---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 11/03/06: 9 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:37 AM - Re: A Pietenpol at Vimy Ridge? (Gene & Tammy) 2. 10:07 AM - Have You Tried The New Matronics List Forum? (Matt Dralle) 3. 01:12 PM - Magnetic compass (lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan)) 4. 01:51 PM - 'glass cockpit' and using sectional charts x-country (Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]) 5. 05:30 PM - charts in an open cockpit (shad bell) 6. 06:03 PM - Re: 'glass cockpit' and using sectional charts x-country (Gene & Tammy) 7. 06:17 PM - Moving maps in an open cockpit (Jim Markle) 8. 06:48 PM - Moving maps in Piets... (Jim Markle) 9. 10:47 PM - Re: [piet] Moving maps in Piets... (Mike Whaley) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:37:26 AM PST US From: "Gene & Tammy" Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: A Pietenpol at Vimy Ridge? Shawn, Truly exciting! Keep us updated. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Wolk To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:55 PM Subject: Pietenpol-List: A Pietenpol at Vimy Ridge? I'll be filling in the details after we are done. My very old 1933 Pietenpol is going to be used in a Canadian film re-inacting the Battle of Vimy Ridge in WW1. We start filming this weekend and it should be quite an experience. The aircraft will be depicting the role of reconnaissance aircraft in the spotting of the German artillery and defenses in this historic battle. It is to air on History Channel (I have no idea if you get it in the USA) on April, 09, 2007. On the 89th anniversary of this campaign. It will certainly be a lot different flying in ths battle....no one will be trying to shoot me down. Shawn Wolk C-FRAZ ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:07:34 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Pietenpol-List: Have You Tried The New Matronics List Forum? --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Matt Dralle Hello Listers, One of the major new additions to the Matronics Email Lists this year was the addition of a new and full function Forum Web Site at: http://forums.matronics.com The best part of these new Forums is that they are tied directly to the Classic email distribution Lists! That also means that posts go in both directions. If you post a message on the Forum web site, it will be cross posted to the respective Email List. And, if you post a message to a particular Email List, it will be cross posted to the same respective forum on the Forum site! So, no matter what your content viewing pleasure is - either direct email distribution or web-based GUI interface, you can have it at the Matronics Email Lists! Won't you make a Contribution to support these Lists? It is your SOLE Contributions that make their continued operation and upgrade possible! The Contribution site is Fast, Easy, and Secure. Please surf over and make your Contribution today: http://www.matronics.com/contribution Thank you!! Matt Dralle Matronics Email List Administrator _- _- _- _- _- _- ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 01:12:09 PM PST US From: lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan) Subject: Pietenpol-List: Magnetic compass --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan) Hi Mike: Good point about the X brace wires. I hadn't even thought about those things. They set just in front of the compass. . Good timing too because next Spring (warm weather) the first thing on my list is to mount the wing, string cables, and make the lift struts. Leon S. Ks. Do not archive. _- _- _- _- _- _- ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 01:51:26 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: 'glass cockpit' and using sectional charts x-country From: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC]" Greg, Oscar, and Group, Flying to Oshkosh and Brodhead from Cleveland I used a simple knee clip board that straps around your thigh. I laid out the sectional charts that I needed, (at home) Scotch taped them together (that means you consume a single malt while going thru this procedure) and drew my course line out. I cut the sectional on either side of my route wide enough to fit the knee board----about 7 inches wide overall. Just folded up the map to fit the 'clipboard' and off you go. Moving the map to the next 'segment' of the map is a bit tricky but you keep a firm grip at all times on the folded chart and keep it low in the cockpit as possible. I really found it to be an easy way to navigate plus it gave you something to do during those long two hour flying legs. It was much more enjoyable in 2005 with Jack Phillips beautiful green and cream Air Camper off my right side flying westbound toward Chicago and then north to Brodhead. (course we both had radios and gps with us so the charts were merely with us for backup, reference, and frequencies.) Oh yes Oscar---about the only glass I have in my cockpit is a magnifying glass in case I loose my reading glasses and need to read the CHART ! Mike C. ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 05:30:19 PM PST US From: shad bell Subject: Pietenpol-List: charts in an open cockpit Hello guys, I found out how "fun" it is to fold and unfold in flight on my trip to "Almost Brodhead" last summer. Flying from centralOhio and using the Chicago sec from central IN was not too bad, but when I had to unfold the chart to flip it to the other side of the chart, ...Man was that funny. No pitch trim and dad is 30-40 lbs hevier and it is set up for him. I have to hold back pressure to keep from diving, but unfolding a map and not letting it blow away is a 2 handed job, as most of you know. I had to power back, pull the nose up 30 degrees hury and try to unfold, look out in a dive, pull up try again etc etc. finnaly got it flipped over and landed at Poplar Grove. The people there must have thought I was a nut because the chart looked like a pair of fringe chaps, and I had to ask to make sure I was where I thought I was, they looked at my map and chuckled a little. I'll do better next time. Hey Mike maybe next year we can fly up togeather, meet at Van Wert and follow rt 30 west. fly safe Shad --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 06:03:46 PM PST US From: "Gene & Tammy" Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: 'glass cockpit' and using sectional charts x-country Mike, Flew my Piet from Thomasville, Ga to Camden, Tn. using the same knee board method with the cut strips of sectional charts. Works great. I did have a cheap hand held GPS as a back up but didn't find I needed it with all of the water towers around. Not long ago I was reading an article in the EAA Sport Mag where the pilot wrote of doing a cross country and wrote about having a sign in his cockpit that reminded him to beware of becoming bored while flying. I could sure tell he wasn't doing HIS crosscountry in a Piet. Gene N502R Tennessee ----- Original Message ----- From: Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC] To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: Pietenpol-List: 'glass cockpit' and using sectional charts x-country Greg, Oscar, and Group, Flying to Oshkosh and Brodhead from Cleveland I used a simple knee clip board that straps around your thigh. I laid out the sectional charts that I needed, (at home) Scotch taped them together (that means you consume a single malt while going thru this procedure) and drew my course line out. I cut the sectional on either side of my route wide enough to fit the knee board----about 7 inches wide overall. Just folded up the map to fit the 'clipboard' and off you go. Moving the map to the next 'segment' of the map is a bit tricky but you keep a firm grip at all times on the folded chart and keep it low in the cockpit as possible. I really found it to be an easy way to navigate plus it gave you something to do during those long two hour flying legs. It was much more enjoyable in 2005 with Jack Phillips beautiful green and cream Air Camper off my right side flying westbound toward Chicago and then north to Brodhead. (course we both had radios and gps with us so the charts were merely with us for backup, reference, and frequencies.) Oh yes Oscar---about the only glass I have in my cockpit is a magnifying glass in case I loose my reading glasses and need to read the CHART ! Mike C. ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 06:17:41 PM PST US From: Jim Markle Subject: Pietenpol-List: Moving maps in an open cockpit --- MIME Errors - No Plain-Text Section Found --- A message with no text/plain MIME section was received. The entire body of the message was removed. Please resend the email using Plain Text formatting. HOTMAIL is notorious for only including an HTML section in their client's default configuration. If you're using HOTMAIL, please see your email application's settings and switch to a default mail option that uses "Plain Text". --- MIME Errors No Plain-Text Section Found --- ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 06:48:20 PM PST US From: "Jim Markle" Subject: Pietenpol-List: Moving maps in Piets... Ok, here's the moving map display I would love to put in my Piet..... Jim Markle Pryor, OK ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 10:47:10 PM PST US From: "Mike Whaley" Subject: Re: [piet] Pietenpol-List: Moving maps in Piets... --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Mike Whaley" Yeah, but having flown in what I think was that very airplane at Brodhead last time around, I can say that if you do that, you oughta make it easily removeable and stowable without any tools... I'm thinking "velcro" here. I am about 6-1 and 230 lbs, and I nearly didn't get in OR out of the plane, and I had to cross my legs underneath the seat the whole time, in large part because that danged "moving map" was right where my left knee needed to be if I sat anywhere close to normally. (It was still a great ride, even if I was wedged in!) Have fun, but make sure such things don't get in the way of utility... I can imagine this also creating a bit of a safety hazard in case an emergency egress is necessary. -Mike Mike Whaley merlin@ov-10bronco.net Webmaster, OV-10 Bronco Association http://www.ov-10bronco.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Markle" Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:47 PM Subject: [piet] Pietenpol-List: Moving maps in Piets... > Ok, here's the moving map display I would love to put in my Piet..... > > Jim Markle > Pryor, OK _- _- _- _- _- _-