10 Apr
2000
10 Apr
'00
5:02 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
There is certainly a fairly wide variation between
supposedly identical
aircraft.
Training birds tend to be more out of rig. Use and abuse.
Mine was never a primary trainer and has better habits.
Very. One of the guys I spoke too was literally chalk
white when he got
out of the aircraft.
After years of flying a docile little Cherokee 140 he'd never
experienced either a stall related
snap or seen the effect of aileron on a dropped wing in a Cessna.
My first experience with a reall snap was a C152, it was flipped at
55hrs TT. It was a really nice bird but even clean approach stalls
it would violently snap to the right every time. There more about
that one but I prefer to not talk about it. Suffice to say it never got
to 150hrs. Most 152s do not fly like that.
About sums it up. I did a Cherokee endorsement when I
moved to Broken
Hill in the 70's, and all
they had was Cherokees, I used to fly a Cherokee Arrow
(PA28-180-Retractable) home on some weekends, it was a nice ride. But
the short field performance sucked and you can't taxi them through
gates up to a house. (Both very important in a bush aircraft in this
country.)
it was like landing a brick.
I did an endorsement on a Victa Airtourer (looks a bit
like a 2 seat
AA5) locally (then - we sold the factory to New Zealand, then the Air
I've seen one.
engine. Unusual control setup, instead of dual's it
had a single stick
with a spade grip in the middle of the cockpit and a central throttle.
Easy once you get used to it. Was a lot of fun to fly, I first learnt
how to spin in that, since spins are classed as an aerobatic manouevre
in this country - and a stock C150 isn't cleared for them - they teach
you how to recover from an INCIPIENT spin instead. Not sure I'm
comfortable with that, spins are very disconcerting the first couple of
times you encounter them, it should be a requirement.
I have more hours in C150's than anything else, I liked them a lot.
I feel spins are important training. That and basic acro so there are no
unusual attitudes after that. Of my hours, 600 or so are in '528 my C150
and two others I trained in. It a bird I know very well right to the
screws.
I've flown it for 21 years and done a lot of the lighter maintenance even
part of the ovehaul.
(First plane, first car, first computer, first love -
they all seem to
be special)
ah, yes.
One day when I am rich and famous (yeah, right) I'm
going to buy me one.
I'd like the one I
learnt in if I can, last time I looked in a register VH-KQY was still
doing mustering on a station in Western Australia. Been there since 85.
At least it's still flying.....
That or one of those odd aussi ag birds.
Allison