Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
Pah!!!!

The only thing that sounds and looks nicer than a T6 is a Mustang

Dummie! yay got it the wrong way around…hehehe… although it is a close tie for sound, but not for looks, mustang is a very aggressive looking plane, and the harvard is much more elegant to look at… but then i guess if ya got an ME109 on ya ass, i think i would choose the mustang! hehehe

Originally posted by Mike J
…and sound much nicer!:)

So you are deaf then? Skunkmunks are noise and have a very irratating note, but a Harvard has a lovely deep throaty note. Maybe you should open your ears up next time.

Originally posted by trumper
Regarding The Harvards training WW2 aircraft pilots ,why are the BBMF using chipmunks to keep the pilots up to speed on much higher performance Spitfires:confused:
Surely they should be using the nearest available training aircraft,i e the Harvard.

I’m guessing men were in charge, so no logic was applied to the decision 😛

Originally posted by Moggy C
🙂 Come back in a couple of years time and I think you will find that statement very embarassing. 😉 There are quite a few dead people who were convinced of that too.
Moggy

😛 you know what i mean, the 172 is still the safest plane ever built for private use.

Originally posted by Janie
and a hearty congratulations to her too on passing her PPL last week. Well done.

Thanks!

Like i said before, i guess you define trianing as something different to what I do.
I guess i think of it, in lose terms as learnign to drive. You drive with an instructor, you do as you are told, you know all the drills, all the manouvers, for that car. But when you past your test, then you really learn how to drive.
So what I’m saying is, chipmunks, 152’s etc teach people how to fly that plane. But they don’t learn how to deal with situations until they really occur, not just simulated. And getting in to a T6, will certainly teach and trian you not to do it again.
If a 152 is anything like my 172, it’s very forgiving, and you can put it into any situation, and it won’t hurt you.
But that’s my view…again.

Originally posted by RadarArchive
if one looks at the possibles from the viewpoint of what is ‘iconic’ rather than which is better to fly, which did its role best, or which is any individuals personal favourite,

interesting, and i’m not saying the T6 because it’s my favourite plane. I say it because I believe it to be true.
And as for looking at it as ‘ionic’ the sheer size, power, grace of the plane outweights anything a tigermouth can offer. But hey, that’s my view.

Originally posted by David Burke
I saw an outer aileron bearing housing that had been worn down to the actual steel of the bearing itself when the owner got it slightly out of shape on take off !
It certainly needs treating with respect – I think giving low level aerobatics a miss is good for life preservation.

I’ve seen a T6, with a scrapped wing tip from a cross wind landing, actually close up, in fact i stood in the freezing cold hanagr int he middle of winter whilst it was repaired!
very good advice, i should think 10,000 is about enough height, hehehe