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Glenn
Where is that?
Jim
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Glenn
"Optimism is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you!"
Corn and snow around here in southern Quebec...
Hey northeast flyers, new guy with a 170 here. I didn’t get skis figured out in time so I’m at KLEB for the winter. I’m inexperienced in off airport stuff, but lurking around here to learn more. I hope I’ll get a chance to meet up with some of you this winter on easy, wheel friendly lake strips.
Here’s my story about the trip to bring my 170 back east from Fairbanks: https://backcountrypilot.org/communi...-vermont-23520
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I saw your 170 the other day on the south ramp, I'm in the north hangers. We'll have to meet sometime soon.
Dave
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Hi Dave PM me and we’ll meet up sometime, I take it you’re building a bear hawk? I’d love to see it.
Not quite here yet, as of 10 days ago anyway, but after this current batch of storms.......?
Meanwhile in eagle river Alaska (anchorage muni)
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Me Too.
I’m selling a pair of LW2500 skis, they are down in my shop in upstate ,ny if anybody is interested., Tom
cubdriver2 Glenn great meeting you at breakfast this morning & thanks for all the Maine strip info... seems I've got a lot of flying to do
Next time you all head to Stuart and Johns count me and the 180 in!
It doesn't look like winter but it sure feels it...
PS thanks for the calendar -- it looks great in the hangar!!
Had the TwinBee out this morning, beautiful day but got a bit chilly without a heater.
Could get the video to up load, sorry
Beer run to local brewery Other Half Brewing Rochester NY
So what is wrong with the heater? I know you have one, or at least there was one there.
NX1PA
Hi Pete, didn’t hook it up, I’m not too happy with the placement of it with no bulkhead between it and my leg’s.
Tom, I'm not aware of there being any issues with it's placement. It feels very comfortable blowing on your feet and the output openings are controllable.
The only issues we had was before the intake vent was placed in the separation wall between the panel and the bow. Yours has this vent. It used to pop the overheat breaker when running on high. That was not easy to reset in flight, Copilot's job with long arms. That plane is cold like an ice box without a heater running and when the windows ice up.
I took serial #one to Montreal and Baie Comeau in January. Sure glad that the heater was there.
NX1PA
FWIW there's a Twin Bee in my area that's been a hangar queen for a number of years.
The owner has someone working on getting it ferryable,
then I think it'll go to KAWO for an annual.
If anyone's interested in buying it, PM me.
Cessna Skywagon-- accept no substitute!
We have one if not the nices one in existence, as I’ve been told be DPE that give ratings in the Bee. The heater has been rebuilt by the factory just before I picked it up in NC. My wife and I flew it home in 30* weather and I agree it’s a ice box. There are many air leaks on it. Six hour flight was a lot, we were wrapped in a kids sleeping bag all the way. I was given a box of parts to finish the install when we picked it up and I just never finished it as we only fly a hour at a time and usually in warmer weather. Do you have any good places to do water landings over your way? We are closing up quick here.
There's plenty of open water around here. We should consider meeting at Island Bob's in the spring. Was your DPE Doug Smith? He was F/E for me on the 727.
NX1PA
Yes on meeting up and it is Doug, great guy.
We did not see anyone over at S&Js mid morning other than an Enstrom. He came out of Vernon Vt.
I was over the field taking a look at it Sunday around lunch time. No airplanes on the ground when I was there. Field looked reasonably good from the air.
And the season starts for me today
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What is going to happen to Katama at Martha’s Vineyard when Obama moves here? Bill mentioned it’s less than half mile away?
Katama is grass so I wonder how many influential people are vested in keeping it open. Kennebunk permanent P-67 looks like 3 miles.
Gee you guys. This is supposed to be a FUN Thread!
Bill told me that there were plans to build a firing range on that side of the airport.
NX1PA
Here are some photos when flew down to Katama.
Starting to look like winter
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Is that a breakwater boom to intentionally stop the waves for the ice to build up for the winter runway?Starting to look like winter
NX1PA
Just looks like the ice forming. Looks like it blew down and stopped there
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Someone having fun on ski's ...
Aint nobody having fun out there anymore?
How am i gonna live vicariously through you guys if you don't post ?
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AFNB
No snow and warm temps. It snowed all day we got an inch, the sun came out and it all melted
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Put my skis on this past weekend and now they are saying it is going to be close to 50 degrees on Saturday.... GRRR!!!
Larry.
That's a sharp way to get straight skis in and out of the hangar. How do you get the plane up onto the other end, when pushing back in?
We just leave a snow ramp to get back up on the rollers. They do work really well. We also have a 170 at our field on straight skis that rolls up nice on these rollers.
Larry.
Hooking some airline pilots on the fun world of ski flying
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