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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jan 25, 2009
Description:
Torch 305 MSL, taken from 900 ft MSL.
Date Taken:
Jan 25, 2009
Place Taken:
NYC - Hudson
Owner:
Tommy Batterman (age 9)
File Name:
P1251490.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
42, Just Nice Pictures
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Don Maxwell - Jan 25,2009
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Good shootin', Tommy! I think you caught the Lady smiling.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 26,2009
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Eric, did you go upriver to the new Airbus Seaplane Base?
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Eric Batterman - Jan 26,2009
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That was part of our mission. The barge carrying the airplane was moved to Jersey, but we couldn't find it. The barge was probably somewhere on the Bayonne River - too close to EWR for us to get a look see.
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Dan Nickens - Jan 26,2009
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Are you familiar with the Lincoln Park airport, Eric? I visited it this weekend. It looks like a great little airport not far from the big city.
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Eric Batterman - Jan 26,2009
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Dan, I haven't been there for years. Did you try the restaurant? You still in NJ?
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Dan Nickens - Jan 27,2009
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I didn't, but I'm still in NJ and will get another chance on Saturday when I'm going flying. Why don't you fly over and join me for lunch there?
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Eric Batterman - Jan 27,2009
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Dan, Sounds like a plan. Check your email.
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Ed Irizarry - Jan 29,2009
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Garners Landing 2009 Flying- April 18th? Planning on flying 228Z this year to Orlando<br />and that will be a destination if there is an event.
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Kenneth Leonard - Jan 31,2009
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Just don't rent the beat up old 152 from Lincoln Park Dan - the radio doesn't work very well.<br />That was where I started my 'Never Again' flight.
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Dan Nickens - Jan 31,2009
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Well, Ken, as it happens I didn’t get your old C152. I signed up for training in an almost new 172 with a Gee Golly G1000 all glass cockpit. I’ll have to admit, I learned a lot.<br /><br />The first thing I learned is that flight instructors are a lot younger these days. I suspect in a couple of years mine is going to start shaving.<br /><br />He didn’t ask me anything about my flight experience. He figured he knew everything we needed to know anyway.<br /><br />Another learning experience is that you can’t push a Cessna when you’re standing on ice. One main gear was well and truly stuck on a pile of it. The instructor struggled and I followed his example. I’m amazed we didn’t fall, but the Cessna didn’t move.<br /><br />“How about if I push the tail down and swing the airplane around that way?” I finally suggested between great gulps of icy air.<br /><br />“Er, I don’t know if that is authorized. It might damage the structure.”<br /><br />“If it does, I don’t want to fly in it. Here, watch this!” He watched in disbelief as the nose wheel came up and airplane swung on the mains. He just shook his head.<br /><br />When we got into the cockpit, the instructor was in his element. Knobs flew and electrons did too. Instead of kicking the tires and lighting the fires, we fiddled and gawked for 15 minutes. I was afraid we’d get stuck in place again. I learned the Hobbs meter really spins away as you sit on the runway getting ready to fly.<br /><br />Not knowing the local area, but seeing surrounding snow encrusted trees and hills, I asked about emergency procedures. “Where are we going to go if we lose power on takeoff?” I asked.<br /><br />“Into the trees. Try not to hit a house.”<br /><br />I agreed to try and avoid the houses. After take off into the blustery wind I saw a golf course off the departure end. “How about that golf course?” I asked<br /><br />“Well, you’d just nose over in the snow.”<br /><br />I wasn’t sure I understood the problem with that, but, okay, I have a lot to learn about cold weather flying. I did have another alternative: “How about that reservoir over there?” It was a huge expanse of ice.