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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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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 $5.00 US for these girls
to build time. She now has a Cherokee available as well, provides free groundschool
on the field for anyone interested, makes the club house available for
birthday parties, special events and even yoga. Predictably there is now an
abundance of young involved people (a group of girls stripped and painted the
150 recently).
Jill has certainly inspired me to do similar things on my field but I need to remind
myself that I'll have to find the energy that Jill seems to have an abundance
of. She is quite the amazing person and a real advocate for our passion
of aviation.
Scott Knowlton
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> Wait. Did you say Jill Oakes? Did she fly her Piet down from Canada, eh? Last
I heard she was making some repairs to it. Quite the inspiration, that pilot!
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> Oscar Zuniga
> Medford, OR
> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
> A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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If I remember correctly, Jill bought a set of brass data plates from me a while
back. I'll have to ask her if she has them installed on her Piet.
I was also pleased and happy to read Bob Coolbaugh's writeup in the newest BPA
Newsletter, where he recounts his hopping around the country in his beautiful
"New Piet", Two-Two-Victor Yankee. I sold Bob a set of tail surface hinges a
while back, so I may email him to see how they are working out. Sounds like he's
putting plenty of time on them!
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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| Subject: | no radio, no fly |
Well, I tried. After months of not flying, I decided today would be the day no
matter what. I was wrong. The @#$%& 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.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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| Subject: | Re: no radio, no fly |
Nice.... Sooner or later someone will power a Pietenpol with ELECTRICS and they'll
be in real tough shape if their batteries die!!!!!
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Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home)
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| Subject: | Re: no radio, no fly |
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.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power, 72x36 Culver prop
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