Official Aviation Thread...

[ThatM20Guy]

Finally passed my instrument check ride last week! So nice to have it done so I can now just relax a little bit and enjoy some cross country flights for commercial.

[flyboyx]

real nice will!

[BlackbirdM3]

Finally, after 6 months of editing pics, my Reno 2017 album is done. Have a look.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/473099...57665922635188

Will

[BlackbirdM3]

Ouch. You road bike guys are nearly playing squid games going that fast with no appreciable protection.

In 1993 I was doing 50 on dirt with no suspension wearing about the same amount of protection. I break 60 on a regular basis. This was a freak crash, first time I'd gone down in 17 years. I leaned into a corner and the front end just vanished from beneath me. I slid a good 20+ yards down the road removing only the upper layer of skin. It looked far worse than it really was.

Will

[varg]

Ouch. You road bike guys are nearly playing squid games going that fast with no appreciable protection.

[BlackbirdM3]

He appears to be a bit sun burnt too boot.

Mostly road rashed actually. I think this was on Thursday where I was showing the guy the pics I shot of Sawbones during the thunderstorm the night before. It was only two weeks after I slid 20 yards down the pavement when I dumped my bicycle at 40 mph.

Will

[mrsleeve]

He appears to be a bit sun burnt too boot.

[BlackbirdM3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=743&v=BN2xt0--gCI

Some wingnut who happens to have a thing for SR-71s and shooting aviation photography appears at 6:36.

Will

[flyboyx]

Some of those are just amazing. I have a couple that I shot in the commute to work thread.

[LateFan]

Some cool cockpit photos here....

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pi...an-van-heijst/

[jpod999]

http://calauctions.rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mmlist.cgi?calauctions216/category/ALL

Some fun aviation stuff here.

[LateFan]

That's part of what made Seattle Seattle for me - those planes taking off from Lake Union all day out your office window. We've been paddling out there when those things buzz right over - great noise, and lots of spray! I've seen them weave between sailboat masts and then set down. A cool thing a guy explained to me once - on take-off, they get going across the water, then roll a bit and lift one sponson off the water. Less surface tension and drag, and it lifts right off and swings back flat. I love that stuff.

[flyboyx]

congratulations m20guy! sounds like you are moving along fast.


I've never flown aerobatics but have always loved the flagship citabria you mention above. i have done a few barrel rolls in a learjet back in the day. single engine sea would be a fun but probably not a very useful rating to have. i got mine as a graduation present to myself when i finished college. 9.1 hours of the most fun i've ever had in an airplane. guess how many hours i have in a sea plane since? yup, you guessed it! a big zero.

my thought was that i had always wanted to fly the otters that go in and out of peuget sound or possibly work for Chaulks DBA prior to their crash that folded the company. my career path never took me in that direction however.....

[varg]

Good luck! I wish I had been able to make it that far. One of the things I look forward to most about finishing school is being able to afford to finish my PPL, then do my IFR rating and tailwheel endorsement. I dream of some day owning a small plane of my own, and a Decathalon is high on the list of planes I would want.

[superj]

cool