Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:05 am
Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Hey folks,Been a good week so far. Have a minute with a puter, so thought I'd mention thatthe Hatz guys' "vintage homebuilts" area is pretty nice. Greg Cardinal put his plane there, sad it was the only one. I'm guilty as charged,I managed to weasel a hangar and have mine in there. My only defense isthat I have not yet put together a tie down and weather kit...Greg, Bob and I all flew into the ultralight strip and that worked great. Nowthat I've done it, should we do it again, I do recommend actually riding withsomeone to see it first... or not going during a microburst! GREAT feeling tohave gotten all the way to Osh though, especially via Brodhead.Jill from Canada flew the regular Ripon arrival and had no problems. We actuallypassed each other while taxiing to our respective places. There were jets,big twins, all sorts of stuff, it was nice to a see a friendly face in the crowdso to speak.Bob and Greg also took off from the ultralight strip, THAT is definitely a goodway to go. They really seem open to helping us there, but going through Gregis probably the way to go. My first time here with a plane, as big and bad as the place is, everyone generallyis VERY helpful. Many things can only be done, by just doing them. Forexample, to taxi from the ultralight strip, to way over where my hangar was, everyonesaid it can't be done, but go ahead and go that way and ask the next guy.As I progressed, it just worked out. Turns out, many people really onlyknow their immediate area, which makes sense. It's WAY too big to know the insand outs of it all. So what seemed impossible, was easy. Bob and Greg are safely home. Last I heard from Jill, she was half way to MN anddoing well. I'll be heading back down when I can find another fly in to hiton the way through somewhere. I'm sure that'll be an adventure. Douwe, what'syour sked? That's all for now, not sure if there's any more Piets or not, haven't seen any.Have run across lots of folks from Brodhead though.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:27:38 -0700
Hey folks,Been a good week so far. Have a minute with a puter, so thought I'd mention thatthe Hatz guys' "vintage homebuilts" area is pretty nice. Greg Cardinal put his plane there, sad it was the only one. I'm guilty as charged,I managed to weasel a hangar and have mine in there. My only defense isthat I have not yet put together a tie down and weather kit...Greg, Bob and I all flew into the ultralight strip and that worked great. Nowthat I've done it, should we do it again, I do recommend actually riding withsomeone to see it first... or not going during a microburst! GREAT feeling tohave gotten all the way to Osh though, especially via Brodhead.Jill from Canada flew the regular Ripon arrival and had no problems. We actuallypassed each other while taxiing to our respective places. There were jets,big twins, all sorts of stuff, it was nice to a see a friendly face in the crowdso to speak.Bob and Greg also took off from the ultralight strip, THAT is definitely a goodway to go. They really seem open to helping us there, but going through Gregis probably the way to go. My first time here with a plane, as big and bad as the place is, everyone generallyis VERY helpful. Many things can only be done, by just doing them. Forexample, to taxi from the ultralight strip, to way over where my hangar was, everyonesaid it can't be done, but go ahead and go that way and ask the next guy.As I progressed, it just worked out. Turns out, many people really onlyknow their immediate area, which makes sense. It's WAY too big to know the insand outs of it all. So what seemed impossible, was easy. Bob and Greg are safely home. Last I heard from Jill, she was half way to MN anddoing well. I'll be heading back down when I can find another fly in to hiton the way through somewhere. I'm sure that'll be an adventure. Douwe, what'syour sked? That's all for now, not sure if there's any more Piets or not, haven't seen any.Have run across lots of folks from Brodhead though.Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:27:38 -0700
> > Throttle linkage. I had a solid round 1/8" rod in there that was going to bea pain to terminate at the carb. And it was a bit heavy. And a pain to route.I found a flexible push pull cable in my "old stuff taken off a salvaged fuse"box and it fit perfectly! I've ended up redoing SO much of this damagedfuse I got from another builder that I probably should have just started off freshand built it from the beginning myself! I've just about done that anyway.Oh well.> > Aileron. FINALLY get to move the controls and the ailerons, rudder and "flippers"MOVE!!! REALLY appreciate all the info in the archives about aileron/elevator/ruddertravel! It's great to do a Matronics search and find quick answersto my dumb questions.> > Sure is nice having a REAL crimping tool to do the cables! Thanks Mike C forthe loan....I just hope I don't forget where it came from!! just kidding.> > Seat belts. Another rework with...FINALLY...what appears to be a good solution!And this is another one I built a looooong time ago and improved severaltimes only to "improve it" back to the way I originally put it in there. I wasconcerned about the rudder cable contacting the seat belt fittings so addedthe tubing....probably unnecessary. > > I won't bore everyone with more but there IS a lot more recent progress. Thisidea of going working on it every day, even if just for 15 minutes....WORKS!Amazing....(even though it has tuned into "hours" a few times...but that's ok!)> > So while everyone else has been barnstorming all over the place...the Markle"People's Piet" (in my shop ONLY because of a lot of VERY caring, generous people,thank you very much!) has recently seen MAJOR leaps forward in the buildprogress!> > Forgive me for the looooong message...sometimes the excitement is just too much!:-)> > Jim in Pryor> > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________