Dbriggs

dont worry. I still get all messed up in x-winds. I had a bad one today. No worries though it takes time.

I have been having trouble with cross wind landings and landings in general. I went up with the local instructor and worked on some things with him. One thing that stuck with me and helped out was not thinking that I was LANDING the plane. Think of it as flying the plane as low and slow as you can until it wont fly and you are right off the ground. It helped me out on both x-wind no wind and night landings. As for where I was landing wise pre solo I had 37 landings. Keep working at it. It is fun just remember that

It all went well. Better than I had planned. I had hear many horror stories leading up to the flight. So I was way nervous, but it all exited the plane perfectly.

i am flying at 2pm today dropping ashes. any pilots out there who have done this before with some tips to help out?? thank david

you can also steal a lear jet or a cessna 150 and fly around in those.

That story was in Pacific Flyer a couple of months age. I just love the reference to Paris Hilton's panties.

i belive there is only one s-2a model left in california, the rest are now all turbo props. the last time we had one of the round engine s-2s down in hemet the plane flew down here and was parked(i believe due to a malfuntioning mag in the number 2 engine). the only other time the plane flew was to go back home. there is nothing like the rounds that once powered the s-2s but for firefighting purposes i personally would not want to be with anything other than a turbo prop, unless it was a DC-4. the maint. dept for the s-2s is awesome. those planes are kept in perfect shape and the pilots flying them are fun to watch. there is a female tanker pilot who flies tanker 71 i believe which is based out of the Ramona airtanker base in Ramona CA

The S-2s are bad mofos. espscially the S-2Ts. which are S-2A models retrofitted with prat turbo props for CDF. Those are one solid airplane. Fast as well.

oh she is still there? wow...must be nice to leave for a vaca whenever she wants. lucky punk

anyone heard anything about sebastion. have not heard from my mom in a while wondering if she is ok.

pennywise from the ashes and korn take a look in the mirror

I was in the process of getting the so cal freq when he saw the plane. needless to say right after that i was on the radio, and as soon as we left Ramona's airspace I was on with socal again. I just feel dumb for jacking up on the cruise alt. but everyone is alive and even if I am not flying the plane my eyes will be scanning everything all the time. A scary learning expierience.

Not yet

So today I went flying......twice. Went up in the AM to practice some landings. That went fine. Nice and smooth, great landings, and had some fun. After that I went up with a friend of mine who I work with on Saturdays at the airport. We were going to Ramona airport to have lunch and just fly around. Preflight the plane, make sure everything is ok. But in that process I forgot to give us the correct cruise altitude(odd plus 500). Well we take off and head south. Things are going great for a good portion of the flight. I had my head down looking at the chart finding another place for us to go when all the sudden I am looking straight down and the ground and pinned to my seat. All the while he is screaming F*&K S*&T F*&K. All I can do is ask what the heck just happened. Needless to say we were on a head-on course for another plane at the same altitude. Hmmm...... Couldent figure out why he was at our altitude. What happened? Where did he or we go wrong?? After trying to stop my heart from coming out of my chest i begin to realize that I had screwed up in our cruise altitude. I sent us down at 4500 when it should have 3500 or 5500. Something I am usually extremely cautious about. How did I mess up on that. I got in a hurry, all I could think about was getting in the air again. I have always talked about how people who do dumb things shouldent be allowed fly. I am still thinking of how bad it could have been. 3 people could be dead, 2 of which are newly licensed pilots, young as well. I have decided that I am not going to fly unless I have checked double checked and even triple checked my plan and covered my ass in all directions. So a word of advice from this from me is that be sure everything is in line and you make time to plan things the right way before you start the engine.

Dayum. Right on mom. That's awesome. Look out people here comes the bytch. Congrats again. David