What do you use your Super Cub for?

[Scooter7779h]

You got it A squared.

Flying is a privlage, not a right. The FAA can do what it wants on how it handles enforcement of it's regulations. If you don't like it, surrender your certificate and take up lawn bowling.

They have us by the you know what.

That said, the answer is simple follow the dang rules.

Buzzing people dosn't have long odds in it. I got ramped checked and got a two year warning just because I was checking out a landing area along the Iditarod trail and there were 2 FAA inspectors out on the Iditarod trail following the race looking to bust people. We had a difference opinion: I maintained they were snowmachining in a known landing area, they maintained that I was flying to close to an assembly of people. They are FAA, they win. I was the poster boy that day I guess. No arguing, I took my lumps and don't fly under 500' for the next two years at least.

 

[Steve Pierce]

What if you follow the rules and someone else doesn't and you get used as the skapegoat? :evil:

 

[Scooter7779h]

I can't fly 105

Steve,

As far as I have it figured out, you roll you dice and you take your chances. It is a system of guilty until proved innocent, with the accuser being the judge, jury and executioner as well. Bucking the system is a real crap shoot. Best bet is to lay low, stay under the radar. If you are framed as a scapegoat, you better have allot of time, money and lawyers to make a stand.

Best bet is to hold 37, make steep turns and hope they all fall out of the air chasing you. Meanwhile the guys that are going to go out and hurt themselves are getting nothing to guide them back into the envelope of seeing the next sunrise.

Go figure, look at what the charter of the FAA and what they really have become. That said, the last FAA meeting I went too, seems like they are trying to make a link to reality (the users). Long way to go though baby.

BTW: since we have diverged and hijacked the thread, getting back to the topic.

I use my cub to fly to places you cant go by boat, 185 or Beavers. A jeep with wings, or a freedom machine. Chasing clouds to make shadows on the ground. Turn Avgas into noise and a memory to remember. To find a place, where the only sound is an O-320 cooling down... tink tink tink.... Something to transport the spirit, along with the soul.... I cant fly 105 (sorry Sammy Hagar)....

 

[Torch]

This is what I use mine for moose hunting. Just got back tonight.

I am the guy with the waders on and on the floats.

Some laketrout fishing. I like to fish.

Some pike fishing.

Sight seeing.

Just FUN is what I use it for.

 

[Southern Cub]

Thanks for the replies Seaworthy and 357handh. A C-130 delivered me to Yakima years ago for a missile training session. Nice country out there but the weather was somewhat strange... 99 degrees in the afternoon..snowing at 0200 the next morning. I took a bath in the Columbia River. Big fish eat my soap. Dad was an air traffic controller in Memphis, Tenn in the early 1960s. After church we'd go to the end one of the runways and watch all sorts of planes takeoff and land...from a much safer distance. Oh for the simpler times and memories.
Have a good one all!

 

[Christina Young]

Flying is a privlage, not a right.

No, maybe the FAA wants you to believe that, but it's simply not true! Under which legal principle is it relegated to the status of a "privilege"? I'm not going to expound further, because it belongs in R&R. I already posted a link there about this a couple of weeks ago.

 

[aalexander]

Scooter,


When are we going to go do some airstrip improvement ?

 

[Yard Dart]

If you happen to fly by college girls sun bathing on the roof make sure somebody is flying the plane. Then you can avoid the top of the tree that might in your path. Yard Dart