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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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Sounds like a good flight BDC, way to go!
"Aviation Nation" the airshow out as Nellis is this weekend, but I stopped going a few years ago. The last time I went it took over two hours to get from the parking area, onto a bus and to the base. Not worth it for me.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Nov 11, 2012 - 06:54pm PT
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Photo I took a couple months ago at the Reno Air Races.
A few weeks later at NASA Ames.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 11, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
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Vegasclimber- I'm really fortunate to have an older instructor who just happens to be a climber (Vedauwoo), too! He worked his way through University of Wyoming some 30 years ago by giving flying lessons and piloting the C-206 for skydivers. The guy's also a local High School Science teacher and Vice Principal, so we get along very well on our flights. He's a fountain of very cool geological information as we overfly some interesting formations.
This coming week: Chandelles, 55 degree bank steep turns, 180 degree power off accuracy landings, and lazy eights on pylons.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:27pm PT
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Bump for aviation and skydiving!
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sempervirens
climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 01:07pm PT
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Hey Brokedown,
Thats very cool, getting your commercial and IFR.
I'm still just a wannabe dreaming of aviating.
How is the 2-hour cross country night flight requirement different from the requirments for the private pilot certificate? It doesn't sound that different since the private also has night and cross country flight requirements.
Anyway, way to get after! TFPU!
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 14, 2012 - 07:20pm PT
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The difference is the distance flown requirement. The Private cert has a 50 nm cross country night (straight line one way) flying requirement and the Commercial has a 100 nm (one way, as well). My flight to Rapid City took 3 hours, round trip due to adverse headwinds on the return leg.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 16, 2012 - 08:12pm PT
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Shot by a friend in France.
"Hey, boys, that might be a tad too realistic, n'est-ce pas?
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 18, 2012 - 12:32am PT
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Since we're into posting photos, here's one from my old computer that popped up when I was transferring files from it to a USB drive:
I happen to quite a fan of the older MiGs. After talking with the pilot, he said they really don't like being landed in crosswind conditions.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Nov 19, 2012 - 12:10am PT
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Unidentified Aerial Object As High As Jet Stream?
“I would estimate the unidentified flying object was anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 feet in altitude because I could easily see that passenger jets flew under it.” - Allen Epling, Amateur Astronomer, Virgie, KY
October 16, 2012, 2 to 4:30 PM, mysterious,unidentified aerial object remained stationary above airliner traffic,perhaps near 50,000 feet or more in the rapid jet stream. How could the object remain stable and unmoving for 2.5 hours?
Telescope image © 2012 by Allen Epling.
Two Kentucky Counties Flood Police with Alarm Calls About This Unidentified Aerial Object.
“Several jets appeared to fly in the vicinity of this UFO.
Contrails could be seen zigzagging all around the object.
...At times it appeared to get brighter.”
 The Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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I used to work for a company that imported MiGs. They don't like crosswinds, you can g lock the 17's ailerons and have to use the stick extender, they have pneumatic wheel brakes. Oh and if you turn on the emergency fuel pump on the 15 you have a 50/50 chance of blowing the tail off.
The main thing that bites people in the ass is the engine takes a very long time to spool up - you get below the power curve on final and you're toast.
On the plus side, they are built like tanks. Air show pilot Bill Reesman ground looped his 17 at Reno Cannon at about 130kts. Blew a brake line, popped 2 rivets on the nose gear, and knocked the main gear doors out of alignment. Not bad.
1000 hours, a commercial rating, and you can get into a 15 2-seater for about 125k. Fairly cheap to fly, but the line maintenance regulation costs kill you on an active bird.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:23pm PT
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any home-builders here?? I am toying with the idea of building one up from a kit
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perswig
climber
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:24pm PT
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A 747?
Cool.
Dale
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Nov 23, 2012 - 07:33pm PT
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The main thing that bites people in the ass is the engine takes a very long time to spool up - you get below the power curve on final and you're toast.
That's why naval aircraft have large speed brakes and they land with the speed brakes fully extended. You can retract the speed brakes a lot faster than you can spool up the engine. The A-7 Corsair was notorious for settling on final.
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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Nov 26, 2012 - 09:17am PT
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did anyone say balloon jump?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 26, 2012 - 11:14am PT
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The only two-seat A-12 trainer built is at the Cal Sci Ctr.
It was nicknamed The Titanium Goose.
It is not an optical illusion - the rear cockpit is off-center!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 26, 2012 - 01:04pm PT
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if that crate was in my neighborhood the scrappers would have it
hauled to mexico by now. don't need no stinkin' pink slip there
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 26, 2012 - 01:08pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 26, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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hooblie, HaHaHa! I guess you don't know where the Cal Science Center is, eh?
Don't think it hasn't been salivated over. But I suspect it would be a tad
hard to get rid of 15-20 tons of titanium. :-)
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Nov 26, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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That UFO is clearly a Balloon with some very interesting equipment inside it. Wonder what it was for?
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