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Post by Tom Goodrick on Jul 23, 2012 14:05:51 GMT -5
I had forgotten I had the Aeronca Champ on this computer. I took it for a circuit today in RW around the patch at HSV. The wind was 7 knots from 060 degrees. I was able to taxi out, takeoff on 36R, fly a pattern and land (again on 36R). Level cruise at 1500 MSL was 75 mph (yup, using the old glider mph airspeed gauge). Touchdown was at 48 knots and -46 ft/min. That is one sweet little airplane. It is strictly eyeball navigation. But the scenery goes by slow and pretty.
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Post by Tom Goodrick on Jul 23, 2012 17:14:07 GMT -5
I enjoyed the Champ. Then I flew the Cosmos Trike (a "go-cart" suspended below a semi-rigid wing. It is great fun. My landing was at 28 KIAS and -36 ft/min.
Then I flew a model of the AA-1a trainer by American Aviation which was owned briefly by Grumman American. That was fun. I flew a circuit but had no landing gauge.
The next plane I looked ta for a flight around the patch was a C-124 Globemaster. I'll wait a day or two. I have lost track of my DC-3 panel. I had it on this computer when I was flying FS2002. It is around someplace. I did see a DC-4 that was ready to fly.
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