Winter Flying

[KSCessnaDriver]

I did a little bit of flying today, and thought that I'd share a few.

1250 FPM. Granted, it was cold, and the plane was mostly empty.

130KIAS+ (At one point, I hit 140 KIAS)

Flying into KIXD, for some touch and goes.

Hmm, what's a Shorts 360 doing out here?

Have to watch the wing, with the snow removal effort. The wings will drag in the snow.

Try steering on this, using brake only. Fun stuff, I tell you.

 

[Pilot0486]

Tell me about it... We see 1250FPM climb performance up here for about 3 months now already.

And differential steering is very difficult on the snow, try tapping the break instead of holding them down... it seems to work better!

Also, i just noticed today that snow/ice likes to buildup on the flaps/underwing area after flying for a while

 

[mooneyguy]

cold pics good ole IXD, spent a little time up there working on my CFI's. hmmm actually a wally's burger sounds pretty good right now!

 

[touch-n-go]

Nice pics. Have always liked the Eclipse except for the differential brakiing business.

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Nice pics. Have always liked the Eclipse except for the differential brakiing business.

2 times I've ever had issues with them. One, On snow. Two, on takeoff, dragging a brake to maintain directional control while on beginning of the roll. Plus, I feel they are way, way to easy to lock up when you apply full brake. Flap retraction helps some, but they still lock up quite easily.

 

[mikecweb]

Is that a Bank Air 25 in the shot with the shorts?

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Is that a Bank Air 25 in the shot with the shorts?

The Lear 25? Its been sitting there forever, IIRC. That's the Dodson parts people hangar/ramp area. Last time I walked over there (this summer), I believe it had a Mexican registration on it.

 

[t-cart]

Where did the tail on the 310 go?

 

[///AMG]

Nice, it was like 20-ish degrees out here tonight and I nearly oversped the gear on climbout because the jet was giving us so much extra thrust, even at about 25 deg nose up (normally 12-15 deg nose up keeps us comfortably below our 200 kt gear speed while cleaning up)....actually had to pull power. Cool pics!

 

[KSCessnaDriver]

Where did the tail on the 310 go?

Not a clue. Which looks to be a shame, since that looks like (well from 600 ft AGL) a sweet paint scheme on a 310.

Nice, it was like 20-ish degrees out here tonight and I nearly oversped the gear on climbout because the jet was giving us so much extra thrust, even at about 25 deg nose up (normally 12-15 deg nose up keeps us comfortably below our 200 kt gear speed while cleaning up)....actually had to pull power. Cool pics!

I was shocked how much better it flew today, compared to the last time I flew the plane (in August). From the begining of the runway to the end (4,100ft), I went from field elevation (1,100) to roughly 1,700 MSL. With the take-off flaps in, the thing feels like riding an express elevator up.