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Offline Rooster Cruiser

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Cleared for immediate takeoff
« on: June 23, 2009, 02:39:42 PM »
Maybe the boys holding short want to see how badly Chuck mucks up the landing!  Hehe.   >:D

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Offline TheSoccerMom

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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2009, 04:31:13 PM »
heyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

We get these "immediate takeoff" clearances all the time here.... 
but I never stopped to think that maybe CHUCK was the guy on final!!!!!!!!!   EEEEK!!!!!!!!!    ::eek::

 ::unbelieveable::

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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2009, 07:06:06 AM »
Thing is....is Chuck going to log all those "landings"  :P
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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2009, 05:11:36 PM »
I rather like the guest aircraft this week  ;)

And they are doubtless right  be cautious!  ;D
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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2009, 04:36:27 AM »
Yeah, I'd be cautious too.

One question regarding the Tomahawk someone here might be able to answer: how does its spin characteristics compare to the Diamond C1?
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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2009, 06:39:21 PM »
Quote from: Louis on July 06, 2009, 04:36:27 AM
One question regarding the Tomahawk someone here might be able to answer: how does its spin characteristics compare to the Diamond C1?

Not flown a Diamond.  The tommyhawk spins like a top but seemed perfectly predictable and reliable in recovery and defiant of the its dramatic reputation on the few occasions I've spun one.
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Offline Mike

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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2009, 10:01:36 PM »
yeah, this was supposed to be a Tommyhawk.
We try to mix it up every now and then....

My bro is getting quite good at drawing all kinds of models....
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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2009, 06:58:11 PM »
Don't worry I recognized it as such :) The "spinniest" airplane I've flown so far is the C1 and I wanted to compare it to the Tomahawk's reputation.

For the record, the C1 spins very well, and requires proper pilot inputs to recover. And recovery is not instant either.
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Re: Cleared for immediate takeoff
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2009, 05:06:01 PM »
Quote from: Louis on July 07, 2009, 06:58:11 PM
Don't worry I recognized it as such :) The "spinniest" airplane I've flown so far is the C1 and I wanted to compare it to the Tomahawk's reputation.

For the record, the C1 spins very well, and requires proper pilot inputs to recover. And recovery is not instant either.

Yes, "letting go" won't get you out of trouble in the tommy either.  And it obeys the Law of Conservation of Rotational Momentum beautifuly -- speeding up the spin rotation as your lower the nose and shift the CofG...

Personally that last is what I put its reputation down to -- people panicking when the control inputs for recovery initially seemed to have made things worse.

Oh yeah -- and don't look backwards ;-)
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