Three planes, what would you own?
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A150K
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Realistic: RV-8
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Just don't be one of those tools that ask's for an Overhead approach for every single landing.
cmill
Cold Ass Honky
XXX tower RV jack ass request carrier break.
Der_Meister
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Realistic: Pitts
State: PC-12
Powerball: G650
A150K
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Carrier breaks are cool when done by something with a radial engine, but when an RV does it, it's just annoying
R Banger
Profl. Backseat Flyer
I agree 100%! I am also instructing in a Pitts as well, with the occasional Extra flight. Pitts is my favorite hands down! If you like the Pitts you gotta to find your way into a Model 12. 400HP and the roar of a radial. Nothing beats the sight picture over a round cowl while doing a 200 knot loop. Just out of curiosity where are you flying at?
Realistic: Pitts Special
State: Pitts Model 12
Powerball: P-51, Custom Pitts Model 12 and Husky with all the trimmings.
Jet A aircraft just aren't "fun" airplanes to me. (Unless you are talking military fighters)
izanti
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Finally the powerball piece:
I know you might say WTF? that's it? Yes, a lear 25 isnt all that expensive relatively speaking, nor big, but its SP. Yeah, i just hit 200 mill, but i dont wanna have the hassle of having a pilot on stand by 24/7. I'd rather head out at 1am for a trip to vegas if the mood so struck me. I dont have enough friends for a G550 anyway. I'll just call net jets if i wanted to head across the pond.
So, whatch yall got?
You must be a Riddle guy or randomly picked a plane I have seen a million times. Looks like one of Conrad Yelvingtons Lears and that the Daytona track behind it. Jeez see what happens when you work at an FBO for 4 years at DAB. I still remember every based plane lol.
L B Fowler Jr MD
senior ame/hims CVW-11 Flt Surgeon CVA-66 (1980)
Bailey V5 4 stroke paramotor with a Nucleon reflex wing
T-6 Texan
any 8 passenger single pilot jet that can fly high and long!
T-6 Texan
any 8 passenger single pilot jet that can fly high and long!
trafficinsight
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Realistic: I can see myself owning a cub someday
Slightly Unrealistic: Beech 18
Mega Millions: You could throw one hell of a party on a C-97.
Slightly Unrealistic: Beech 18
Mega Millions: You could throw one hell of a party on a C-97.
Corporate Pilot
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Realistic: Cessna 140
Slightly Unrealistic: Beech 18
Mega Millions: Falcon 2000
Slightly Unrealistic: Beech 18
Mega Millions: Falcon 2000
///AMG
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Carrier break is cool in a low bypass turbofan fighter jet, and even then it isn't very exciting. Not to mention that I know of like 1 airfield that lets you do a true carrier break (800' AGL), unless we are talking USN/USMC fields, who even then still mostly don't allow it outside of FCLP's with paddles on station. Then again, by "carrier break", I'm guessing most people in this thread are referring to a 1.5 G "steep turn" to downwind at 1500' with an awkward non-box pattern that still very closely resembles a box pattern because you are going too slow to not fly a box pattern. That and they flare to land, because somewhere on short final, they remember that they aren't flying the ball, don't know how to, and even if they did, they would snap the landing gear right off the airplane if they tried to land "on-speed".....which notably doesn't exist for their aircraft because it is too underpowered to fly an approach near the backside of the power curve.
/flamesuit on
But seriously, this is about as cool as anyone trying to fly an airplane like some other airplane that it isn't.
trafficinsight
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Also before you ask for an overhead break you should probably get a feel for what's going on in the pattern. I was with a student the other day and we were in the pattern with about nine hundred other trainers and a Christen Eagle asks for an overhead break.
Tower, god bless em, said "unable, continue on a straight in."
Tower, god bless em, said "unable, continue on a straight in."
TwoTwoLeft
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Also before you ask for an overhead break you should probably get a feel for what's going on in the pattern. I was with a student the other day and we were in the pattern with about nine hundred other trainers and a Christen Eagle asks for an overhead break.
Tower, god bless em, said "unable, continue on a straight in."
That's pretty legit. Have you ever had to fly a busy/gigantic pattern in an Eagle or a Pitts? They glide like a waxed manhole cover and forward visibility is terrible.
Johnny Beau Bekkestad
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love that sea fury
ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Realisitc :
State Lotto: Pilatapus ftw!
Mega Millions:
757...The most gorgeous aircraft of all time, bar none. I'd be typed and fly it as the mood struck me...but I'd be able to enjoy everything in the back and would have a crew for when frosty adult beverages were at hand...there'd be a kegerator on board for sure.
State Lotto: Pilatapus ftw!
Mega Millions:
757...The most gorgeous aircraft of all time, bar none. I'd be typed and fly it as the mood struck me...but I'd be able to enjoy everything in the back and would have a crew for when frosty adult beverages were at hand...there'd be a kegerator on board for sure.
KSCessnaDriver
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Mega Millions:
757...The most gorgeous aircraft of all time, bar none. I'd be typed and fly it as the mood struck me...but I'd be able to enjoy everything in the back and would have a crew for when frosty adult beverages were at hand...there'd be a kegerator on board for sure.
Be bold, why not get the 757-ski? The TU-204 looks darn near identical and then your flying some awesome Soviet metal.
