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Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without
power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. |
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On 2008-11-05 06:31:18 -0800, "Ol Shy & Bashful" said:
Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. They are still required for the commercial pilot ticket. It is still my favorite part of training commercial pilots. It gets a little, you know, competitive... :-) -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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"jeremy" wrote in message ... Ol Shy & Bashful wrote: Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? Always possible but the damage/precision ratio can make it lots of fun. JJ A little tale on myself. In the early days - late 40's/ early 50's - we flew out of a short grass strip with not much buffer if you crossed the threshold a little high. So you always aimed at the "numbers". After a long winter when most hops were just for proficiency purposes, I had occasion to cross country, landing at Blacksburg, Va. Came over the fence about 50/60 feet high and did a go-around - with about 7000 feet of runway in front of me. No one said anything when I got down, but I had a comment ready - "Just shooting an approach". Old habits hard to break! |
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On Nov 5, 6:31*am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:
Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. Where is this coming from? Is this what this group has degraded to? All we get is spam, MX, and posts about hypothetical situations. Am I the only one here still flying a real airplane? -Robert, CFII |
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
On Nov 5, 6:31Â*am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote: Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. Where is this coming from? Is this what this group has degraded to? All we get is spam, MX, and posts about hypothetical situations. Am I the only one here still flying a real airplane? -Robert, CFII Probably from watching the activities at a typical GA airport with a runway that is much less than 10,000 feet and seeing people float halfway down the runway then come to a screeching halt to avoid running off the end. I see it happening all the time. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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On Nov 5, 1:15*pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Nov 5, 6:31*am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote: Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. Where is this coming from? Is this what this group has degraded to? All we get is spam, MX, and posts about hypothetical situations. Am I the only one here still flying a real airplane? -Robert, CFII Robert Get over yourself! Lets regale everyone about flying 20' over the water and 200' in a J-3. What does that have to do with improving anything here? What is your definition of a "real airplane"? You just having a bad day? |
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C J Campbell wrote in
news:2008110507210816807-christophercampbell@hotmailcom: On 2008-11-05 06:31:18 -0800, "Ol Shy & Bashful" said: Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. They are still required for the commercial pilot ticket. Without power? Bertie |
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote in message
... Can you land to a spot within 100' of the designated spot without power? If not you should do some serious practice or get some good training until you can. What happened to the old time spot landing contests that were taking place regularly on weekends? It appears that Pilot Proficiency has gone down the tubes in favor of technology. Now? Prob'ly not - I'm way too rusty. Back when I was active? Sheeit yes. Piece of cake. 'course I was flying a taildragger which makes it real easy if you don't mind doing wheelies. Dunno that this is anything new. 30+ years ago, I used hand out at the airport and watch the local flight school Cherokees floating down to at least midfield again and again. -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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