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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 09:54 |
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Joined: 12/01/13 Posts: 825 Post Likes: +821 Location: Airdrie, AB
Aircraft: Cessna A185F
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 11:24 |
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Joined: 12/29/12 Posts: 656 Post Likes: +256
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Username Protected wrote: Attachment: DBEAA990-1B56-4259-8E41-9AEEB1A37986.jpeg Attachment: AC711264-691C-4E40-9B21-50A56CF9E8AC.jpeg Done! Very nice!! How are you enjoying the MT prop? Rgs, Patrick
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 22:39 |
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Joined: 12/29/12 Posts: 656 Post Likes: +256
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Username Protected wrote: Flying back from West Virginia last weekend. Anyway you cut it, this is one fast 180.
Jg Nice!!! Fast even by 185 standards. Keep enjoying & posting. Rgs Patrick
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 03 Jun 2021, 01:31 |
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Joined: 04/22/10 Posts: 1201 Post Likes: +2092 Location: Port Vila and sometimes Brisbane
Aircraft: A36 Bonanza
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Not mine but one I used to fly in PNG over 30 years ago. MFU had a checkered ride after MAF sold it in the mid 80s to Simbu Aviation (my first job) but it was ground looped during the endorsement of Simbu Aviations first pilot (several years before my time). Simbu then replaced it with P2-BAF ex Bougair which I flew - the pilot was sent on his way. MFU was eventually sold to Brian Bromley for his hunting/fishing lodge at Bensbach in the Western Province right near the border of Iran Jaya and MAF fixed it all up for him. Occasionally I flew it for Brian on my days off from Talair resupplying the lodge and then he found a LAME who wanted to build hours towards gaining employment as a pilot who would maintain it for him 'free'. He wasn't much of a pilot and soon flipped it upside down off the end of a strip in the Western Province about 31 years ago when he landed long/fast - at least he went off the end in a straight line So MFU was rescued and loaded into a container where it stayed for years. I flew flights for Brian in my own 185 on days off for a while but eventually the lodge sort of faded away for various reasons - just one being the locals speared Brian (non fatally) and he lost interest in his life's work. So about 20 years ago it ended up moved to Australia in a container and at some point ended up in the possession of Fred. Fred has just finished a 4 year restoration and MFU has taken to the skies again in the last few days. Attachment: 8E4BD9CE-147D-43B8-A46A-D46214CC2729.jpeg Attachment: 1A02A3F6-2BD3-485B-BC72-545FCF4B8C6A.jpeg Attachment: 75392025-8A85-4957-A5C9-C92B9DB38454.jpeg Attachment: 2A21D98E-6851-4A63-839C-9E458B68428D.jpeg
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 03 Jun 2021, 01:43 |
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Joined: 02/04/18 Posts: 152 Post Likes: +32
Aircraft: C180
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Any idea what it's rego is here in NZ? We got ours ex Australia , and it had been ground looped , although I think that happened in Oz.(after reading your post again noticed it was a 56, so not ours)
Rich
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 03 Jun 2021, 01:56 |
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Joined: 04/22/10 Posts: 1201 Post Likes: +2092 Location: Port Vila and sometimes Brisbane
Aircraft: A36 Bonanza
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ZK-TSM now - might have been a '57 memory fades.
Was G-BTSM when I flew it in the UK and I can't think off the top of my head what the rego was in PNG. Maybe P2-DEQ. Had been owned by the Chief Vet of the PNG DPI then he sold it to another mate Col but asked to take it around the Western Province one last time and came to grief at Arufi.
WE flew out there and dismantled her and loaded her on a barge (strip was on a river). Eventually got it back to Port Moresby on a coastal freighter and as Col was only a few years away from retiring he decided to ship it home to UK and have her restored there. Over a decade later - actually closer to 15 years -when I was flying 767s/777s based in Asia and doing lots of LHR trips we caught up and Col was already to ill to fly it alone but not ready to sell her yet. When ever I was in London we'd catch up and fly together somewhere - he'd be left seat one way and me the other. I had held training approvals for 180/185 in PNG so was quite comfy in the RHS keeping Col safe - and more importantly his wife was happy with that arrangement. Col had type 2 diabetes and huge problems in his legs. Eventually reality dawned and he sold it to a farmer on the South Island.
Col passed late last year. RIP old mate.
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 03 Jun 2021, 03:01 |
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Joined: 02/04/18 Posts: 152 Post Likes: +32
Aircraft: C180
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It's now based in the South island here
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 04 Jun 2021, 18:34 |
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Joined: 10/19/08 Posts: 1493 Post Likes: +1779 Location: Far West Texas
Aircraft: B58, C180, GL 2T1A-2
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Here are two old friends. The DC-6 was competition to our DC-3 in the freight dog days. Sadly, the DC-6 was later scrapped, but I was able to purloin the map light from the pilot's area, and it now illuminates the panel in my 180. It has the righteous incandescent light bulb it came with. Screw LED's; who knows how many oceans and continents it has crossed, helping its crew navigate by stars and paper charts, the passengers safe in their berths...
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 04 Jun 2021, 21:38 |
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Joined: 12/01/13 Posts: 825 Post Likes: +821 Location: Airdrie, AB
Aircraft: Cessna A185F
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Username Protected wrote: Attachment: DBEAA990-1B56-4259-8E41-9AEEB1A37986.jpeg Attachment: AC711264-691C-4E40-9B21-50A56CF9E8AC.jpeg Done! Very nice!! How are you enjoying the MT prop? Rgs, Patrick
MT prop is good. I fly 23” x 2300 RPM on 15.5-16 GPH. IO-550. 8.50 x 6 tires and she still trues at 145 kt in the 4500-7000’ range. 125 on amphibs.
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 23:17 |
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Joined: 12/29/12 Posts: 656 Post Likes: +256
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Attachment: B0B26736-94C8-4498-B8CA-1D929303A44C.png I hope this trend continues!!
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 16:40 |
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Joined: 01/06/09 Posts: 446 Post Likes: +146
Aircraft: A185F
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Stuart, I just did my inspection, any A&P should be able to do it. The Cessna SB write up makes it easy to understand. I wouldn’t travel to get it done. If you need a copy let me know.
Andy A&P IA
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Post subject: Re: Flying the Skywagon Posted: 20 Aug 2021, 16:51 |
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Joined: 05/11/10 Posts: 12405 Post Likes: +11416 Location: Indiana
Aircraft: Cessna 185, RV-7
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Username Protected wrote: Stuart, I just did my inspection, any A&P should be able to do it. The Cessna SB write up makes it easy to understand. I wouldn’t travel to get it done. If you need a copy let me know.
Andy A&P IA Did you pull the tail off, etc? Would you like to do mine???
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