Posted on 04/20/2023 4:08:53 AM PDT by CFW
The FAA also says the registration on that airframe expired this past February. So unless they Feds have been slow updating their registry database, somebody's got some splainin' to do.
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberInquiry
And for those who've never had their shirttail cut off, ...
Hat tip the a teenager who is doing something useful with her life and not high jacking a 7-11 store or doing drifting in a intersection.
One other point. Whoever wrote that headline probably doesn’t know a stall warning horn from an alto saxophone because “solo cross-country” refers to a requirement specific to earning a private pilot’s certificate (14 CFR § 61.93). A trans-continental flight is something a bit more ambitious than that.
Which also explains why he wouldn’t know a high-wing, tail-dragging Cub from a low-wing, tricycle Cherokee/Archer/Warrior [pick one].
Cub is tail dragger. I had a PA 22 which was tricycle landing gear.
“ferried a new Cessna 172 Skyhawk with no instrumentation”
I found out shortly after takeoff on my ferry flight home in a PA-22/108 it had no working airspeed indicator (and no GPS, etc., back then to give speed indication). And it was my first flight ever in a high wing. Just had to wing it on the landing to keep above stall speed since the feel was so different from my low-wing trainer.
You mean like this?
No harm, no foul...I rode in numerous Cubs, before getting my solo in a Cessna 150. Then, bought a share in a 7FC Champ, and built hours around the Twin Cities, MN.
Just came from SunNFun in Lakeland, FL, and there was a Carbon Cub there with tricycle gear. Guess it’s all out there. Best wishes!
My dad learned to hand fly a general aircraft from Vor to Vor back in the early 80’s. A few years later he bought a Loran. It worked great in the US, but went south when we entered some miles into Canada. The Loran equipment lost a triangulation station so he had to revert back to VOR flying until I figured out how to latch on to a different Loran station. I was ex military and had some recent experience at how the Loran system worked.
Oh no not me. I wouldn’t know anything about that kinda stuff.
Oh no not me. I wouldn’t know anything about that kinda stuff.
We actually used some Omi transmitters as visual references as they show up real well. I learned a lot on that trip. One thing was don’t get lost in the Appalacian Ridges when there is turbulence at every elevation from 30 Angels to the ground. I meant we had to land at Allentown which was no fun with turbulence all the way down.
That night we were riding a bus to Newark and the bus broke down. When the other bus finally arrived to get us they said downtown Newark around the bus station was on fire due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination and they would take us to Newark airport which was not where her parents were headed to pick us up.
The next day I am driving her and her mom on Manhattan island in her Dad’s new Mercury Wagon and the transmission goes out at 4:00 in the afternoon at 55th and Avenue of the Americas.
Transportation on that trip was not my friend.
My parents flew to Charleston, SC a bunch of years ago from the midwest. In order to clear the mountains, flight altitudes were +10K feet. My dad got caught up in an unexpected snow event while crossing the Appalachian mountains. His IFR rating came in handy at the time..
Yeah I corrected that in a subsequent post.
Pre-coffee brain cramp.
Champ was my fave aircraft to just toodle around in, burning VFR holes in the sky. It was my father in laws plane and he insisted in always being in the front seat. I’m 6’4” 235 so the balance was a little back, but no issues. He had the plane set up for photography from the FRONT seat, and my ‘job’ was to maintain steady sorta standard turns so he could take pics, mostly for aerial timber survey work.
We rarely busted 1500’ AGL. Why waste the fuel (and the time) getting higher? ;-)
Great fair weather aircraft.
Didn’t have a starter. Had to manually spin the prop- old school.
I can remember many a time when the cars on the road below us were making better speed than we were.
There were a few Champs and Tri Pacers at SunNFun, along with 5 or 6 J-3’s. It sure brought back memories!
I’ll always be a tail dragger fan, something primal about them. Guess that’s why I always loved the DC-3/C47’s.
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