Pietenpol-List: Flying story

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Original Posted By: "baileys"
Note: The following is fiction. If it was true, it would require violating theFAR's... I would never do that.I don't have an adventure quite like Chuck's to share but I have to share somethingthat I will probably never be lucky enough to do again.Last Sunday morning I had about 4 hours on the Yellow Peril and decided to trya cross country all the way to Georgetown (25 miles!).Takeoff, climbout and cruise at 500 agl were great. It was cool and calm out andI had about 75 miles visibility. I was easily distracted from my piloting workby all the sights below me as I flew over fields, woods and the San Gabrielriver. Beautiful cool blue sky morning. Anyway the first landing on pavementwent great. Of course nobody saw it.The cruise home at 70 mph was going great and I decided to swing over to Hutto,Texas and fly from there to Taylor parallel to Highway 79. Its flat, straightand on the south side there are no persons, buildings or structures for about6 miles. All there is along there is a road, some parallel train tracks and cornfields.Coming up on Hutto and starting my left turn to align with the road I noticed someunusual movement on the edge of town. It was a train coming out of Hutto eastboundat high speed. It was the Amtrak passenger train! It was that steel bluewith about a dozen cars and even had some double decker cars.The little devil on my left shoulder immediately pushed the angel off of my rightshoulder (no chutes required - they have wings). The little devil immediatelygave instructions on the dive and turn. The Red Baron could not have timedthat intercept better!I actually had to throttle back almost to idle as I slid into formation with themiddle cars on the train. I eased it down to about 10' agl and brought the throttleback in to about 60 mph. I was pacing the train about 100 yards on hisright hand side. I waved at the people staring out and they started waving back.Cool! I bumped the power up to 70 mph and started pulling up the length ofthe train. We were racing. Cooler! I got up along side the engine and the engineerblew his horn when I waved. By now I am grinning so much I am afraid ofbug stains on my teeth! All too soon we came up on the first buildings outsideof Taylor so I did a climbing turn out away from the captive airshow crowd andflew off into the still cool morning sky.I am still smiling to myself after 2 days.I don't know who those people were or where they got off of the train but theyall know what a Pietenpol is now and they have another travel story to tell.Keep sawing, glueing and sweating on those Piets!Those 4 =BD years of building were fun but they were nothing compared to the desertyou will get at the end!Bob SeibertN23TX with 5.5hours________________________________________________________________________________

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Original Posted By: "Seibert Bob-r18643"
Somebody should write a book "Zen and the Art of Pietenol Flying." 8)Bob B. - Missouri----- Original Message -----

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Original Posted By: "Ken"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Flying storyGreat story...It helps us ground-bound trolls! Thanks....Carl V.________________________________________________________________________________

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Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Bob, Sounds like a good project for you. You probably could do most ofyour research on this list.Kenav8or(at)infionline.netkring(at)mountainviewdogs.comkring(at)irisweb.netwww.irisweb.netwww.mountainviewdogs.com-----Original Message-----

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Original Posted By: "John Ford"

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Original Posted By: "Ken"
Ken,Thanks for the suggestion.Not until I have my own flying Piet!Bob B.----- Original Message -----

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Original Posted By: Jim Ash

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Original Posted By: Jim Ash