RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-06 Thread David Megginson
Ryan Larson writes: I flew an Arrow-III up to Minneapolis and back this past weekend. Even with a CAS of 135 kts, I had a GS of about 80-88 kts the whole way up to Minneapolis at 6000 feet because of a cold front moving through. On the way back, I had a great tailwind and at 9000 feet I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-06 Thread David Megginson
Cameron Moore writes: For those of you that haven't been here for long, the same David Megginson made the following post back in April about his disappointing first training flight: ... I'd say that there's a 55% chance I won't continue flying ...

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-06 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson writes: I flew an Arrow-III up to Minneapolis and back this past weekend. Even with a CAS of 135 kts, I had a GS of about 80-88 kts the whole way up to Minneapolis at 6000 feet because of a cold front moving through. On the way back, I had a great tailwind

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-06 Thread Gene Buckle
legal ownership, but it is parked safely at the flying club waiting for me. I am quite impressed with the handling compared to the 172's I've flown. Here are some pics: http://www.megginson.com/private/C-FBJO/ For those of you that haven't been here for long, the same David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:59:50 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper Warrior II with http://www.megginson.com/private/C-FBJO/ Nice. I guess we'll have to finish and validate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread David Megginson
Jon S Berndt writes: Nice. I guess we'll have to finish and validate our PA-28 model - there's lots of data in McCormick for this one. It looks like there's a good start, and I can run some performance tests of my own once I've finished my 5 hours dual on the plane. Would it be possible to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:41:52 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: It looks like there's a good start, and I can run some performance tests of my own once I've finished my 5 hours dual on the plane. Would it be possible to type in the McCormick data and send me a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread David Megginson
Jon S Berndt writes: IIRC, Cameron (both Camerons?) worked on this one. I'll see what I can do on getting the info. The good and bad about the data in McCormick is that there's a lot of it there - it's sort of a default example used throughout the book and so a lot of the data is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:00:21 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: IIRC, Cameron (both Camerons?) worked on this one. I'll see what I can do on getting the info. The good and bad about the data in McCormick is that there's a lot of it there - it's sort

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread C. Hotchkiss
I've flown several times as a passenger in that particular model. Loved it. I'm in deep envy and insist on being in your will. ;-) Regards, Charlie H. David Megginson wrote: After a few months of dithering, ... did a test flight and had my AME do a detailed prepurchase yesterday. Regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread David Megginson
C. Hotchkiss writes: I've flown several times as a passenger in that particular model. Loved it. I'm in deep envy and insist on being in your will. ;-) Sure -- I'll leave the maintenance bills in your name. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:18:20 -0600, Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:59:50 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Arnt Karlsen writes: On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:18:20 -0600, Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:59:50 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01:59, venerdì 06 dicembre 2002, David Megginson wrote this piece of wisdom: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper Warrior II with (mostly) King IFR radios. It will be at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread David Megginson
David Findlay writes: All you need now is an digital imaging camera underneath the plane and a GPS reciever so you can generator vector data for roads rivers and stuff. :-) You lucky b@$t4rd! :-P Actually a bicycle, a canoe, and a $200 handheld GPS would do fine for that. All the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper Warrior II with (mostly) King IFR radios. It will be at least a few days before I actually take Cool! It looks like it has really been taken

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Ryan Larson
I flew an Arrow-III up to Minneapolis and back this past weekend. Even with a CAS of 135 kts, I had a GS of about 80-88 kts the whole way up to Minneapolis at 6000 feet because of a cold front moving through. On the way back, I had a great tailwind and at 9000 feet I was at 130 kts CAS and 194

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161 C-FBJO

2002-12-05 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Megginson) [2002.12.05 10:02]: After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper Warrior II with (mostly) King IFR radios. It will be at least a few days before I actually take legal ownership, but it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-16 Thread Eivind Trondsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, these are the people interrested in the manual. Can you all send me your adresses? I'll try to make copies, but if I fail to do that maybe we can set it up for a round-trip like Munro suggested. Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cameron Munro

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread Jon Berndt
The manual contains performance charts, detailed wb breakdown and subsystem descriptions among other things. I hope I can be of help to get this plane into FlightGear. What I need is a postal address to mail the manual to, if anyone is interrested in Let me know if this is of interrest.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread John Check
On Monday 15 April 2002 03:15 am, you wrote: Hi all I met one of you guys at LinuxWorld in january, I believe it was Curt, but Curt had other obligations,I beleive it was me. You were at the conference session too, right? not sure. Anyway, I promised him to donate my Cherokee Warrior Info

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Selig
At 4/15/02, you wrote: The manual contains performance charts, detailed wb breakdown and subsystem descriptions among other things. I hope I can be of help to get this plane into FlightGear. What I need is a postal address to mail the manual to, if anyone is interrested in Let me

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread Cameron Munro
The manual contains performance charts, detailed wb breakdown and subsystem descriptions among other things. I hope I can be of help to get this plane into FlightGear. What I need is a postal address to mail the manual to, if anyone is interrested in Let me know if this is of interrest. And

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:07:16 +0200 Cameron Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in this too, there is a part-done JSBsim model of the PA28 myself and the Cameron Moore were working on awhile back but never got round to the details. This might prove to be the incentive needed to I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA-28-161

2002-04-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Munro) [2002.04.16 16:12]: The manual contains performance charts, detailed wb breakdown and subsystem descriptions among other things. I hope I can be of help to get this plane into FlightGear. What I need is a postal address to mail the manual to, if