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Dear Ann Landers ...
I'm a Pilot. I've met a woman that I'm very interested in. She has a
great personality and we have many common interests. I believe that we could have a great future together. We seem compatible in every way but one. I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? |
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John Ousterhout wrote:
I'm a Pilot. I've met a woman that I'm very interested in. She has a great personality and we have many common interests. I believe that we could have a great future together. We seem compatible in every way but one. I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? Dear John, The logical solution is obviously to compromise: fly both a high and a low wing plane at the same time. A bi-plane! A Neuport 11 replica would not appear to be a wise choice but a nice Waco or Stearman should fill the bill (in more ways than one!) Cheers, Sydney |
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Is there any chance that our relationship will
work? I am not the expert in aviation/love relationship but, I can tell you that sharing is the key to any relationship. Figure it out. Toks PP-ASEL |
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Sydney Hoeltzli wrote: The logical solution is obviously to compromise: fly both a high and a low wing plane at the same time. A bi-plane! A Neuport 11 replica would not appear to be a wise choice but a nice Waco or Stearman should fill the bill (in more ways than one!) And a Staggerwing will make her very dear to you. If your relationship becomes very productive, an Antonov 2 is an obvious choice... |
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Gilles KERMARC wrote:
Sydney Hoeltzli wrote: The logical solution is obviously to compromise: fly both a high and a low wing plane at the same time. A bi-plane! A Neuport 11 replica would not appear to be a wise choice but a nice Waco or Stearman should fill the bill (in more ways than one!) And a Staggerwing will make her very dear to you. If your relationship becomes very productive, an Antonov 2 is an obvious choice... I was thinking about that. Yes, an Antonov AN-2, the very thing. The ground handling might be a tad difficult for the Lady of the House, admittedly, but it's probably easier to drive a tug than to master that 'run in place on the mainwheels' thing the local Stearman pilots practice. Cheers, Sydney |
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John, tsk, tsk, tsk... Run SCREAMING for the exit... There is no way this
can work... Think of the children... They will be ostracized and tormented in school... They will be neither fish nor fowl... They can't even join the Church of the Biplane as single wing sets are not allowed, no matter their position on the fuselage... This is heresy... You should be condemned to walk the earth looking skyward for the rest of your worthless days for even thinking of joining your flesh with that of the other wing position... I shudder to even contemplate your fate after your final flight... The ramp check will be without mercy... Denny "John Ousterhout" wrote in message om... I'm a Pilot. I've met a woman that I'm very interested in. She has a great personality and we have many common interests. I believe that we could have a great future together. We seem compatible in every way but one. I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? |
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Or maybe an Extra 300 with a mid-wing?
"Sydney Hoeltzli" wrote in message ... John Ousterhout wrote: I'm a Pilot. I've met a woman that I'm very interested in. She has a great personality and we have many common interests. I believe that we could have a great future together. We seem compatible in every way but one. I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? Dear John, The logical solution is obviously to compromise: fly both a high and a low wing plane at the same time. A bi-plane! A Neuport 11 replica would not appear to be a wise choice but a nice Waco or Stearman should fill the bill (in more ways than one!) Cheers, Sydney |
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Al,
You will have a mixed marriage. However, variety isn't necessarily bad. You should step up to a 310 so that the high wing low wing crap goes away (it only affects very low time, inexperienced pilots anyway) and she should fly some older, high wing Pipers. One very definite reality you will observe (depending on her flying time) is that she has gotten used to the trailing edge of systems technology in Piper design while you have flown more sophisticated systems (for a given model year Piper was always about five years behind Cessna and Beech in systems work), so you'll just have to work gently with her to bring her into the more modern ages of flight, and you'll get some laughs out of it. You will find that pops up when you least expect it...Piper fuel systems require tank changing, which is one reason they have a higher rate of fuel exhaustion accidents than Cessnas, and from time to time the two of you will discuss systems and what she is used to will be much different than what you are used to and what she's used to will seem somewhat primitive to you. (Only thing that comes to mind right now is in the Piper and Cessna twins on the heater system, which proved to be a good laugh for my ex-wife and me when I got into an Aztec with her after getting out of a 310. I couldn't get the heater to start and she had no problem. I was used to the 310 where you simply turn it on. She was used to the Piper which requires that you first turn on the fuel supply to the heater, I wasn't thinking primitive enough.) What's a lot of fun with this is that I was married for 23 years to a lovely woman who had gotten her private rating in Cherokees and I'd mostly flown Cessnas and Grummans. After we got married she picked up her commercial and instrument in Cessnas and multi-engine in a Piper and then switched over to balloons. For a time we flew a Lance pretty regularly, alternating legs. We used to laugh about the fact that she could always grease the landings in that airplane while I pounded it onto the ground. All the best, Rick (John Ousterhout) wrote in message . com... I'm a Pilot. I've met a woman that I'm very interested in. She has a great personality and we have many common interests. I believe that we could have a great future together. We seem compatible in every way but one. I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? |
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John Ousterhout wrote:
I've been a Cessna pilot for many years. But she flies a Piper low-wing. Is there any chance that our relationship will work? Of course it will. If you need proof, see a photo of just such a happy coupling he http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...224epilot.html |
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http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...224epilot.html
Though it's a members-only page, it's a hilarious pic, and apparently genuine -- a 19-year-old pilot who said he "had the Cessna in sight" on final didn't realize there were TWO Cessnas, and he got stuck on top of the invisible 152, which remarkably looks like only the main gear is a bit squished. I've been challenged to find a way to insert the Mile High Club into this string, but modesty and decorum require me to note that most pilots learn in a high-wing, and those who are more flexible progress to mastering the low-wing, which can require one to be limber and ready to learn new control inputs and methods of achieving sufficient altitude. |
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