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Title: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: stroh on May 30, 2009, 08:21:58 AM Ooops. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_out_of_gas) ;D
Pilot lesson No. 1: Check gas before taking off Quote COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A retired Air Force colonel with decades of experience as a flight instructor gave one of his students a hands-on lesson in a key principle of flying: Don't run out of gas. Al Uhalt of Colorado Springs made a bumpy but safe landing in a field Thursday when the single-engine Aviat Husky he and a student were flying ran out of fuel near the end of a 45-minute lesson. LOL [sm_laughing] Title: Re: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: Uisce Beatha on May 30, 2009, 09:00:31 AM Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. surrenders.
Title: Re: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: stroh on May 30, 2009, 09:17:52 AM Title: Re: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: MFAWG on May 30, 2009, 11:26:23 AM Ooops. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_out_of_gas) ;D Pilot lesson No. 1: Check gas before taking off Quote COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A retired Air Force colonel with decades of experience as a flight instructor gave one of his students a hands-on lesson in a key principle of flying: Don't run out of gas. Al Uhalt of Colorado Springs made a bumpy but safe landing in a field Thursday when the single-engine Aviat Husky he and a student were flying ran out of fuel near the end of a 45-minute lesson. LOL [sm_laughing] [CliffClavinmode] I've heard pilots actually cut fuel margins razor thin with some regularity. Mr. Deutschendorf's plane had fuel, but it was in a second tank and the switch was in a 'Non Standard Location' that he apparently couldn't find in the unfamiliar aircraft. [/CliffClavinmode] Title: Re: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: Uisce Beatha on May 30, 2009, 11:42:23 AM Yeah, but would stroh have given me a big cheesy grin if I'd written all that *feces*?
I live for stroh's big cheesy grin. Title: Re: Propeller? Check! Rudder? Check! Gas In The Tank? Post by: gleek on May 30, 2009, 03:30:44 PM Sunshine on my god damn shoulders!
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