----- Original Message -----
From: "allisonp" <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Slips [OT]
> Training birds tend to be more out of rig. Use and abuse.
No argument.
> Mine was never a primary trainer and has better habits.
That explains a lot...
> My first experience with a reall snap was a C152, it was flipped at
> 55hrs TT. It was a really nice bird but even clean approach stalls
> it would violently snap to the right every time. There more about
> that one but I prefer to not talk about it. Suffice to say it never
got
> to 150hrs. Most 152s do not fly like that.
Ahem. No. Sounds like there was a twist in the mainplane somewhere.
Fairly
common when they get overturned.
> >About sums it up. I did a Cherokee endorsement when I moved to
Broken
> >Hill in the 70's, and all
> >they had was Cherokees, I used to fly a Cherokee Arrow
> >(PA28-180-Retractable) home on some weekends, it was a nice ride.
But
> >the short field performance sucked and you can't taxi them through
> >gates up to a house. (Both very important in a bush aircraft in this
> >country.)
>
> it was like landing a brick.
That's about the size of it. Factor in a rough strip and a crosswind.
It also had a slightly
terrifying habit of dropping revs to about 2000rpm just after takeoff
from time to time.
I was left with a choice between trees and a lake on one occasion at
Menindee Lakes if it hadn't
recovered it's composure. Never flew that one again til they got it
fixed. Story was it supposedly had
a crook injector (nicest thing about the aircraft - injected engine) but
it still did a similar thing to someone else after they replaced them.
The engine was replaced (by popular consent amongst the Aero Club
members) at
time expiry, rather than being rebuilt. Problem disappeared. Still
don't know what was really wrong with it,
valve sticking maybe..
> >I did an endorsement on a Victa Airtourer (looks a bit like a 2 seat
> >AA5) locally (then - we sold the factory to New Zealand, then the Air
>
>
> I've seen one.
Ok.
>
> I feel spins are important training. That and basic acro so there are
no
> unusual attitudes after that. Of my hours, 600 or so are in '528 my
C150
> and two others I trained in. It a bird I know very well right to the
> screws.
> I've flown it for 21 years and done a lot of the lighter maintenance
even
> part of the ovehaul.
Sigh. Can't lay a spanner on your own aircraft without a L.A.M.E to
sign it off.
You can change the oil, and the spark plugs. That's about it.
Ultralights have promised to change that, and to a degree, they have,
but flying is
still quite expensive here. It's around AU$95 an hour in a Jabiru
(rotax powered high
wing, closed cabin) looks a lot like a 150 with severe malnutrition) for
dual instruction,
and around $70 or so hire & fly.
> >learnt in if I can, last time I looked in a register VH-KQY was still
> >doing mustering on a station in Western Australia. Been there since
85.
> >At least it's still flying.....
>
>
> That or one of those odd aussi ag birds.
That would be a Transavia PL12 Airtruck. Looks like the result of a
midair collision between
a railway signal box and a Grumman AgCat. Wierd describes them. Good
ag birds though.
They were designed and built around 1964, with about 120 built in total,
some were exported.
Basically, it fell in a hole due to a lack of Government protection from
cheaper imports.
There's one at Jamestown about 40 miles from here.
The chief designer (fellow named Millicer) designed a prototype that
ultimately became the Victa Airtourer.
(Trivia: Airtourers were known as 'flying lawnmowers' due to the fact
that the company was best known for it's 2 stroke lawnmowers...)
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au
ICQ: 1970476
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 23:59:40 BST