OH MAMA!.......Smoooooooth!

[scott heger]

Ken, seems like you are performing a classic "short/soft field" takeoff. Best to practice and remember how to do both types. Never know when you are going to have to do another sand dune takeoff near Yuma when you fail to plan your fuel correctly..... Some of us don't forget...
I do practice geting off the ground as fast as possible every once in a while and "whollowing" for a few seconds till the rotor comes up to speed . The ground roll is reduced dramatically. Much easier to pull off in a single place than with a battlecruiser-class gyro like yours.

Scott Heger, Laguna Niguel, Ca N86SH

 

[KenSandyEggo]

Hey! I had enough fuel to get to Yuma. I just didn't know it at the time. If the fuel probe in the tank was a few inches longer, I wouldn't have even made a precautionary landing and would have tootled the rest of the way to Yuma.

 

[KenSandyEggo]

Tom, didn't Mike just buy it? Wha' happen? Mike, are you here?

 

[david holmes]

Get a FS-450 and never regret it.

Get a FS-450 and never regret it.

Hey! I had enough fuel to get to Yuma. I just didn't know it at the time. If the fuel probe in the tank was a few inches longer, I wouldn't have even made a precautionary landing and would have tootled the rest of the way to Yuma.

I love "loading" up with a full tank (7 gal) and flying with piece of mind to land with lesss than a gallon. In the scheme of things $495 ain't much.

 

[KenSandyEggo]

It cost me about that much to replace one fuel pump that fried because it sucked some fine sand.

 

[Harry_S.]

Ken;
What was said is all correct...but they didn't offer any numbers.

When turning onto the center line with 200 rrpm is great...but don't go to full bore. Go to 3500 erpm and back stick. When you reach either 250 rrpm or you rock back on the tail wheel, forward stick and throttle up to 4000.

If solo...when IAS reads at least 40...then go full bore, if you want, and you'll lift right off, with no wallowing. At 40 IAS you'll be playing with getting the nosewheel off the tarmac anyway.

With a passenger...keep the nosewheel on the tarmac with forward stick till you reach 60-65 IAS...relax stick pressure and she'll fly right off.

Try this T&G next time your flying with a direct runway nose wind. Say you're trimmed for S&L and you approach to land...after you touch down and are solid, ease in the power...don't touch the stick...your ship will accelerate to a beautiful liftoff and climbout.

Cheers

 

[KenSandyEggo]

It seems funny that I have to think about it now. It just "happened" before. Maybe it was the layoff while I fixed her up and got a little rusty.

 

[Mike Hook]

Ken here is a J-2 book on ebay now https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6547177189&category=419&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

6 days left going for 5.75 at this time.


Mike

 

[Harry_S.]

Yep Ken. Extended layoffs from piloting will do that...especially for the older or senior pilots.

I'm in that group as well...old but no longer bold...and still aviating.


Cheers

 

[KenSandyEggo]

Thanks, Mike. I have it as a .pdf file to look at. I'll check back and see what it bids up to.

 

[Rotornut]

Harry S, OLD HUM BUG!!!! You Looked Great at BD Days. MJ

 

[david holmes]

perishable skills

perishable skills

Ken,
when I was flying jets off the carrier, the arrested landing skill was considered so perishable that we could not make a night arrested landing unless we had made a DAY arrested landing within the last 24 hours. This could make a tough schedule for someone coming back from a strike over North Vietnam after sundown. (never applied to me -- never flew over VN)

Those were the days before electronic coupled approaches. I don't know if it still applies to those "coupled" approaches. I am told that on launch, the F-18 pilot has to have his hands OFF the control because the computer flies the a/c.

 

[Harry_S.]

Thanks MJ...I owe you a BIG ONE!!!


Cheers

 

[Hognose]

Can I simply sell rides with a commercial ticket, or must I get a CFI rating so I can call the rides "Introductory Flight Lessons?" One CFI thinks I just need a commercial add-on as long as I don't do charter work. Anyone know for sure?

Ken, for sure, you can sell rides with a certified aircraft and a Commercial pilot's licence that is appropriate for the class and category (and type, if a type rating is required, but there ain't no turbojet gyros, or 6 1/4 ton ones, either).

We sell sightseeing rides and conduct traffic reporting flights for SmartRoutes (fixed wing). In both cases, we require our pilots to have a full commercial ticket. We do not require them to be CFIs and neither does FAA.

See, I learned something from buying into an FBO (apart from the obvious lesson: don't buy into an FBO).

cheers

-=K=-

 

[KenSandyEggo]

Thanks, Kev.

 

[GyroChuck]

Ken, in addition to what Kevin mentioned.

If you put on more than 100 hrs on your gyro since your last annual. Then in order to continue to fly it commercially you wil need a 100 hr. inspection done. Plus you still need the annual inspections done. If you put on less than 100 hrs in a 12 month period then no problem.

Remember an annual inspection trumps a 100 hr inspection. But a 100 hr. can not be used as an annual.

If you are giving "rides" there is no mileage limit you can go in one day. But the passenger has to be returned to the location from which the flight originated. In other words you can not transport him/her from airport A to airport B. In that case it becomes a charter operation under part 135.

If during the course of the "ride" you require fuel and need to stop at a different airport for fuel. Thats OK. Just don't let your passenger get lost. Make eure you return with him/her.

Now, if you want to do a Santa ride where you fly a Santa to a different location, but you return with out Santa. This is covered thru a waiver in part 116 for part 135. I believe your usually the one playing Santa. So I don't think you will need to read up on this one.

The two questions you asked are on the commercial test in one form or another. So you'll be reading up on this again.

I'm off to Mentone in an hour. Everybody play nice here.

 

[KenSandyEggo]

You also have to stay within 25 miles of where you take off from and return to.