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lcottrell
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Location: Jordan Valley, Or
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 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: Sport Pilot |
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Well friends, a journey begun 9 years, 10 months and 17 days ago has finally come to an end. Or in the immortal words of our departed (hopefully) aerial scholar. "Seeks mons ago I culdent evn spel Spor Pile it and now I are one!" A promise that I made to the missus when I started talking about flying was that I would get a Pilots Certificate, is now fulfilled. Now, much sweat, stress and of course $money$ later I can relax and enjoy flying. I think that I have more than 270 hours as a UL Pilot, 20 hours dual instruction in a GA plane, so I shouldn't have had much concern. However I had to fly a Quad City Challenger whose only saving grace is that it lands like a kitten. The wind when we started was almost a full sock, but it was only about 6 degrees off my right wing. The plane to me has a real tendency to want to stick its tail in the front rather than following along behind as it should. If you didn't stay on top of it, the only way that you could get it back in line was full left rudder and aileron full right. Which still doesn't seem right, but it was what you had to do. With the wind like it was the poor stick was being moved around like it was part of a butter churn, but none of that showed on the outside and I am very pleased to report that both of us were very happy with the outcome of the flight. I normally do wheel landings in my Kolb at whatever altitude suits me, but very little of it more than 200 feet off the ground. I of course had to learn to do it properly from 1000 feet agl. I am used to landing in a restricted distance, but really in a totally non professional manner. So it was a bit of a shock to me that I actually had to pick a spot rather than a runway.  However today all my landings were no further than 50 feet from the spot.
Now I shall collapse!
Larry, Oregon , SPORT PILOT!
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ElleryWeld(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: Sport Pilot |
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Congrats Larry Im hoping im not to far behind you in the SP licensing
Ellery
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biglar
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: Sport Pilot |
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Congratulations, Larry. Good going. Lar. Do not Archive.
Larry Bourne
Santa Fe, NM
www.gogittum.com
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Palm Springs, CA
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boyter(at)mcsi.net
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: Sport Pilot |
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Congratulations, Larry Do not Archive.
Wayne Boyter
Roseburg,OR
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worrybear(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: Sport Pilot |
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Congratulations Larry, I know what you mean when you say, now you shall collapse, I worried way too much about the practical test and also took it on a bad weather day.
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Dan Walter
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Palmyra Pa.
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