---------------------------------------------------------- Yak-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 01/11/09: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:10 AM - Grief (Russ) 2. 05:43 AM - Larry and Forrest (Russ) 3. 09:51 AM - Re: I am Sorry (N642K) 4. 09:51 PM - strange behaviour pressure gauge (Jan Mevis) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:10:10 AM PST US From: "Russ" Subject: Yak-List: Grief DaBear, you did just fine. Loss is personal, some get mad, some get sad, some take walks, others turns to other, others to drink. I told people, I sent flowers with part of this poem attached. FLYER'S PRAYER click here for audio of poem When this life I'm in is done, And at the gates I stand, My hope is that I answer all His questions on command. I doubt He'll ask me of my fame, Or all the things I knew, Instead He'll ask of rainbows sent On rainy days I flew. The hours logged, the status reached, The ratings will not matter, He'll ask me if I saw the rays And how He made them scatter. Or what about the droplets clear, I spread across your screen? And did you see the twinkling eyes, Of student pilots keen? The way your heart jumped in your chest, That special solo day - Did you take time to thank the ones Who fell along the way? Remember how the runway lights Looked one night long ago When you were lost and found your way, And how - you still don't know? How fast, how far, how much, how high? He'll ask me not these things But did I take the time to watch The moonbeams wash my wings? And did you see the patchwork fields And mountains I did mold, The mirrored lakes and velvet hills, Of these did I behold? The wind he flung along my wings, On final almost stalled, And did I know it was His name, That I so fearfully called? And when the goals are reached at last, When all the flying's done, I'll answer Him with no regret - Indeed, I had some fun. So when these things are asked of me, And I can reach no higher, My prayer this day - His hand extends To welcome home a Flyer. by Patrick J. Phillips Time: 12:24:59 AM PST US From: "dabear" Subject: Re: Yak-List: cj down north of fort worth I'm not good with words as most of you know. I've refrained from saying anything for fear of offending anyone. But I want to try and say something. Pappy, thanks for the pictures. I couldn't make the services on Wednesday, I wish I could have been there. To those that gave them a good send off, thank you very, very much. I knew, flew with, and really liked Forest and Larry. They will be missed. I guess I need help. I've lost a lot of friends in aviation over the past few years and I really am at a loss as to how to really deal with it. Some of it my be wondering if I'm next, and how I need to work to minimize that chance. But I don't think that is it. This group of yak pilots have really been special to me. I never thought I'd get to fly a plane the way we do and love to fly. But it is really the clinics, Oshkosh gatherings, and even the phone calls/emails on Friday to see if the local group wants to get together. The comraderie, the sharing, the trust to fly so close to each other. To learn, to share, to laugh with each other. It is that bond that really keeps me coming back. But that closeness really hurts when we lose a friend. I'm not sure i can call Flush a friend, I only knew him from flying with him. But I know I feel the loss. I know he was doing what he really loved to do. I just wish he kept going up out of sight in the end. I'd rather that picture in my mind that the one on the web. They will be missed. Words just don't really have enough meaning... sorry DaBear ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 05:43:45 AM PST US From: "Russ" Subject: Yak-List: Larry and Forrest I was there when Forrest received his wing patch, he was one of the pilots who received that little plastic airplane on a string. Larry and I would stand around and talk about Piper Arrows (he owns one and I flew one alot). These were my buds, people I trusted with my life as a GIB and would have that day. That thought I had to get over was did Forrest have time to tell Larry he was sorry. We each grieve differently, the only thing that is wrong is NOT to grieve. Russ For whom the bell tolls a poem (No man is an island) by John Donne No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manner of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:51:42 AM PST US Subject: Yak-List: Re: I am Sorry From: "N642K" Thanks Fran, I certainly never thought you meant any harm. You're always welcome here. Mike DeCanio Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=224064#224064 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 09:51:12 PM PST US From: "Jan Mevis" Subject: Yak-List: strange behaviour pressure gauge We=92ve had some unusually cold weather here in Western Europe (-20 degrees celsius in Namur, Belgium). I don=92t know if there=92s any correlation, but the needle of the main pressure gauge in my Yak 50 is now in the other half of the instrument (at the side of the emergency pressure indicator) at about two o=92clock. Emergency pressure is still at the normal 60 kg/cm=B2. The aircraft was last flown at the end of december 2008, just before the extremely cold weather. And at that time everything was normal. I have depleted the main pressure system completely. The needle moved back to the left a little, and stopped at about 11 o=92clock. The amount of motion to the left of the needle when depleting could correspond with a presence of about 30 kg/cm=B2 in the main circuit (quite normal in my Yak 50 after some time). I charged again until I heard the relief valve. I know that this corresponds with 50 kg/cm=B2, but the needle of the main pressure was again at two o=92clock. Of course the instrument may be broken, but even stranger: in the same hangar we have a Yak 52 WITH EXACTLY THE SAME PHENOMENON. In this 52, the needle of the main pressure is also at about two o=92clock. Although the pressure on this aircraft must have been relatively normal, because we could start it without difficulties. Has anyone seen this before ? 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