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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:54 pm Post subject: country folk & gettin shot at !! |
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well said, mr hauck. keep 'em straight. those yankee city folk sometimes get a little confused & need a lil kindly guidance. good job. john bowman, avid+ bldg, s. la.
From: lucien <lstavenhagen(at)hotmail.com>
To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com
Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 8:02:31 AM
Subject: Re: Flight report
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "lucien" <lstavenhagen(at)hotmail.com (lstavenhagen(at)hotmail.com)>
John Hauck wrote:
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How do you accomplish that?
John Williamson and I have low leveled from Sherman, TX, to Monument Valley,
UT, continued low level from there to the Rock House, 7 miles south of Burns
Junction, OR. If we were shot at during that flight, we never knew it.
Last time either John W or I were shot at, that we know of, is Vietnam 1970
for me, and I can't remember when John W came home the last time, 1972,
kinda rings a bell. Of course, we were both in a wonderful position to
defend ourselves in VN.
Be careful how you talk about country folks. There are a bunch of us on the
Kolb List and we all fly Kolbs. 
john hauck
mkIII
hauck's holler
Titus, Alabama
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It's hard with my 912 and the big ol 70" prop, but I try to get as high as possible before getting near neighborhoods and then back off the power as soon as I can. Sort of an, er, noise abatement procedure for what it's worth.
Don't worry, I'm a 30-year TX back country dude myself so I know whereof I speak.
As for getting shot at, like I said when I flew PPC's with my good friends in TX was when we had the most trouble with people on the ground. Even when you're legal (as we always tried to be) PPC's move so slow that the noise just hangs there in the air. It also can take a while to get to altitude so you have a Rotax scream in one general place above your house for a long time.
We had to be very careful not to run folks' cows and otherwise disturb people on the ground - altering our route a bunch if necessary to stay away from noise-sensitive areas and folks.
Even with all that, we often still had messages on our cell phones at the end of the flight back at the field.
We were even not well liked at local airports, even tho we had comms on board and obeyed traffic pattern rules. It still looked like we were "cuttin' up" even tho we were otherwise following the rules.
That was probably my main turnoff of PPC flying, it really took a lot of the fun out of it. I eventually sold my PPC partly for that reason.
Plus I'm basically a 3-axis guy anyway. And it's nice to not have the whole community pi$$ed off at me after a flight. Sure is more fun that way .
LS
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Dana
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: country folk & gettin shot at !! |
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At 07:52 PM 2/9/2010, john taylor wrote:
| Quote: | | well said, mr hauck. keep 'em straight. those yankee city folk sometimes get a little confused & need a lil kindly guidance. good job. john bowman, avid+ bldg, s. la. |
Hey, some of use are Yankee _country_ folk!
Never been shot at, that I know of, but my part of Connecticut is mostly woods so I don't fly that low very often...
-Dana
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lucien
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:14 am Post subject: Re: country folk & gettin shot at !! |
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| Dana wrote: |
Hey, some of use are Yankee _country_ folk!
Never been shot at, that I know of, but my part of Connecticut is mostly woods so I don't fly that low very often...
-Dana
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Some of us are actually Yankee southern country folk! (I lived in new england for a while in the 70's).....
Sorry, couldn't resist
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