<br /><br />“We try to avoid that because of the hospital on the south shore. Besides, we’d crack the ice and sink. I can’t swim.” Looking at the cars parked out by the ice fishing shacks I decided I’d take my chances. Besides, I like the idea of crashing next to the hospital when the engine quits.<br /><br />The main purpose of the flight was to get some instrument refresher time and experience the brave not-so-new world of electronic flying. After some almost stalls (“you don’t have to stall…the warning is enough for me”), steep turns (“NOT THAT STEEP”), and other old fashion fun stuff, we set up for a local airport.<br /><br />“Watch out for traffic over there!” the instructor said pointing at the screen. That was funny since he hadn’t looked outside since takeoff. I had. I knew it was a B737 about 4000’ above us on approach to Newark. I wasn’t impressed but I learned you can “see” and get excited about traffic without ever looking outside the cockpit.<br /><br />“My airplane,” the instructor demanded. “I’m going to show you how this thing can fly a fully coupled ILS approach all by itself.” Knobs flew and pages flashed across the screens. “Now, sit back and enjoy,” I was told.<br /><br />“You know we’re 2000’ over the expected intercept altitude,” I observed.<br /><br />“It doesn’t matter.”<br /><br />“Well, you do know that the course indicator doesn’t correspond with the inbound course to the airport.”<br /><br />“How do you know?”<br /><br />“I can see the airport.”<br /><br />“Yeah, well, I must have passed the initial fix.” More knobs started spinning.<br /><br />“How about if I just fly the airplane while you work this out?” I suggested.<br /><br />“Whatever.”<br /><br />The poor guy was really sweating. Nothing was going right.<br /><br />I had another suggestion. “Okay. We’re 3000’ directly over the airport. How about if we just fly the missed approach?”<br /><br />“I’ve never had to do that. I’m not sure how to do it.”<br /><br />At this point I’d had learned about all I needed to know. “Okay, we’ll let’s just head back to Lincoln Park.”<br /><br />“Fine. I’ll show you how we can do a GPS approach right in to land. I can set that up in plenty of time to do it.”<br /><br />There was a lot more fiddling with knobs, inputting and re-inputting. Not once was there any move to pick up the manual or checklist or even look out at the beautiful hills and frozen lakes.<br /><br />Amazingly, with some cheating, the guy actually got us back into the airport vicinity.<br /><br />“Traffic at 11 o’clock” I pointed out.<br /><br />“What? Where? It’s not showing up on the scope.”<br /><br />“Well, it will run over us just the same because there it is.” Actually, there wasn’t much chance of it running over us anyway. It was an old Citabria that probably didn’t have a transponder or a radio, or if it did, none of it was working.<br /><br />“You need to widen out your pattern,” the instructor commanded. “You’re too close into the airport.”<br /><br />“I’m exactly were I want to be if the engine quits.”<br /><br />As we turned base I added additional flaps. “Don’t do that! You’ll stall the airplane.”<br /><br />Now I know I have a lot to learn, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t going to happen. “Why do you think that adding additional lift is going to cause us to stall?” I politely asked.<br /><br />“I don’t know why. It’s just company policy.”<br /><br />Another lesson learned, I suppose.<br /><br />“Well, you’re too high anyway. We’ll have to go around.”<br /><br />“Not necessarily.” I dropped the wing and stomped the rudder into a pronounced slip.<br /><br />“What are you doing! Straighten out!”<br /><br />“I’m slipping, but don’t worry, we can straighten out now and land normally.” We touched down on the numbers. (And before anyone mentions it, no, I was not slipping with full flaps.)<br /><br />At the de-briefing the instructor allowed as how he could straighten me out with a few more hours of flying. Just a few more hours under glass and I’d have learned how to fly in the cold modern world.<br /><br />I might just have let him try until I got the bill. It was over $300. Next time I’m thinking about looking for your old C152 with no radios and only the windscreen for glass, Ken.<br />
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John Robert Dunlop - Jan 31,2009
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:) !
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Mike Dupont - Jan 31,2009
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Kenneth Leonard - Feb 03,2009
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Dan - next time, get out to Aeroflex Airport in Andover, NJ and fly with Damian Delgato. He teaches bush flying in his super cub with 32' tires (skis in the winter). That is where I learned to fly and I'll never regret it. He insists all students start in the cub and fly with eyes outside.<br />Now would be a good time to get some ski time in the cub.
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