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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item  Posted: 06 Dec 2012, 14:05 |
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Username Protected wrote: Nope - just costs. Don't get me wrong, it'd be the trip of a lifetime - I just can't check out for a week or two. Save your money for when you're flying that thing! I would take a week off and pay for the gas..  Might even tie a camera to the thing and send you pictures along the way!
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 06 Dec 2012, 17:06 |
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Username Protected wrote: It'll be mildly upsetting when the traffic on LA freeways is zooming by me, then it will all be better when I bee-line accross mountains to my destination  how true it is but you will love the fuel burn of 3.5 gph. gary
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 06 Dec 2012, 18:56 |
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Username Protected wrote: It'll be mildly upsetting when the traffic on LA freeways is zooming by me, then it will all be better when I bee-line accross mountains to my destination how true it is but you will love the fuel burn of 3.5 gph. gary
Yes flying for no cost will rock 
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 06 Dec 2012, 18:57 |
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Username Protected wrote: Nope - just costs. Don't get me wrong, it'd be the trip of a lifetime - I just can't check out for a week or two. Save your money for when you're flying that thing! I would take a week off and pay for the gas.. Might even tie a camera to the thing and send you pictures along the way!
No time sadly - big month for us as lots of folks are buying planes before the year closes.
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 06 Dec 2012, 19:00 |
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Username Protected wrote:
No time sadly - big month for us as lots of folks are buying planes before the year closes.
You know, somehow, I just don't feel that sorry for you...
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 07 Dec 2012, 00:51 |
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My first Cub I bought in Virginia then flew it home to Oklahoma.
By chance caught a weather pattern that gave my just a x-wind.. not head nor tail wind.
I made my flight plan every 120 miles or so.,..(12 gals fuel). No-go groundspeed was 55 mph.
SO if cars were was passing me... that be the tip I need to start thinking about Plan B.
3 days, 18 flight hours, 22 airports.
Magnficent trip! More for the people I met and the landscape below me.
I just granted myself the trip would take sometime.. so I leaned back and didn't think about it.
Biggest event? two actually.. seeing a lake dam in the Appalachians that wasn't on my route...
That told me my compass wasn't accurate.... (Who knows... if not for the dam,.., I'd be down in the woods and still undiscovered!)
The 2nd was crossing the Mississippi River, then dodging all the Arkasnas rice ag-dusters at low altitude.
. Shook my plane and I guess a spot of oil hit the exhaust..
Cockpit was full of smoke, then gone in ten seconds!
scared the %#$@ out of me!
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Post subject: Re: Piper J3 Cub - ticking off a bucket list item Posted: 07 Dec 2012, 12:44 |
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Username Protected wrote: My first Cub I bought in Virginia then flew it home to Oklahoma.
By chance caught a weather pattern that gave my just a x-wind.. not head nor tail wind.
I made my flight plan every 120 miles or so.,..(12 gals fuel). No-go groundspeed was 55 mph.
SO if cars were was passing me... that be the tip I need to start thinking about Plan B.
3 days, 18 flight hours, 22 airports.
Magnficent trip! More for the people I met and the landscape below me.
I just granted myself the trip would take sometime.. so I leaned back and didn't think about it.
Biggest event? two actually.. seeing a lake dam in the Appalachians that wasn't on my route...
That told me my compass wasn't accurate.... (Who knows... if not for the dam,.., I'd be down in the woods and still undiscovered!)
The 2nd was crossing the Mississippi River, then dodging all the Arkasnas rice ag-dusters at low altitude.
. Shook my plane and I guess a spot of oil hit the exhaust..
Cockpit was full of smoke, then gone in ten seconds!
scared the %#$@ out of me! I look forward to my own adventures.
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