Perfect Proficiency Flight

"Newps" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:

I swear the State of Iowa needs to make you their spokesman and Head of
Tourism.

No ****. Imagine what he would say about a state that was actually
worth
seeing.


Heh. You just keep thinking that Iowa is a flat, barren wasteland with
nothing but corn to see.

I've been there. You guys bring in some terrain while no one was looking?


It looks the same at 10,000 feet as it does at ground level.

In article FOkPe.280576$_o.172492@attbi_s71,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:



What do you guys do to stay sharp?

Fly 200+ hours/year.

Takeoff at maximum weight on almost every flight.

Takeoff with minimum fuel on almost every flight.

Fly with precision on every flight.

Always do short field takeoffs and landings.

Run a fuel tank dry occasionaly. G

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Jay Honeck wrote:

What do you guys do to stay sharp?

1.) Chart folding in flight is a skill that is 'way under appreciated.
One should practice that sometimes.

2.) For me, fast-flight practice requires real effort and I should do
more of that. Slow-flight is an everyday thing.

3.) Take offs are a very good maneuver to practice. Sometimes I miss
the trees by a little, other times by a lot. Maybe I should practice
the "miss 'em by a lot" thing more often.

4.) Landings. On pavement. Yikes!!! (Landing on the grass, she's a
pussycat and don't every let anyone tell you otherwise.)

5.) Every once in a while I practice looking where I'm going... except
when I'm landing. That's too scary to contemplate and I don't
understand how anyone could get used to doing that.

6.) Finally, when I have lots of time and gas, I sometimes practice
climbing above 1500 agl. This one takes so much time that I don't
like to do it very often.

Dave Russell
N2S-3 (that means, "Stearman," btw)

Our goals in a PPF a

- Experience the full regime of flight at a fairly high degree of intensity
- Enter controlled airspace and work with ATC.
- Land at an uncontrolled airfield.
- Land on a short runway.
- Do it all in less than 1 hour of flight time.

I would like to suggest that you add an unexpected forced landing,
when the person-not-flying pulls the throttle at an inconvenient time.

But since you live in the middle of thousands of square miles of corn
fields, it seems pointless to suggest that.

Here in central PA, it's good practice.

vince norris

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message Our solution?
The Amana Colonies (Iowa's biggest tourist attraction See
http://www.amanacolonies.com/welcome/index.html if you're curious) has a
small grass strip, located in the town of Amana. It is 2400 feet long,
75 feet wide, charges a voluntary $5 landing fee (there's just a box with
envelopes), and is within easy walking distance of many great restaurants,
shops, a working woolen mill (the last one in the Midwest), and a terrific
microbrewery.


In that 0.3 hour flight, we do EVERYTHING that we need to do on any
flight, from getting a weather/TFR briefing, to pre-flight, to interacting
with traffic in our local pattern, to navigating, to setting up the radios
and transponder, to talking with ATC (Amana is under the Class C airspace
of Cedar Rapids), to landing on a short field. On the way out, it's the
reverse, plus we get to practice short field/soft field departures. And,
back when I was actively practicing IFR flight, I could shoot an approach
back into Iowa City, too.

Total time? 0.6 hours. Flight intensity due to short duration/high work
load? Moderate. Fun factor: Priceless!

What do you guys do to stay sharp?
--

Jay, that's not a short runway have a look at these. They are what keeps us
sharp especially with the Military passing through the overhead without
warning.

http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk/Pro...tm#Runway%2026

Chris

http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk/Pro...tm#Runway%2026

Those look a lot of fun, Chris!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk/Pro...tm#Runway%2026

Those look a lot of fun, Chris!

Reading about it puts a lot of people off, mind you a few have picked up
some turf on the wing tip as they made that final turn on 26. Otherwise it
through the hedge and onto the highway which run parallel to the strip. To
fast and high and its a certain go around, three gos and its time to go and
land elsewhere.
It's fun in a Tripacer 'cos you need to keep on plenty of power for that
last turn otherwise it becomes a brick.

Chris

Jay Honeck wrote:

It is 2400 feet long, 75 feet wide
....
landing on a short field.

2400 feet a short field? No you're pulling my leg!

Having learnt and being based on 2000 ft x 50 ft runway, I sometimes
practise landings a bigger airport in the vicinity, just to keep sharp
on those huge runways.

Stefan

Having learnt and being based on 2000 ft x 50 ft runway, I sometimes
practise landings a bigger airport in the vicinity, just to keep sharp on
those huge runways.

Pshaw! You call that a "small" runway? Crikey, it's 50 feet wide!

Where I was based in Wisconsin (C89), it was 30 feet wide. (2300 feet long,
though, to be sure.)

Precision was rewarded...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Having learnt and being based on 2000 ft x 50 ft runway, I sometimes
practise landings a bigger airport in the vicinity, just to keep sharp on
those huge runways.

Pshaw! You call that a "small" runway? Crikey, it's 50 feet wide!

Where I was based in Wisconsin (C89), it was 30 feet wide. (2300 feet
long, though, to be sure.)

Precision was rewarded...

Sounds like Paullina, IA (1y9) with its 2800 x 28. I'm planning on a Fly-In
at Sheldon, IA (SHL) on Monday and will try Paullina when I'm in that
neighborhood. It'll be interesting to land on a runway that is narrower than
my wingspan. Maybe then onto IOW??? ;-)