Canadian Gal

It may well be. But I am pretty sure that we have all broken a rule or 2. Today I was sent to Quesnel in a company vehicle on business, pretty sure that once or twice I did at least 1 KPH over the speed limit. Heck I may not have even stopped the full 8 feet back from a stop sign once, it could have been just 6 feet. Those darn snow banks are hard to see around, especially in the company cars, I prefer my Ram 3500 its a lot higher, and better vis.

While looking at a vans rv14 picture earlier, I thought about this thread. One 14 wasn't painted, just polished, and it was beautiful...mostly. Then you get to the front and its a cheap looking hunk of ugly plastic. If I ever build a 14, I will have a tin basher make me a nice aluminum cowling for it, and toss the plastic in the trash can.

That looks like a ton of fun!

I broke 6 bones by age 18, but only 2 in the last 17 years, so I must be learning something lol. When I look back to my teenage years, I feel old. When I get to work, I am in the youngest 10% of the group, so feel youthful. When I am skiing those black diamond runs and my knees ache on the drive home I feel ancient. When softball and volleyball season starts and i am the most fit player on the team regardless of age, I feel like a kid again.

Now that is a shop...8000 square feet is my goal someday.

Way back in this thread someone brought up Mooney. Patents don't last forever, so even if they once upon a time had a patent on a part, it very likely ended by now since most Mooneys are older.

I have flown a jump school plane many times, and also have hundreds of jumps myself. The school has 0 liability insurance for the jumpers. When I was the pilot i had $250,000 coverage on me, but the moment I moved from front left seat to the floor, I had nothing but my work paid for life insurance policy. If i was crippled $0, dead a million dollars.

My mother was a half owner of an insurance company until she retired a few years ago. She owned it with her sister, and they both were of the same opinion, save your money, buy the minimum insurance possible, and hope that if you ever need that, the adjuster doesn't find 10,000 reasons to deny your claim. My parents never carried full coverage on a vehicle, plane, or anything else. I have an uncle who is an adjuster, and their 1 son is also an adjuster, they laugh and laugh at how many claims they deny, because the more they save the insurance company, the more they get paid. They both tell me the same thing my parents taught me, save your insurance money, its a waste of cash. I am 35, and my only insurance claim was 100% the other drivers fault, when rear ended at a red light. His insurance had to pay for my repairs. I could roll my pickup tomorrow, and still be money ahead on what I haven't paid out for insurance. I have a half million dollars liability insurance on my truck and plane, fire, theft, and vandalism. Not collision.

Go Lancaster and have 4 .

If I was filthy stinkin rich I would likely have 20 planes, but more realistic is 2 or 3.

Thanks for bumping this thread up, it is my first time seeing it. Name is Pam, 35, RN who is now a glorified personal assistant to 8 doctors, 7 are specialists, 1 a gp. I fly them around, or patients, organs, and such as well. There is not much I don't do, from being in the OR, to shopping for Birthday gifts that their wives will like, to today when I went for my own hair appointment, I picked up a doctor's daughters from school, and they got hair cuts at the same time. I try to get out for a run every second day, and the other days I hit the gym. My dog is the best running partner a gal can have, and he loves to go flying to. My casual boyfriend is a commercial helicopter pilot, and I to have my rotary license. I hold a multi ifr commercial fixed wing license, with several other endorsements to, my fav being floats. Acrobatics are the ultimate thing for me, maybe I should have joined the Air force, but alas, did not. I like car and motorcycle racing, boating, skydiving, skiing, softball, volleyball, fishing, quad rides, and my amazing horse. I live in the geographical center of British Columbia , beside a lake, on 17 acres. IMHO I have the world's best Dad, who was teaching me how to fly his Cherokee by age 7, sitting on stacks of pillows to see out, and couldn't reach the pedals, so I had the yoke, and he had the pedals. I knew things like V1 and rotate, or how to grease and change the oil in a semi truck, before i got to grade 2. Hated school, wanted to be home riding horses, dirt bikes, going trucking with papa, or wrestling with my older brothers. Drove my mother crazy, because I was the youngest and only girl, she thought her wish had finally come true, a little girl who would love pink dresses, ribbons in her hair, baking, and going to the mall shopping. I didn't enjoy any of those things. I wanted to be outside, dirty, running the tractor, or fixing a truck, if not off riding my bike or horse. Watching wrestling on tv and dropping a flying elbow on my big brothers off the back of the couch. Broke 6 bones before finishing high school, and if i saw a bully picking on some other kid I would step in and try to slap them around and teach them not to bully people. It back fired once badly in grade 9, and a grade 11 boy beat me up pretty good . That night my big brothers asked me what happened. The next morning on his way to school that bully got a taste of his own medicine, and he never bullied the kids at school ever again. I felt pretty invincible back then with 3 big brothers to back me up if I got in over my head. I've really mellowed with age. Cheers

