On 12/14/04 8:16 PM, in article XfMvd.4651$Z%1.9@trnddc03, "Casey Wilson"
wrote:

Here's the embarrassing part. The noise? When I'd shut the door, I'd
left the tail end of the seat belt strap hanging outside-just about two-,
maybe three-inches of it. It was apparent, because the door was wedged shut
and required a bit of shoulder pressure to open.
That didn't stop me from going over the airplane with a preflight as
extensive as I'd do knowing that someone else had flown it.
Thirty minutes later, with a rehydrated mouth and the puckers
smoothed out of the other orifice, I took off again. As soon and the plane
was off the ground, I dropped the nose and let it accelerate flying just a
few feet off the surface, imminently ready to cut power and land if the
noise came back.
The flight home was great. I got to watch Torch-27 shoot an ILS
approach into Palmdale. Torch-27 is an F-117. I learned enough about the GPS
MAP 196 to be confident of using it cross-country.
...and I added one tiny detail to the Before Taxi checklist.


I had the same thing happen to me on one of my x-c's during training. It
sounded like it was overhead and I thought I had left the gas cap loose.
Lesson learned.
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