zzz BBob fell asleep at the wheel again zzz was Need Microbalancer

I may not be a high time pilot but there aren't many people about
whom three training captains at American Eagle have said flies better than
90% of captains they train on the ERJ and Saab.

And I had three JAL training captains tell me I could fly a 747 better than
moooozer.


Walt

Really? Got emails? I'll gladly exchange them so we can find out who is
telling the truth. I'll be waiting, but not holding my breath.

"B25flyer" wrote in message
...

I may not be a high time pilot but there aren't many people about
whom three training captains at American Eagle have said flies better
than
90% of captains they train on the ERJ and Saab.

And I had three JAL training captains tell me I could fly a 747 better
than
moooozer.


Walt

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?


It was not AM it was Southern Air Transport.

Walt

B25flyer wrote:

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?


It was not AM it was Southern Air Transport.

Walt

And I have seen pictures of his landing in SE Ohio! ;-))

Warren

(Badwater Bill) wrote in message . ..

But the coolest thing I've just done is bolt a car starter motor and
ring gear to my Snobird gyroscope so I can sit in the seat and spin up
the rotor blades to autorotation speed. I used to have to do that by
hand, now it just drains one motorcycle battery completely to do it.
I spun it up today in fact. Then I stopped it and tried to spin it up
again (in zero wind conditions). Didn't work. The Voltage on the
battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.

Damn!

All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for it.

What the ****... OVER.

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.

BWB

Bill,

have you looked into the Wunderlich Flexible Shaft Prerotators? I
believe he has setups for the Rotax engines, and it'll be lighter than
a battery/starter combo. And you don't have to worry about charging
it. I use one on my Bensen, also his rotor brake. I don't have a rotor
tach, but it'll spool up my blades fast enough that blade flap on
takeoff is not a problem.

Dick Wunderlich doesn't have a website, but you can contact him for
info/brochure at:

Dick Wunderlich Prerotators
306 W.16th St.
Lockport, Ill. 60441
Phone: 815-838-0450
Fax: 815-838-0630

Also, Ernie Boyette uses a hydraulic pump/motor setup on his
Dominators that people have adapted to different machines. His contact
info is at his website:

http://www.rotorcraft.com/dominator/

I don't have any good pics of my prerotator, but I think I may have
some closup pics of the hydraulic units, from the PRA fly-in in
Waxahatchie last year, if you need them. The pump motors are probably
available at Graingers.


Mike

(B25flyer) wrote in message ...
Hi Walt. I flew with ex-SAT pilots some. You are familiar with the
accident that put Southern out of business right? Tell me about it.


Well pacplayer which accident are you talking about?

The one in 86 at Kelly that killed a friend of mine Phil Decrenzo?
The one at Travis, a training flight that killed 6 crew members.
The one in the Sudan at Wau where the aircraft taxied over a landmine.
The one in the Sudan at Juba where the crew had a triple engine failure on
takeoff due to tainted fuel?

Sorry pac but your wrong. SAT filed BR on 10-1-98 due to a lot of screw ups by
managment and the fact that Logair, Quicktrans, and 50% of the MAC, (now AMC)
contracts were cancelled. On top of that they had a huge debt load. It was not
an airplane crash that put them out of business.

Sorry Walt,

I was just trolling you to find out if you really were a SAT employee.
There are a lot of imposters on these boards. Yes, that's my
understanding of what happened too. I used to fly A310's out of
Southeast Asia with "the queen of the Sudan." Hey, that's what she
called herself. Said she still suffered from the injuries from the
mine. Her story was she was sueing because of the fact info was
available about the mined condition of the runway but no NOTAM type
info was ever given to the crew. After SAT went under her suit was
mute. Any of that close?

Nice to meet you BTW,

pacplyer

I used to fly A310's out of
Southeast Asia with "the queen of the Sudan." Hey, that's what she
called herself. Said she still suffered from the injuries from the
mine. Her story was she was sueing because of the fact info was
available about the mined condition of the runway but no NOTAM type
info was ever given to the crew. After SAT went under her suit was
mute. Any of that close?