How much does she drink on takeoff ?

Depends on the air temp and altitude, but typically i see 2600 or a bit more, maybe 2650 ...I've also seen 2500 rpm. Take off and initially climbing out it burns 26 to 27 gph normally. Higher elevations and hotter days less. I'm not usually interested in a quick climb unless I have a mountain close by, so i climb out at cruise climb speeds, all 3 levers full forward till around 5500 asl, then i will pull the rpm back slightly and fuel slightly but full throttle to my typical cruise altitudes of 7500 to 10500 asl and then lean it out. Very rarely do I fly out of sea level areas. But I will say this, sea level, cool morning, and that extra buoyant salt water, she comes off quick and wants to climb like a homesick angel. Typically I take off from 1500' to 3500' asl. When home, my dock is around 2494' asl usually, give or take a couple feet depending on the time of year. Especially if I don't leave till afternoon in the summer, and its warm out, all my numbers are down, and I can noticeably feel how long my takeoff run is. The lake is plenty large, that isn't the problem, but I do have to keep my eyes open for boats, jetskis, waterskiers, wind surfers, canoes, kayaks, swimmers etc. My last take off from home was more like a gentle left turn run because of others. Regular users of the lake are used to the float planes, it is the vacation people who are there for a day that i really have to keep an eye on, they are not used to boating amongst float planes. Winter time she is off floats, and the air is cold, power is up, rpm up, and fuel flow is up...its not uncommon to see 29 gph initially in winter taking off. I just personally choose to block time 18 gph overall, but am usually closer to 17. Taxi, landing, etc is so low it makes up for the time spent sucking back 25 to 29 gph.

My 185 has an io550 in it, that was already done when i bought it. I flight plan for 18 gph overall, am usually 14 to 16 in cruise. I would rather plan to burn more, and use less...than plan for less, and use more. Rarely do I burn 18 gph overall, but I still flight plan to burn 18.

Absolutely amazing planes! Truly a labor of love!

GREEDY It was pick 1 plane lol

Next time wear shorts, and get the best of both.

Oh by the way I don't carry hull insurance on my 185, my pickup truck doesn't have collision insurance either. If I screw up and crash them, I'll pay for the damage. From the amount of insurance money i have saved over the years, i can already pay for significant damage, and i save more every year.

Makes me happy that in Canada frivolous lawsuits almost always lose. Furthermore if sued, and the case is dismissed, you also get your legal costs back, so people are not inclined to make up silly lawsuits as much. And if they were the sole bread winner for a family, why didn't they have life insurance already. Also here, lets say that you have a mortgage, and then you die, the mandatory mortgage insurance, built into the mortgage payment covers it all. So the spouse or whomever, also gets a paid off home. But say a parent, with dependents like young kids, should have some life insurance. If I die, my million dollar life insurance policy gets split 5 ways, but not evenly. My best friend gets the largest slice, partly to make sure that my dog has the best care money can buy, because he also goes to my bestie, and she will make the arrangements for my cremation, and trip to spread my ashes. If I die at work, that increases to 3 million dollars life insurance.

