Light Aircraft Instrument Panel

[pdplot]

Approaching KDXR om a hazy summer day from the south is a lot of fun. You can't see the field until you're almost on top of it and the tower can't see you. Somewhere on Youtube must be a GoPro video of that approach between two good sized "mountains".

 

[Gliderman8]

Approaching KDXR om a hazy summer day from the south is a lot of fun. You can't see the field until you're almost on top of it and the tower can't see you. Somewhere on Youtube must be a GoPro video of that approach between two good sized "mountains".

Oh yeah! It’s just as you describe. Thread the needle through the mountains and the runway appears.

 

[judow]

New addition to family has a flat screen digital display and husband says it's normal to have glass cockpits now. It's very easy to read. The engineers did a good job of placement and colors. As an f/y/I he learned to fly in Cessna 150. Guess you can guess he's 'old school.'

 

[DrEntropy]

As an f/y/I he learned to fly in Cessna 150.

:lol: As a teenager we would do hammerhead stalls over Lake Erie in a 150... idiot teenagers. I can still hear that stall buzzer!

 

[PAUL161]

Luscome Phantom, One like this is what I learned to fly in, many many years ago!!

What a beautiful airplane to fly and built like a tank. PJ


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Unique Instrument panel for it's time.
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[judow]

:lol: As a teenager we would do hammerhead stalls over Lake Erie in a 150... idiot teenagers. I can still hear that stall buzzer![/COLOR]

I also learned to fly in a 150. They are for sure very forgiving. Can't say that for the control tower though.

Forget to say I was in the Boston TCA.

 

[DrEntropy]

Forget to say I was in the Boston TCA.

Quite th' reason I'm not giving my particular departure location, or particulars. :smirk:

 

[PAUL161]

Many, many years ago a young man and his old airplane. The young man isn't young anymore and the old airplane just got older!

Both are still going strong!

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My old Stearman now,
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[NutmegCT]

"both are still going strong"

Great to hear! Annual maintenance pays off!

Say, how'd you ever get lucky to have your own Stearman back then? I think the registration number now belongs to a 172.

 

[PAUL161]

The fellow I sold it to, for some reason, wanted a different number, that number was the first civilian N number assigned to that aircraft after leaving the military. After he gave up the number it was assigned to a Beech-craft, didn't know about the later 172. Easy to change the N numbers if desired. Now the numbers can be much smaller and displayed on the vertical stabilizer, especially if it's painted in it's traditional military paint scheme. I have a photo of the aircraft now, if I could find it.
Paid 6,000 bucks for it back then, my total wealth! :highly_amused: PJ

 

[PAUL161]

Here's a picture of my old Stearman back in 1965 and now. Most Stearmans were initially bought from the Army Air Corps and they had a 200 hp Continental engine, mine was a Navy version and had a 220 hp Lycoming. Easy to identify, Continental had the exhaust coming from rear of engine, Lycoming had it coming from the front. Even though the Lycoming was 20 hp more, the Continental had more snap when punching the throttle.
PJ
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[pdplot]

Ah those radial engines...and their distinctive noise. Also distinctive - and I look up every time I hear them - are the DC3 and the WW ll bombers/fighters, not to mention the AT-6 (SN-J) taking off. Vidoes are available online.