Nice to meet you BTW,

pacplyer







So that's where she ended up...thought she was with UPS or FEDEX. If you ever
see her again tell "Lemmon Pie" (if we called her sweety pie she promised to do
nasty things to parts of the male anatomy) I said hello.

As for the NOTAM stuff...hell there was a NOTAM for the entire country for
mines and other nasty things.

Any more questions about the difference between **** and shinola?? BWB you
want to step in here another comment?

Walt

(B25flyer) wrote
Any more questions about the difference between **** and shinola?? BWB you
want to step in here another comment?

Walt

Pac'll comment:

Yes it's true. Once you fly the B747 (even the simulator) you talk
about it for the rest of your life. Nothing else even comes close.
In about five seconds you loose the smoking-crater fear you had, and
it becomes apparent all at once: "Hey, whatyaknow: I can fly this big
MoFo!" We used to use it for interviews at Flying Tigers (but we
would lie and say the sim check was going to be in the DC-8.) I
always wondered why. I think I know now. It was to measure the size
of your balls. The check pilot would tell the job canidate: "take
whichever seat you feel most comfortable in; Left or Right."
Unbeknownst to the pilot canidate, this was a gonad test also. I
chose the left seat, aced the ILS, pointed out that we only had "one
in the green" on final, while telling a war story, and was hired in
the first class out of 5000 or so applications (thats what they told
me anyway: the truth was they feared we'd all quit an go to American:
they admitted that! [new B-scale]) Best job I ever had.

If you've got more than two engines turning, we used to say that even
a ninety-year old woman could fly the 74. Boeing outdid themselves.
The feel computers and handling characteristics are perfect. Unlike
the DC-10 which has a few bad habits with that tail engine.

Juan or Walt? Who's the best pilot? We'll, you're looking at him!
:-D
(notice, I purposely kept BWB out of the competition.)

O.K, seriously, my guess is that Walt has more stick time, if he
wasn't just a crew chief or something, and Juan is an accomplished
builder and aspiring driver. But one thing bugs me, and that is: How
come Juan never flys his creations? I mean it would make a great
story for his writing gig. Medical?
It's worth answering to get the jackel pack off his back.

I can't seem to finish my project by the way. I think I'll just have
to stick it on a pole or something. :-(

Best wishes guys,

pacplyer

(p.s: Walt, what seat did you fly in?)

(p.s: Walt, what seat did you fly in?)




There is only one seat.....the left one.

Walt

"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
...

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?

Maybe a mixture of both.

To answer your question about what I've been doing, I built a hangar
here at the house that's 36 x 36, has an 18 foot lectric door on the
front that opens to 10' 6" so I can get an R-22 in it. I put a
restroom in it so I don't have to hang my dick out the door on a tree
to pee, nor do any ladies that might need to use the john. I also put
an LVL beam across the thing paralleling the trusses so I can hoist
12,000 pounds of any ****ing thing I deem hoistable to the 10 foot
ceilings. I've got a great air compressor in there and lots of bench
space I built along two walls. I'm in the process of bolting down all
my reloading equipment (presses) so I can reload my 50 Cal. Grizzly
rounds with tracer ammo and such, plus my Mini-14's with the 223
rounds and the 44 mag pistola rounds...you know, all the toys most men
have.

Holy ****. You've been busy! All you need now is a couple of gunner windows
on the sides and a turret on the top.

But the coolest thing I've just done is bolt a car starter motor and
ring gear to my Snobird gyroscope so I can sit in the seat and spin up
the rotor blades to autorotation speed. I used to have to do that by
hand, now it just drains one motorcycle battery completely to do it.
I spun it up today in fact. Then I stopped it and tried to spin it up
again (in zero wind conditions). Didn't work. The Voltage on the
battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.

I gather the engine on the gyro has no generator? I don't know squate about
gyros, so I don't know what the hell's a "Snobird." I tried to hover an R22.
Once. The entire goddamn flight school was in tears. I want to try it again
but I gotta find some other place to do it.

All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for it.

What battery do you have in there now?

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.

I stopped eating crap after spending three weeks in the hospital with my
side cut open so the docs could shuttle me back and forth to the OR to stuff
me full of gauze after my pancreas went south. Learned my lesson real quick.