Couldnt have done it without you brother! Took her up today, 1100 FPM on climbout, bet I wont see that often...
Endorsement Day
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Re: Endorsement Day
Hey Ray,
I an going to assume that instructor "Larry" is Larry H______ from Greenville. If so please tell him Dick Acker says: "Hi". Great guy and great instructor.
When this crappy weather clears a bit stop on up to Clare (48D) and have some free ice cream and/or a nice courtesy car to take uptown to Cops and Doughnuts.
Would like to meet and greet your "new" bird.
Fly safe!
I an going to assume that instructor "Larry" is Larry H______ from Greenville. If so please tell him Dick Acker says: "Hi". Great guy and great instructor.
When this crappy weather clears a bit stop on up to Clare (48D) and have some free ice cream and/or a nice courtesy car to take uptown to Cops and Doughnuts.
Would like to meet and greet your "new" bird.
Fly safe!
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Re: Endorsement Day
Dick,4321 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:59 pm Hey Ray,
I an going to assume that instructor "Larry" is Larry H______ from Greenville. If so please tell him Dick Acker says: "Hi". Great guy and great instructor.
When this crappy weather clears a bit stop on up to Clare (48D) and have some free ice cream and/or a nice courtesy car to take uptown to Cops and Doughnuts.
Would like to meet and greet your "new" bird.
Fly safe!
You nailed it! Yes I will tell him Hi for you. Yea that would be a great little hop up to Claire, lets do it. I haven't flown in before to 84D but was there years ago when I was on City Council in Cedar Springs and we had a city council exchange day with Claire, would have been about '07-08, and we toured the airport... So I believe we have another friend in common- Bill with the Grumman Traveler from Claire. Small world!
I look very forward to meeting you and that weather break! I've only been able to get up once besides the day Larry signed me off. She climbed like a homesick angel that day, solo and about 10degrees out, I looked over and about did a double take when I seen 1100 FPM at 85mph. I have to do 5 solo hours for insurance and figure I'll spend it polishing the TO and Landings but that day I just needed new scenery as Larry and I hadn't left the pattern for several several hours so did a local hop, flew over my boys and my dads- It was fun. It was a pretty day, it was that last Monday before the Wx went nasty on us. I will say that the plane did develop "auto-rough" again once Larry was out of it, it seemed to have that the first few hours on the way home too- I'm sure the same cure will work, just spend some more time with her, lol. I still pinch myself now and again this is real Hoping at least one of my boys get the bug, one would be old enough now and if he does I think the 140 and Larry will do him good.I really think in hindsight if I had known I was going to be a TW Pilot I would have preferred to learn from the begining in one. I think it would come all the more natural. I didn't find it overly difficult to transition but no means was I nailing it easily at first, at least on pavement. I found grass barely more difficult than a nose dragger but I struggled on pavement at first for sure. My thought is if one never gets this crazy silly notion in their mind that an airplane wants to go straight on the ground in any way shape or form without being told to do so, we wouldn't have to unlearn that... I liken it to a language and learning a second, for a while during and after you learn it, you are always translating in your head- where someone born into a language naturally thinks in that language. If that makes any sense?