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1. 02:31 AM - List Contributors Lagging By 38%... (Matt Dralle)
2. 04:28 AM - Hangar Space (FamilyGage@aol.com)
3. 07:53 AM - GREAT suggestion (Barry Hancock)
4. 02:51 PM - ICAS (cpayne@joimail.com)
5. 08:42 PM - Windscreen full of.... (Barry Hancock)
6. 09:37 PM - Re: Windscreen full of.... (cjpilot710@aol.com)
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| Subject: | List Contributors Lagging By 38%... |
--> Yak-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Dear Listers,
The percentage of people making a Contribution to support the Lists this
year is currently lagging behind last year by approximately 38%! I'm
hoping that everyone is just waiting until the last minute to show their
support... ;-)
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--> Yak-List message posted by: FamilyGage@aol.com
I have a friend that has a large empty hangar on a paved taxiway that is
available. Let me know, and I will put you in touch. It is in Spruce Creek
which is about five miles SW of Daytona Beach.
Ray Gage
PS
Isn't it wonderful to live in a free country. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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| Subject: | GREAT suggestion |
--> Yak-List message posted by: Barry Hancock <barry@flyredstar.org>
On Nov 25, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Jill wrote:
> 1. Rather than dealing with the soggy mess of finding air leaks with
> soapy water
> or the expense (about $750.00) of an ultrasonic unit that the HVAC
> guys use,
> trot down to Radio Shack or similar staore and buy an audio amplifier
> ($25)
> and good pair of headsets ($16) to detect the whoosh of escaping air.
> This tip
> was given to me by one of my customers and when I dig out the
> reference I will
> credit him properly. He initially used it to detect a bad seal in one
> of
> his landing gear actuators.
I have used something similar once and it is AMAZING how accurate and
quick this is. The setup I used was even cheaper...a stethoscope with
just a clear plastic tube. No mess and will take you to the scene of
the crime much, much quicker than soapy water.
Barry
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--> Yak-List message posted by: "cpayne@joimail.com" <cpayne@joimail.com>
Barry,
I hear you will be attending ICAS. Terry Calloway has a box
of brochures I put together, about 98 of them I think, and a
flip chart notebook for the Team Red table. After all Team
Red is part of the RedStar Pilots...that's the handle I put
on groups of us doing mass formation flights at for-pay
airshows. I'm not sure where you will hang out at ICAS but
if you get the chance talk this up.
I hope to work leads into an offer and then bring in the
affected RC for a buy-in and committment, a handoff if you
would. My estimate is we could handle 3-4 such gigs per
season in each region. Not too many because there is always
lots of other things to do.
I am also touting a new formation act, the RedStar Racers,
I'll forward a description of the scenarios I am scripting
to test up at Waycross. This is rather specialized formation
flying and kicks up the SA and stick skill req'd a notch.
Not everyone can do this so I'm looking for a "few good
sticks" in the regions who are up for the challenge.
Craig Payne
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| Subject: | Windscreen full of.... |
--> Yak-List message posted by: Barry Hancock <radialpower@cox.net>
Gang,
Something, well more than one something, happened today that I thought
would be worth mentioning. After 10 days of T-28 and L-39 flying (yep,
passed my checkout on Wednesday!) I saddled up the CJ today to get the
long look off of her face and headed down to French Valley to meet up
with Buzzard for a nice lunch and some afternoon jousting above Pauma
Valley.
First was my arrival into French Valley....a few planes in the pattern,
one on the upwind, one on final. I called a two mile initial and the
spacing was perfect! The plane on final was about half way through the
touchdown roll when I hit the break...at that very moment "Cessna
blankety-blank is position and hold, runway 18" by this time I was
gear and flaps down turning in from the perch. In a slightly annoyed
tone "Yak 8 Charlie Juliet is going around" "Uh, sorry Yak, I didn't
know you were going to be that tight." Well, no problem, I can
understand that. Besides, a CJ spools up a little quicker than an
L-39. :) On the upwind two more planes enter the pattern - one on the
45, the other a mid-field over the top. I extend my upwind to make
spacing for the slower traffic and turn cross wind. Then a Doctor
Killer calls in says he's a few to the west and is entering over the
top, too. Now, the radio has sounded like an afternoon drive talk show
for a good two minutes by this point and as I'm turning downwind I see
the Bonanza bombing in. I tell him I have him in sight and to fall in
behind me...what does he do? Turns downwind about 1000 feet inside the
traffic pattern! Seeing a big FUBAR I call that I'm breaking out of
the pattern to the east...time to let these other guys run into each
other, err, sort it out, and I'll come back in a few minutes.
