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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:10:51 -1000, "Owner" wrote:
Yes, but he has shown interest in the past in learning to fly. He was upset after a discovery flight because the instructor kept telling him to relax as there was a lot of pilot induced osscilation. Though I must say he has learned much through books and online groups like this one. Anonymous poster to the rescue... 8^) --------------------------------------------- ** http://www.bburke.com/woodworking.html ** --------------------------------------------- |
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On Feb 22, 6:41*pm, B A R R Y wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:10:51 -1000, "Owner" wrote: Yes, but he has shown interest in the past in learning to fly. He was upset after a discovery flight because the instructor kept telling him to relax as there was a lot of pilot induced osscilation. Though I must say he has learned much through books and online groups like this one. Anonymous poster to the rescue... ...to the rescue with a complete fabrication. You may (or, I suppose, may not) have noticed the lack of any information to substantiate the false claim above. In any case, it's odd that you'd feel 'rescued' by allegations about me personally (after all, I'm anonymous too), as opposed to rebuttals of the detailed arguments I've presented. |
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Most aircraft that don't have a gauge for each tank only read a tank
that is currently selected. So to say that the fuel gauge is there to detect leaks is specious at best. wrote: On Feb 22, 4:12 am, Bob Noel wrote: You keep talking about detecting a leak. Have you flown a comanche? Do you consider the pa-24-260 to be unsafe because the fuel gauge can only read one tank at a time? Why would reading just one tank at a time make it unsafe? Even with both displayed simultaneously, I generally read one, then the other-- one at a time. |
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Not having ever owned an airplane and looking into owning one in the
future, I found your write up a good read, Yeah... it convinced me to keep on renting. I hope you're joking, Dallas, at least a little. There is nothing -- NOTHING -- like owning your own flying machine. It's worth every headache, times two. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
There is nothing -- NOTHING -- like owning your own flying machine. It's worth every headache, times two. At least on the days when the headache has passed! There are days when you wonder why you are doing this to yourself, but then getting back up into the air in your own machine reminds you why. |
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FAA regs are written to cover any plane that could be flown by any
rated pilot. They don't make exceptions to the situations where an owner is aware of a issue and takes steps to fly safely inspite of the issue. So even if the owner took sensible steps to fly safely under the circumstances, he is still illegal, but then again, so am I when I drive 60 in a 55 mph speed zone. True. Placarding that fuel gauge/tank and waiting until the annual to fix the gauge apparently violated the letter of the regs. It wasn't unsafe, and everything has been returned to proper working order, and I learned something from the experience. After a decade of aircraft ownership, and not being of unlimited funds, I find that I must live in the real world. As aircraft owners there are many "fine lines" that we walk in this regard, and we must always choose the safest, most common sensical path within reason. Choosing to wait until the annual inspection to fix a fuel gauge was the most logical choice at the time. Just to give you another example of what I mean by "living in the real world", the shoulder harnesses in Atlas have been less-than stellar since we bought the plane in 2002. They've always passed inspection, barely, but we knew that they likely wouldn't do much in an actual crash. Unfortunately, new ones from Piper cost over $450 apiece. Since most of the planes we rented over the years didn't even *have* shoulder harnesses (and the back seats still won't have them at all) we put the issue on the back burner -- a practical, real-world choice. Well, yesterday I decided that it was time to replace the damned things, and ordered new replacement inertial reels at the bargain price of just $299 per side. It sucks, and we could sure use that $600 elsewhere -- but I've decided that our faces are worth it. Considering that many of us are now flying bonafide antique aircraft (Atlas is now 34 years old), these types of choices are necessary for people of ordinary means to keep them in the air. Waiting until the annual inspection to fix niggling little problems (like a non-functioning fuel gauge) saves significant money. These are the kinds of choices that aircraft owners make every day. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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On 2008-02-23, Ray Andraka wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote: There is nothing -- NOTHING -- like owning your own flying machine. It's worth every headache, times two. At least on the days when the headache has passed! There are days when you wonder why you are doing this to yourself, but then getting back up into the air in your own machine reminds you why. Well, hopefully I'll find out in a few months... One down (sorta), one to go. I flew a Tecnam Bravo for a while (about 45 minutes, I think, in the air) with the salesman, who's also the chief instructor and DE at a local FBO's flight school. I'm actually looking at the Sierra, but it supposedly very similar to fly to the Bravo. In any event, I was pleased with how much came back to me after 15 years away from it. I even made a passable landing, after recovering from overrotating the flare the first time. (I don't remember how I recovered, just that I did.) Afterwards, he said he thought I'd probably be back in the groove with 3-5 hours of dual. I'll get to find out. I'm spending next Monday and Tuesday at STS for 5 scheduled hours of dual in a Zodiac. Hopefully, by then, I'll have some idea of how much more dual I'll need to be good and current, and also which aircraft I want to buy. If I decide I don't like the Zodiac for some reason, then I'll get with the salesman again and we'll arrange to fly a Sierra. (He doesn't have any, so we'll probably meet with a salesman from the UP somewhere in north central Wisconsin.) PS: The fuel gauges on the Bravo actually are usable in flight. I commented on this, and the salesman remarked on how different that is from the run of the mill of the GA fleet. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 |
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Jay Honeck wrote: Waiting until the annual inspection to fix niggling little problems (like a non-functioning fuel gauge) saves significant money. I disagree there. That area isn't opened up for an annual anyways so anything done to fix a fuel gauge is extra. Should be the same amount whether that's all you do or as part of an annual. Or is that another design flaw of the Piper that the inside of the fuel tanks have to be inspected at the annual? |
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I disagree there. That area isn't opened up for an annual anyways so
anything done to fix a fuel gauge is extra. Should be the same amount whether that's all you do or as part of an annual. Or is that another design flaw of the Piper that the inside of the fuel tanks have to be inspected at the annual? Dunno where you get your maintenance done, but the mere act of already having the plane in the shop at the start of a job saves significant money. Best estimate: Somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0 hours of labor. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
Well, yesterday I decided that it was time to replace the damned things, and ordered new replacement inertial reels at the bargain price of just $299 per side. It sucks, and we could sure use that $600 elsewhere -- but I've decided that our faces are worth it. Considering that many of us are now flying bonafide antique aircraft (Atlas is now 34 years old), these types of choices are necessary for people of ordinary means to keep them in the air. Hey, at least Atlas came with shoulder harnesses in the front. My airplane, a 1965 model, had no shoulder harnesses whatsoever. It cost me about $1700 in 1997 to put them in the front seats using Piper seatbelt hardware from a salvage aircraft. Hopefully I'll never need them, but if I ever do I'll be glad I spent the money. I had all my belts, including the shoulder harnesses rewebbed in 2004 by Southern Safety. That came to about $850 for all 7 seats, and included inspection and repair of the inertial reels on the shoulder harnesses. Couldn't you have done the same and saved some $? I think the shoulder harnesses were $125 each for the reweb and repairs. |
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