She greased that landing!
Wet dirt out here is hero dirt to mountain bikers. Grip is incredible.
What was the source of the no start? I have to think that would give you concern for engine failure on the return.
She greased that landing!
Wet dirt out here is hero dirt to mountain bikers. Grip is incredible.
What was the source of the no start? I have to think that would give you concern for engine failure on the return.
The airframe, engine and starter are only 300 something hours since new, but Hartzell starters have had some early failures that manifest as not working when hot. We were there long enough that I thought the starter completely failed, but that turned out not to be the case. We will replace that starter.
Emotionally, any starting issue is concerning, but intellectually, once the engine has started, barring some crazy in flight emergency, the engine will keep running until you stop it. I felt fine flying it 20 miles back to base, but if not I would have left it and crawled into the back of Charlie's one seat Cub. We probably would have off loaded our survival gear as the strip was short.
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We celebrated the New Year by hiking in the desert with Astro first thing, and even bumped into the Jack rabbit we regularly see in the same spot. Then we headed out flying in the desert, and kept bumping into curious coyotes that would stand and watch us land and take off. Finally, we had a few hours of shooting. All in all, a pretty good day.
This is what the terrain looked like where we were flying.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
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Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Another story on it:
https://www.americanhunter.org/conte...th-9mm-pistol/
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.