How much fun can you have ?

There's some serious motivation to dump the rental junk that mandates 5000x100 runways.
 
I think that video went around just after Pete's untimely death in a Carbon Cub also, here at his home and private airport in Colorado.

Good to see it again though. It sure looks like they were having a ball that day.
 
denverpilot said:
I think that video went around just after Pete's untimely death in a Carbon Cub also, here at his home and private airport in Colorado.

Good to see it again though. It sure looks like they were having a ball that day.
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Sorry,,,,,, I didn't know the dude was dead.
 
Cool video.

Our realtor owns a C-180 that he lands on uninhabited beaches all over South Texas, collecting shells, driftwood, etc. He's got an amazing collection, and has had a blast acquiring it.

Makes me long for a tailwheel plane.
 
Jay Honeck said:
Cool video.

Our realtor owns a C-180 that he lands on uninhabited beaches all over South Texas, collecting shells, driftwood, etc. He's got an amazing collection, and has had a blast acquiring it.

Makes me long for a tailwheel plane.
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A tailwheel doesn't make much difference for landing on beaches. You could land a Lear Jet at Copalis.
 
Started flying ULs in Nebraska and landed on sand bars on the Platte River. Those were the days. :hairraise:

Sorry to hear such an adventurer lost his life, but glad I saw the video.





"All of us will die someday, but few of us will have lived."
 
Tom-D said:
Sorry,,,,,, I didn't know the dude was dead.
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No, not your fault. Pete stalled and spun a Carbon Cub that was just in from the factory on a blustery day, while demonstrating a max-performance takeoff at a private airport near here.

There are those who have quietly said he was hot-dogging too much.

There are also those who say "no way".

One of those things... I have no opinion either way on it.

NTSB will probably say "Pilot failed to maintain adequate airspeed."

He had a long aviation career, military, airlines, and then as a CC dealer/helping with their marketing. He was having a ball.

Everyone in aviation eventually knows someone who died doing it.

If there's a heaven, I'm sure he's glad the video's still going around. His cohort that day showed it at his funeral, I heard. I couldn't get out there that morning as I was double-booked.

My co-owners knew him better than I. They rented a hangar from him out there to hold our airplane prior to finding one at KAPA when they first bought it.
 
kgruber said:
A tailwheel doesn't make much difference for landing on beaches. You could land a Lear Jet at Copalis.
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You might land it there (only because the sand will make up for the lack of runway length), but I'll bet you don't fly it out of there.
 
Sand FOD a Lear's engines, gear, etc. I bet the mechanics would be really ticked.
 
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