timwinters
Ejection Handle Pulled
I spent all day cleaning up a couple of rather large oak trees that were struck by lightning earlier in the spring and split in half. Having a nice skidsteer (case 1845) around the "farm" is very handy and with a grapple rake attachment it makes short work of many tasks including cutting/splitting wood.
Skidsteers are also a lot of fun to operate and are quite nimble...if you know what you're doing. If you don't, the short coupled little bastards will beat you to death. One must be smooth and sometime operate it counter-intuitively to keep it from becoming a bucking bronc. It's definitely a machine that's prone to PIO. (Or OIO as the case may be).
So, that got me to thinking today.
I've never had a problem with PIO in airplanes. Is that possibly due to the fact that I was familiar with skidsteers and knew how to operate them smoothly before learning to fly?
Or is it just because the two planes that I've logged 99% of my time in, a 172 & 182, both straight tails, aren't prone to PIO?
Skidsteers are also a lot of fun to operate and are quite nimble...if you know what you're doing. If you don't, the short coupled little bastards will beat you to death. One must be smooth and sometime operate it counter-intuitively to keep it from becoming a bucking bronc. It's definitely a machine that's prone to PIO. (Or OIO as the case may be).
So, that got me to thinking today.
I've never had a problem with PIO in airplanes. Is that possibly due to the fact that I was familiar with skidsteers and knew how to operate them smoothly before learning to fly?
Or is it just because the two planes that I've logged 99% of my time in, a 172 & 182, both straight tails, aren't prone to PIO?