Sat Oct 7th - 4th Annual "Warbirds over Grapevine" A Fundraiser for Snowball Express

[Hardway]

Just drink a beer and fly it like you stole it.... It is a piece of cake.......

[farmflyer]

Or drink a bunch of beer and think I'm flying like a pro:Silly:just like when you drink at the dance and think you look good. ;)

[Hardway]

LOL LOL LOL LOL I have never had too much beer and danced like a Pro!!! LOL HA!!

[dahawk]

A big trainer she his. This plane will make anyone look good. Don't ask me how I know. LOL

[Sky Wolf]

Unbelievable!!!
The longer it sits, the more the fear builds up!!
And with the Tigercat, it such a tame bird is almost anticlimactic!
Then you'll be kicking yourself that you wasted all that time when you could have been flying her!
It's such a gentle plane that you have to act like its a handful to impress people!LOL

Grossman56

I know guys! I wish my priorities had more room for unboxing and flying the planes that are still in the packaging. I'm about 6 planes behind. Work, family, and seemingly less hours in the day have me tied up. And, this pilot has no fear (trust me), It's going up when it's assembled (weather permitting).

But now that you've (OV10 and Grossman) have messed with my pilot/man-hood, it's a priority on this one! :Cool:.

Also, the challenge is on FarmFlyer. Don't let me maiden before you do, my Texas brother! :)

[farmflyer]

Game on brother!

[Grossman56]

:)LOL;)

Grossman56

[farmflyer]

I just got finished with my maiden on the Tigercat I can't believe how nervous I was. The nerves were for nothing it really is a *****cat to fly a few clicks of up trim and flew hands off at a little over half throttle. I am going to back off a little on the down elevator mix with the flaps I had to hold some up elevator with full flap on the landing. I got a little bounce on the landing but settled down smooth after that. I'll post a short video shot from my iPhone this evening. Sky Wolf your up my friend:Whew:

[Grossman56]

It's probably the biggest surprise about the plane is that there are no surprises!
As I've said before, I had the flap/elevator mix wrong as well and she want to buck like a bronco when she first went up, using half flaps. Retracted the flaps and wow, smooth as a kitten. First landing with no flaps and I took the mix out of half flaps and dialed full flap/elevator mix back. Half was fine without a mix and full needed some, a little experimenting around found my sweet spot and she's been great ever since.

Grossman56

[Hardway]

One of the sweetest flying twins ever..... But, the P-38 is very close..... All good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sky Wolf]

Aw man, FarmFlyer you bit on that challenge too quickly for me!

Huge congrats my Texas friend!

Will get my popcorn ready for the maiden video.

[dahawk]

Almost regret I sold mine. A big trainer. Great plane! Nice presence in the air.

[farmflyer]

Short video of my tigercat maiden. I had a weird 90 degree cross wind blowing from near calm to 10+ in quick bursts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovn-2Bt84M

[rifleman_btx]

Man that landing must have had the pucker factor cranked up to 11! Looked like the wind messed with you just before touchdown

[farmflyer]

Yea it didn't seem that bad but it sure bucked the plane around and I didn't do a good job reacting to it. I'm sure I'll do better next time out.

[OV10]

Short video of my tigercat maiden. I had a weird 90 degree cross wind blowing from near calm to 10+ in quick bursts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovn-2Bt84M

What the heck do ya do when a car is coming and ya HAVE to land..............:Thinking:
:Ligthbulb: You guys in TX always gotta do it big by telling that SOB in the MACK to get outta my way LOL

[rifleman_btx]

Well sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do brother. Some of these roads out here won't have traffic until you decide to drive on them. Others... Yeah not advisable.

[farmflyer]

We just watch traffic and land early or milk it a little if need be. You can see for a couple of miles so you have plenty of time to decide. On weekends if traffic gets busy to the State Park that is just down the road I go to the dirt strip that belongs to the local crop duster. Besides all that who in their right mind would drive on a runway. :)

[rifleman_btx]

Ha! Yes!

[Grossman56]

Hey, there's some stretches in WY, that I've thought of that, nice long stretches that hardly anyone travels on ......
I had a good crosswind while landing at Riverton, but got in the habit of doing a gear pass before landing
(Thanks CB!) and turned to pass over the runway, but she drifted out too far, fine, around I went and started my turn further out from the reference point I was using and it worked out perfectly.

Grossman56