secret advice

"mike regish" wrote in message
news:6wfxd.596545$D%.105833@attbi_s51...
I'm sure it could be done, but I wouldn't want to try it in mine. One
reason is that the spin recovery in a Tripacer is different than most
planes. Somebody from the short wing piper club posted it once and it
included ailerons with the spin and just some different procedures than
typical.

I'm thinking you're probably one of the first people to ever use the term
"snappy" with regard to the TP tho. ;-)

mike regish

OK, I'll rephrase. Faster (150hp ver.) and more agile than a Hawk but
noisier and less roomy.
When I got checked out for the insurance on mine, I had to find a CFI with
"make & model" time. I was required to get 5hrs on the checkout(it was my
first plane). After an hour, he asked for the controls and showed me lazy
8s,D-Rolls, falling leaf and others. Somewhere during this he says "I almost
forgot how much fun these things are!"
It may look funny to some people but the TP will always be one of my
favorites. Not by much, but it out ran my buddys hershey bar 180 Archer.

Do you have a site with pics of yours? I'd like to see it if you do.
I'll have to scan a pic and post mine on my site.

Marty

Here is some secret advice -
Go ask an instructor to show you.

Don't tell anyone

Tony
--

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



In article .com,
"houstondan" wrote:

ok...as to flying c-150/172 type aircraft, what can you do, really,
that's fun and won't hurt the airframe? at 80mph, can you really hurt
the machine with full control deflection? i guess that's what i'm
asking ... how much can you "yank and bank" these things before bad
things happen? i can get a real good feel for the slow flight
characteristics by trying it at altitude. a can't think of any way to
test airframe without testing to destruction....mine. exactly how do
you do those rolls???

i know i'm begging to hear a lot of "never do that", well-meaning
warnings but there has to be some tribal wisdom on "how much can you
do?"


dan

Try here. It's not my site, but it's my plane.
http://www.stephenames.com/flying/pi...s10.html#miker

mike regish

"Marty" wrote in message
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Do you have a site with pics of yours? I'd like to see it if you do.
I'll have to scan a pic and post mine on my site.

Marty

3. what's at laporte? there's a citabria at weiser/windsock and they
do tailwheel/aerobatic ttraining in that.

What's at LaPorte is Harvey and Rihn. There is indeed a Citabri at
Windsock.

Would strongly recommend that you go to Houston Southwest (Texas
Taildraggers) rather than either of these. Joy is a retired aerobatic
competitor of some stature, and the airplanes are very well maintained.
You can learn more about Harvey&Rihn maintenance practices by checking
out the NTSB database.

Michael

michael...thanks for the follow-up. yes, now that you mention it, i do
remember someone last spring mentioning that after i got my ppl, i
needed to get with "a woman" somewhere southish about tailwheel etc.

very good, i will look into that further. if i can impose (on someone)
some more; how do i find anything about "harvey & rihn" on the ntsb
site. also, isn't there a site where i can plug in a tail # and get
details on the plane, owner history etc???

dan

houstondan wrote:
michael...thanks for the follow-up. yes, now that you mention it, i
do
remember someone last spring mentioning that after i got my ppl, i
needed to get with "a woman" somewhere southish about tailwheel etc.

That would be the one. Joy is very highly regarded. I've never flown
with her (or at her flight school), but I have seen the results when
people do. I've seen her take marginal pilots and make excellent
pilots in just a few hours.

very good, i will look into that further. if i can impose (on
someone)
some more; how do i find anything about "harvey & rihn" on the ntsb
site.

Go to the search engine:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp

You can get a good start just by entering rihn (or harvey % rihn) into
the text box that says:
Enter your word string below
This won't get you everything, but it will be a start.

You can learn more about how to do searches simply by clicking on the
Examples link to the right of that text box.

You can learn more by searching for accidents at LaPorte, but you have
to be more careful there because H&R isn't the only FBO there.

In general, you can learn a lot about a flight school by looking
through the NTSB reports. While the NTSB will not report the name of
the pilot, it will report the name of the owner and operator if this is
not the pilot. However, even when maintenance is clearly the cause of
the accident, the NTSB will not report what maintenance facility did
the work unless it was under the control of the owner-operator (just a
bit of bias there, don't you think?) which makes it difficult to
evaluate the maintenance practices of a flight school/FBO unless they
are so bad that their own aircraft are crashing due to poor
maintenance.

also, isn't there a site where i can plug in a tail # and get
details on the plane, owner history etc???

http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/acmain.htm

And for pilots, the site is:
http://162.58.35.241/aadatabase/login.asp

Michael

wow...thanks for the help. just exactly what i need. i'll be calling
them to set something up soon. houston-southwest is another one of
those airports that's set up east-west and pretty well guranteeing a
crosswind most days. perfect for training. really appreciate all the
help.
dan