 I got to fly a freakin' airplane this weekend! |
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 Nov 27 2006, 12:16 AM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55  |
This was soooooooooooooo cool!
I went to California to visit my girlfriend's grandparents and family and whatnot, and her grandpa is an avid pilot who owns a couple of planes and stuff. Anyways, we went to eat lunch with them and he and I got to talking planes since I'm taking a basic aerodynamics class this semester .... Anyways, after a little while he asks me "Hey, if it's not too crowded do you wanna go up and fly around the pattern today?" .... I was basically like  so he took me up in his little 4-seater Piper Cherokee 160 ... Anyways, *TOTALLY* different sensation than flying on an airliner or commercial aircraft.....I was LESS scared to be flying in this thing by FAR. Anyways, after a little while he looks at me and goes "here take the controls" ... and I'm like :wtf: seriously? He nods.. So I take the controls and he's giving me instructions on what to do, how to make a turn, how to climb, and all this stuff....it was SOOOOOOOOOOO fucking cool! I was really amazed at how it flew .... It was a completley different thing to take a class and be able to do all these calculations about how an airplane is supposed to fly then to actually go fly it and see how close you were....It wasn't that sensitive turning, but just a slight nudge forward or backwards and you could throw yourself out of your seat pretty easily .... very sensitive to vertical control movements... Anyways, I'll upload some pics later, I don't actually have a specific pic of me flying it just a bunch I took from the air. I'm so going to be the coolest kid in my aero class now cuz I can actually claim I actually flew a plane 
-------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Nov 27 2006, 12:21 AM
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  Group: Agents Posts: 4,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lu-bok Member No.: 41 |
just like working at dachau makes you the coolest person to tell you about german history...
-------------------- 32-bit whore
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Nov 27 2006, 01:09 AM
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 Oh baby bring me down Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
That is pretty cool. Heard you were in Vegas, was that true?
-------------------- Southern Rock, beer and bears!
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Nov 27 2006, 01:57 AM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Nov 27 2006, 12:16 AM)  I went to California to visit my girlfriend's grandparents and family and whatnot, wait a sec... dogmeat has a gf? or is this the "wife" girl? --------------------  |
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Nov 27 2006, 10:36 AM
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 Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
Very cool man. I love the Cherokee, though in anything greater than a 15 knot crosswind it becomes a very scary plane to fly. It is a very light aircraft.
If you turn into a strong crosswind, set all the trim settings correctly, and just hold it steady, you can make it go stationary. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Nov 27 2006, 11:00 AM
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 Prize? Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 343 |
QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Nov 27 2006, 01:57 AM) wait a sec... dogmeat has a gf? or is this the "wife" girl? My first thought too, you beat me to it. |
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Nov 27 2006, 11:15 AM
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i doubt he would have let you fly it if he knew your gpa!!
hawhaw, just messing with you dogmeat |
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Nov 27 2006, 11:17 AM
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am I the only scared at the thought of dogmeat operating a plane?
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Nov 27 2006, 11:33 AM
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Prize? Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 343 |
QUOTE (cupcake @ Nov 27 2006, 11:17 AM) am I the only scared at the thought of dogmeat operating a plane? The thought of him having a girlfriend and possibly reproducing scares me more. |
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Nov 27 2006, 12:09 PM
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 fuck you! Group: Members Posts: 641 Joined: 22-February 06 From: fuck you! Member No.: 19 |
QUOTE (cupcake @ Nov 27 2006, 11:17 AM) am I the only scared at the thought of dogmeat operating a plane? i'm scared of dogmeat operating anything more advanced than the television remote -------------------- only here to talk sports occationally
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Nov 27 2006, 12:11 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,795 Joined: 29-September 06 Member No.: 327 |
glad I'm not alone...
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Nov 27 2006, 12:26 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
What girlfriend? Do tell...
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Nov 27 2006, 01:51 PM
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DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
the same one I've had for the last like ... while .... heh
-------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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