Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

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Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

It is 29*F. At a loss of 3*F per 1000 feet of altitude, I wouldn't
ascend too high.

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Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

It is 29*F. At a loss of 3*F per 1000 feet of altitude, I wouldn't
ascend too high.

No chance of icing, humidity is very low. The Cherokee has decent heat.

On 1/14/12 10:13 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!


I actually took two lessons many years ago, and then stopped when a
couple of my friends, experienced pilots, died in separate incidents in
which they were piloting light planes. The few times I flew, though, I
thought it was a hell of a lot of fun. I also walked away from a
helicopter crash in 1969, I think, in West Virginia, after a hydraulic
failure. The pilot set us down hard, but no one was injured.

I don't think it would be a lot of fun in a congested area, though. When
I worked for the teachers union, I got to sit in the co-pilot seat in a
company plane during a landing at La Guardia. There was so much going on
and so much radio talk, I didn't see how the pilot could pay attention
to all that *and* land the plane safely. But he did.

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Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

It is 29*F. At a loss of 3*F per 1000 feet of altitude, I wouldn't
ascend too high.

No chance of icing, humidity is very low. The Cherokee has decent heat.


I remember a plane ride I took a number of years ago. It was in a B-50
with supercharged engines. Me and 8 of my friends took a flight up to
18,500 in about 14 minutes. We opened the door, it was a cloth door, and
we exited the plane. If was freaking cold, something like -30 or =35 at
altitude.

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On 1/14/12 10:13 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!


I actually took two lessons many years ago, and then stopped when a
couple of my friends, experienced pilots, died in separate incidents in
which they were piloting light planes. The few times I flew, though, I
thought it was a hell of a lot of fun. I also walked away from a
helicopter crash in 1969, I think, in West Virginia, after a hydraulic
failure. The pilot set us down hard, but no one was injured.

I don't think it would be a lot of fun in a congested area, though. When
I worked for the teachers union, I got to sit in the co-pilot seat in a
company plane during a landing at La Guardia. There was so much going on
and so much radio talk, I didn't see how the pilot could pay attention
to all that *and* land the plane safely. But he did.

You learn to listen to what is pertinent information for you. I
purposely took lessons at a busy executive airport with lots of traffic
so that I'd learn. It's also in the commercial space of a major airport.

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Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

It is 29*F. At a loss of 3*F per 1000 feet of altitude, I wouldn't
ascend too high.

No chance of icing, humidity is very low. The Cherokee has decent heat.


I remember a plane ride I took a number of years ago. It was in a B-50
with supercharged engines. Me and 8 of my friends took a flight up to
18,500 in about 14 minutes. We opened the door, it was a cloth door, and
we exited the plane. If was freaking cold, something like -30 or =35 at
altitude.

I'm staying in the plane!

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Taking a Piper Cherokee 180 up for a couple of hours of practice time.
Fly the local pattern, do some touch and goes, fly over local landmarks,
etc. Winds are light at 11, couldn't ask for a more clear day!

It is 29*F. At a loss of 3*F per 1000 feet of altitude, I wouldn't
ascend too high.

No chance of icing, humidity is very low. The Cherokee has decent heat.


I remember a plane ride I took a number of years ago. It was in a B-50
with supercharged engines. Me and 8 of my friends took a flight up to
18,500 in about 14 minutes. We opened the door, it was a cloth door, and
we exited the plane. If was freaking cold, something like -30 or =35 at
altitude.

I'm staying in the plane!

The problem is that Black Bert, I was known as White Bert for obvious
reasons, had his main open up and go over the top of the right
stabilizer while he went under the stabilizer which torqued the tail
making the B-50 nearly un controllable. The rest of the jumpers bailed
out and the pilot was able to land the plane. I still don't like getting
on planes without a parachute.