Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "taildrags"
Well, it's simple alright! Seeing your handheld and radio stuff in the cockpitreminds me of what a pain mine is. I've got to do something different, becauseit's driving me nuts. Mine is a little Icom IC-A23 and what I do is clip itto the map holder down by my right calf using the belt clip on the back of thebattery case. Well, that's fine until I pull the radio out to change frequencies.If I'm not real careful, the battery case snaps off and my radio is dead.Then I get to do the stick-between-my-knees shuffle, pull off one or bothgloves and hope they don't fly out, fumble around for the battery and clip,get everything back together, power up the radio, and then pull the airplane outof a screaming, diving left corkscrew spiral ;o) I've got to find my BillRewey "handy details" and bend up one of his radio brackets to hold it up whereI can see it and get to the buttons easier.--------Oscar ZunigaMedford, ORAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 powerRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Saturday flight

Original Posted By: Claude Corbett
Oscar--- Glad you got to fly Saturday!When I use radio communications I simply say "Experimental 48MC" and omit theX in my call because the X is simply an aircraft markingdenoting it is an experimental but the X is not recognized by the FAA as part ofour N-number registry/records. I suppose it doesn't hurt oneway or the other to use the X in your call sign but that is the way I've alwaysunderstood the rationale of the X to be. Mike C.________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Saturday flight

Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-LME0)[Vantage Partners, LLC]"
After reading this I felt I had just had another great Piet flight. ThanksCorkySent from my iPad> On Nov 9, 2014, at 6:45 PM, "taildrags" wrote:> > > The Air Camper worked its magic for me again yesterday. We've had some grayand drizzly mornings lately, but it usually breaks up after lunch and we get acouple of hours of sunshine. Gambling on that happening, I went out to the hangarafter lunch and prepared for flight. As I was preflighting, the sky wasclearing and by the time I was ready to roll the airplane out, it was beautifulwith calm winds and almost no traffic.> > I had been correcting the camber on my axles, because it had been uneven from one side to the other and I had used washers to shim the axles out rather than the proper tapered shims. There are a couple of pictures of the shimming here: http://www.flysquirrel.net/piets/axle.html . I also replaced a tire and tube on one side, but everything was done and the airplane was ready to fly. So was I!> > Interesting little 'chat' with the ground controller, as he said my call signwas incorrect. "November Xray Four One Charlie Charlie", I repeated. "One CharlieCharlie, Is that what's painted on your tail?" he asks. "Four One CharlieCharlie, roger." That ended that little discussion, but I bet he went tofind out about that NX- tail number.> > Beautiful day, smooth flight, on runup the RPM drop was textbook perfect on carbheat and both mags, and off we went. I've finally started listening to youpilots who suggest just letting it fly itself off. I'd always been taught tohold forward stick to bring the tail up, hold it, then rotate when the airspeedwas good. Nahh... there is no need. Scout needs considerable forward stickforce to pick up the tail early, so yesterday instead of forcing it, I justtried letting it do what it wanted and that worked great. We lifted off andclimbed out like the airplane knew what it was doing.> > A very nice bit of sightseeing in the autumn air with autumn colors everywhere,then some power on and power off stalls (non events), then back to the field.I must say that the landing was the best that I have made in a very, verylong time. One of those where you roll out from base to final with the runwaycenterline stripes just falling in perfect alignment with the center of the propand then not budging. Down the glideslope with out even stirring the stick,down into ground effect, ease the stick back... back... back- and I was downwithout even knowing when it happened.> > This is why we fly Piets.> > --------> Oscar Zuniga> Medford, OR> Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"> A75 power> > > > > Read this topic online here:> > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 230#433230> > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________