California Tours No. 7 Almost....

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We will start out at Peoria Airport (6CL9), land for a break at Cameron Airpark Airport (O61), and ending at Lake Tahoe Airport (KTVL).

Tour Time: 8:00 P.M. GMT
   
Saturday September 22 2007    
   
Propeller aircraft will only be used on this flight.

Flight Plan
GPS Heading, Speed 120Knots, ETE 50min+

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Anyone joining?

[Fozzer]

Anyone joining?

...yep!.... ...!

...still trying to get closer to the Pacific Coast... ...!

...LOL... ...!

F...Lake Tahoe here we come!... 8-)...!

[captaincarl]

Ooooooooooooh noooooooo

It's during the time of Ant n Decs Saturday Night Takeaway  :-[

Carl

[Fozzer]

Ooooooooooooh noooooooo

It's during the time of Ant n Decs Saturday Night Takeaway  :-[
Carl

.... ....!!

...pretend you haven't got one of those dreaded Television Sets.. ...!

Mine was thrown on the rubbish dump 30 years ago... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!
...never looked back.. ...!

F.... 8-)...!

[mrjake2002]

Will be there, Ant and Dec are a pair of annoying little....  ;)

[Fozzer]

Landed at Lake Tahoe in Saturday's Hop!....>>>



F...G-BPLF...

[mrjake2002]

Lovely hop as usual.  8-)

[JBaymore]

Was that firetruck there awaiting your landing, Fozzer?  

best,

....................john

[captaincarl]

It seemed that Ant n Dec pulled me in lol.

I should be in Sundays tour, may have a go at the Beach Baron.

Carl

[Fozzer]

Was that firetruck there awaiting your landing, Fozzer?  

best,

....................john

Tee-He... ...!

Nah...a perfect, bounce-free, main wheel landing in my trusty Baron, every time (almost)... ..!

I don't know if Uncle Bill's design crew is being especially nice to us in the design of the default Beech Baron 58 .air File, but after a number of years perfecting my flying in the Cessna 150/152/172 Trainers, and successfully completing a type test in the complex Beech Baron Twin, I now find the Baron 58 to be a very predictable general purpose aircraft, and more stable and less "feisty" than it's smaller, single prop Sisters!

It may be due to it's twin props pulling equally on either side of the fuselage?.
This makes it slow to change direction, but once aimed in the required direction will maintaining its course faultlessly!
The only thing to be constantly aware of, are its constant-speed props and its retractable undercarriage!!

As a Piston Engined Twin, it also benefits from instant reaction to changes in power application, it's Turbine Engined Twin equivalents (King Air etc) being very much slower to react!
(I still have problems with P&W PT6 Turbine engines because of that reason!).

So...after mastering the single prop Trainers, a type-test move up to the more complex Piston Twins is a well-worth experience!

F....G-BPLF... 8-)...!