Your Airplane and Pictures???

[shyampatel94]

Hey everyone! I am really interested in seeing what everyone flies or flied! I would like to see some pictures and any modifications you have done with your plane! Lets keep this thread going!! I don't have a plane yet but here is a picture just to start things off!

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

https://picasaweb.google.com/113074946255891896082/N222gn

 

[JohnAJohnson]

Click the link below for lots of pictures of my Cardinal.

 

[eman1200]

Hey everyone! I am really interested in seeing what everyone flies or flied!.?..

I think its 'flewd'.

 

[AggieMike88]

or flied!

Now I know why you're matriculating at San Macos and not College Station....

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Here is the Skylane and Bonanza that I'm 1/16th owner of. (www.metroflyersclub.com)

 

[AggieMike88]

Click the link below for lots of pictures of my Cardinal.

Not including the link in your post is no fair for us Aggies... it's like putting us in the round room and telling us to pee in the corner


(I know you meant your sig line, but I've got that disabled and don't see it.)

 

[Todd Copeland]

My Glasair III...

 

[DavidWhite]

My current plane

My first plane (I miss it daily)

My next airplane???

 

[AggieMike88]

Wait a sec... the rudder pedals are OUTSIDE?

Good thing the FAR's are okay with the occasional lost flip flop falling from the sky.

 

[JohnAJohnson]

Not including the link in your post is no fair for us Aggies... it's like putting us in the round room and telling us to pee in the corner


(I know you meant your sig line, but I've got that disabled and don't see it.)

Sorry Mike! The url is: http://southshore.com/~jaj/

Here's that great shot climbing out of Gastons:

 

[denverpilot]

Oh you want photos, eh? Never ask an owner for photos of their baby.

It's worse than a parent showing you their wallet full of cherub photos that look like every other cherub you've ever seen!

 

[ClimbnSink]

That round shiny thing in the sky is the motor.

 

[bob_albertson]

I don't fly GA often, but here is my work plane

 

[AggieMike88]

Sorry Mike! The url is: http://southshore.com/~jaj/

Here's that great shot climbing out of Gastons:

Now I remember you!! and I'm still kicking myself for not looking at your plane closer and asking for a ride.

 

[AggieMike88]

Nate: Which STOL kit is on 79M? How much does it help you when operating out of KAPA?

 

[JimG.]

the 340…

The Bonanza

1440 × 1094 - planespotters.net


She's been repainted since I sold her…
800 × 534 - airport-data.com





I can't find any photos of my old 172

 

[AggieMike88]

Sorry Mike! The url is: http://southshore.com/~jaj/

Thanks for the link.... Very Very pretty airplane!!

What brand/model of console do you have in your Cardinal? Are you happy with it?

 

[comanchepilot]

Me landing at home field . . . . kinda get the feel for it . . .

 

[Rex Bueller]

1946 Ercoupe 415C, 85hp,1320 lb. STC.

 

[flightmedic]

Here is the helicopter I am a medic in. Actually got about an hour behind the wheel of it when we had the left seat in for one of our pilot's FAA check ride.

 

[Neal Howard]

My RV-6 at Johnson Creek.

 

[yakdriver]

Sold my RV7 last year and haven't got around to replacing it. I do get to fly several airplanes and here are a couple of the current ones. Been flying the N3N a lot this summer but I will get the Cub next week and have it around for awhile. I have the engine and instrument panel out of the 140. Should have the engine back shortly.

 

[N2124v]

Gonna be flying this later this week.

 

[moonshine]

Here we go

First solo - Aeroprakt A-20 (back in 2006) - actual picture of the third landing

Happy face after the first solo

My first (Lightning on the left) and second (Diamond on the right) planes during the brief period of insanity when I owned both in 2011

Lightning introduced me to the building a plane yourself (fun. Not quite ready to do it again though) and real xc flying. Went to Oshkosh in that plane in 2010 and took her on numerous burger runs around Florida.

Wanted a DA40 for 4 years and 2 month (time between first flying one and signing the paperwork buying my own), got my instrument rating in that plane and took my daughter flying for the first (and second, and third) time. Still many states to color on the map, but so far that plane took me as far as AR, TN, SC and the Keys. Yet, still a lot to see.

Logbook has about 30 more N-numbers that I logged my flights in (with engine and without, fixed wing and rotary), and there's probably at the very least another half a dozen that I didn't log, and many of those have their special place, but then I don't want to overfill the thread with my pictures

 

[Tom-D]

A couple during shots

 

[denverpilot]

Nate: Which STOL kit is on 79M? How much does it help you when operating out of KAPA?

Robertson.

It makes my wallet lighter to the tune of $900 for a half a set of aileron hinges to replace one side this year. That must account for a significant reduction in useful load. The joys of STCs!

Honestly, it doesn't help at all at APA. The shortest runway is 4800'.

It takes a butt-puckeringly short runway or need to get off the ground (beating the airplane up in gravel, for example) to make it actually useful, and even then the additional drag means you lose obstacle-clearing ability. You're too slow to climb.

