Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Kip & Beth Gardner
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Ramblin's?????????????????????????Pieters,On the subjects of aircraft and pilot restrictions I've a few little questions where one or some of you might like to help, suggest, advise or even warn me.I'm before covering presently and I thought maybe I might go ahead and string the wires in the wings in case I or the next owner might want to light it up and do a little moonlighting. Now since the Piet will fall under the new light plane category will it be restricted to day VFR only? Will it be restricted to continental US only ( lower 48) ?If the Piet owner is qualified with a better than Private ticket, which governs, the pilot or the Piet? These questions have bothered me. Personally I have failed to get my physical as yet and and hoping for the sport pilot rule to pass so I may use my drivers' license but if I were ever to convince this medical quack who refuses me my ticket I do have a ticket to fly away whereever I like. Don't quite know how to plan to use all this fuel.Corky in La just looking at a naked Piet and dreaming________________________________________________________________________________Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:09:17 -0500

Original Posted By: "Kip & Beth Gardner"
Kip and Corky, As I understand it a Piet could be licensed as Ametuer builtExperimental and if the Sport Pilot thing goes it could also be registeredas an Experimental Light Sport Aircraft or something like that. A licensedSport Pilot could fly either one. A private pilot could fly either one atnight if it were properly equipped. The best thing in my opinion would be toregister it as Ametuer Built Experimental because you could get theRepairmans Certificate for the plane. Whereas if it were registered as anExperimental Light Sport Aircraft you would have to take classes to be ableto work on it, I doubt if there will ever be Pietenpol repair classes. Ifyou are not actually going to put in lights now just run a piece of rib lacecord through whatever you plan on running your wires through and later youcan pull the wire in if you decide to put in lights. That way you will nothave to have the weight of wires that you are not using. Kip, I have foundout that Vertex makes a magneto that will work on a Corvair engine. That wayyou would not have to have an electrical system if you did not want one. Ido not know how much the magneto weighs but it may be less than analternator and battery.Wayne McIntosh----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: Christian Bobka
I bought a set of these EAA books from Chris Bobka. They are well worth theprice, and should be part of anyones aviation Library.Doug B.----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: "Gary McNeel, Jr."
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Ramblin's?????????????????????????Fisherman,Why the trouble of shiping NX41CC to Belise? Why couldn't I just fly down (Commercial) get a Bealize physical and license and fly back to the U S ?Corky in La trying to get around the Oak City regs.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:30:18 -0600

Original Posted By: "Gene Rambo"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Ramblin's?????????????????????????Pieters, I nominate the Fisherman to be the Minister of Tourism for Belize. I'm looking for that ole cardboard suitcase to start packing right now.Corky in La dreaming about sipping mint julips under a palm tree on a secluded beach in Belize with no beauro interference.________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
I went to Belize once to deliver some catapillar engine parts in a Queenair.We took a three hundred pound mechanic with us from Midland Texas. Theparts were for a pump engine at a shrimp farm. The shrimp need new waterpumped in from the ocean so when a pump goes down, you need the parts fast.Landed at the main Belize airport. Antiaircraft missles from the Britishmilitary unit there tracked us right on down final. We used a customsbroker to get the stuff into the country and then took off for a ruralstrip. When we got there, there was a four hundred pound guy, solid muscle,in bare feet, to unload the stuff. When he came on board, he rummagedthrough all the seats we had to scrounge anything new to read. He was boredout of his scull out there in the middle of nowhere. We had cylinder headsthat must have weighed about 350 lbs apiece and this guy picked them up andwalked right off the plane like they were a carton of eggs. I thought thecable for the door/airstairs was going to stretch right down to the ground.Not wasting time because we wanted to make it to mexico by sundown, weheaded back up to the big belize airport and hoped to get fuel. The problemwas that there was only one 100LL fuel truck in the country and it wasbroken and it was back in the fuel farm. Since the truck could not come tous and we could not taxi through the fuel farm, we decided to use a bigaluminum tub and fill it with fuel from the fuel truck sump valve, thenbring it over to the plane and then siphon it into the tanks. We needed ahundred gallons. It took a long time. There was also a law there that saidthat only airport fuel trucks were allowed to fuel airplanes (anti drugsmuggling rule) and here we were right beneath the goons in the controltower breaking the law. Finally, a guy came over with the JET A truck andwe faked fueling by holding the JET A nozzle by the fuel port, sheilded theview from the tower with our bodies, and siphoned the 100 gallons.then we took off for some city just up the coast in Mexico as the sun set.A neat trip.Chris Bobka-----Original Message-----