What was he/she doing? No radio,

[NW_PILOT]

Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
there was an aircraft on the runway it looked like super cub or something
with big tires practicing either high-speed taxiing on the runway or
simulated engine outs and bouncing? I turned on my scanner to find out what
he was doing but there was no radio comm's. I sat in the car and watched
about 10 of these high speed runs he/she seemed to only get the main about
10-50' off the ground hold for a bit then idle to full stop at the end of
the runway then he would taxi back to 08 and do it again. 11th or 12 time
he/she departed and was gone.

Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for??? was a dam nice looking
& sounding aircraft you could here the changes in his/her CS prop during
his/her run-up each time he did his runs down the runway and sounded like it
had a large engine.

I am thinking maby he/she was doing some aircraft testing but at 1 Am in the
morning??

[Ben Hallert]

heh, a non-CS prop rated thief trying to figure out how to steal the
plane? :D

[Jim Burns]

Wheel landing practice? My tail wheel instructor had me do that. We'd
make a wheel landing and then balance forward stick and enough power to keep
the tail up while increasing speed and holding the mains on the ground, then
lift off and immediately make another wheel landing until we ran out of
runway, then back taxi and do it again. Then we'd switch to the crosswind
runway and do it on one wheel. We never got 50' off the ground though, nor
did we do it at 1am!
Jim

[tony roberts]

> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Tony


--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

[John Clonts]

"tony roberts" > wrote in message news:nospam-56724D.18550231122004@shawnews...
>> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
>
> 1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
> We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.
>
> Tony

What do you mean by that, I've never heard of it...

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, tony roberts > said:
>> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
>
>1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
>We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Maybe he's got self-serve pumps?

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[john smith]

Yes, but in the dark?
I guess you could use the landing light beam to judge attitude better...

Jim Burns wrote:
> Wheel landing practice? My tail wheel instructor had me do that. We'd
> make a wheel landing and then balance forward stick and enough power to keep
> the tail up while increasing speed and holding the mains on the ground, then
> lift off and immediately make another wheel landing until we ran out of
> runway, then back taxi and do it again. Then we'd switch to the crosswind
> runway and do it on one wheel. We never got 50' off the ground though, nor
> did we do it at 1am!
> Jim
>
>

[tony roberts]

Our gas shuts down from 2200 hrs until 0600 hrs.
If we want gas during those hours we have to pay a premium for the
operator of the fuel truck to drive out to the airport to pump the gas.
Many airports in BC operate the same way.

I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.

Tony

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article >,
"John Clonts" > wrote:

> "tony roberts" > wrote in message
> news:nospam-56724D.18550231122004@shawnews...
> >> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
> >
> > 1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
> > We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.
> >
> > Tony
>
> What do you mean by that, I've never heard of it...
>
> Cheers,
> John Clonts
> Temple, Texas




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

[NW_PILOT]

"tony roberts" > wrote in message
news:nospam-055A0E.22142731122004@shawnews...
> Our gas shuts down from 2200 hrs until 0600 hrs.
> If we want gas during those hours we have to pay a premium for the
> operator of the fuel truck to drive out to the airport to pump the gas.
> Many airports in BC operate the same way.
>
> I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
> at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.
>
> Tony


We have 24 hour self serve fuel many airports in the USA have self serve
fuel.

[Darrel Toepfer]

NW_PILOT wrote:
> "tony roberts" > wrote...
>
>>I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
>>at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.
>
> We have 24 hour self serve fuel many airports in the USA have self serve
> fuel.

Especially if your doing it from 5 gallon cans... ;-)

[Cub Driver]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:24:02 -0800, "NW_PILOT" >
wrote:

>an aircraft on the runway it looked like super cub or something
>with big tires practicing either high-speed taxiing on the runway or
>simulated engine outs and bouncing?

If the plane was newish, it might have been an Aviat Husky with tundra
tires. I've never landed a Husky on asphalt, so this is only hearsay,
but I understand that tundra tires can slingshot the plane into the
air on landing. The big tires evidently store up energy, then release
it. Perhaps your guy was trying to get the hang of landing on his new?
$4,000 tires, and he did it at one a.m. so nobody would see?

Little did he know that Usenet is everywhere!

[Cub Driver]

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:14:21 GMT, tony roberts >
wrote:

>I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
>at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.

