I think, when I was first learning to fly some quarter of a century ago I dreamed of having my own aeroplane and how it would sit on the ramp at some airfield in the South of France as I sipped something local at a table outside a restaurant, loving the still warmth and scents of that balmy evening.
Well today it all came true.
So, you all ask, why is Moggy trying to make us all jealous?
The truth is I’m not. All the above is factual, but there are two additional items of information you need.
1) I am supposed to be in Venice, not Avignon.
2) My RV, sat on the ramp, has a flat tyre.
It doesn’t matter greatly. I’m not working next week. Tomorrow there will be engineers on the field to fit a new inner tube. I’ll maybe wander off somewhere else.
It’s just that in GA. Nothing goes to plan. Be warned.
Moggy
By: Moggy C - 16th July 2013 at 23:29
STOP!!!
I was stuck with that bloody tune going round my head for two days!
Moggy
By: Flying_Pencil - 16th July 2013 at 23:27
Nice, but I would call it “L’oiseau à la Terre” 😀
(starts to hum the Avignon song)
By: Moggy C - 11th July 2013 at 08:08
This was at Avignon, which does have a coffee shop, but open only at certain hours.
In fact, by the time I was writing the post I was in the old town itself and having a really enjoyable time.
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Moggy
By: Flying_Pencil - 10th July 2013 at 20:34
2) My RV, sat on the ramp, has a flat tyre.
I would much, make that MUCH rather be stuck at some airport in miserable conditions with a flat tire (or tyre in your case?) on a less hospitable airfield when its on MY airplane.
OTOH, maybe i will open up a coffee shop on said AF name make it comfortable for those who do? 😀
By: Moggy C - 10th July 2013 at 15:16
I’m in credit!
I have done the Rhone Valley six times before this month in the PA22 at 80 knots still air.
I swear I have NEVER had a tailwind before.
Moggy
By: mike currill - 10th July 2013 at 13:49
You realise of course that you are fated to pay for that with interest sometime in the future? You are only allowed a tailwind in one direction FOC.
By: Moggy C - 8th July 2013 at 10:16
Indeed. Still-air performance.
I was lucky this week, I had a slight tailwind both directions up and down the Rhone Valley on successive days.
Moggy
By: topspeed - 8th July 2013 at 09:38
There is much discussion in the RV world on range. So much depends on prop settings, leaning, level you chose to fly at.
Three hour legs are possible with reserves. At fl90-100 65% power gives around 160 knots. So a little under 500 Nmiles or 570 statute.
Moggy
Tailwind possibly might add another 50 nm ?
By: Moggy C - 7th July 2013 at 08:15
There is much discussion in the RV world on range. So much depends on prop settings, leaning, level you chose to fly at.
Three hour legs are possible with reserves. At fl90-100 65% power gives around 160 knots. So a little under 500 Nmiles or 570 statute.
Moggy
By: topspeed - 5th July 2013 at 19:57
Moggy hello !
I had no idea you also fly. I thought you were just a computer geek. What is the range of the RV you fly ?
I am in process of designing still my first AC the 65 kilo single seater that needs no lisence here or in USA.
Hopefully one day getting it to this stage; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391152/Man-knocks-basement-wall-free-plane-secretly-building-years.html …with the difference that I wanna get my whole AC done with 5000 usd and have a range of 200 miles on tank full of gas ( 14 liters ).
rgds,
Juke
By: TonyT - 2nd July 2013 at 17:00
About 10 years ago I changed the inner tube on a Marchetti, nothing wrong with it condition wise and it passed inspection, however the Dunlop Made in England rang alarm bells, even more when I found the manufacture date on it of 1975, I thought at 40 years old it had earned a proper retirement..
The owner was as amazed as I was as to its age, I was 15 when it had been fitted lol. 😀
By: Moggy C - 2nd July 2013 at 15:02
Indeed. Tube and cover were replaced.
Moggy
By: TonyT - 1st July 2013 at 21:45
I normally change the tyre at the same time as it does not do the tyre sidewalls any good being flat.
By: Moggy C - 1st July 2013 at 20:25
Certainly not.
Firstly, since half of it has fallen down it is not a pont, more a pier.
Secondly, they take large sums of money off you to venture onto it.
Meanwhile, with my blow-out fixed at the cost of a loss of braking on one side (and a huge pile of Euro) I am headed home, rather than Italy, my intended destination.
Moggy
By: AlanR - 1st July 2013 at 10:18
Did you go Sur Le Pont ?
By: mike currill - 1st July 2013 at 00:53
Or as has been pointed out countless times throughout hitory – No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Enjoy the break wherever you end up.
By: EGTC - 1st July 2013 at 00:47
Sorry to hear of the flat tyre! That really is a lovely little RV that you’ve got 🙂 Thoroughly enjoyed the short hop in it in May 🙂
By: J Boyle - 30th June 2013 at 23:54
An old GA saying:”Time to spare…go by air!”
Still, I can think of many worse places to be “stuck”.
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