ragedracer1977

Yeah, I say finally... I only had to wait 3 months for a hangar. Not too bad a wait from what I hear. Now I just need to set up a workbench, move some tools and stuff over there, maybe a couch or some chairs, and a fridge! Question for you guy with hangars... Do you still usually put the pitot cover and cowl plugs on? Do you close the storm window or leave it open for ventilation? This is my first hangar (and first plane!) so I'm not really sure what's the 'right' way?

Yeah, and I guess I sorta made Troy fly back and forth to KSOW a couple times to get my plane fixed. Sorry!

Strangely, though, the actual violence is nearly all coming from the President's opposition. And need I remind you that the Previous administration pardoned actual terrorists and traitors to the country, not just a Sheriff who was convicted by a judge with a grudge. Not to say that the certain sheriff didn't break the law, because he may very well have done so. But that particular pardon is much less controversial than pardoning a guy (now a girl!) that literally committed treason, a crime that used to be punishable by hanging - IMO.

Took my youngest son to breakfast on the USS Sedona (KSEZ) this morning. His first time riding in the front of any airplane. We had a great time! First time taking the yoke! On the ramp at SEZ. Breakfast time! Departing Sedona Flying the Mooney \ Williams, AZ. Gateway to the Grand Canyon. And Route 66 is down there too!

I've had the same 'handle' since about 1994 when I first starting joining IRC groups and what not. Back then, NO ONE used their real name. Everyone was afraid the government or hackers or whatever would find you and bug your house. These days, people go on Amazon and willing BUY a listening device to keep on their kitchen counter. I use my 'handle' everywhere on line. It's certainly not hiding my identity any more.

When you do my panel for me, I'll make sure it's in February or something that's a little cooler.

IMO, DVT will always be considerably cheaper than SDL. I did all of my flight training at SDL, so I feel pretty confident in talking about it. However, there's nothing inherently wrong with SDL. It's a nice field with a couple great FBO's. I wasn't trying to steer him away. That said, SDL is actually considerably busier than DVT in terms of wait times. During training, I waited 20+ minutes for departure more times than I can count. With only one runway and lots of corporate jet traffic, the delays are sometimes unreal. Now that I'm based at DVT, I've never waited more than 5 minutes for a departure and 90% of the time, I wait less than 2 minutes after calling ready to go. DVT uses intersection departures on 7R/25L and has huge run up areas on 7L/25R to keep traffic moving. They are VERY efficient. Yes, there are a lot of foreign students that are hard to understand, and if you're not used to it, I can definitely see how it could be intimidating. Having trained in the area, I'm just used to it. They were always in and out of SDL, DVT, and FFZ - and so was I. At this point, I can understand everything they say. And, like EricJ said, use caution if you're NE or NW of DVT. I always monitor 122.75 when in those areas (that's the practice area frequency) until I'm really close (under 10 miles so I know I'm on their radar) to SDL or DVT class D. I've been in the NW practice area with 10 other aircraft. Helicopters and planes. It can get hairy.

SS at DVT is currently $4.49, just fyi. I have no idea what Cutter charges for tiedowns, but they most likely waive it with a fuel purchase. Their FS is only $5.64 right now... And, as others have mentioned, there is no terminal at SDL anymore - at least for a while. It's all been torn down.

I would like to monitor 121.5, but my comm 2 has a 'feature' that opens the squelch full time when you tune to it.

Mine will be down there 2nd week of September for the annual. When you picking yours up?

I'm so in !

How do you think skycatchers are made?

I *almost* went around on Sunday morning. My buddy and I flew to Payson for breakfast. On the way back in, it was busy. You know how it gets on a nice weekend morning. I got routed to 7L. Number 4. Then number 3, finally got #2 as I turned final. But I don't think he ever said clear to land. I was getting lower and lower and lower and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. About 1/8 Mike final and 100 AGL or so (I was over the fence!) I finally got a word in and said "verify 16u clear to land". My hand was on the throttle ready to go when he came back with affirmative. I still don't know if he ever actually cleared me to land prior, but I wasn't going to put her down till I knew for sure

Got a couple pictures today! Sorry, can't figure out how to rotate them from my phone

Do it! Worth every penny!

