Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!

Its that kinda time here, when trees are bright red and yellow, and its clear day. Last greetings from summer in our climate.

So i set myself to ride Sting TL-2000 at local aeroclub! they do offer this experience. pilot asked what am i doing for living, i said - im sax playa in local band, but i have hobby simming.
He said - take controls then. next 15 minutes i was like this - 
My butt felt all the motion!
He said lets turn toward Chekerill (local artificial mountain for skiing). i banked plane to 10 degrees and some time later said - its darn scary to bank it more!!!
He said - nahhhh, let me show you. that turn at 60 degrees of bank made me much more than that 
he also made rapid descend with high bank angle before landing. we went down from 2500 ft to 500 ft or so in couple of seconds. i havent noticed sink rate, coz THAT WAS darn SCARY, and i was in the "heart of oh sh*t situation" as Lou called it once
after he leveled for downwind leg i said: That was AWESOME!!!, its cool that i made pee just before flight 

Next week im gonna ask him to fly me through the most scariest maneuvers possible! I'll take a pair of spare pants just in case ))

Hour later i jumped with chute from 3000 ft for the second time. thats not scary, - its cool, but not scary! lots of f-words were said during descend. Especially because my balls jammed by chute, and darn helmet just....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargghh, - darn helmet, you know

And its very beautiful up there, so clear, as if it's a different world...
i'll get my video with jump next week i guess

BTW, who thinks that FSX world looks dull without people - i couldnt see em from 1000 ft...cars - yes, you gotta look hard to track people. FTX scenery and REX looks pretty close to real. You just dont feel it in FSX...

Good for you windplayer, that first flight in a real aeroplane where you actually get to do something is a real remember when. The next one is when you go all the way and then one day go solo on your own. Remember that like it was yesterday.

Yep and your right FSX terrain is pretty well like the real thing, the only thing that is missing is a little clarity of all those little things but above 5000 ft you don't see it anymore. 

Congratulations! It sure is an experience. I'm flying an SR-20 two hours a day four days a week for school currently, it certainly is living the dream.

Guys! I logged 50 more minutes to my flight time! 40 mins of my piloting. No longer afraid to make turns at 45+ bank angle
We flew to village with woman convent. When we were about 1 mile from it, i felt something called "violent windshear". Crap, that was scary.
I think it happened because i used a lot of f-words, and so on I said it to pilot, he laughed and said - "well, maybe...or maybe its just a small wind"  
We flew over some high ranked politics villas And i saw sheeps. they look like small dots from 1500 ft.

Guys, how you fight with negative G-forces? Its scariest thing out there. It scares almost to panic   Like- OMG, what i have done! we falling?  

Now i got 1:10 mins of flight time with 55 mins of my piloting!

CoolP wrote on Oct 10^th, 2012 at 8:16am:

Maybe the politicians were the sheep! 

CoolP wrote on Oct 10^th, 2012 at 3:50pm:


Well, we know how the FAA sees us...

since Izhevsk is former top secret closed city, you cant fly over it without filing tons of paper. But you dont need any papers to overfly local state governor's son villa. But, anyway, KGB still watching us  

Those sheeps,..i mean real ones, in the fields, - they look funny. Fields looks like a carpet, and sheeps just a small dots that like holes in that carpet

This time i flew ROKOAERO NG4. Guess what (about FAA), that plane is capable of spins and some other aerobatics, but local laws prohibits it. No way i can scare myself falling in spin, - too bad, coz that is a fun way to prove that Earth is rotating  

BTW, our climate much like NZ south! Sheeps looks the same i think   Suddenly i started to love bush-flying  

CoolP, Guys! i bet you have local pilots who can take you to ride  - you gotta try to fly if you didnt tried it yet!!! Thats something you gotta know, it helps simming too 

Thats true CoolP! And about gliders - that true in power of two! That should be a kick a*s experience. we dont have it here, but i can extrapolate. Not only you sitting in tiny cabin with a HUGE view, but its like you sitting in a chair, which flies in the sky   And its very light, so you gonna feel all bumps up there
I d like to have piper cub thats a cool plane for fun in terms of money. But its still expensive to get license in Russia. GA here is underdeveloped.

P.S. Sheeps safe! instructod will not allow me to descend below 1000 ft He likes to do it himself. rapid descends still way over the limits of my spookometer

Great video windplayer! Good music too!

What is the aircraft you are flying?

You sure are lucky.

I wish I could do that sort of thing. No chance for me now.

yeeeep, there is extraterrestrial life, or, it could be drunk tractor driver Vasya It happens here )

Sting TL-2000 VFR aircraft only, with great view. But we never flew into clouds, its prohibited.

No icing during winter, we have cold and dry air most of the time, but during autumn and spring we not flying for about a month. Because runways unclean, and there usually rain or snow + temp near 0C = > icing conditions.

Jan 3 i flew with low clouds layer at 600 ft and overcast. We did some fun and our artificial horizon stuck at all the way nose down attitude. That was something. milky snow below, merging with milky sky above with no visible boundary I said - AH stuck, pilot said - naaaah, dont worry dude,  i never use it 
Hes much like Lou, flew as a line pilot all of his life, now retired and just having tons of fun

As for cold - plane works fine at -20C dry air. Engine is ROTAX 912 - is fine. We have a heater in cabin, but last time i froze insanely. There was -25C or something. So cold affects pilots not dressed well Like me.

Rain and wet snow cause problems, so we not flying if its happens.

