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Re: my career as a pilot
Andrew, on host 62.97.2.33
Monday, September 18, 2006, at 10:07:18
my career as a pilot posted by Howard on Thursday, September 14, 2006, at 18:20:30:
> My lessons were usually in a Piper J3 Cub
One of these, built in 1935, is actually owned by my flight school since 1947. Is a beautiful bright-yellow plane, equipped with a 65hp engine.
Unlike the Cessna 172s, the engine is hand-started (i.e. the pilot turns on the magnetos, engages the primer and a mechanic spins the propeller by hand until the engine starts). It has a VHF radio, the mandatory transponder and a battery that, every night, is recharged because the engine is not powerful enough to install a generator...
It's fun to fly over a highway at 70Mph and see that your plane is slower than the road traffic...
> Taking off and flying around was easy for me, but I never got the hang of landing.
Well, I don't think that three hours logged are enought to learn how to land a tailwheel! Tailwheels are the trickiest things to land... I needed 10hrs logged to learn to land properly a Cessna 172 (as my instructor says, it's a plane that almost lands by itself).
A.
What I will fly tomorrow...
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