Ha! I actually didn't lose the handle. I stowed it in the jump suit. It didn't have pockets so I stuffed it down the front.

You're not kidding about the sweat! I have a B-kool unit and I was still drenched. My instructor wasn't even damp. B-kool is AWESOME btw! This was my 2nd IR training flight other than what we did for the PPL. I felt better and smoother towards the end, especially when he covered the AI and DG. Taking those 2 out of my scan, I actually flew better. But I think a large part of it was realizing, in my head, that if I stopped moving the yoke all over the place, the plane would stop moving all over the place too. When I fly VFR, the plane just about flies itself. Very little effort required. Make it so I can't see outside and I was chasing instruments all over the place. I just sort of calmed myself down, let go of the death grip on the yoke and started nudging it around instead of yanking it. Suddenly I could hold altitude and a heading pretty good.

Honestly, it was very manageable. It did require some stiff forward pressure, but nothing difficult.

Handle definitely hits a hard stop. No sponginess at all at full flaps.

It's habit. If I don't do it every landing, I wonder if I'll remember when I really need it on. Or are you saying it's never necessary? Today, I'm sure I didn't need it, with temps in the 100's and dew point around 50f.

OK, it seems like we might be talking about 2 different systems. I have the manual flaps. Long steel bar that you pump next to the johnson bar. There is a little knob that you either pull out or push in to engage the valve. The knob is staying closed, but the handle itself is coming up.

So you think the flaps are coming up? I'll have to watch them on takeoff or test in flight. My annual is scheduled for just under 3 weeks, so I'll be sure to add it to the squawk list.

This seems to be something new. I put in 2 pumps of flaps for take off. The flap handle is down against the nose well. I noticed on the last couple flights when I go to raise the gear, the flap handle is 'up' and no longer down against the well. Is this something that needs to be addressed or is it 'normal'?

I've always taken pride in my judgement and ability to recognize and react to bad situations. I used to skydive a lot (I'll forever have more takeoffs in a plane than landings ). On my very first training jump, I had to pull my reserve. When I landed, my instructor was very unhappy with me. He didn't understand why I pulled the reserve. I told him "I deployed the main, there were 3 broken lines, and the slider was jammed up in the broken lines and wouldn't release, and I was starting to spin, so I cut away and deployed the reserve." He said there was no way I could have seen all that. From his perspective falling below me (he was still in freefall), the main came out and about the same time, it streamered off and my reserve deployed. I swore to him that I was right. The guys at the field went out and grabbed the main out of the desert. Guess what? 3 broken lines and a jammed slider. Instructor said he never in the world would have believed it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. Said he couldn't believe it was possible that I could have identified all of that and cut away in the time it took. I just hope that ability to react always stays with me.

You'd think in 150 hours of flying, I'd have had at least one landing go pear shaped. Well, nope, not even in training. All I've ever done were 'planned' or 'practice' go-arounds. Until today. I started training for my instrument rating. Went and flew for 2 hours with my CFII, under the hood. It was rough. Convective SIGMET in the area and the air showed it. We flew around doing compass turns, partial panel (no DG or AI). We did a practice approach all the way to landing. Winds were reported 270/5 (ATIS was 58 minutes old), landing on 25. I took off the hood at 200 AGL on short final. I was on speed, but I felt sloppy. My brain was still spinning in circles. I flared a touch high, but nothing really 'bad'. As the mains touched, stall horn sounding (not a bounce) the plane lifted back off at a very slow speed. It was not good. I didn't even think about it, I just smoothly added power while turning off carb heat. Uneventful go-around and successful landing the 2nd time around. As we were in the pattern, the tower radioed that winds were now 220 at 14G20. My best guess is a gust picked us back up. If I were a better pilot, I probably could have cleaned it up and set it back down. With my brain mushed out, I wasn't in the mood to even try. I very pleased with myself that I didn't even hesitate and just did it as soon as things weren't right. My CFII commented afterwords that I was very quick to react. He said we were down, up, next thing he knew we were at full power and gaining speed. He didn't even have time to think about telling me to go around.