I don't know how to flight plan any more

Jim Carter wrote:
C'mon Matt - power mowers are the way to go, but when they break it sure is
nice to still be in shape to use the slingblade if we have to. That was my
whole point.


Our next EAA meeting is going to be on the old pilotage. Then in a
couple of weeks, we will be given a short route to fly that is not over
VORS, etc. Honor system not to turn on the GPS. Time and fuel burn will
be recorded (by refilling at the destination). The destination is lunch
and compare results. We will not know the route until that day. Should
be fun.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

Ross wrote in
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Our next EAA meeting is going to be on the old pilotage. Then in a
couple of weeks, we will be given a short route to fly that is not over
VORS, etc. Honor system not to turn on the GPS. Time and fuel burn will
be recorded (by refilling at the destination). The destination is lunch
and compare results. We will not know the route until that day. Should
be fun.

Unless someone cheats by leaning.

Back in the '70s when the colleges and universities all had flight schools
we used to have an annual competition on just this sort of precision flying
and planning. Leaning for proper speed and power was essential because it
was not unusual for the difference between first and second place to be
measured in seconds deviation from planned time enroute and tenths of
gallons of deviation from planned fuel burn.

We also used to have spot landing contests which were usually won by the
pilot that hit the exact spot the most times out of three or six or how many
ever it took to separate first and second place. Those damn chalk lines were
only about 3" wide - we used a baseline marker to lay them on the runway.
The two lines were 3 or 4 inches apart and the trick was to miss the first
line and hit the second so the target spot was only about 6 or 7 inches
wide.

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Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
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Unless someone cheats by leaning.