to land an airplane if something went wrong. What if your instructor get sick or something? You never know.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Yeah they are really lucky. I was shocked to see the wing damage from the stress. I would imagine that she would be scrap after that.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Mudge, when you have a chance could you tell us a little about your instructor, his age and experiece? There's nothing wrong if he is young and new, because some of these guys are fresh from learning it and may remember well how to teach it. He just won't know things that an older pilot might have experienced in dealing with weather and going on trips, and especially other types of airplanes. The main thing at first is to enjoy yourself, you are supposed to have fun. I hope you have some nice weather days. Don't sweat landings, doing it in a Warrior in light wind is easy, and you need a few hours on other things first.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Mark , on second thought I'll bet you agree with me that landing an airplane is a lot easier than paying for it! And a truism, the more fun the plane probably themore paying you do. Next week I plan to take the Spitfire over to Ray to have a prop gov overhauled. We've had some lovely warm days and I look forward to flying some again.Fortunately we did the annual in Nov! so the yearly bleeding of the wallet is not due before the season.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Bill...

Always DID wonder why you waited till spring to do the annual on the Spitfire! You always wound up missing a few of the early seasons shows, never made sense to me when there was ALL WINTER to do it....but now it seems you have your ducks in a row and it's all done when the season starts. And unlike Eddie and the Firefly, you don't have to take the prop off to get the plane into Ray's hangar. Be careful when you come down, been a lot of fog around these parts lately. Hey, and pop in to Skurich's a couple of doors to the west and tell us how the Zero's coming...gotta get over there and shoot some update pics of it here soon!

Mark

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Mark Morris

Mark, I didn't really "wait till Spring" for the annuals. I like to have the plane here through Christmas, usually still doing some flying then and might have friends in town for a ride. I try to get it over to Ray about this time of year. He's pretty thorough so we don't wizz through the annual, and sometimes there are upgrades as well as normal maintenance. Also if you time it right you can move the due date forward a month or two each year. Did you know a developer closed the runway at 3V5? We'll work at FNL this time. If those kids are getting old what does that mean about us? Ray's son, little Miles, is now pushing 30, married, and a veteran Air Force B-52 and test pilot?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Speaking of young flight instructors, back when I took lessons at the old age of 21, I had a young flight instructor cann't remember his age. He was really good at planning cross countries and all the paper work. But he was a big chicken in the sky. Plus he was milking me for the $, I had to drop him and went with one of the older guys at the flight school. The younger guy probably wouldn't have soloed me till 25 hours or so. The old guy did it on our first outing. Yeah back then I paid $12.50 wet for a cessna 150. Fun stuff.

I learned to fly from a crusty ex-Navy fighter pilot (wouldn't he be embarassed at my silver-colored wings if he saw me now!) who was a total hard ass. I resented him a little at the time, but in retrospect he had high standards which made me into a very sharp pilot, even as a low timer.

I have on occasion flown with some pretty young CFIs, either for BFRs or local area checkouts to rent airplanes. The only problem I've seen is that many have never experienced the stress of a real no-kidding barn-burner emergency. Outside of that, I have no beef with flying with (or learning from) a young pilot so long as he is professional.

It's a wierd profession; where else can someone come out of school and the first (and sometimes the only) job they can land is teaching others what they themselves have only just learned? Hopefully someday that will turn around and it'll become a higher paying position that attracts more experience - it's not an easy job.