You can find our airfield at coordinates  - 56 46' 18.27'' N  - 53 11' 28.46'' E
We usualy use long and narrow runway 18\36. Pain to clean during season change. At winter we use snow runway

There is more cool alien stuff to the west, and some sun sybol on the field itself. And a lot of it nearby )

Instructor flew Yaks 40, 42 last years. Actually there wasnt a big variety of aircraft types in USSR. Tu-134,154, An-2, 24, Yak 40, 42 - most of non-international aircraft park. He never did international flying. And he flew pretty much of everything smaller than Yak 40 at different times.
He never tried FSX, and he's unkool computer user. We darn lucky we have guys like Lou here

unkool comp user, naaah, cmon, you know what it means


tu -134 front view fun for navigator only! And i think its scary sometimes

yep

Cappy wrote on Mar 24^th, 2013 at 6:37am:

Your loss! 

It never snows in ORBX AU - thats what i noticed!
We still got lots of  snow! Unusual, but not unexpected. Last several days temp was below 0C daytime. Like -7C or in that numbers
Today a bit warmer, and snow melts , but veeeeery slow

So basicaly we got January, February, Marbruary, Aprilbruary, Maybruary, etc  

In 2001 Snow fell on May   - that was really unusual.
Usually we got green trees between may 1, and may 9.

But looks like that holidays was last in winter flying season. If temp will stay below zero, then it will be possible to use snow runway next holidays. Otherwise all flying will be stopped till snow gone completely, and weather stabilize. So next flight season opens in May or close to. We use skis at winter so snow runway condition critical for us.

CoolP wrote on Mar 24^th, 2013 at 6:02pm:

Just stay away from my sheeps, they're getting a suntan.

I warned them about you windy...  



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PS. The insulation tape on the right hand gate is there so you don't burn yourself on the steel that has warmed itself up in the sun.

Cappy wrote on Mar 27^th, 2013 at 4:18am:

Sorry to hear that, Cappy. 

Markoz wrote on Mar 27^th, 2013 at 4:12pm:

I'm about 150km east of Dongara (Just below Geraldton.)
40°C+ and the winds Geraldton is famous for doesn't make for comfortable living.
The hottest day I've ever been in was 52°C in the shade.
For shits and giggles I took a thermometer outside to see how hot it really was and the thing exploded in my hands!
It's max was 70°, so it was well over that.  
It was amazing how quiet things were, any living thing was simply trying to survive, no birds singing, no animals moving, nothing. Quiet eerie.

My house has 6 aircons.  

I hope you had a good days fishing.  

*I remember being in Broome around that time in 83 and there was a massive Army exercise up the west coast and into NT. Where you there for that?
I was in the pub and the SAS stormed in with guns out looking for the enemy. Good times. 

Skylab...

I sat on my roof and watched it come in.
Great fireworks show!

I remember all the shopping centre tours they did, showing off molten alloys. Not much left.

At the time it wasn't so wonderful, NASA couldn't guarantee it wasn't going to fall on Perth.

Yeah, "It's a dry heat."

That's what you tell your Turkey when you slide him in the oven!  






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new story suddently happened to me.

Yesterday i browsed social network and saw photos of very cute girl in the NG4 plane here, in our club. I thougth - WTF, my last flight was mar 23, i can afford some flying! (i invested quite a lot money in soundproofing my room, so i didnt planned to fly for a year or so), but i thougth - WTF, next summer i'll be one year older, LIVE NOW!

So i called club, and they had 30 minutes available. So i booked my flight, arrived, and guys asked - "what will you do? fly touch'n'gos or just hangin in the air?" I didnt studied to fly, what you see in my video - its just a bunch of sharp turns, everybody can do it!
If guys didnt asked me - i could just hang in the area and so on, but they used word "touch and go" in the question.

- WHAT??!! I CAN FLY TOUCH AND GO???!!!!
- Sure! Why just noodling, you know how to turn, - go fly circles on the grass runway! (we have wide grass runway for An-2 and narrow asphalt runway for light planes)

There is one thing about me and airplane,- Im not affraid of flying until im outside the plane on the ground. But when i climbed into the seat, just the idea that i need to fly this metal horrifies me, scares me, and do all creepy thing to me  

Instructor asked - if can i takeoff myself
- Nooooooooooo!!!
- Ok, rotate at 95 to 100 km\h, and keep it climbing. (like he didnt saw my huge eyes in that moment)
- Ok, he set takeoff power so no way back, and we off the ground.

He showed me how to perform first circle, i took controls, did 3 turns and turned to final. A bit of the crosswind from the right, some jerking of the stick and i did my first low pass over, well....almost over centerline. Climbed, and no jokes guys, i did my first touch n go!!!

My first touch was....well.....if was first Wings remaind on the airplane, so the gear, we shoot some more circles, and instructor said - ok, now we'll do full stop landing on the narrow asphalt runway.
- Crap, i thought, i'll return the controls to instructor on final.
I was surprised that i didnt. I did the landing, and through all landings, instructor helped me with the flare.

Not bad for the first time i think. I didnt expect that i could have the chance to really fly
Now, latter that day rain started, so i dont know about tommorrow, but if weather will be fine - i'll put my hands on the controls again! Now i gotta learn how to do a normal, safe for everybody landing  

Funny thing: Because of CaptainSim 727, i started to fly in simulator. Because of CS 727, i started to buy add ons, not stealing it via torrents. Over two and a half years i invested quite a lot money in planes, scenerys, and all that stuff. I started to buy software and music in general, not only FSX add-ons. No way all that real-world flying could happen without it.  

Good on you Windy!!!

Flying is much more fun than a quiet bedroom.

Been a long time since I was ab initio but it's only another 30 or so hours and you can wear your wings!