Hangar flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike.
Pilot Kent is calling in from Whiteland,
Indiana.
Hangar flying:
- Aviation fuel is $4.30 in Connecticut and $4.78 in the San
Francisco Bay Area
- Pilot Kent got his Instrument Rating
- It was much more difficult than getting the Private
License
- Required two checkrides after descending too far on an
approach
- Instrument currency requires 6 approaches and 1 hold
within 6 months
- Pilots should have their own personal currency
requirements that are better than the minimums
- Got his ticket "wet" just a few days ago by returning
from an impromptu fly-in under instrument conditions
- During his training, he found it both disconcerting and
cool when flying an approach in actual IMC and not seeing the runway
until descending through 100 feet
- Pilot Mike had real scare
- On his first flight after his planes annual, he had
trouble maintaining lateral control while in the pattern
- Managed to get some control and got it back down on the
ground in one piece
- Looks like it was just the rudder trim cranked too far
over
- In a previous incident, he had a door pop open in flight
- Pilot Dan's club bought a 1966 Piper Cherokee 140
- He finds it difficult to get used to the mechanical
flap lever
- Also finds the overhead trim adjustment interesting
- Agrees with Kent that it's easier than a Cessna to
control on the ground
- The sink rate is higher than a Cessna
- It has vortex generators on the wings to allow a higher
AoA before stalling
- An update on Connecticut Senate Bill SB520
- The plan was to remove the 6000 lb limit from the sales
and usage tax
- Had unanimous consent from Transportation and Finance
Committees
- The bill is sent off to be written up
- It ended up being written to place the sales and usage
tax on all planes, instead of none
- Still haven't gotten a straight answer as to what
happened and if it will be fixed
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