Pietenpol-List Digest Archive

Sun 07/31/16


Total Messages Posted: 5



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     1. 07:23 AM - Re: Re: OSH (Scott Knowlton)
     2. 09:46 AM - Re: OSH (taildrags)
     3. 02:52 PM - no radio, no fly (taildrags)
     4. 05:54 PM - Re: no radio, no fly (aerocarjake)
     5. 08:16 PM - Re: no radio, no fly (taildrags)
 
 
 


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    Time: 07:23:11 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: OSH
    From: Scott Knowlton <flyingscott_k@hotmail.com>
    Oscar and all Jill Oakes is one amazingly inspiring person to meet. She is based at a small grass strip outside of Winnipeg Manitoba. I'm sure most of you share my view that there isn't enough young blood at our little grass fields. I complain that at 52 I'm the "kid" on our strip and pine for more involvement of younger people on our field. While I complain about the lack of youth Jill arranges a Cessna 150 on her field to be flown by the 99s (women in aviation) as a time builder for $20.00 and hour. That's Canadian!!! That's like $5.00 US for these girls to build time. She now has a Cherokee available as well, provides free groundschool on the field for anyone interested, makes the club house available for birthday parties, special events and even yoga. Predictably there is now an abundance of young involved people (a group of girls stripped and painted the 150 recently). Jill has certainly inspired me to do similar things on my field but I need to remind myself that I'll have to find the energy that Jill seems to have an abundance of. She is quite the amazing person and a real advocate for our passion of aviation. Scott Knowlton > On Jul 30, 2016, at 10:55 PM, taildrags <taildrags@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Wait. Did you say Jill Oakes? Did she fly her Piet down from Canada, eh? Last I heard she was making some repairs to it. Quite the inspiration, that pilot! > > -------- > Oscar Zuniga > Medford, OR > Air Camper NX41CC &quot;Scout&quot; > A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=458942#458942 > > > > > > > > > >


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    Time: 09:46:56 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: OSH
    From: "taildrags" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
    If I remember correctly, Jill bought a set of brass data plates from me a while back. I'll have to ask her if she has them installed on her Piet. I was also pleased and happy to read Bob Coolbaugh's writeup in the newest BPA Newsletter, where he recounts his hopping around the country in his beautiful "New Piet", Two-Two-Victor Yankee. I sold Bob a set of tail surface hinges a while back, so I may email him to see how they are working out. Sounds like he's putting plenty of time on them! -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC &quot;Scout&quot; A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=458973#458973


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    Time: 02:52:22 PM PST US
    Subject: no radio, no fly
    From: "taildrags" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
    Well, I tried. After months of not flying, I decided today would be the day no matter what. I was wrong. The @#$%& battery pack and contacts on my ancient little Icom IC-A23 just couldn't make good enough contact for the radio to work and I'm based on a tower-controlled field. I did the next best thing I could though, which was to clean the windscreens, give the airplane a complete preflight, top off the oil, and fire it up. Started pretty easily. I taxied out to the pump and put 9.0 in the tank to top it off, then had a bit of a time getting it started again because I flooded it. I've learned to watch out when it's hot or it will flood. Got it started, taxied back to the hangar, and let the engine get good and warm. Ran it up for about 10 minutes, up and down in irregular stages through the RPM from idle to full static power, tested carb heat and mags (everything good), and finally shut it down after getting the oil nice and warm. At least now the airplane is ready to pull out of the hangar and fly whenever I can get the radio back in service. I should probably just buy a better/newer COM or maybe go ahead and mount a battery in the airplane to provide power to the Icom through the external power jack instead of using the AA cell piggyback pack. There are 8 dry cells in series in the pack, so that's a lot of contacts for the current to flow through and a lot of contacts that have to be sparkling clean to get best power out of it. Radios and wires take a lot of the fun out of simple airplanes like this. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC &quot;Scout&quot; A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=458992#458992


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    Time: 05:54:31 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: no radio, no fly
    From: "aerocarjake" <flight.jake@gmail.com>
    Nice.... Sooner or later someone will power a Pietenpol with ELECTRICS and they'll be in real tough shape if their batteries die!!!!! -------- Jake Schultz - curator, Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=458998#458998


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    Time: 08:16:15 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: no radio, no fly
    From: "taildrags" <taildrags@hotmail.com>
    Actually, I've got everything figured out and was going to install it years ago but my interest faded. I have a fairly small and light UPS battery that I was going to wire to a simple 3-way cigarette lighter jack that I got at one of the auto supply places so I could plug in the portable intercom, GPS, or anything else I wanted to keep from hard-wiring. I have a windshield washer pump for the smoke system and was going to permanently install that unit and hard-wire it through a fuse and a spring-loaded toggle switch on the panel so I could reach it with a finger on my throttle hand when I want smoke. The battery will be constant loss since my airplane has no electrics, and I would keep it on a trickle charge while in the hangar. I have the charger for it already. What I don't have is the interest in adding "stuff" to my airplane, although I may just bungee the UPS battery into the front seat and wire a 12VDC power plug into it to power up the handheld to see how that's going to work. It should do the trick, although as I say, I'm overdue for a proper handheld and should look for one and be done with it. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC &quot;Scout&quot; A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=459003#459003




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