I really fly.......
Melting Slicks
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From: Yuma CO
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Was taking lessons at the local glider port until it just got too expensive for my budget. Boy was that fun though!!!! Searching for updrafts to ride back up to 10,000 ft. and playing in the sky 'til you need altitude again. Just the stick and two pedals along with a gauge or two and so very quiet. It was very relaxing and very exhilarating at the same time!!
Loved it!!
DSTURBD
Loved it!!
DSTURBD
Team Owner
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From: Hillsborough NC
NC Events Coordinator
Was taking lessons at the local glider port until it just got too expensive for my budget. Boy was that fun though!!!! Searching for updrafts to ride back up to 10,000 ft. and playing in the sky 'til you need altitude again. Just the stick and two pedals along with a gauge or two and so very quiet. It was very relaxing and very exhilarating at the same time!!
Melting Slicks
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From: Yuma CO
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Have fun!!Being truly a bird was the coolest thing I've ever done.....by far!!
DSTURBD
Instructor
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From: Guntersville Alabama
I flew for years, this was my last aircraft. First picture is when I bought it and the condition it was in, last picture is the day I sold it to a German guy. Hated to see that old Beach Staggerwing go down that runway, but there us always another one somewhere.
RS
RS
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From: Northern Illinois
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Pro
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From: West Plano TX
Was taking lessons at the local glider port until it just got too expensive for my budget. Boy was that fun though!!!! Searching for updrafts to ride back up to 10,000 ft. and playing in the sky 'til you need altitude again. Just the stick and two pedals along with a gauge or two and so very quiet. It was very relaxing and very exhilarating at the same time!!
Loved it!!
DSTURBD
Loved it!!
DSTURBD
Le Mans Master
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From: Pueblo, CO
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 2012
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From: IOWA!!!
yep i fly
We like to do a little formation flying too when we get a group together.
I like to fly low in the red FRC. Nice Beech!
Steve
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Melting Slicks
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From: Yuma CO
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I took sailplane lessons back in the day. My instructor was cool he flew aerobatic compitition and when lesson time was up he would say now we have fun. A loop in a glider is one of the coolest things. You dive for speed the wind sound gets loud and pull back. As you go over the top most of the speed is gone and it's real quiet inside then the speed and wind sound comes back real fast as you come down the back of the loop.
DSTURBD
Drifting
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From: Olmsted Falls Ohio
St. Jude Donor '12 thru '24
Nice V-Tail. You don't see those much anymore.
Commercial / Instrument / MEL
Repairmans Certificate
Have owned a C-150, C-172, C-182, Piper PA-180, Mooney M20J/201, built and flew a Long-EZ. Have time in Piper Twin-Commanche, C-210, Piper Cub, Glasair III, most single-engine Pipers.
Part-time corporate in C414, C421, Aerostar 700P
Wife had a LTA/Balloon.
Commercial / Instrument / MEL
Repairmans Certificate
Have owned a C-150, C-172, C-182, Piper PA-180, Mooney M20J/201, built and flew a Long-EZ. Have time in Piper Twin-Commanche, C-210, Piper Cub, Glasair III, most single-engine Pipers.
Part-time corporate in C414, C421, Aerostar 700P
Wife had a LTA/Balloon.
Instructor
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 147
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From: Chandler AZ
Flying?
Haven't been an active pilot in many years, but back in the day...
I learned and got my license, like most people, in Cessna 152 and 172's. Bought a Mooney 201 in 1981 and put about 400-500 hours in it. The Mooney was the "Porsche" of airplanes, sleek, fast and fit like a glove.
A then bought a Maule M6, the Ford pickup of airplanes. Short take off and landing, with a stall speed of 42 mph. Lots of short field, back country flying.
Along the way, I joined the Civil Air Patrol which is charged with most of the search work for downed private aircraft. Most of our flying was done at 500 agl, or "lowflying".
Later joined the Maricopa Sheriff's Air Posse', a volunteer group that flew for the sheriff, before he got his own helicopter. Search and Rescue, surveillance, transporting Deputies, drug searches, lots of good flying, mostly at 300-500 ft.
Which explains the Corvette Forum "handle", along with my license plate "LOFLYIN"
Ken Edney
Chandler, AZ
I learned and got my license, like most people, in Cessna 152 and 172's. Bought a Mooney 201 in 1981 and put about 400-500 hours in it. The Mooney was the "Porsche" of airplanes, sleek, fast and fit like a glove.
A then bought a Maule M6, the Ford pickup of airplanes. Short take off and landing, with a stall speed of 42 mph. Lots of short field, back country flying.
Along the way, I joined the Civil Air Patrol which is charged with most of the search work for downed private aircraft. Most of our flying was done at 500 agl, or "lowflying".
Later joined the Maricopa Sheriff's Air Posse', a volunteer group that flew for the sheriff, before he got his own helicopter. Search and Rescue, surveillance, transporting Deputies, drug searches, lots of good flying, mostly at 300-500 ft.
Which explains the Corvette Forum "handle", along with my license plate "LOFLYIN"
Ken Edney
Chandler, AZ