mrusa

I remember it well. It was 1973 and I was 16. My dad (who was paying) was a firm believer in the saying " Real pilots fly taildraggers!" I had around 11 hours in a Cessna 140. I had spent the last two training hours working on my landings. For those of you that don't fly taildraggers you can land 3 different ways. Wheel landing (2 main wheels first) Tail landing (tail wheel first) and 3 point (All three touch at the same time). Well on this day I showed up only to learn that the FBO's 140 was down for a motor problem and my instructor said we would take the FBO's 150 Aerobat. I wasn't to worried because my dad owned a Piper Comanche 250 that i had flown and landed a few times. So off went and did 3 or 4 laps of the pattern. I had no idea he planned on soloing me, But on the last trip around around the pattern he told me to let the tower know this would be a full stop. As I pulled off the runway and started back to the FBO he told me to stop, jumped out and and yelled " 3 touch and goes and come back and get me" I did that first take off and noticed right away that 150 was like a rocket! On downwind it really hit me that I was alone and this was way too cool. I didn't think I would ever get that silly grin off my face. (it disappeared about a minute later) I set up for the landing and the tower called my traffic ( I was #2) And I remember thinking I'm going to show him I'm the best student he ever had. ( BIG BIG mistake..LOL) I set it up and got down to around 5 feet and set up to flair and made the most beautiful TAIL WHEEL landing ever made! The sound that tie down ring made when it hit the runway was unreal! I thought the airplane had exploded! I got it back on the wheels and made a full stop and started to taxi back to the FBO to see how much of the tail was left on it. I don't think I've ever had the shakes that bad since. I saw my instructor standing next to the taxi way and he was glaring at me and I thought gezzz did i ever fail, I stopped next to him he opened the door and said "learn anything?" and then he started laughing and laughed until he had tears in his eyes. Then he took a quick look at the tail and said you ok? I said ya I was a little shook but ok. Then he said give me 2 more but without all the noise this time. I was still shook up but I managed to squeeze out 2 more landings. It really is a day I will never forget. :blush: :blush: :blush:

I'm using FS9 on a windows Vista system. everything was working fine until I downloaded and installed the Ifly 747-400 and service pack3. after the install I lost all the sounds from FS. I don't even have the clicking sound while selecting menu items on the start up page.(weather, airports, time of day ect.) All other sounds on my computer are fine. I uninstalled the Ifly plane and the sounds didn't come back. Has anybody had this happen before? Any ideas how to fix this short of reinstalling FS. (I have over 200 aircraft and would hate to have to reinstall them all). I have been using this set up over 3 years now with very few problems. I looked through a bunch of this forum for clues but didn't find anything. If this has already been covered somewhere please point me to the thread.Any help you can give would be great, and thank you in advance.......