hey vas

what is it, like 1715 there now, vas?

I'm not going much farther than a PPL w/IFR and possible glider rating. No written test for that rating with a PPL! Just 10 solo flights to take the test.

i forget that you guys get clouds on the other side of the mountains. i was gonna say that the IFR wasn't even necessary, haha

Dave
Mike

And, Max I work two days a week.

i wish i got my glider rating..they say that's where you really learn to fly

1718 :d

It's not really necessary out here, but fly across country to Aspen or up North. It won't be an immediate thing.

Yeah you do! Even with only R/C experience I have learned a lot about it. I expect it will help. I often call out thermals or where they are, when flying with my dad or instructor.

how come when people quote others on this forum, sometimes it says "Quote de XXXX" instead of "Originally Posted by XXXXX" is that the quoter adjusting that?

When you post with the smartphone optimized site, it does that. I have a feeling it was designed by a French dude. Or Spanish.

here's one of my buddies...soaring, and chasing another glider...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1334129050.jpg

ah, that's it! it's been driving me bonkers for a while when i see that

Cool! I've had my R/C in thermals that would not quit. I had to deploy my spoilers to try and get down. A few times, that didn't even work and I had to pull the stick all the way back to the right or left, get it to stall and into a controlled slow spiral.

I've also had it in dives, hitting speeds of about 60MPH or so and had wing flutter. Scary moment that, you have to bleed off speed quickly and carefully or CRACK, the wing explodes. :D

that very thing happened to me in a real airplane. i was flying a 172 from northern indiana down to the Texas Hill country to go visit a family friend for a week. I was over arkansas. and there was enough thermal (and convective action) coming off of the ozarks. i was literally adding full forward nose, and my 172 was still climbing at 2000 fpm, past 12,500 feet. i ended up stomping on the rudder and spinning it to get down. one of the scariest things ive ever had happen in a plane.

parker mountain over in acton, just south of me....world record glider speeds...

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I've been in the reverse. Owens Valley, flying to Mammoth with my dad. AP was in control, we're half paying attention, when I notice that we're literally hanging on the prop as the AP was trying to maintain level flight at the altitude. I elbow my dad and clue him in, he disengages the AP, levels the nose and we dropped like a rock. We were blown about 2 miles inside of China Lakes as well. We were too low and got caught in the Sierra Wave. We got out of it by flying West, into it, over the Sierras and came into Mammoth via Fresno.

Nite Guys.
Have a great day. :)

Those things violently explode when a malfunction happens. I've been around them locally. Cool, but not my thing.