January 4, 20206 yr 4 hours ago, birdguy said: A near disaster fuel flow problem after takeoff at KIJD (also in a Warrior at night) which I was able to rectify: before takeoff I had reached down to my left to close the air vent and unbeknownst to me, I moved the fuel lever to a neutral 'between tanks' position. I can still feel the panic when I recall this one...my steps: 1) Keep flying the aircraft 2) turn back to the airport 3) grab the flashlight and start checklist (in my head) 3) spotted the problem! 4) move the lever to full right! 5) carry on towards home, keep breathing. Noel 6) change underwear!
January 4, 20206 yr Got almost 4000 books on my Kindle, because I ran out of shelf space. LOL. Reading is a life long addiction; acquired at 5 years of age. Look lower there are books there too, Avidean. Aw shucks, Ron ! Sue Edited January 4, 20206 yr by Penzoil3
January 5, 20206 yr Author I'm not in your class Sue. I've got 100 or so books stored on my Nook. I like to read them over and over...especially Michener and Clavell and McMurtry. Right now I'm on my third reading of The Source (Michener) and second reading of The Berrybender Narrative (McMurtry). Every time I re-read a book I get something new out of it. When my Mom came to America from Belgium right after World War 1 she taught herself English by working crossword puzzles. When I was just a wee wee tot she used to make simple ones for me to solve. I could read before I entered the first grade. I grew up in a house full of books. My father used to slip me books and tell me not to let my Mom know I was reading them like Mark Twain's Letters From The Earth and Antole' France's Penguin Island since Mom was a devout Catholic and those books were...shall we say, unreligious. I spend a lot of time on my simulator but I think I spend more time reading. As you said, Sue, reading is an addiction. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
January 7, 20206 yr This question was asked on Orbyx about 3 months ago I haven't counted the number this time - but the answer of over 80 s was 7 - with the eldest - a young 91 Personally - I am 85 but slowing down - and recently noticed the runways were wriggling a bit on final My eye specialist today told me I might make another 4 years before the white stick - if I keep having injections in my eyes. Sheesh - after spending big this year on Orbyx and new A/c and a comp upgrade as well. Heres one who have stopped thinking MS2020😉
January 7, 20206 yr Author I'm in that club too JT. A year ago I had cataract surgery. I have glaucoma in my left eye and have lost the peripheral vision to the right in that eye. Of course the right eye covers for that so driving is no problem. There's the hearing issue too. No way I could fly in controlled airspace and understand what the controllers are saying with their rapid speech instructions. MS2020 is not in my future either. And while I reluctantly returned to P3Dv4 after dumping it several times I keep hearing the siren call of FSX or maybe P3Dv3. I've gotten along with those better than I get along with V4. I have an issue right now with MilViz and their PC-6 installation. It installs OK but when I try to run it, it tells me my activation is invalid or has expired. MilViz is trying to fix it for me. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
January 7, 20206 yr On 1/4/2020 at 9:37 AM, Penzoil3 said: Got almost 4000 books on my Kindle, because I ran out of shelf space. LOL. Reading is a life long addiction; acquired at 5 years of age. Look lower there are books there too, Avidean. Aw shucks, Ron ! Sue It's good to see you're still around Sue.............Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
January 23, 20206 yr I'll be 87 in a few days. I remember the thrill of watching the air traffic at the Omaha airport in the late 40s, didn't know then that I would board a north central dc3 for my hometown of Norfolk on leave from pilot training in the USAF. Great days. Unfortunately, the USAF didn't work out for me., 6 years of getting one bad deal after another, seems as if I was snake-bit. However, 35 years in the FAA kept my hand in and at 69 I was able to join a partnership in a C182 skylane. I and my son had several years of enjoyable travel and companionship in those times. Now, it is just flight simming that keeps me going. Hello to all you other old farts out there!
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