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TomParsons Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 3. "RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai..." 10-09-02, 19:02z  Thanks Emile! And thank you Andrew, for several nuggets of good advice! > The first thing any new Pitts owner should do is burn > out 3 sets of tires practicing landings. I have received similar advice from others as well. Before I even fly the thing, I will be going back to Budd Davisson's for a tune-up and brief spin intro. Then I plan on doing lots of non-acro flying in the pattern (probably will hop around a bit among local airports, in order to spread the annoyance around!). I also plan on sticking to non-acro until I can get to do Bill Finagin's spin training. Once I have that under my belt, and am good enough with landings to stop worrying, I will start working on the 2003 Sportsman sequence! > 3M bookbinding tape to gap seal the ailerons, with 1/3 > of the aft width folded over. I remember a thread on this topic on the acro exploder a while back as well. This airplane was gap-sealed just like that at one point, but the owner removed it a while ago (I think it was getting ugly-looking). The rudder and elevator still have the more traditional rubber gap seals. > The best pilot is usually the one who puts the most > 100LL through his engine. I have heard this as well, and what I saw at the Kathy Jaffe contest last month seemed to bear that out. If that's true, then I hope to burn lots of dinosaurs! Tom P. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Airpla...    TomParsons       10-04-02              RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai...    Emile       10-05-02       1         RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai...    aboyd       10-08-02       2         RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai...    TomParsons       10-09-02       3         RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai...    CRodin       10-11-02       4         RE: Finally, I'm Ready to Buy an Ai...    TomParsons       11-11-02       5

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