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I cannot wait to hear how she files Tomo, congrats and thanks for putting up the extra pics... this is exactly the sort of thing I could see myself getting into one day, and its encouraging to experience it vicariously through someone such as yourself!

 

cheers,

 

adam

 

 

"i've taken 8 at a time in the beaver"

 

Probably the only time this phrase has ever been uttered in this context

 

 

Hi JJS - I am in the same boat as you, haven't really been able to nail it down to a particular height as such (other than the cues you already mentioned), but my instructor has been teaching me to feel for the various degrees of "sink", and adjust accordingly. To me there is a big "sink" after you first level off from the approach, then a number of ever-decreasing ones as you get closer to the ground, each requiring a further amount of back pressure until the stick is pretty far back and you just kinda "plop" down.

 

Take it for what its worth from a fellow L-plater :) and welcome to the forum - these guys and gals are great advisors and encouragers.

 

 

sounds like a Quentin Tarantino movie when the music starts up

 

 

Ya kidding aren't you?

Of course I am! Isn't that something that naturally comes up in one's first 9 hours of nosewheel instruction? :-P

 

 

Hi Ian,

 

Was just randomly checking on a few of these and they all seem to go to a 404 now that raa have redesigned the site. Hopefully that's not going to be the case for all of these, that's a bunch!

 

cheers

 

adam

 

 

*sigh*... ok, what's a "wheeler"?

 

 

Wow, nice stuff Alan! Welcome to the forum as well!

 

 

huh? whats that about Solomon?

 

 

Wanted for questioning:

 

 

 

dying alone in the desert next to your plane is a sad and lonely way to go.

but would make the basis for an excellent song or movie...

 

 

wonder what that would take to get airworthy again....

 

heh note the fine adjustment tool down by the LH tyre....

 

 

nice, thanks for that FT

 

 

Oh good point... same principal applies on takeoff... I should have thought of that! Well really FI should have, but I guess that wasn't the point of the exercise at the time so he probably just felt it better to take over at that stage...

 

 

The biggest obstacle I have at the moment is handling the aircraft after it is down, rolling to the full stop... always seems to veer back and forth like I am on the rudders, even though I am not. The tyre inflation seemed OK, but i wonder if one of the brakes isn't dragging, or something? Once I get comfortable on how to drive it in a straight line after I land, I'll feel a lot more confident!

 

Touch and go's and go-arounds i seem to have nailed.

 

 

YEAHHHHH! Great stuff Solomon, really been enjoying reading about your progress and adventures. Looking forward to hearing more in the future!

 

 

Hey guyswhats a greaser?

cheers gareth

Heh, told my wife I did a greaser and she just said "ugh.. .did you light a match at least??"

 

 

Hey all, OMG what a beautiful day for flying here in Sydney - went out first flight this morning, QNH around 1016, temperature nice n cool, not a cloud in the sky, barely any wind.... Noticed a couple of things -

 

Performance was astonishingly higher in all aspects from take off/climb, speed through the circuit, etc. This makes sense, higher density and lower temp than I am used to. So that was good, as most of my flying has been under higher temperature somewhat hazy conditions. Gives me a good indication of the kind of differences I can expect when I go solo (only will be more-so, I suspect). Stuff happens alot faster...

 

Getting pretty good at lining up, still need to be more purposeful with the rudder and controls in general, but pretty confident regardless that I can bring it down now, even if it isn't always perfect.

 

But - last circuit of the day, called for a full stop, this time switched to the massive 29C centre runway, and something clicked on that one and I pulled off the most fantastic greaser, I didn't even know it was me until my instructor told me - I assumed that he was nudging me along. Far out!!

 

This will be a good one for the psychoanalysts out there, but I think something to do with the size and length of the runway just made me "feel" like I had all the time in the world, and I just relaxed into it. Hoping I can duplicate that feeling next time, now that I have a better sense of how a good one feels vs. "ok" or "bad" ones (a couple of go-arounds too, but that doesn't bother me).

 

Hope everyone is having a great day up there, and won't be reading this till after last light!!

 

adam

 

 

You've really got a knack there Eric for making the reader feel as if he/she's along for the ride, great description and nice little anecdotes that we can all recognise in our own experiences (however limited in my case). I reckon you could write for the magazine or something. Keep em coming! How long till you get your ticket, or do you already have it? what's next?

 

Oh here's a thought on the file size thing - do you have a public disk or ftp site you could pop it on, and just provide the link?

 

 

YEEEEEEE HAHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

Good on ya!! Here's to many more to come!

 

 

sounds like we should be calling it "sphincter country"

 

 

gotcha, thanks RKW - figured it was something like that, but wasn't sure if the "tiger" moniker was due to some particular feature that might look stripey from overhead.... well, maybe the seat of your undies if you lose power over it?

 

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "tiger country"? I see the reference alot here, but admittedly hadn't heard it before that. I get the context, but thought I'd ask anyway :)

 

 

Thanks for this Eric, and welcome to the forum too! Any chance you'd be able to concatenate all of those into a single pdf doco? Would be alot easier to download 1 doc rather than 22 of them. If not, let me know and I'll give it a go.

 

 

Good on you John. I'll be up Sunday morning so may run in to you.

I hope not literally!! talk about over before you start!!