As a matter of fact, it is. A HGU-55/P in Kevlar. A little hot in the summer, but sylish, none the less. It used to match the airplane, then we repainted the airplane. Bummer.
you think you need a nosewheel endorsement
That's not as funny as it may seem. A lot of us went years without an instrument rating, and without the need for a training wheel.
grass doesn't grow where you pee
Not my fault. It's an accumulation of atrazine and 2,4-D. Agent Orange isn't just for breakfast, any more.
If you're buying a new alternator for your 182, and the counter guy at Advance Auto Parts asks you what vehicle it's for.
NAPA.
If you have to be careful not to shoot your wing spar or propeller when you're out shooting wild dogs on your ranch.
It's usually the gear and wing struts that get it. Only a dingbat hits the spar.
Who says the dogs have to be wild?
Or on a ranch?
If the most current sectional on your plane expired in 1986.
I flew to Dead Cow International (interesting story) in Wichita some time back, and got a request to call the tower. I asked what tower, and was told the tower at the International (wichita). The tower controller wanted to know what I'd been doing in his airspace, I asked him what airspace, he said look on the map. I was, and there was no airspace. He asked the year of the chart. I believe it was 1948 or so. When I left home they gave me the chart and said stay left of the big highway, don't get too low, don't get above a thousand feet, you won't have any problems.
Apparently they update those charts from time to time...
If you don't know what some of the radios in your stack do, or even if they work or not.
What would be the point? If you never use them, they never wear out. Back in the day, our only radio in the airplane was a CB. It worked pretty good, too.
If you consider anything above 100 feet as "high altitude" flight.
Did, and do. I used to be deathly afraid of flight above 500 feet.
It's hard to read the roadsigns from up there.
You've used trailor parks as VFR checkpoints.
IFR checkpoints, too.
They work okay if the same trailer stays there, but in Kansas, they're marked on the map as "perennial" and "non-perennial," depending on weather they lie in regular tornado rut or not. It's the guys that keep changing the pattern of the tires on the roof that get me all cockeyed. It's hard to know if you're coming or going when it looks different each time.
I like watertowers and road signs, because at least they tell you where you are in plain english.
You have to do a low-pass to chase off the cows before landing.
Cows, indians (they shoot back), armadillos, horses, packs of wild dogs (Chinle, AZ is bad for that), and joggers. And an occasional skunk. Once a bull that I chased off the first time around with a .45.
You have a gun rack on the back window of your cessna.
You think that's funny, don't you? Where else are you going to hang a lariat?
