On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 05:16:52 GMT, Ben Sego
wrote:

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

On a side note to your side note .I got a ruling from the court in my favor and
the ruling was considered final . However conn's attorny re filed his appeal due
to a technicality. So I have to wait a bit longer for the final final ruling.
But my attorny says it's basicly a paper work correction that won't affect the
ruling.

Congrats, and good riddance. (Well, I hope it's for good this time.)


Some guy in Euless TX will probably not be happy
with the ruling some of the ducks. :-)

He'll probably want you to scan it and post it, provide fingerprints and
a retinal scan. And he'll complain about your credibility. But I'm
just guessing here.

B.S.


Hey Ben....I put an electric prerotator on my gyroscope and it's the
best thing since sliced bread. I can even take that thing out by
myself now and get it into autorotation. Thanks for all of your help
in finding the right one a year ago. That, along with the battery
that Jerry Springer told me about did the trick. I fly the **** out
of it now. I just spent a week down in San Diego at the Four Season's
Hotel in Carlsbad. I wish I would have known where you were, I'd have
tried to hook up with you. All we did instead was go to the Zoo, the
Animal park, a couple parties and shop over on Coronado Island.

Unrelated Ranting to Follow

The flight back home today was wonderful. I filed IFR out of Carlsbad
in the P-210, went up to FL 170 and got 226 knots on the GPS at one
point. We were home in Vegas an hour later. I sometimes can't
believe that airplane. With all the construction going on down I-15,
we'd still be out there flogging our way back home right now ir we'd
been dumb enough to try and drive a car on that trip. I blasted off
out of Carlsbad, turned on the flight director and the autopilot then
went to work navigating through the clouds and manging the engine
temps, power, fuel flow, etc. Next thing I knew, I was over Palm
Springs at FL 170, leveling so we could spend 20 minutes cruising
before we started the let down.

That damn airplane is like a magic carpet, a private airliner. I was
pressurized to about 5000 feet in the cabin at max differential. We
even had time to put on some Xmas music (about 15 minutes). It's
like, 20 minutes to climb, 20 minutes to cruise, and then 20 minutes
to blow the cobwebs out on the descent. At 240 knots on the descent,
we were doing 4 miles a minute. We popped out of the clouds way up
there at about 8000 then I actually had to deploy the speed brakes in
order to slow down to the maximum landing gear extension speed.

I fly that airplane all the time, but even after 30 years of flying
P-210's and T-210's, I'm still amazed by them. I guess if I were
flying a Malibu or something cool like that, it would be like flying a
dream ship too. Even after all this time, I'm still goofy after a
flgiht like that. I'm sitting here in front of my computer now and
not able to quite connect back up with the surface of the world. My
mind is still up there somehow because of the extreme nature of the
experience. It's hard to explain. I figured though, that after 5000
hours of PIC and 40 years of flying I'd somehow get used to it. I
never have. It's always amazing to me. Instrument flying in
particular. I mean, here I was there at Oceanside at noon today under
a complete overcast and I didn't give it a second thought that I was
going to fly home in an hour or so, independent of the clouds by
watching needles move on a dashboard like a computer game. In fact
it's so easy to do, the autopilot did it for me. I didn't want to be
bothered by the mechanical manipulation of the wheel and pedals. I
let the computer fly it. It's better than me.

end of rant

Happy skies to all you guys and Merry Xmas.

BWB