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Post subject: Hello from Albuquerque Posted: 14 Jan 2025, 09:01 |
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Joined: 01/09/25 Posts: 11 Post Likes: +7
Aircraft: Sierra
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Hello everyone! I am a pilot, but I have also lapsed for a long time. I spent the last 6 years in Europe but am back in the US and getting current again (16 years off). I have dreamed about a Beech since I was a kid and am now in a position where I (might?) be ready to start looking for real, which brought me here!
Hopefully, I will be a good contributor here and not ask too many dumb questions! Looking forward to the conversations.
All the Best Sean Babbitt Albuquerque, NM
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Post subject: Re: Hello from Albuquerque Posted: 15 Jan 2025, 08:23 |
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Joined: 01/09/25 Posts: 11 Post Likes: +7
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Username Protected wrote: Welcome to BT.
Got my PPL at ABQ in a Cherokee 140 back in 1967. Oh wow, did you just fly in the winter and at night so the 140 could climb at the density altitude of ABQ??! I learned in a Traumahawk but in Virgina where the air is nice and thick.
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Post subject: Re: Hello from Albuquerque Posted: 15 Jan 2025, 11:03 |
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Joined: 12/18/07 Posts: 20847 Post Likes: +9608 Location: W Michigan
Aircraft: Ex PA22, P28R, V35B
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Username Protected wrote: Welcome to BT.
Got my PPL at ABQ in a Cherokee 140 back in 1967. Oh wow, did you just fly in the winter and at night so the 140 could climb at the density altitude of ABQ??! I learned in a Traumahawk but in Virgina where the air is nice and thick.
August. Home base for the Tripacer I bought later was 6700 MSL.
_________________ Stop Continental Drift.
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Post subject: Re: Hello from Albuquerque Posted: 15 Jan 2025, 23:24 |
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Joined: 04/18/10 Posts: 326 Post Likes: +257
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I also learned to fly in Albuquerque, the old seven bar airport(now Cotton Wood Mall)4000 ft long runway in a Tripacer. Most of the Cherokee 140’s had 150hp. Will admit most of the flights were in the summer, but early in the AM. Most of the high density altitude accidents were transient pilots passing thru town on a cross country who filled up the tanks, at gross weight, departing at noon, thinking 4000ft was plenty of runway.
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