ShawnC
Skirts Will Rise
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Okay, I give up. Water ballast? What were you flying, the Hindenburg?ShawnC said:I have never dumped my water ballast on short final on the girls watching at the end of the runway.
Typhoon1244 said:Okay, I give up. Water ballast? What were you flying, the Hindenburg?
Well, they say you learn something new every day. Thanks!ShawnC said:I was flying a glider. You know how has weight goes up the best L/D speed goes up. To make gliders go faster, and yet maintain the same best L/D, they carry water in in wing ballast tanks.
In a Metro???fr0g said:Never done a chandelle after departure on a repo...
haha.. well, if you're shooting the water and you stay over the runway for a while to pick up some speed it's kinda fun. um.. I mean.. that's what I've heard..In a Metro???
(Must've been one of those afterburning Metros...)
(...or an awful shallow Chandelle!)
siucavflight said:I have never told ATC that i was a student pilot, after i had gotten my liscense so that they would take it easy on me
siucavflight said:I have never told ATC that I was a student pilot, after I had gotten my liscense so that they would take it easy on me.
Hey, back off from my man Siucavflight! Going into a big metroport for the first time can be intimidating for a new private pilot. I also never did this. In Tampa.Flechas said:Thats lame!
Typhoon1244 said:Nobody's done that...but one morning at DFW, my father's F/O switched over to departure while they were sitting in position on 17R...during rush hour. Went on for three minutes. By the time dad figured out what happened, the guy in the tower was hysterical.