After nearly 4 months...

[Zuka Zamamee]

...I'm taking flight lessons again to work on my Instrument rating. I'm now flying a Piper Warrior instead of the Cessna 172. In all honesty, I am in love with the Warrior over the 172. One neat thing my instructor told me about them is that if you get into a power-off stall in them (ie, flaps extended, power to idle, simulating/executing a landing), they will stall, the nose will dip down, and, if you hold the yoke back throughout the manuever, the nose will rise again and stall and lower. The process repeats itself indefinately, whereas any other plane would start a spin.

So, anyways...who's house should I buzz first?

[Tarathilien]

Um, Zuka, could you put that in English, please?

If you're near Arkansas, come to my house - my neighbors would love it ( I live in an apt complex).

[zipcat]

Translation:


When the plane is going up and the tip of it doesn't want to stay, normally if someone tries to lift it again and again the plane will spin. The Warrior won't spin because it's awesome like that.

[Zuka Zamamee]

Actually, here's the real translation:

Stall - whenever a plane's wings exceed an certain angle (generally 23.3 degrees in most light general aviation aicraft), the airflow over the wing is disrupted and sufficent lift to keep the plane aloft is no longer produced. The result is the nose dives down (because thats where the engine and the majority of the weight is) in an attempt to regain normal airflow over the wings.

Spin - whenever an aggravated stall (ie, one wing stalls before the other), the plane inverts on the wing that is stalled more and begins a spiralling descent to the ground at a rate of 750 feet per spin. For a good video, I recommend watching the link on the bottom. Be advised that it is very loud, so you might want to turn off your sound or have it turned way down. Fast forward to about 20 seconds into it and it'll show you a spin.

Spin video

[bow4lyf]

YAY!... wt about barrel rolls?

Can u do one? cuz that be way cool.

[Zuka Zamamee]

Barrel rolls = big no no for GA (general aviation) aircraft. A Cessna wouldn't be able to go further than 70 or so degrees in a turn, and the g-forces to keep it at the same altitude in a 70 degree turn is well over 8 g's. So now, a barrel roll is impractical in the planes I fly. That and the engines (usually a Textron-Lycoming O-320 or O-320I) aren't powerful enough to keep it in that condition, and the structual make of the aircraft I fly aren't very...strong, compared to acrobatic planes.

[TBeck]

I say you try it anyway

[Zuka Zamamee]

And shred the plane into pieces? How about no? I prefer to live. And I would much like it if I stayed alive long enough to get married.

[Kamikaze Athnerok]

You can come buzz over my house, and test your little stalling trick over the forest near my house. ^___^

[Zuka Zamamee]

Or I could do it just above your house.

:p

[Kamikaze Athnerok]

Only after I get ahold of some AA guns.

[Zuka Zamamee]

x.x

[RazielTheReaverOfSouls]

I happen to have a few AA guns for sale... but i'll only trade them for bits of string and four thousand eight hundred and thirty two used tubes of toothpaste.

[Zuka Zamamee]

O.o

Anyways, here's a picture of the Warrior (N9174M) that I flew today.

http://www.pilotschoice.com/portals/0/Image/War74ma.jpg

http://www.pilotschoice.com/portals/0/Image/War74mpanela.JPG

[Ominous]

I trust airplanes about as far as I can throw them.

Biplanes, though, that's another story. Those things are amazingly cool. RED BARON FOREVER!!!

Though, I guess that was a triplane.