Who Went Flying Today? 1/1/2013

Geico266

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Happy New Year!

Your Hobbs meter went to zero last night at midnight!

Who went flying today!???

I'm headed to the airport right now before the big game. It's 6F. :mad2:
 
I have a new student this afternoon. He's starting the year off right!
 
Not much flying here. When I went out for the paper the birds were walking.
 
The lease on one of my B200's ran out at midnight. I was there at 6AM to pick it up and bring it home to my workshop. It needs a bit of work to be ready for another customer. Maybe more than a bit.
 
N801BH said:
It's -13 f here.... I will wait an hour or so.. That way the hangar door will "unglue" itself from the concrete....
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Well, :mad:

I get to the airport and try and open the door and cables came off the pulley. :mad:

Game starts in an hour! :goofy:

I'll fix the door his afternoon, then go flying.


Good on all the pilots who flew the first day of the year!!!!
 
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Atlanta GA (Atlanta Rgnl Falcon Field) [KFFC] automated hourly observation on the 1st at 10:53am EST (1553Z)
wind 330° at 3 knots, visibility 2 1/2 miles, light rain, mist, 600 feet overcast, temperature 11°C (52°F), dewpoint 10°C (50°F), altimeter 30.10, automated station with precipitation discriminator, rain began at 9:54am EST (1454Z), ceiling variable from 400 feet to 900 feet, sea level pressure 30.11" Hg (1019.6 hPa), less than 0.01 inch (water equivalent) of precipitation in the previous hour, temperature 11.1°C (52.0°F), dewpoint 10.0°C (50.0°F).

No flying for me today. :(
 
I'm planning a flight this afternoon. A guy from my ferry commute who is a boater (Farallon 22) wants to go up here in the Bay Area, any destination suggestions?
 
Crack of dawn, Fat Albert roared down the runway (** well, as much roaring as 150 horses can do) and leapt into the sky (see ** for visual imagery of the leapt'ing).
The fat boy and his owner/sidekick did the obligatory 3 times up and down and we are now good for (* pick your time period) in 2013.
After all it has been 2 days since I flew so I needed the practice..

First time was a normal pattern and a half flap landing.
Second was tighter and 70% flap with steeper approach.
Third time was really tight, roll it up on the wing, full flaps, chop the throttle, and bombs away directly at the numbers. (darn, that's fun)

As I walked into the pilot lounge, one of the usual suspects says, "Well, are you finished? Is it safe for me to go out now?"
"mmmm yup!" I hitched up my belt on one side and did my best Rooster Cogburn walk to the coffee pot. (well, he was a man of few words.)
 
Meh. One of our staff called in "sick", which meant Mary became the housekeeper, which meant I became the desk staff.

Since this is pretty easy duty compared to what I had planned (sheetrocking, taping, floating), I can't complain. Got a bunch of year-end tax stuff done, too.

Flying will have to wait. Again. :mad2:
 
started snowin about the time I got to the hangar.... Thank god for POA to waste the afternoon away...... :sigh:
 
I had the time today, but sat around cursing 600-800 ovc w/snow flurries. I made it to the airport yesterday with the intention of adding to my xc time, but a couple instructors who had just came back clued me in on some ugly turbulance. Just didn't feel like subjecting myself to that on a fun flight.

It looks like good wx Saturday, so I'll try again.

On a side note, I'm finding out what it means to be an owner. I joined a club in May and have only had good wx so far. I went from a huge heated hangar (flight school) with airport maintenance clearing the snow and ice last year to doing it myself now. They did push the big snow away, but the ice and slop was my problem. Plus, we're in an old T-hangar and the ice/snow laying on the roof caused the cross support to sink a bit. I got the smaller bi-fold door open, but couldn't get it closed. I was informed by another member that "that happens sometimes in the winter". Even on the ground, I'm learning something new every time I get out there.
 
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I went out and got 2.9 doing slow flight and different approaches. Did some glass panel failure exercises. Was 79 here in Florida. Calm when I took off this morning and 5 G 15 this afternoon. Great day
 
Wind was 16G20, a little high for light sport. I opted for beer and cleaning the garage. The weather is great now and I wished I'd have waited and gone flying...
 
Jay Honeck said:
Meh. One of our staff called in "sick", which meant Mary became the housekeeper, which meant I became the desk staff.

Since this is pretty easy duty compared to what I had planned (sheetrocking, taping, floating), I can't complain. Got a bunch of year-end tax stuff done, too.

Flying will have to wait. Again. :mad2:
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I saw this thread and thought "Good idea, the drywall can wait" and went to the airport.

Top off the fuel, preheat, climb in, crank, nothing. Crank, nothing. The battery is not exactly a spring chicken, it hasn't been fired up for a few weeks, and the Rotax doesn't have an "impulse" so if it doesn't crank fast enough, it won't start.

Tie it down, chock the wheels, one flip and it's running. Yea!

A short jaunt over the house, four trips around the pattern, 0.8 on the hobbs.

Then it was back to the drywall.

Oh, yea, there were even some goofballs out in boats on the river (sez the guy who has an airplane with no heat...)
 
I tried but my hangar door was iced up so bad it was just not gonna happen.
 
Yes, it was a perfect day to fly in SE Mich! :yes:

My CFII and I finally did the mock checkride, 2.0 hours logged. I actually blew my first try at the partial panel VOR approach because I tried to use the compass and got confused by erroneous readings due to turbulence (it felt like springtime out there!). When I finally got established it was too late to come down to MDA. The second time I just used the GPS, and nailed it. Lesson: use the GPS for now, I'm not good enough for compass turns in a tight vectored environment like FNT.
 
Went up with a CFII today and did 6 practice approaches etc. Makes it really easy to keep track of 6 month currency requirements.
 
I tried. The plane is still(since the saturday before Christmas when my PFD died) in the mechanics hangar, in pieces, well the cowl is off, and the new PFD for the G1000 still has not yet been programmed(I do not think the avionics guys knows what he is doing), and the annual is still being done(waiting for a new ELT battery, and new brakes), and well you get the idea. So I visited the plane for a few, spoke to the mechanic he was doing paper work, felt not a bit better. So I took the boat out. Got to the harbor, and the port engine overheated, and so went home. The year is just starting on the wrong foot for me. Hopefully, the plane will be ready by the weekend. Not holding my breath.
 
Weather sucked here today, rain and low clouds all day, definately not a day to be flying for fun! :no: I'll fly this weekend for sure, gotta have Charlene at the paint shop Monday morning! :yes:
 
Wonder of wonder, the Seattle skies were sunny today (save for piddling batches of fog here and there). Got up in the Fly Baby for 1+ hour, breaking in a Christmas present (replica WWII RAF flying scarf). Temperature 38F. My face is a bit warm tonight, either sunburn or frostbite.

Ron Wanttaja
 
Two hours on the tach, 10 aero tows. Eleven landings counting the warmup flight.
A lot of up and down, highest tow was 2700 AGL. Sled rides all, 5-10 knt north breeze, not enough for the local ridge to work. It was cold, about 43F when I started, no heat in the Pawnee.
 
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