"Brian, The Life of" (familycar)
04/28/2014 at 13:34 • Filed to: neat!
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"Brian, The Life of" (familycar)
04/28/2014 at 13:34 • Filed to: neat! | 14
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So my posts of Navy ships passing by my house on Friday conjured a discussion with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about going flying sometime to capture some arial photos of them. He actually asked me if I'd be interested ... and until that point, I'd really signed up to the idea that there's no such thing as a dumb question. Anywho, as it ends up, he was due for his biannual flight review with his CFI and was going to do it yesterday. So, since the back seat was going to be empty anyway, I grabbed a camera and joined him and his CFI, Brian. Here are some photos I grabbed.
Here's our whip during preflight.
Nick and his CFI Brian running through the preflight routine.
Rolling for takeoff.
Aaand we're off! Looking back to Montgomery Field after takeoff.
A nice shot of MCAS Miramar as we turned east so Brian could make sure Nick still knew how to fly (spoiler alert: He did).
A selfie of "Ballast Boy" in the backseat :)
Over Otay reservoir and the Olympic training facility there.
Brian's trollface sticker on his headset was cracking me up.
Here's Lake Murray.
Everyone's favorite mega electronics store!
Another plane landing on the left runway as we we doing touch-n-go's on the right.
Perfect landing!
No reverse gear ... like a Peel!
Clear coat circa early '90s Ford ;)
Thanks again, Nick ... it was a blast!
Brian Silvestro
> Brian, The Life of
04/28/2014 at 13:37 |
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I didn't think Brian was a popular name until this website.
ReallyColorful
> Brian, The Life of
04/28/2014 at 13:39 |
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Nick is way cool!
Chris Clarke
> Brian, The Life of
04/28/2014 at 13:47 |
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Cool! I always try to bring someone along when I have an extra seat.
MIATAAAA
> Brian, The Life of
04/28/2014 at 14:03 |
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That's awesome! I was actually out flying a Warrior this weekend, too! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Nick drives Stick (not Stig)
> Brian, The Life of
04/28/2014 at 17:48 |
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I'm glad you had fun... I never get tired of flying! I don't know if you noticed, but when we did the ILS approach for 28R, I was so focused on the instrument procedure that I forgot to drop the flaps. Didn't realize it till I went to retract the flaps for takeoff and found the handle at zero degrees.
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Nick drives Stick (not Stig)
> ReallyColorful
04/28/2014 at 17:48 |
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Thank you very much!
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Nick drives Stick (not Stig)
> Brian, The Life of
04/29/2014 at 00:26 |
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Actually Lake Jennings... Otay Reservoir is down by Brown Field.
Thunder
> Nick drives Stick (not Stig)
05/05/2014 at 07:54 |
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Oops. :-) At least in Piper products, there's no risk of a burned-out flap motor making a no-flap landing a necessity, and you must have had the airspeed for it.
My last flight review was in a 172... which made for what I think may have been my first no-flap landing. By CFI direction, that is, but any change from normal procedures can be eye-opening.
Back to the Piper, my dad is also a pilot, with about 2000 hours (to my 90) and all sorts of ratings. One time, he related how on a flight review in an Arrow he was asked to keep his speed up for spacing from traffic behind him. So, he kept power in, and flaps up, until he was over the numbers. Then he performed the aeronautical equivalent of an E-brake turn, pulling the flaps from zero to full, cutting power, and pushing the nose down (to compensate for the added lift from the flaps). Neat as you please, he was down... but as they taxiied in, his instructor said "I KNOW no instructor ever taught you that".