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[The Kraken]

DMP . . sooooooooo true. A transmission failure in a Sh!thook is a God awful mess

Gedunk . . Slicks - one tour medevac and one tour assault, course in assault we did have door guns

Sharkdiver00 . . No license required under a certain weight. The learing curve is quite short, but I speak from the point of having a few flying hours under my belt before I started flying them, and a couple of takeoffs and landings in fixed wings.

Don't do as I do, do as I say do . . .

My sole training in an ultralight was a fellow telling me what the rotate and stall speeds were. I got into the stupid thing, took off and flew it.

Get some training - I'm an old stupid man.

Actually they are very easy to fly, but one has to be very, very, very careful of weather conditions, especially wind.

 

[Quarrior]

Kraken.... but my eyes are crap....

So bring your dog with you to watch the controls, you just want to see the scenery right?

 

[sharkdiver00]

So bring your dog with you to watch the controls, you just want to see the scenery right?

Quarrior... LOL, ROFL, heheheheheh oh the visual on that one is priceless.

 

[pennypue]

Kraken.... you fly ultralights, how cool. Here is question: is it true you don't need a licence to fly those thingies? how's the learning curve? I always wanted to take fly lessons, but my eyes are crap....

Sharkie, I want to learn to fly too. Um, no helicopters......but I was thinking about going across the street from my office building. We have a small commuter airport there. With all these 'old guys' still flying around, just how good does your eyesight need to be?

 

[pennypue]

Sharkdiver00 . . No license required under a certain weight. The learing curve is quite short, but I speak from the point of having a few flying hours under my belt before I started flying them, and a couple of takeoffs and landings in fixed wings.

So how much is SHE allowed to weigh? I'm a lot bigger than she is so I'm sure I'm well over that weight limit and need a license.
:laughing:

 

[The Kraken]

Sharkie,
Ultralights are, in a sense, more dangerous than scuba diving because you don't have to have training to own and fly one.
If you can pay for it, you can fly it.

The up side is that if you auger it in, you generally do no more damage than kill yourself and really tick off the squirrell that lived in the little nest that you trashed.

And even that can be hard to do because many of the ultralights have BRS's . . . ballistic recover systems - it's a parachute that, when everything goes to crap, you pull the rip cord and float to the ground.

 

[mempilot]

Dogs make great flying companions. Before my split, my two JR's used to be my copilots. Cosmo actually flew right seat for me in a cross country airrace one year. He loved the low level looking out the window stuff. He made his first flight at 8 weeks old.

 

[The Kraken]

Hey, Mem, could he hang his head out of a window ???

 

[BigJetDriver]

Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission.

This is simply NOT TRUE. The physics of the problem work out as follows:

Helicopters do not fly. They are so ugly that Mother Earth just naturally repels them!!!

BJD :anakinpod

 

[The Kraken]

You guys are just plain mean . . .