"kage" wrote in
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For people who never met Lyle, I'd just like to give a little info
about him. He was a "real man's" pilot. In the summer he was a fire
bomber, last in a C-119 with an additional jet engine on the top.

In the winter, he gave his version of an instrument rating. All time
was at night. All time was actual, and the more ice the better. And we
had plenty here in the NW. When a big front would be coming through
you would get a call from Lyle. "meet you at 9PM at the airport, we're
going to Oakland.

He loved to turn off the pitot heat and let the airspeed go. Then turn
off the lights and pull out a cigarette and blow smoke in your face.
One of his ice deterrence moves was always fly V-27 down the coast of
WA OR and CA. If you got too much ice you just turned off your
transponder and descended out over the ocean to let it melt. Then
climb back onto V-27 and turn the TXP back on.

This never killed him. He died several years later of natural causes.
His son was the quarterback for the UW Huskies. His favorite saying,
"God hates cowards!" I can still hear him laughing.

Karl
N185KG, Skywagon "curator"


Please tell me this is a joke. Intentionally flying in ice, turning off
the transponder during IFR, descending without a clearance... Hmmm..