Life can be far more exciting, just try trailering your plane. If you do enough stuff wrong, life can definitely get more exciting!! Maybe even more than you really wanted.
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Ever watched a car on a trailer? The car gets a lot of amplified motion as the dynamics of the two vehicles don't work together. I'll bet the RV-12 got a heck of a ride.
.... a trailer that would provide for a support/anchor post for the aft end of the tail.
Never a bad idea, but it's not strictly necessary.
One way that I've used to secure an airplane fuselage to a trailer is to partially deflate the tires, wrap rope snugly around the axle and some nearby hard point on the trailer, and then bring the tires back up to pressure. It's definitely secure to the trailer then.
Dave
Nothing wrong with that trailer, other than being a bit too narrow. When you think you have enough straps securing your plane, add a couple more. I always use extra in case one or more should fail.
The RV12 empty weight is ~750 pounds and the trailer is around 250 so total would be just over 1000 pounds.
The new trailer is probably 1800 pounds so probably under 3000 pounds.
I see the blue flashing lights behind. Did you get a ticket too?
willyeyeball
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Alll this because even though I have been a pilot for 50 years, and had 17.5 hrs and 47 landings in an identical plane, I had no current flight review! Next time, I am not going to let some little squiggly line in my log book determine what to do. I should have just flown it home!
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I debated this post but decided, especially in light of recent aftermath discussions, that I had to bring it up. Flying a new-to you RV-12 without a current flight review would have a been a bad choice, and the type of story that is all too familiar in accident reports.
I feel for your situation and can't imagine how frustrating it is. But when you get frustrated is when you are tempted to make poor decisions that lead to poor outcomes. Flying that plane without a fight review would have been a poor decision. You were on the right path by doing whatever it took to get checked out again - safely. Did you consider just blocking out a few weeks and travelling somewhere with a good RV12 CFI?
It seems you have a lot of time and effort invested, and I know how it feels to be sooooo close to that first flight - it would be a shame to have something unfortunate happen now in the homestretch. PLEASE, do yourself and all of us a favor by not cutting any corners now!
Chris
That is very good advice and I whole heartedly endorse it.. . . "It seems you have a lot of time and effort invested, and I know how it feels to be sooooo close to that first flight - it would be a shame to have something unfortunate happen now in the homestretch. PLEASE, do yourself and all of us a favor by not cutting any corners now!" . . .
Chris
I debated this post but decided, especially in light of recent aftermath discussions, that I had to bring it up. Flying a new-to you RV-12 without a current flight review would have a been a bad choice, and the type of story that is all too familiar in accident reports.
I feel for your situation and can't imagine how frustrating it is. But when you get frustrated is when you are tempted to make poor decisions that lead to poor outcomes. Flying that plane without a fight review would have been a poor decision. You were on the right path by doing whatever it took to get checked out again - safely. Did you consider just blocking out a few weeks and travelling somewhere with a good RV12 CFI?
It seems you have a lot of time and effort invested, and I know how it feels to be sooooo close to that first flight - it would be a shame to have something unfortunate happen now in the homestretch. PLEASE, do yourself and all of us a favor by not cutting any corners now!
Chris
A buck here, a buck there.... before you know it we have saved enough to own a planeSome of the things we do to save a buck...
The sqiggly line in my log book would have made the flight not even one iota safer, only more legal - and insured, and enriched someone. It is encouraging to see that you and others agreed with my choice, but I still think I probably made the wrong decision. In my old age I find regulations and rules are pretty much made for the benefit of someone or some group, with little interest or concern for the safety or convenience of the person affected. Things have changed over the years, and there seems to be NO oversight of such things. An instructor for instance no longer has any incentive to train - but a large incentive to prolong the "training" for his own income benefit. The DAR mess is another example of an badly abused system - all to allow the FAA types to not have to do their job, and a "hired gun" to walk by a project and charge $1200 for typing up a couple of papers.
I see others frequently ignoring the rules because of this, and they seem to be the ones who actually beat the system. Just a few days ago I was speaking with a builder who has no BFR, no DAR signoff, and no phase one. He is happily flying around, I am not.
Do I sound bitter?
The sqiggly line in my log book would have made the flight not even one iota safer
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I am still not clear as to how you recently got a bunch of RV-12 transition training from jet guy but you didn't get a BFR sign off.
An over sight? Or he just didn't think you were ready?
If the latter, and if all the good things I have heard about his training are true, then it seems like trusting his judgment was a good decision.....
Don, I hesitate to say this, but there are really only two possibilities.
1. You found a cfi who wanted to milk you for cash, or
2. You are unable to do an honest self-evaluation.
Do yourself a favor. Bite the bullet, buy a commercial ticket to Portland, and see Mike Seager. Ask him for an honest evaluation. Ask him what it will take to get current. He'll be honest with you.
Don, didn't you used to have a ercoupe?
I thought you were current in that aircraft?
Dave
....I came up with a grand idea of buying a FLYING RV12, and get a local instructor to give me instruction in it - and a flight review....
Don, how will the instructor get the transition training and the make and model time to get on the insurance?
Dave
I was a challenge I think, he admitted he had never tried to update a pilot who was not flying for 24 years!
Them silly things don't count for much, and that was about 6 years ago.