---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 12/06/15: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:41 PM - Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying (taildrags) 2. 08:32 PM - Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying (dgaldrich) 3. 10:24 PM - Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying (taildrags) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:41:00 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying From: "taildrags" That works out to one every 36 seconds, Steve. Now I know you're in Texas, but even *that* is stretching the brag just a little bit. You can't count every skip and porpoise as a touch-n-go ;o) I had a lot of fun one morning when I was getting checked out in a Cub here in Oregon, back when we used to have a crosswind runway 09-27 across our main runway, 14-32. Nobody else in the pattern, essentially no wind, and my instructor had us flying sort of a figure-8 pattern from the departure end of 14, over to the approach end of 27, touch-n-go to the approach end of 32, and doing that over and over. Full-stall landings, wheel landings, max performance takeoffs, short/soft field approaches, for a little over an hour. I'll bet I logged 15 landings, although many of them only slowed to a roll on landing and weren't full stop. My instructor that day was air ambulance pilot and good friend Mike Newlun, and he is what we used to call in Texas "a tall drink of water", so there wasn't much view of the instruments from the rear cockpit where I was flying. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450768#450768 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:32:40 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying From: "dgaldrich" Oscar, how on earth did he fold himself into the front seat to start with? He must have extra joints in his legs... Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450789#450789 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 10:24:35 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: OT not Pietenpol but flying From: "taildrags" Dave; you don't understand Mike Newlun. His daily driver is a 1970s VW Bug, so he probably has extra joints built into his legs already. He used to own a Luscombe, so he has always been a "vintage" taildragger pilot and used to a little bit of wiggling to get in. I never noticed him hesitate after propping the Cub, walking around the struts to the door, and climbing in. You just do it. Mike also checked me out in a Super Cub up here and he taught me some tricks about flying them in and out of short, soft, unimproved, and one-way strips. Not as much as you learn in Alaska, but I think I could hold my own in most basic flying situations in a Cub or Super Cub and have a lot of fun trying it. The one thing I still wish I could do is fly one on floats. I've read the books, I've watched the videos, and I'm just itching to try operating an airplane on floats... perhaps even getting three letters added to my pilot certification: "sea". Now you know why I had a set of plans for the Muktuk homebuilt floats that I lent to Dick Navratil to build at Sun 'n' Fun. I could at least see *somebody* finish a set of floats and fly them. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450790#450790 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message pietenpol-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Pietenpol-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/pietenpol-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/pietenpol-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.