Just wondering if I am the only dummy thermaling in their non glider plane.. ha ha

Is it Mr Coyote Hoover?? quite nice! Do you need a different rating for motor gliders??

I wondered if you were going to restart. I stopped my prop on a champ once and the re-start was going almost straight down and that required a kick of the rudder.

Very cool.

Never an end to the fun huh Pops?!

Just awesome Joe!!!

AKT

Nice video

You need a panel vibrator to unstick that Alt.

L-19 wrote:Nice video

You need a panel vibrator to unstick that Alt.

He's got one. He just had it turned off for the video.

Cool video!

L-19 wrote:Nice video

You need a panel vibrator to unstick that Alt.

Reminded me of the guys at Chernobyl watching the cooling water gauge. Never mind.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way! Mad skills. You just drove Miss Daisy with that yoke all around the mountains and then coasted it in the hangar!

Respect.

I had to changed this awesomeness to wide screen Joe. You and courier guy can get together and have a soaring competition!

Haha!! That last part was the best. I love the hard forward slip to shit eating grin.

Nice quiet ride.....

Too cool Great way to keep operating costs down!

hicountry wrote:Nice quiet ride.....

and cheap

That was great!

The T-craft does this kind of stuff better than any other airplane ! Great video.

Ross Briegleb, one of my glider instructors, used to fly one T-craft with the prop not mounted on the crank... and the tow rope wrapped around the prop flange of the crank... towed to altitude by another T-craft that had 100 HP. He would release the rope knot from the cockpit of the un-powered T-craft and do an airshow aerobatic routine with it.

Another famous sailplane competition and flight test pilot named Dick Johnson had an altimeter vibrator made from an engraving pen that he used for glide tests on high performance gliders.

Pops, look into Velcro'ing a plain old mechanical glider variometer on top of the dash when you're playing glider. A vario is an ultra sensitive rate of climb indicator. There's all sorts of exotic air probes we used to have hooked up to them to cancel out climbs and dives, but for these basic purposes you can essentially just leave it open to cockpit vent or any open static port. You'll be amazed at how much you can fly with that prop stopped if you have good air movement information. In Austin, you can probably glide back and forth along the upwind side of those ridges for hours at a time in a good westerly breeze.

Keep it up you'll get that rating yet Now tomorrows lesson is

Glidergeek wrote:Keep it up you'll get that rating yet Now tomorrows lesson is

The Great Basin is great isn't it, You could fly a mobile home if it had wings up there well now you've got a new idea

Fun stuff amigo. Always a treat to watch your vids.