So I re-enter on the 45 a minute later to find 3 planes doing touch and
goes and a flight of 3 RV's on initial. I was beginning to think there
was some sort of pre-Oshkosh arrival practice going on! So, as I slide
into position in the pattern, I'm behind a C-152, of course! Gear out,
flaps out, 150 kph....and the Spammer decides he's training to land a
747 and needs a 3 mile final!!!! I had two choices at this
point...scream, or laugh. Well, no since dying mad, so I laughed and
S-turned my way down final as the C-152 used 2500 feet to get off the
friggin' runway! Over? Not quite. After clearing the runway (I was
the only one in this whole entire mess that I heard call clear of the
runway) I was taxing into a row and....yep, here comes a Cherokee down
the same row. Too funny. As I was walking up the ramp the Dr. Killer
driver comes up to me and says "hey, was that you I cut off in the
pattern?" Classic!
Later, after Buzzard and I were done with our fun, we split off and
headed our respective directions for home. ATIS at Chino was
"Visibility 3 miles, sky partially obscured." Well, being a CNO
resident, I know full well that they compute their 3 miles a little
differently.... 1.5 this way and 1.5 that way is 3! I'l spare you all
the details, but I passed this guy about 4 miles from the airport, got
the overhead approved, and even received landing clearance prior to the
break. In the break the controller changes his mind and tells me to
extend downwind and I'd be #3 behind Cherokee ILS traffic....that was 4
miles out!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH! Meanwhile he tells the guy I had passed
earlier in the Saratoga he's cleared to land #1 "Uh, Saratoga blah blah
blah, we've lost the airport" "Roger, head west about 2 miles and you
should see the runway" At this point I've got the gear in the wells
and am looking for the ILS traffic, then back to the airport,
then....AHEAD! Filling my windscreen is a SARATOGA! Literally
co-altitude and less than 300 feet. "Uh, Yak 8 Charlie Juliet, traffic
in your vicinity, 12 o'clock and less than a mile!" By the time he had
the "Uh" out, I had buried the stick in the forward right corner to
avoid the mid-air. We passed at less than 50 feet. "8 Charlie Juliet,
thanks for saving my butt! Tell that Saratoga the airport is to his
left, he almost killed all of us." "Roger, Saratoa blah blah blah, do
you have the airport in sight?" "Uh, yeah" "Can you make a right base
entry from there?" "Uh, what?" "Saratoga blah blah blah, LAND NOW!"
Morals of the story? 1) I'm not so sure about letting good
restaurants locate at uncontrolled airports. 2) Even at a controlled
airport you never know when someone will be coming the wrong way down a
one way street. That yahoo is lucky I didn't have my flare gun
loaded.... 3) People who shouldn't fly, fly Pipers?
So, it's a day late, but I'm thankful....just to be writing this post
on the Yak-list. Life is good, because it's still here.... :)
Barry
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| Subject: | Re: Windscreen full of.... |
--> Yak-List message posted by: cjpilot710@aol.com
The airspace to the east of our airpark is filled with "Humphy Dittles" who
think they too are flying 747s. They fill the patterns of just about every
airport with in 30nm of DAB. They are even building a "jet center" at X47 plus
a
year or so ago they set up a satellite base at DED (This has two really nice
restaurants on it). Well, there went the neighbor hood. The radio freq
122.85 is constantly filled with their instructors transmitting their position,
altitude, and what maneuver they are practicing. Thank God our airpark is under
a MOA, which they seem to treat like a restricted area. Maybe that a good
thing for the F-18, S3 and occasional B-1B would be eating them for lunch on a
regular bases. I'd really hate to lose a F-18. One good thing, with their
glutenous use of the freq, I can practice running intercepts. Most never see me
coming.
Jim "Pappy" Goolsby
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