Cessna 150 for $6000!!!

[RitterKreuz]

BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD!! KDSM!!   NO!

NO!  >:(  BAD BOY!

i look at them and think "Hmmm thats reasonable... i could make any one of those birds my own..."   then i snap back to reality

AND I HAVE YOU POSTING THAT LINK TO THANK FOR MY DAY DREAMING!!!

hehehehe

[beaky]

I'm still a fan of entering the leg that you're already on..

As long as it's announced, it's safer for a pilot who's already on an extended base to enter that base... as opposed to angling over (where every body else is converging) to wedge into a downind that will just put him back where he already was (three, view blocking turns later)..

Well, that makes so much sense the FAA will never adopt it...

Why not hit the leg closest to your arrival heading? If you announce it and make sure you enter at TPA (unlike some Beech drivers I know of), it's probably safer, even on a base or downwind.

Sometimes I think the 45-degree thing is more appropriate as a training procedure than a practical real-world approach, although it requires some skull work, which is good for you.

I wonder where, when and why that form of entry was adopted?

[Brett_Henderson]

I was taught the traditional way too (many moons ago). One of the first times I was up with the guy who's become my mentor, I was going about the nice, comfy overflight at TPA+1000 intending to come back on the 45.

[PsychoDiablo]

But I'll bet you'd be comfy in a Citabria; they can be had for around the same price. I've been thinking along those lines for my first plane

trust me it wont let you down

My grandfather, who is thinking about giving up flying now due to age, said he wants to sighn his decathelon over to me. Its one hell of a plane to say the least

[beaky]

But I'll bet you'd be comfy in a Citabria; they can be had for around the same price. I've been thinking along those lines for my first plane

trust me it wont let you down

My grandfather, who is thinking about giving up flying now due to age, said he wants to sighn his decathelon over to me. Its one hell of a plane to say the least

Lucky you!! A free Decathlon, a gift... now that's something else altogether.
Don't insult him by refusing, but if you must, tell him you know someone with no scruples who'll take it off his hands... me...

I was thinking Tri-Pacer or Ercoupe or something like that until a friend started singing the praises of a 7ECA he used to own, and it got me thinking... all around, that would be a good first airplane for the kind of flying I'd like to do- especially the aerobatic kind of flying.

[PsychoDiablo]

he was in the process of trying to sell it for a maul but because he has a partnership with a v35, he said hed just sign it over to me.
hes also restoring an old AT-6 he got from a boneyard in the 1960s for $50. Which he told me was a ripoff

83 years old and still working on that old thing

[C]

I have to ask again about this military stuff. I've been flying on/off for almost 30 years.. aint heard that before. And if it is military (Army Navy Airforce Marines), wouldn't it be a towered field anyway ? .. Or if it's several military aircraft, wouldn't there be a TFR ?

Military, in Europe, and of course there is tower. If people join in the same place, it makes the approach controllers job a lot easier if he's feeding everyone on radar to one point. It makes departures easier too. Also taken into consideration is the fact that circuit speeds will vary from 80kts to 200+kts.

[Brett_Henderson]

Military, in Europe, and of course there is tower. If people join in the same place, it makes the approach controllers job a lot easier if he's feeding everyone on radar to one point. It makes departures easier too. Also taken into consideration is the fact that circuit speeds will vary from 80kts to 200+kts.

Ahh.. ok, there's a tower.  Ive been talking about uncontrolled fields. Pattern entry is moot when there's a tower..  HE'LL decide  FOR you..  lol

[C]

 HE'LL decide  FOR you..  lol

Or you'll tell him...