Original Posted By: "Christian Bobka"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot LetterPieters,Yesterday I sent out an E mail pleading for all to get out your pen and pencil and write your congress-people about help with the Sport Pilot issue. I am a poor letter writer, Englishes were my poorest grades at LSU, what else could one expect from a Cajun decendant. Anyway I'm enclosing, as an example, my letter to my Senators. I tried to emphasize that this will cost nothing but will effect so many. I hope this may help you decide to get those letters going to Washington. If you help me get this through I promise to throw the biggest Gumbo, MeatBall, BarbeCue PietenpolFlyin Fais-Do-Do ever dreamed.Corky in La licking stamps"The Honorable John Breaux,Sir,This is my first letter ever to a public official. Knowing your time is short I will try to be as brief as possible with my plight but thorough enough that you will fully understand. I am asking your support for the Sport Pilot issue now being delayed by the FAA office staffs. In brief, the Sport Pilot issue would allow a Sport Pilot category, somewhere between a Cub pilot and a ultralight pilot, to fly with a self certified medical. The aircrafts that would be flyable are very slow and very light and I might add, very safe.There are many thousand pilots like me who are advanced in age with the usual impairments associated who are turned down by the FAA medical people without benefit of other medical opinions. The cost of further tests to satisfy FAA is considered a joke and cost prohibitive.I have been a Commercial Pilot since 1951, Have near 4000 hours of flying time ALL in small Single Engine Land airplanes. My military flying was during the Korean War in Cessna, DeHaviland and Ryan aircraft with the U S Army.I have recently completed building my own airplane, a Pietenpol Air Camper, it has been inspected and is considered airworthy by the FAA but all I can do is sit and wait for Washington to act.Let me point out that what I am asking of you will not cost our government one cent. It is a ruling which will boost aviation in our country, put many pilots back in the air for the pure pleasure of flying. I can't think of any effort on your part which would bring so much happiness to so many for no monetary expense.Thank you for your courtesy in reading this and I promise you I'll see you at the polling place.Respectfully,Claude M Corbett625 Pierremont RoadShreveport, La 71106P S I had the pleasure of meeting you and your lovely wife some years back when you were a U S Representative at a Chamber Of Commerce meeting in Abbeville."________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot Letter
RE: Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot Letter
Original Posted By: Isablcorky(at)aol.com
Peiters,Got a question.Working on my control system.How far, degrees wise, should you be able to push the stick for downelevator? It seems like mine will not go far before it hits the back of thepassenger seat.Skip________________________________________________________________________________
Peiters,Got a question.Working on my control system.How far, degrees wise, should you be able to push the stick for downelevator? It seems like mine will not go far before it hits the back of thepassenger seat.Skip________________________________________________________________________________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot Letter
Original Posted By: "walter evans"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot LetterSkip,Good to hear from you and here is my 10 sense. The way I governed mine this being a tail dragger was to sit in the seat, pull the stick back and almost bury it in your belly as if you were just stalling and on or near the ground. Record this position as fundamental and let the forward fall as dictated by the elevators. I used the arm with the slot ala Mr Rowney to limit my travel but you need at least 28 degrees up elevator to keep that tail wheel down with pressure. So, set the back position of the stick, adjust up elevator to that and the rest should fall in place if the geometry of your horns are per plans.Now, I will add that of all the apparatus in this machine I'm less pleased with the elevator control system than anything else. IF I had it to do over I would build it with torque tubes. It's smoother, quieter and a much more positive feel. But it's too late for me to change and maybe I'll make that change when I build my Piet-B-Duece.Keep in touchCorky in La waiting for another blow________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Sport Pilot LetterSkip,Good to hear from you and here is my 10 sense. The way I governed mine this being a tail dragger was to sit in the seat, pull the stick back and almost bury it in your belly as if you were just stalling and on or near the ground. Record this position as fundamental and let the forward fall as dictated by the elevators. I used the arm with the slot ala Mr Rowney to limit my travel but you need at least 28 degrees up elevator to keep that tail wheel down with pressure. So, set the back position of the stick, adjust up elevator to that and the rest should fall in place if the geometry of your horns are per plans.Now, I will add that of all the apparatus in this machine I'm less pleased with the elevator control system than anything else. IF I had it to do over I would build it with torque tubes. It's smoother, quieter and a much more positive feel. But it's too late for me to change and maybe I'll make that change when I build my Piet-B-Duece.Keep in touchCorky in La waiting for another blow________________________________________________________________________________