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Richard Pike

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 1671
Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:22 pm Post subject: First flight for a noob

GCY had a Fly-In last Saturday, David & I flew down. After lunch, an obvious photographer type was taking pictures and asking questions, and you know how it is when your spider-sense tingles? I knew I had a live one... 



"Would you like to go for a ride?" I said.  Instantly, a dozen emotions flew across her face. "I DON"T KNOW!" she replied, obviously terrified. 



It turned out great. The thermals all took a break for the 20 minutes we flew around the airport, and while not my best landing, it was far from my worst. Which she commented on; "That was not nearly as violent as I was expecting." she said. To which I replied "Yeah, we ought to still be able to use the airplane again." I think she missed what I was trying to say. 

Anyway, it was a great day, and later, on the way home, the variometer was bouncing between 1600 up and 900 down - she probably wouldn't have liked that ride nearly as much...



http://www.greenevillesun.com/news/local_news/fly-in-at-greeneville-greene-county-municipal-airport-drew-all/article_e335f754-7d75-58ab-a0d2-a121b916b761.html

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stuart(at)harnerfarm.net
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:08 pm Post subject: First flight for a noob

One at a time brother, one at a time.



Good work!



Stuart

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japowell

Joined: 02 Dec 2016
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Location: Ohio

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: First flight for a noob

Good job Richard. Did you take the 'fly' down or the mk III?

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Richard Pike

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Location: Blountville, Tennessee

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:59 pm Post subject: Re: First flight for a noob

I took the MKIII, it's in  the article, that was how I was able to give her a ride. David took the AirCam. (It's hiding behind my right wingtip) The Firefly is getting better but I still want to do some more work on the muffler brackets. Also, David was trying to start it last week and the starter rope broke. Whatever kind of rope I put in it was obviously not very good. He was going to go by a boat shop and see if he could find some of the good stuff.

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