MBDiagMan
En-Route
If it weren’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any at all. Long story short, I finally passed my instrument written and sent my manual landing gear Mooney to the Avionics shop for a 345. Was ready to get it back and fly my butt off until the instrument checkride. Before getting the Mooney back from the shop, I tripped and broke the fall with my right arm. Fast forward to today’s orthopedist visit and I have to have surgery on my shoulder. Retracting the manual gear is now a virtual impossibility. Well, not exactly correct. I have retracted it with the bad shoulder, but it set the shoulder on fire.
So.... there’s my Cessna 140. A 140 for the IR training? Absurd you say? Well maybe not as much as you think. It was restored by someone who put in more engine, a vacuum pump and a custom made panel that has a six pack and centerstack. It has two VORs, one LOC and one LOC/GS. When the plane was built, the guy gave it to his wife for her birthday and she got her IR in it. I bought it with the idea of getting mine in it, then got my Mooney which changed choice of plane for the mission. Now that I can no longer fly the Mooney, I am looking again to the little 140 to step up for the task. When I proposed this to an instructor friend of mine he said “why not?”
I’m not anxious to fly actual in it, but it might have to do for my IR trainer.
I know there will be those of you to claim that I’m crazy, but it won’t be the first time.
So.... there’s my Cessna 140. A 140 for the IR training? Absurd you say? Well maybe not as much as you think. It was restored by someone who put in more engine, a vacuum pump and a custom made panel that has a six pack and centerstack. It has two VORs, one LOC and one LOC/GS. When the plane was built, the guy gave it to his wife for her birthday and she got her IR in it. I bought it with the idea of getting mine in it, then got my Mooney which changed choice of plane for the mission. Now that I can no longer fly the Mooney, I am looking again to the little 140 to step up for the task. When I proposed this to an instructor friend of mine he said “why not?”
I’m not anxious to fly actual in it, but it might have to do for my IR trainer.
I know there will be those of you to claim that I’m crazy, but it won’t be the first time.