Dalhart, TX

sounds expensive. perhaps we just need an RC UAV repeater.

Gordon Boettger has started using a Sat Phone for reporting in and getting weather updates on his long (2000 km or so) wave flights in the sierras.

Back in the good old days when they didn't have radios the crew would just set out in the predetermined direction and read the sky the best they could to try to decide which way they thought the pilot would go. Then when pilot would land he would phone a 3rd party and when the crew decided to stop and call in they would find out how close they were.
 
Oh, I was thinking you'd find some dummy who'd do it for free, just to have a "mission"... you know, like some idiot in Colorado with a 182... who likes radios... and owns an oxygen bottle... LOL!
 
sounds like a plan nate :)

perhaps the next time i want to fly west i'll give you a call. i'll try to land at or near an airport, you can fly me back to wichita and i can go retrieve myself :)
 
tonycondon said:
sounds like a plan nate :)

perhaps the next time i want to fly west i'll give you a call. i'll try to land at or near an airport, you can fly me back to wichita and i can go retrieve myself :)
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I'd do it! I bet there's other folks here who would too... more interesting than $100 hamburger run... to Sydney, Pueblo, or Greeley... over and over and over... hahaha...
 
OR put a hook on that 182 like it should have and you can just tow me back to Wichita :)
 
tonycondon said:
OR put a hook on that 182 like it should have and you can just tow me back to Wichita :)
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Heh... not sure what the co-owners would say about that... but CAP added a hook to one of their 182s out here for their glider program...
 
it's a stock cessna part, just screws into the tail tie down hole. Doesn't require anymore than an A&P signature. The hard part is finding one...
 
The release mechanism handle has to be installed inside, though. I heard that on the CAP bird, that was the part that needed a sign-off. The hook was the easy part.
 
Ha... cool. I guess CAP went with something fancier. Probably STC'd or 337'd into the airplane... I'm pretty sure they put a release handle on the floor between the seats, but I haven't seen the installation yet.
 
for something being used regularly towing, yes an in cockpit handle is probably a good idea. all the club and commercial towplanes i have ever seen/flown have something inside. Probably a 337 for approval, shouldn't be that difficult.

But for you, a string will work fine. :)
 
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