Pietenpol-List: Red Bull Air races report
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:45 am
Original Posted By: Steven Dortch
Builders,We have only one week to Corvair College#30 in MO, so it is out to the shop on100% duty cycle. The sign up for #30 has been full for several weeks, but if youare a Piet guy, Corvair College #31 and Barnwell with PF Beck and his crewis not only the next event, (November 7-9th) but has the highest density of Pietbuilders and flying Piets on our calendar. . PF has said many times that all Piets are welcome, and even if you are not a Corvairbuilder, there is a lot to be gained at the event. Don Harper's and PF'sPiets are based there, We will have the fuselage, mount and gear on displayfor Terry Hands steel tube Piet, I have invited Bob Lester to fly his up fromFlorida, and there will be a number of better known Piet builders on hand. Ifyou are building a Piet, but have never flown in one, come on down, PF Will remedythat, as he has flown more than 250 people in his plane. ---------------------------When I signed up for this list 6 months ago, I had the following simple goals:1) Have more people understand Doc Mosher's great contribution to the Piet Community.2) Have more builders look at the 3 safety points, diagonal cabanes, fuel linesand CG.3) Get more people to look at and understand the power of the CG data to plan andbuild their plane with confidence.4) Have builders understand that it is fine to be a 'low and slow' guy, but thereare many builders who like planning and getting more out of their planes andthe time they spend building them. Homebuilding is a very rich mine, and thedeeper you dig the more you get out of it. If you want to do more than scratchthe surface, know that there are others of the same mindset to guide you andbe of assistance.-------------------Dowe is right, there are a lot of benefits to people staying positive. The onlyexception I might validly make is plain speaking about things that directly effectthe safety of others. I don't much care if people knowingly take risks,but it is that knowing part which is the rub, and their non-pilot passengers alwaysfit in the category of "unknowing risk taker." .Some people didn't understand why I named the builder who put cast pistons in hisengine, they thought I should have told him privately. Basically I did, bywriting it all over our manuals and website, and I even had the builder at CorvairCollege #20 where he saw that every other person was using forged pistons,but he instead followed his 'local expert'. Naming him here was round three,after the first two failed. Look at it backwards: If your kid was in that planeon a young eagles flight when the head comes off the cast Chinese piston, andyou found out that I knew about it in advance but didn't say anything becauseI was trying to be 'nice', how mad would you be?.There is value in plainly speaking, but not for most builders, who are not listening.The value is to myself, so I don't later ever have to sit on the frontporch at night and regret not having spoken up.---------------------------Hope to see many of you at Barnwell. -ww.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:49:35 -0500Subject: Pietenpol-List: Red Bull Air races report
Builders,We have only one week to Corvair College#30 in MO, so it is out to the shop on100% duty cycle. The sign up for #30 has been full for several weeks, but if youare a Piet guy, Corvair College #31 and Barnwell with PF Beck and his crewis not only the next event, (November 7-9th) but has the highest density of Pietbuilders and flying Piets on our calendar. . PF has said many times that all Piets are welcome, and even if you are not a Corvairbuilder, there is a lot to be gained at the event. Don Harper's and PF'sPiets are based there, We will have the fuselage, mount and gear on displayfor Terry Hands steel tube Piet, I have invited Bob Lester to fly his up fromFlorida, and there will be a number of better known Piet builders on hand. Ifyou are building a Piet, but have never flown in one, come on down, PF Will remedythat, as he has flown more than 250 people in his plane. ---------------------------When I signed up for this list 6 months ago, I had the following simple goals:1) Have more people understand Doc Mosher's great contribution to the Piet Community.2) Have more builders look at the 3 safety points, diagonal cabanes, fuel linesand CG.3) Get more people to look at and understand the power of the CG data to plan andbuild their plane with confidence.4) Have builders understand that it is fine to be a 'low and slow' guy, but thereare many builders who like planning and getting more out of their planes andthe time they spend building them. Homebuilding is a very rich mine, and thedeeper you dig the more you get out of it. If you want to do more than scratchthe surface, know that there are others of the same mindset to guide you andbe of assistance.-------------------Dowe is right, there are a lot of benefits to people staying positive. The onlyexception I might validly make is plain speaking about things that directly effectthe safety of others. I don't much care if people knowingly take risks,but it is that knowing part which is the rub, and their non-pilot passengers alwaysfit in the category of "unknowing risk taker." .Some people didn't understand why I named the builder who put cast pistons in hisengine, they thought I should have told him privately. Basically I did, bywriting it all over our manuals and website, and I even had the builder at CorvairCollege #20 where he saw that every other person was using forged pistons,but he instead followed his 'local expert'. Naming him here was round three,after the first two failed. Look at it backwards: If your kid was in that planeon a young eagles flight when the head comes off the cast Chinese piston, andyou found out that I knew about it in advance but didn't say anything becauseI was trying to be 'nice', how mad would you be?.There is value in plainly speaking, but not for most builders, who are not listening.The value is to myself, so I don't later ever have to sit on the frontporch at night and regret not having spoken up.---------------------------Hope to see many of you at Barnwell. -ww.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:49:35 -0500Subject: Pietenpol-List: Red Bull Air races report