Tis but a scratch

[Pudfark]

Loco....picture yourself upside down on the pedals...working them backwards...ya know, left foot on the right pedal and right foot on the left pedal....what would ever entice you to be in that postion?....If ya can't understand that....your english is as bad as my spanish....or you need to double date Slick and Res_Dog....

Old Pudfark sez: " Glad yer fly'n again....I miss it. "

[Loco-S]

Loco....picture yourself upside down on the pedals...working them backwards...ya know, left foot on the right pedal and right foot on the left pedal....what would ever entice you to be in that postion?....If ya can't understand that....your english is as bad as my spanish....or you need to double date Slick and Res_Dog....

Old Pudfark sez: " Glad yer fly'n again....I miss it. "

there are several options about why you would do something like that:
you lost one of your legs due to ground fire,
you were fixing the chain on the dual controls interconnect behind the dashboard on a small plane while flying,
You are changing a fuse on your bonanza while IMC
you are trying to find your lucky charm lost behind the seat tracks, between the carpet and the servo box under the seat...
or you were doing a "big favOr" to your female copilot...

[Pudfark]

Good to know...that you are not dating Slick and R_Dog....and that you are aware of a two/three axis auto pilot....or can trim, really well....just leave the yolk on the PIC side...so yer butt don't change yer altitude....and effect/affect yer climax.....and watch yer VNE...ya don't wanna blow the V-tail off.....

Old Pudfark sez: " In some of them V-tails...they's no cure for VNE...especially, if ya jerk'm up to hard... "

[Pudfark]

Loco...on my old 170A...no circut breakers...fuses only...had a little tray of them attached near the window on the passenger side,...never had to use them....mine was a key start..35amp generator...0300A converted to a "D" model Continental 145 horse....six cylinder....slow, but reliable...putt, putt...putt...everywhere I wanted to go......My good friend had a 58 J model bonnaza v-tail...I had a lot of fun flying it....was like a corvette compared to my plane.....although, mine was prettier.

Hope you log some time with your significant other...above 5,280....agl.

[Loco-S]

I had to fly once about 100 miles in a sand storm with a " vintage" Cessna 170 ( square tail) the attitude indicator was kaput, and it only had a very old HSI, the ones with the black box and the horizontal tape dial, I got a coke bottle and a black marker, drank half of it, drew a line across the soda line and set it on top of the instrument panel, timed my flight and ended up above my destination ( the tour guide was looking straight down to see where we were) after a 360 precision turn, landed safely, after that the heat exchanger box had three pounds of sand, and there was shiny leading edges because the paint was "sandblasted".

Another time I had to fly a Piper Pawnee for an annual at another airport, I never had tail wheel time until then, scared the shit out of me, I almost groundlooped on take off, and took me seven approaches to get the guts to land it.

[Pudfark]

I never flew for a living...only when I wanted to...was not worth the fuel cost to me, to muck about in bad weather....I sold my plane when it was 59 years old/young...I still miss it...

[Loco-S]

I miss the days I used to fly for a living, the pay was shit, the planes were kind of OK, but the fun factor was top of the line.