I LIKE it.

Pretty sure that’s what I am gonna buy. Still looking, but…..

Decent load, decent fuel consumption, fast enough (who doesn’t want a faster airplane?) but also pretty decently low approach speeds. Feel was not too heavy (Much lighter than the Arrow) and yet the heavier airframe made it feel smoother too.

Cruise was about 137 (at ~5000 ft), approach at final with 20 degrees of flaps was 70 knots. (And, I think, with practice and more flaps, that could could be a LOT lower). Feel at cruise was really smooth.

I flew it for a while, just getting the feel for it, then went an airport that has very little traffic…Normally. …
5 planes in the pattern when we arrived!….. I entered at the end of the downwind after circling a bit to let one plane land and leave some space in the pattern for me, then followed the other four planes in and did a low pass just to get the feel of it at approach speeds. Back around the pattern and then I did a really nice landing (wind was variable at 4 so it was fairly easy) and then a taxi-back and takeoff.

Stayed in the pattern and did a second landing just like the first. Was gonna do a crosswind landing, but there wasn’t enough wind to make it worthwhile, so we went back to the home airport, where the wind was 220 at 5 so I landed on 18, with another greaser (hard not to with that airplane in those wind conditions).
Put the plane away and the owner, who is 85, wouldn’t let me pay for gas or anything….(“do this for some other “kid” when you buy a plane”) so I took him to lunch. He does want a towbar  and a bracket for it for his small tractor, so I might just weld one up for him….

All in all, I liked the 182. Decent speeds, decent approach, and (with trim) I did not find the nose to be too heavy on final or flare. Yes, you need more trim than a 172 or even an Arrow, but very, very doable. More flaps might have helped, but I was following the advice of the owner, who was sitting next to me.

And, guess what? My latest issue of Trad-A-Plane just arrived last night!

I remember the day.

The carnage.

The….not fear, but horror. The deaths of innocents.

Do I blame ALL muslims? No
But I do realize, that there are those of that religion that hate the West. And others of that religion that support those that would kill me and my fellow countrymen simply because we are not Muslim….Unbelievers…..And believe  that any muslims who would associate with us are as bad as we are….

I will never forget.
I especially will never forget those in power who would have us forget, or who try to minimize the act, the attack….

But, in the end, I will live and simply remember.

Where is the crime?

How long is the Fishing Expedition gonna go on?

Especially without a real crime to investigate and, especially, PROSECUTE. (‘Cause that is what Mueller is, a prosecutor).

Expect the Liberals to cry “Kenneth Starr!!!!”. But there, there was an actual crime that was being investigated. Not so here, just a bunch of innuendo in this case. 

I expect attendance to be big, as it is a rainy dreary day.

I highly recommend Texas Jeans Company as an alternative.
Good Jeans. Well made. Wear well. Comfortable. Priced fairly.

And MADE IN AMERICA. (Oddly, in North Carolina)…which no other major brand (not even Carhartt) is anymore.

I moved from Levis a few years ago….. while I liked Levis, I grew tired of their Social Justice Posturing.  So I switched. And I’ve been happy with my new brand.

Yer big boys and girls, buy what you want….But if you are considering switching, check out Texas Jeans Company. 

To me, he will always be the actor in “Smokey and the Bandit”…..Of course there is “Deliverance” and “the Longest Yard” as well. 

‘Twas, apparently not that big of a deal this time.

I did it with a Piper aircraft. Which flies OK, it just isn’t the aircraft I would choose to buy.

“Complex” isn’t really that big of a deal, actually. Just more to do at takeoff, climb, descent and landing. Pretty simple though.

Damned fast, that Turbo Arrow, what with no gear and no struts causing drag. 

I had an issue which caused a bit of pain, and we discussed the level of pain it caused.

She said that women experience pain and deal with it better than men, so a 10 for a man is like a 6 for a woman

“Not true”, says I.  “While we may handle it differently, men simply deal with it”. Women can’t handle the pain of a fight, or an injury as well as men”. Putting a number on it isn’t a good comparison. Most women can’t handle the level of pain that men can and keep going.

“Oh yeah?” she asked. “explain”…..”Women handle childbirth…a greater pain than you can ever imagine”.

“I cannot ever experience the pain a woman undergoes giving birth, but it can’t be that bad, either.”

“how do you figure?” she asked.

“Women often choose to have another child after their first one….it can’t be as bad as say….getting kicked in the….er….jimmies.”

“how can you compare the two?

“Well, again, women often choose to have a second, or third or even more children…If it were as bad as you say, after the first birth experience, no man would ever touch you again……But you often choose to have another child.”

“So?” she asked

“No man ever stands there and says “Gee, I think I will ask someone to kick me in the testicles again”

We moved on to other areas of discussion after that.

So I have flown a Warrior and 2 different Arrows….One Turbo and one not.

And I gotta say that there is no one thing that is terribly bad on any of ’em, but SO many things, switches, electrical busses, controls, fuel selector (WTF is wrong with a “Both” position?), etc. are just….less than ideal, at least in my mind. Kinda half assed, if you will.

They fly ok, but I don’t like the “feel”, especially on approach. And I HATE the way they sink when the power is pulled back.

But hey, to each their own. Some folks like’em. I think, however, that I will start with a Cessna.

I mean, this is like Glock V 1911 (1911 for me)….pretty much a preference thing.