For me it does two things: It's fun. And it improves low speed handling. Maybe a far distant but important third, it could allow for a slower impact with things in the case of an engine out over inhospitable terrain.

The YouTube video below is what it will do at Gaston's closer to sea level. DW was kind enough to film a takeoff. He'd been getting off easily by the windsock with his STOL 172 and I felt like giving it a shot. I had about 55-60 gallons on board (we have long range tanks also, which are usually equally useless... I don't need five+ hour legs but it's nice for safety margin) and tossed everything else but me, the iPad, and the headset out in the grass before taxiing.

My technique is somewhat sloppy (tail bobbing courtesy of ham-fisted elevator control attempting to make sure the bumps in the grass there wouldn't cause a tail-strike), but it comes off pretty quick at that altitude.

Note that once off, it's not climbing. This is the thing that surprises most with STOL. You need to accelerate to lose all the drag of a Flap 30 takeoff. Then you can start to retract to 20 and at Gaston's altitude on a hot day, climb. Up here on a hot day, climb real shallow and keep accelerating to Vx or Vy depending on obstacles. I'm just fast enough to start retracting as the clip ends.

I also lifted off at least five knots above the speed Robertson says it'll fly at. In fact, I was planning another attempt and didn't think it had come off prior to the windsock, until the peanut gallery let me know it had via the Unicom. I'm not used to how well it'll scoot at sea level, and the additional power the O-470 puts out down there so I wasn't pushing it. Was meant to just get a feel for what it was willing to do at that altitude.

It's usefulness is really in getting the wheels up and off of unimproved runways if you have room to speed up and climb afterward. It'll also land and stop in spaces it can't get back out of, which is less useful. I've used it on some gravel runways to stop throwing crap into the prop and tail, as does one of the co- owners when he goes to South Dakota. (We always kid with him that the prop needs dressing after every one of his trips. Ha. He needs to roll forward after applying power.)

A few who've flown her and have considerable 182 time say the ailerons remain more effective, slower. Usually described as a "solid" aileron feel, even in the flare and touchdown phases of a landing. I agree but I'm used to it after 200+ hours in her.

The other interesting side-effect is the noise the stall fences on top of the wing make as they start to block more and more span-wise flow. I describe it as "singing", a metal vibration that's very high pitched and starts a bit before the stall horn and gets progressively louder the closer to the stall you get.

Power off, it doesn't really stall for long. It bobs the nose up and down. You can clamp the elevator aft with both arms and maintain straight and mostly level with massive rudder inputs and just bob down at rates between 1000-2500' per minute. Power on, it'll stall and shudder without a violent break, and recovery can be made back to controlled slow flight with just relaxing back pressure with the stall horn blaring the whole time. (Bad habit to do that for muscle memory and as a general procedure, but fun to purposefully demonstrate.) It'll also usually try to roll to the left from all the torque, p-factor, etc... Slowly. The ailerons are still effective but getting too wild with them is tempting fate and a spin.

Anyway, the video. It counts as a photo too, I guess!

http://youtu.be/D01jHXn2q28

 

[denverpilot]

Sorry Mike! The url is: http://southshore.com/~jaj/

Here's that great shot climbing out of Gastons:

That's puuuurty.

 

[comanche pilot]

This is my 1960 Piper Comanche 180. I've had it about 14 years. I think it's one of the best planes made, but I might be a little biased...

 

[pigpenracing]

Here are the planes I owned first to last. I currently own the Eagle and 172.
Cessna 172D
Decathlon
Skybolt
Pitts S-2C
Cessna 172M
540 Eagle

 

[HeliNomad]

Here's my baby...no fixed wing for me. Eurocopter EC-130B4.

 

[Henning]

More pics linked in my sig file. The only mods are to the panel with the G-500/430w & analyzer.

 

[Bill Watson]

Currently fly this - Bill's 2011 RV10 "Tigressa"

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[TulsaWeather]

My Cardinal....

 

[JohnAJohnson]

My Cardinal....

Paint job really came out nice! Who ended up doing it?

 

[JohnAJohnson]

What brand/model of console do you have in your Cardinal? Are you happy with it?

Very happy with the center console. Everyone who rides in the plane comments on how nice it is to have an arm rest. I like it for the storage too. Between it and the glove compartment, everything is within reach. Saircorp made it. The quality is good. Would be excellent but some of the rivets loosened. It also was expensive at ~$500, but that was with a lot of options (cup holder, CD case, fire extinguisher holder, extra long arm rest and matching leatherette color for the arm rest). I also had it cut down a bit so as not to be as tall as the stock item, so it's the same height as the door arm rests.

 

[MBDiagMan]

Here's "The Piggy:"

 

[JHW]

1958 travel air

 

[JLowe]

How can I not participate in this?!?!

 

[GMascelli]

My 1980 Beech Sundowner

 

[dell30rb]

Here's my baby...no fixed wing for me. Eurocopter EC-130B4.

I thought helicopters were flown from the right seat.. I guess the europeans are backwards!