Do you like DC3s?

[wrxpilot]

If you do, here's a great video of one:
http://www.flightlevel350.com/public_viewer.php?cat=142&pic=2363

 

[EMBATP]

nice

real classy airplane...

 

[wrxpilot]

real classy airplane...

That they are... Great sound too.

 

[TurboS7]

1830-94-92-75 all the Pratts sound nice on a three.

 

[9GClub]

Good ol' split flaps...... and some pretty flimsy-looking undercarriage.....

I hear they fly nice though.

 

[Kream926]

what about beech 18's? anyone like those?

 

[TurboS7]

R-985's are great. The best noise makers Grumman Goose fully loaded with Hartzell props trying to get on the step early in the morning.

 

[Traumahawk]

Kinda forgot to flare on that first go eh??


Great plane though....

 

[DC3Flyer]

Yep

I was fortunate enough to fly both a DC3 and a BE18, gotta love the sound of a radial engine!!!

 

[TurboS7]

I have about 1000 hours in the BE-18, flew them with both the Ham Stans and Hartzels. The Hartzels were nice hauling the heavy loads out of MDW in the summer but we it came to just cruisin' I like that Ham Stans.

 

[pilotyip]

Touching history.

If you take the floor out of a DC-9 and then take the floor out of a DC-3, it is hard to tell which airplane you are looking at. They are both Douglas built cable cars, meaning everything is cable controlled. Flying the 3 is really touching roots of aviation; you the pilots make everything happen. Raising the gear is a five step operation, starting engines is a “I hope its starts today and I don’t screw it up” operation, and the rudders are a primary flight control. Only one thing on the 3 is automated, and that is the Hyd pressure regulation, it automatically kicks down after reaching it peak. In the DC-9, you have to manually select low Hyd pressure. Nothing is greater than flying cross country at 3,000' AGL on clear VFR day. Of course I am lucky, I fly it for a museum and do not have to fly in the winter, night hard IFR or other bad things, but daytime flying it is all pleasure.

 

[bafanguy]

yip,


Taxiing it was a bit of a challenge for new guys. As one old captain told a classmate of mine, "You taxi like I &#[email protected] when I'm drunk." They knew better than to let me taxi very much.

 

[TurboS7]

I used to fly the DC-3 for Mission Aviation Fellowship. N92578. Ironically it used to be owned by JAARS(Jungle Aviation and Radio Service) HP-1020. When I was a kid I used to go the the "DC-3 strip" , an 1800 foot strip with no obstacles, to help load and unload it when we came through from Bolivia. I flew the same airplane back and fourth to Haiti from FXE. When Hurricane Gilbert came through I got to fly it back and fourth from Jamica doing relief work. I did all the training for my type but the aircraft was sold 2 weeks before I was to take my type ride. Though I have time in the 3 I never did get the type rating. se la vi.

 

[Donsa320]

If you take the floor out of a DC-9 and then take the floor out of a DC-3, it is hard to tell which airplane you are looking at. They are both Douglas built cable cars, meaning everything is cable controlled. Flying the 3 is really touching roots of aviation; you the pilots make everything happen. Raising the gear is a five step operation, starting engines is a “I hope its starts today and I don’t screw it up” operation, and the rudders are a primary flight control. Only one thing on the 3 is automated, and that is the Hyd pressure regulation, it automatically kicks down after reaching it peak. In the DC-9, you have to manually select low Hyd pressure. Nothing is greater than flying cross country at 3,000' AGL on clear VFR day. Of course I am lucky, I fly it for a museum and do not have to fly in the winter, night hard IFR or other bad things, but daytime flying it is all pleasure.

Our Chief Pilot on North Central used to say that a new DC-3 Captain will collect more ice during his first winter on the line than all the rest of his winters combined. <bg>

~DC

 

[TurboS7]

What was the reason for that????