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Friday, April 13, 2012

April 13, 2012

Tried to fly today.  Took my Stinger thinking it could handle the wind.  Had wind gusts to 25+.  Quite an interesting expierience.  After taking off, it flew ok in the air, then a slow approach.  Wow I was thinking to myself, you really screwed the pooch this time!  After several attempts I finally got it on the ground using a lot of power to land.  Got lucky, no damage at all, and a half way decent landing.  Needless to say that was my last flight.  Very fortunate to get it down in one piece!  I think I'll reconsider flying in such wind conditions again guys!

Steve

4 comments:

  1. Hey there Steve....congrats on the good flight there....you are DA MANNNN when it comes to those high winds flying times!!!
    Good Job!!!
    Mark

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    1. Thanks Mark, but I think it was kind of dumb for me to do that :)

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  2. Steve, you get a gold metal trying to fly in today's hurricane. We drove back from New Mexico yesterday and the wind was horrible!

    Thanks to you, the club has a new member, Steve Stafford from Westcliffe. You gave him some buddy box time recently. He is raring to get an instructor and starting a training program. He has his AMA now and got his old number too.

    Marlowe

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    1. Thanks Marlowe, but I think it was kind of dumb for me to try that:) What a weird accident for a prop strike and for it to break, and the motor continue to run!!

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