What was he/she doing? No radio,

Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,
there was an aircraft on the runway it looked like super cub or something
with big tires practicing either high-speed taxiing on the runway or
simulated engine outs and bouncing? I turned on my scanner to find out what
he was doing but there was no radio comm's. I sat in the car and watched
about 10 of these high speed runs he/she seemed to only get the main about
10-50' off the ground hold for a bit then idle to full stop at the end of
the runway then he would taxi back to 08 and do it again. 11th or 12 time
he/she departed and was gone.

Any logic or ideas what he/she was doing this for??? was a dam nice looking
& sounding aircraft you could here the changes in his/her CS prop during
his/her run-up each time he did his runs down the runway and sounded like it
had a large engine.

I am thinking maby he/she was doing some aircraft testing but at 1 Am in the
morning??

heh, a non-CS prop rated thief trying to figure out how to steal the
plane?

Wheel landing practice? My tail wheel instructor had me do that. We'd
make a wheel landing and then balance forward stick and enough power to keep
the tail up while increasing speed and holding the mains on the ground, then
lift off and immediately make another wheel landing until we ran out of
runway, then back taxi and do it again. Then we'd switch to the crosswind
runway and do it on one wheel. We never got 50' off the ground though, nor
did we do it at 1am!
Jim

Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Tony


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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

"tony roberts" wrote in message news:nospam-56724D.18550231122004@shawnews...
Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Tony

What do you mean by that, I've never heard of it...

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas

In a previous article, tony roberts said:
Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Maybe he's got self-serve pumps?

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Yes, but in the dark?
I guess you could use the landing light beam to judge attitude better...

Jim Burns wrote:
Wheel landing practice? My tail wheel instructor had me do that. We'd
make a wheel landing and then balance forward stick and enough power to keep
the tail up while increasing speed and holding the mains on the ground, then
lift off and immediately make another wheel landing until we ran out of
runway, then back taxi and do it again. Then we'd switch to the crosswind
runway and do it on one wheel. We never got 50' off the ground though, nor
did we do it at 1am!
Jim

Our gas shuts down from 2200 hrs until 0600 hrs.
If we want gas during those hours we have to pay a premium for the
operator of the fuel truck to drive out to the airport to pump the gas.
Many airports in BC operate the same way.

I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.

Tony

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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article ,
"John Clonts" wrote:

"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-56724D.18550231122004@shawnews...
Went out to the airport this morning about 1:00 am to top off my tanks,

1:00 am - as in one hour after midnight?
We have to pay a callout fee after 10:00 p.m.

Tony

What do you mean by that, I've never heard of it...

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas




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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-055A0E.22142731122004@shawnews...
Our gas shuts down from 2200 hrs until 0600 hrs.
If we want gas during those hours we have to pay a premium for the
operator of the fuel truck to drive out to the airport to pump the gas.
Many airports in BC operate the same way.

I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.

Tony


We have 24 hour self serve fuel many airports in the USA have self serve
fuel.

NW_PILOT wrote:
"tony roberts" wrote...

I was puzzled, and still am, as to why anyone would go to the airport
at 0100 hrs to top up their tanks.

We have 24 hour self serve fuel many airports in the USA have self serve
fuel.

Especially if your doing it from 5 gallon cans... ;-)