Hey B&Y,

I was going to go to gathering of the Luscombe's but it's the same weekend my wife graduates so I'm not sure if I'll make it. But if I can it'd be fun to meet part way and fly together.

As for goals,

1. Get the 800's put on.
2. Spend some time flying with another licensed pilot.
3. Land at 3 new airports.

whee wrote:I was going to go to gathering of the Luscombe's but it's the same weekend my wife graduates so I'm not sure if I'll make it. But if I can it'd be fun to meet part way and fly together.

Yeah it'd be fun! Give a holler if you decide to go.

lowflyin'G3 wrote:1. Fly more for work
2. Get current flying floats (in September with my 180)
3. Build more helicopter time and get to where I can use the rating.
4. Get some skis next fall and get Matt to get me squared away on that one (also in my 180 but after September!).

1. Get CFI rating
2. Get bigger tires for the sandy Utah strips I will be visiting with the 180
3. Fly to Alaska this Summer/Fall for ski installation
4. Fly George's 180 on floats

for the new year.
buy another '57-59 182.
try to keep it out of the trees
find a low cost insurance carrier with full coverage
be thankful for all we have

I didn't want to put a curse on efforts last December, so I held my tongue. But after 10 months of on and off flight training, I received my IFR rating Friday.
Now for the first time every, I don't want to fly, read, or even think. Just taking a break.
The problem with the break is, my commercial class started this week, so more reading begins.
So maybe by the coming new year I'll be ready for another check ride.

I'll follow up later.

Tom

TomW-

You and I are in the same boat...except the part about not wanting to fly.

The bag comes off the head and you can see again. The Instrument was a hard rating but, not that hard if you get into it. How can you not...

The commercial you just fly. Chandels, Lazy eights, spins, Barrel Rolls (I'm kidding)...you get to fly.....

AK

My goal is to get 100hrs actual this winter

sefro wrote:My goal is to get 100hrs actual this winter

Why?

Rob

Hell Rob, I can answer that. Practice, or in this case experience makes perfect. If you get your instrument rating, you need to use it as much as you can, or you will lose proficiency. 6 hours and 6 approaches in 6 months will NOT increase your level of proficiency. Instrument flying is fun. It's cool to pop into the clouds, fly a couple of hours and pop out of the clouds somewhere else. Just another tool in the toolbox.
On edit: How good were you in the Maule the day you got signed off as compared to now? I bet you consider things now that you didn't even know existed then, like badger holes?

TomW wrote: I received my IFR rating Friday.

Nice work, Tom, congratulations!

Everything gets old if you do too much in a short period of time..even sex. Give it a few days or weeks and you'll be ready for more.

You'll have to join the gang for an Oregon mini-fly-in this spring. Missed ya at McKenzie.

iceman wrote:Land at Columbia safely!!!!!!

You go brother! I know you can do it!
But start on the grass field first

1.Go to JC and land without an instructor.
2. Don't go over budget on airplane expenses
3. Go video when flying, put 29inch Airhawks tires and AKB 1010's on the Green Hornet.
4. Adjust my numbers on # 2 because of # 3
5. The hell with # 2 because it is like losing weight - never gonna happen
6. Keep flying because life is short and I love every miute of flying!

a64pilot wrote:Hell Rob, I can answer that. Practice, or in this case experience makes perfect. If you get your instrument rating, you need to use it as much as you can, or you will lose proficiency. 6 hours and 6 approaches in 6 months will NOT increase your level of proficiency. Instrument flying is fun. It's cool to pop into the clouds, fly a couple of hours and pop out of the clouds somewhere else. Just another tool in the toolbox.
On edit: How good were you in the Maule the day you got signed off as compared to now? I bet you consider things now that you didn't even know existed then, like badger holes?

Jody, I agree. I didn't mean it like that. What I should have said is what kind of interesting places will you be going to that will get those kind of hours. That's a lot of IFR hours for a PP.

When I pass my IFR my goal is 1 hour a week on and IFR flight plan. Kinda wimpie I know. If I said my goal was more it would be like all those years I said I wanted to loose 40 pounds after New Years. Never did it.

Your right on about flying, the more you do the better you get.

Cheers...Rob

Rob,
When you get your IFR ticket, everywhere you fly to should be IFR, and as much actual as you can get, until it becomes second nature. On a beautiful IFR day, smooth overcast at 800 or so, file IFR to your airport, shoot a couple of approaches. Maybe I entertain easily, but I never get over "appearing" a couple of hundred feet off of the ground on glideslope and perfectly aligned to the runway, it's like being teleported somewhere.
Now I admit the wx down here is completly different, but some of the smoothest flying is in the clouds of a solid overcast late fall day, no sun glaring in heat etc., so smooth there is no sensation of movement at all, it's not hot or cold, prefectly comfortable.
Remember the grass strip in Florida where we went to eat? 2J0. Was there a couple of weeks ago, filed IFR out of there, took off, picked up my clearance from Tallahassee approach right after T/O, flew IMC all the way and shot the ILS 04 into Albany.
Wasn't supposed to be IFR WX. If I wasn't rated my choice would have been to scud run at night and hope I didn't punch in, or try to find a place to stay. I don't think there are any places to stay. Camping under the wing with the family and no camping gear in the summer in Florida with the sand gnats and mosquitos would have removed a lot of the "charm" of flying for my better half
On edit,
If your going IMC, get rid of the dry vacuumn pump, or get an electric artificial horizon to replace your T&B. I went the wet vacuumn pump route, I don't trust dry pumps and don't like trying to run my gyros off of manifold vacuumn.

1. Sell the RV-4 - check
1a. Stay employed.
2. Buy a little LSA bush plane kit
3. Make my 16 yr old son do most of the building.
4. Help him file for a repairman's cert.
5. Fly the dickens out of HIS airplane.

1. Get my Commercial and Instrument
2. Get money for flying
3. Take family and friends up as much as possible.
4. Try to make it to a few fly-ins

1. Get my PPL!!
2. Make it to the Austin, NV fly in come next August!
3. Give plane rides to friends and family.......oh, and beautiful girls! (girls, PM me if you need a ride ).
4. Land my 182 at Mile High .
5. Fly in the backcountry as much as I can!!

RobBurson wrote:

sefro wrote:My goal is to get 100hrs actual this winter

Why?

Rob

Because that means i am getting paid during the winter. Which is hard during the winters in the northwest as a flight instructor.
Seth

Whats not to love about flying IFR?
Seth

sefro wrote:Whats not to love about flying IFR?
Seth

Ice when you fly a Maule with only a heated pitot tube. Seth great pictures. That's the IFR I'm looking for. What airport do you fly out of?

Cheers...Rob