He wanted to push the bill into 2005?

[C J Campbell]

"NW_PILOT" > wrote in message
...
> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

That is pretty funny. YOU were wondering what the other guy was doing out
there at 1:00 am, but you just needed to top off your tanks at that time of
the morning.

Maybe he just needed to do some high speed taxi tests on his new homebuilt.
Perhaps he planned to do the tests, go home and catch a few winks, then some
initial flight tests on New Years Day.

[G.R. Patterson III]

NW_PILOT wrote:
>
> Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for???

Maybe getting paid by a land developer to **** off the neighbors?

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

[NW_PILOT]

"G.R. Patterson III" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> NW_PILOT wrote:
> >
> > Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for???
>
> Maybe getting paid by a land developer to **** off the neighbors?
>
> George Patterson
> The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise.


Not many homes by this airport! Dont give any developers any ideas please.

[NW_PILOT]

"C J Campbell" > wrote in message
...
>
> "NW_PILOT" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
>
> That is pretty funny. YOU were wondering what the other guy was doing out
> there at 1:00 am, but you just needed to top off your tanks at that time
of
> the morning.
>
> Maybe he just needed to do some high speed taxi tests on his new
homebuilt.
> Perhaps he planned to do the tests, go home and catch a few winks, then
some
> initial flight tests on New Years Day.
>
>

C J, It may be time for you to get some remedial training at time telling &
what day it is. Plus the airplane departed the airport on his final run not
sure if he returned or not.

This just seemed odd at 1:00in the morning and was very interesting to
watch. His ground rool was nothing at all I wish my C-150 had that short of
a ground roll.

[Jeff Franks]

I'm thinking that maybe he hadn't been night current for some time and was
trying to make up for all the lost time ;)


"NW_PILOT" > wrote in message
...
> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
> there was an aircraft on the runway it looked like super cub or something
> with big tires practicing either high-speed taxiing on the runway or
> simulated engine outs and bouncing? I turned on my scanner to find out
what
> he was doing but there was no radio comm's. I sat in the car and watched
> about 10 of these high speed runs he/she seemed to only get the main about
> 10-50' off the ground hold for a bit then idle to full stop at the end of
> the runway then he would taxi back to 08 and do it again. 11th or 12 time
> he/she departed and was gone.
>
> Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for??? was a dam nice
looking
> & sounding aircraft you could here the changes in his/her CS prop during
> his/her run-up each time he did his runs down the runway and sounded like
it
> had a large engine.
>
> I am thinking maby he/she was doing some aircraft testing but at 1 Am in
the
> morning??
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

[clyde woempner]

What airport?? My wife & I watched a fellow at our airport (fot) doing
touch & goes with no communication, no nav lights, no runway lights on a
moon light overcast night. The only time this person used a light was just
before touch down, a landing light came on and then off right after touch
down. This took place about 11:00 PM, a couple of years ago.
Clyde

"NW_PILOT" > wrote in message
...
> Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
> there was an aircraft on the runway it looked like super cub or something
> with big tires practicing either high-speed taxiing on the runway or
> simulated engine outs and bouncing? I turned on my scanner to find out
what
> he was doing but there was no radio comm's. I sat in the car and watched
> about 10 of these high speed runs he/she seemed to only get the main about
> 10-50' off the ground hold for a bit then idle to full stop at the end of
> the runway then he would taxi back to 08 and do it again. 11th or 12 time
> he/she departed and was gone.
>
> Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for??? was a dam nice
looking
> & sounding aircraft you could here the changes in his/her CS prop during
> his/her run-up each time he did his runs down the runway and sounded like
it
> had a large engine.
>
> I am thinking maby he/she was doing some aircraft testing but at 1 Am in
the
> morning??
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Maybe the guy works night shift and this was his afternoon. My SO and I
both worked 2nd shift and got home after midnight and had the grill lit
cooking steaks at 2am many nights. We also swam in the pool and
generally did stuff in the middle of the night that normal people did
in the afternoon. This included going for a ride in the plane. It's
really nice to have an uncontrolled field all to yourself. My SO likes
the landings the most so we would spend an hour or two just doing touch
and go's.
I wouldn't think the guy at 1am doing training strange, the guy with
the daytime job fueling his C-150 at 1am is strange.