If I ever do buy a cirrus, which is highly doubtful, the chute would be removed. Why add the weight, complexity, maintenance, and cost, for something that I would never use. I'll glide to my point of crash in control thank you very much. I've practiced so many forced landings that when I had to do it for real, it was nothing. Didn't even get a scratch on the plane, or us inside. Had someone else been flying, and pulling a chute was an option, they might have, and likely people would have died, or at least been seriously hurt, the plane totalled, and God knows when they would have been found out in the desolate forest, or maybe igniting a forest fire, as it was dry. Instead it was a good landing, on a gravel road, and about 90 minutes later a driver stopped and picked us up, we had pushed the plane to the side enough and parked it an an angle with the 1 tire slightly in the ditch, the wing was tipped up enough to drive under it. It was there for 19 days total, and once the engine was replaced, I flew it out. I was fortunate to have instructors who raked me over the coals regularly, and pushed me to be proficient in actually flying the plane. While doing my multi ifr rating, on a windy, raining night, hours after the sun had set, my instructor called me up and said lets go flying, its miserable out. On the way back to the airport around 01:00 hours, bumping along in the pouring rain, she said to me "left or right". Not knowing what she was asking me that for, i replied 'right', she eased the power back on the right engine, and then to fuel cut off. She didn't utter a word to except for this " No you are NOT allowed to attempt engine restart, so skip that step". The last 20 minutes were on 1 engine, in poor vis, heavy rain, pitch black night, and I was so damn proud when I greased the landing. After tying the Seneca down, she said to me "Great job, you are ready for your ride, I'll gladly recommend you". She was my gentlest instructor of the 12 I've flown with. My float instructor was known by his nickname 'Grumpy'. Anything less than perfect wasn't good enough. He was a grumpy old man, but no denying that his 30 years of bush flying, and half of it on floats, hadn't made him really good. My first flight with him was up a narrow river, landing as close to possible, to a broken river boat, so we could drop off parts for them to fix it. It was shallow, rapids, and narrow. He pointed out a spot between two sets of rapids, and told me to put it down there. When i asked him to land it, as it was his plane, and was used to it, and i had very little float time. He loudly told me to stop making excuses and land the damn plane, he was my instructor, not my bleep bleep bleep counselor. After what I thought was a pretty good landing, he mumbled something about having seen worse, then jumped out, and i steered for shore...he was already walking away with the parts in hand before I made it to shore. After that, the rest seemed pretty easy.

You don't even need to watch the video, just turn up the volume and listen. Ahhhh

You Sir, know how to live! Well done!

It wouldn't be my every day flyer, but for those pancake fly ins, Sunday burger runs, golf trips, just going out to burn some gas, or flying low over a river looking for a good beach to plop down onto, and let the dog run around, while I do some fishing, it sure is tough to beat a 195. They are sort of romantic, in a weird mechanical sense. Sat too long, pull the bottom plugs, and hand prop it to get the excess oil out of the low cylinders, then put the plugs back in, kick the tires, and hopefully light the fires. A 195 has to be a labor of love! Its not a modern miracle plane, that you just hop in and start, sips gasoline, runs flawlessly in any temp or altitude, and that occasional stumble they make just reminds you to respect it.

A friend has a 195, I've begged my way into him taking me along many times in it, and he usually lets me do the flying. Just the sound is enough to make me smile. When we get away from populated areas I take my headset off, and just use foam earplugs so I can listen to it purrr. I have told him that if he ever chooses to sell it, I want first kick at the can.

Very well said!!! For me, the more that the Canadian, and Provincial government try to say 'Do it this way ', the more I am certain it will be the wrong way. I asked our minister of health, why during a so called pandemic, they laid off/fired 46.2% of the health care works, and forced more to quit. Silence was all I got. You don't get rid of your health care providers, and shut hospitals, or at least close large sections of those hospitals during a true pandemic, unless it was nothing more than a political mind control game. They claimed our local hospital was over full. What they didn't tell the public was that in 2020 they closed 5/8 of the Hospital, so they could claim it was full. I was effectively fired, although they claim that I was laid off. It wasn't just me, but many of us were laid off/fired, for speaking out about the government lies. When we later filed a lawsuit, we were paid off immediately, long before the court date, because they would have been exposed in court. I received more compensation than I was asking for.