On Thursday 03 April 2003 16:16, David Megginson wrote: > Yes, a 150 was simply too small for me -- I paid the extra money to > train in 172s, but I think that our rates are a bit cheaper over here.
Cost-wise it simply isn't an option open to me. Also, I'm not sure but I think the club reserves their 172's for advanced training only - which would be for IMC (I think that's a UK only rating?) and night rating training. > I've never had the chance to use a grass runway -- how does it feel as > you get close to takeoff speed? We need to start modelling the bumps > and jolts in FlightGear. It actually felt OK - far less bumpy than the C206's I've been in on concrete runways. I seem to remember that he held the yoke quite far back early on in the take off run. Would this help? But I might be mistaken... > Depending on how much your instructor weighs and how much fuel was on > board, you were probably very close to max gross weight. The 150/152 > doesn't have a great climb rate, but since its forward speed is also > slow, it does have an OK climb angle (i.e. it will clear the trees, > but it takes a long time to reach them). I'm 210lb and he looked to be around 180 or so I didn't check how much fuel showed on the gauges but he did say that the one we were in was modded with long range tanks. > Eventually, my body adjusted to the 172 (since the 172 sure wasn't > going to adjust to my body); it probably would even have adjusted to > the 150, given enough time, but I wasn't willing to try. My biggest > fear even in the 172 were the cross-country dual flights, where I'd > have to have a map, navlog, E6B, etc. laid out on my lap in that tiny > space, but by the time I got to that point I didn't feel so crowded > any more. Mmm. Now you've got me thinking of a 152 with one of those car utility boxes strapped to the outside accessible through the open window. Instant storage! > Make sure she gets at least 25-50% of the proceeds for something *she* > wants (and save a bit of a reserve for the transit passes). 'she' wants to learn to fly a baloon. That's gotta be expensive... I'll make just one more post after lesson 2... Cheers, Matt. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
