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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 16, 2018 - 10:15am PT
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Fuel guzzler, 24 gallons will get you 150 miles.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 16, 2018 - 10:30am PT
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and if you think that's hard to take, it's 300 hrs TBO ... time before overhaul.
gliders launch by bungee, winch, tow plane then soar. this one will restart ...
in TWO MINUTES! at best glide that's 300' so stay ahead of the plane dude
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 16, 2018 - 11:43am PT
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300 hrs TBO is pretty bogus, but for the money it ain’t half bad. It has a lot of advantages over a Rotax, except for price. If you only burn 2-4 gallons self-launching it is very attractive. And lots fewer things to go wrong vs a Rotax PLUS it gives you a big ol’ Git Outta Jail card if the thermal yer werkin’ suddenly turns on you. Been there - survived dat = moderately scary.
Been thinkin of getting back into it but not really interested in self-launching, especially if it means only 39:1 L/D.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 16, 2018 - 12:21pm PT
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go arounds! might could use one of those first time out.
and a type rating on your ticket for the jet ...
that makes me smile. the whole prospect
would put the fun back into a BFR
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 16, 2018 - 12:50pm PT
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Go arounds - you a phunny man.
Actually, kinda did one once. It wasn’t a great day, you really had to work to stay up. I found a halfway decent thermal and was really wrapped up tight in it. Next thing I know I see the ground get blotted out by a large grey mass! A C-141 Starlifter on an extended approach to March was directly below me! OK, like about 1500’ but I swear I coulda landed on him! I milked that thermal for all she was worth and high-balled it to happier hunting grounds!
OK, kids, who’s tucked into a big dust devil? We’re talking the +1000’ club?
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 16, 2018 - 01:20pm PT
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i've reported PO's lofting dirt to 4,000' AGL. eventually, when the idea of piercing an invisible one on short final occured to me
i decided that a landing strip surrounded by dry silty source material rose in status to slightly preferable and likely okey dokey
then there was this one:
as a certified weather nerd, on duty alongside a gravel runway in the bush, i have the distinction of having filed the second alaska weather observation to include a funnel cloud. a day or so later i got a call from the national weather service. a very subdued g-man was methodically inquiring in a buttoned down way, because from time to time some disgruntled observer on his last day remarks "raining cat and dogs" or somesuch. he was on a mission to tamp down that sort of stuff. when i got all animated and assured him it was indeed a valid entry, he got all jacked up too, muffled the mouthpiece and shouted out to an anxious crowd. there we were, two pointy headed poindexters whooping it up long distance like giddy game show winners.
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