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Rebuttals
to the "Stupid Pilot Tricks" Note
If you have
an opinion, I have no problem posting
it.
Daniel
Vandenburg on the CorvAir list wrote:
Gee Whiz....I'm glad we have humourless RV builders to help us to
improve our wisdom and to prevent us from having fun.
I am a bit surpised at the self-righteous tone
of Bob Collins here. To me this kind of "taxi test"
would be done mostly for fun after all those years of building
to get to the point of actual self-propulsion. It doesn't seem
that risky to me with a little care.
Perhaps this gentleman deserves a widely distributed
rebuttal?
Uhggggg...
Scott
Laughlin on the CorvAir list wrote:
Thanks for pointing that out. In the words of my old Granpaw (may
he rest
in peace) "Screw 'em if they can't take a joke."
In the three + years I have been building this
airplane, the drive down the
street had to be the highlight and I'm still grinning from the
experience.
I live in a quiet neighborhood far from city limits that was a
corn field
just a few years ago. All the neighbors are excited about the
project. One
is a Fed-Ex pilot and he was stoked about the drive down the street.
Mark
Jones on the CorvAir list wrote:
Hey, that looks like me when I was doing taxi tests around the
cul-de-sac I live on. What a hoot that was and the neighbors loved
it.
It sure told me a lot about my plane before I took it to the airport.
I
knew the brakes worked properly so I would not run into other
planes or
people. I knew the engine ran correctly and would idle and run
up
through static properly. I knew all the cockpit controls worked.
Heck,
it told me a lot of things. Who is the moron who wrote that article.
David
Stroud on the CorvAir list wrote:
It's important as hell to be a bit stealthy while doing initial
runups, taxi test etc.
The following example shows a bit of what I went thru.
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/
Dig into the file that says C-FDWS early pics and click on it. There's
a picture in there somewhere that I took of my neighbour at the
throttle
test running my early Soob engine with the airframe chained to a
tree.
We did this on a regular basis checking out various carb settings
etc.
but he soon tired of getting painted with the infamous..."invisible"
paint.
I finally got pinched on a taxi run down the hydro field against
the back
of the property checking out my new brakes a while later. The ByLaw
officer confronted me after reacting to a neighbour's complaint
and
said I could be charged if I did it again. I said...." charged
with what?"
"Not sure" she said...maybe running an off road Subaru
without a
catalytic converter...or something. Anyway...that was actually ten
years
ago. Plenty of fun since then...but hey...get building lads, time
goes by
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