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On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 7:30:12 AM UTC-6, Michael Opitz wrote:
At 05:03 05 January 2018, Steve Leonard wrote: On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 10:24:42 PM UTC-6, Retting wrote: Hey, no fair.....what about us fat people? R Grease you up and we can shove you in! :-) Steve Leonard Our family had a Ka.6CR-PE, and a Ka.6E between 1968 and 1975. In order to fit in, I had to have a special instrument panel that had a pedestal with high leg cut-outs, along with taking the seat back out and having a chute specially packed in a triangular shape to sit on top of the gear well. With those mods, I just barely fit in. Steve's idea may be great for folks that are under 6' tall and can fit into the standard Ka.6 cockpit, but I don't think that I'd be able to swap gliders around like he proposes unless all of those gliders had panels with extra high leg cut outs..... The chute could obviously move from glider to glider. RO I owned your father's Ka.6CR-PE N-5313 I did my first 300km FAI triangle in it. Lovely glider. I really enjoyed looking at the log books. In fact, the guy who signed me off for my glider rating was signed off by your Dad. |
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At 00:44 07 January 2018, C2 wrote:
On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 7:30:12 AM UTC-6, Michael Opitz wrote: At 05:03 05 January 2018, Steve Leonard wrote: On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 10:24:42 PM UTC-6, Retting wrote: Hey, no fair.....what about us fat people? R Grease you up and we can shove you in! :-) Steve Leonard Our family had a Ka.6CR-PE, and a Ka.6E between 1968 and 1975. In order to fit in, I had to have a special instrument panel that had a pedestal with high leg cut-outs, along with taking the seat back out and having a chute specially packed in a triangular shape to sit on top of the gear well. With those mods, I just barely fit in. Steve's idea may be great for folks that are under 6' tall and can fit into the standard Ka.6 cockpit, but I don't think that I'd be able to swap gliders around like he proposes unless all of those gliders had panels with extra high leg cut outs..... The chute could obviously move from glider to glider. RO I owned your father's Ka.6CR-PE N-5313 I did my first 300km FAI triangle in it. Lovely glider. I really enjoyed looking at the log books. In fact, the guy who signed me off for my glider rating was signed off by your Dad. Dad brought N5313 in from Germany. It had been owned by an aerobatic pilot who also had a Lo-100. We had that glider for 2 years in 1967 and 1968. I was able to make my Gold distance / Diamond Goal with it on an O&R from Wurtsboro in July of 1968. Until just a year or so ago, we thought that it had been totaled by Dick Treadwell back in the early 1970's. We didn't realize that it had been rebuilt down in FL after the wreck, and then sold on to the mid-west.... We really liked the glider, but when Dad's old adjutant in Germany decided to upgrade from his Ka.6E to a Libelle, Dad decided to grab the E and sell the CR. RO |
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wrote on 1/5/2018 2:02 PM:
Repairbot Repairoid Repairdiot Maintenance technician? -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) - "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation" https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1 - "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf |
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On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 7:59:36 PM UTC-8, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Maintenance technician? We're looking for the name of a role, and not a description of it. Furthermore, it is a very limited role, specific to a single aircraft. The three-syllable name "repairman" that has been with that role for half a century seems pretty close, and I think that "repairer" pretty much addresses the reasonable concerns without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. --Bob K. |
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