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The view from up here
As many of you probably know by now, I am a pilot.
One of the things that is most appealing to me about flying is without a doubt the view, the scenery of even the most ordinary place is usually nothing short of amazing.
For those of you who have never slipped the surly bonds of gravity, here's a little taste of what is to be seen from a few thousand feet up.
If you click on the "Picture Link" you can see it full size.
Best of luck.
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Thanks guys, if you're interested there's a few others, I take lots, but a few of them are really special.
That particular one up there was just a fluke, the colours were getting near their prime, and it had been a cloudy wet crappy day and just before I got there the clouds parted and the sun came out. My summer place is on the very end of the peninsula in the foreground.
Hettric, I'm lucky to have a variety of stuff to fly, the entire family flies, so between us we have 5 planes, my primary ride now however is a Ryan Navion.
KlienChris, you missed picture # 10, my friend across the street has a strip in his backyard. He gets his snow cleared for free, I get to walk to my plane. Also, the small airport we own is just 10 minutes up the road.
Kenneth, here's another example of a rather inspiring view.
Best of luck.
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So what you're saying is you don't want to be part of this crowd?
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The main reason the engine is shut off is not so much because of the nuts outside the plane, as for cleanliness, the Beechcraft Model 18 (often called the Twin Beech) was powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior engines which are notorious for barfing oil out the back end of them.
Those nuts wear gear that is probably worth $5,000, possibly a lot more, they don't want it (or them) covered in oil.
The picture below shows how they 'normally' do it, if climbing out of a perfectly good aircraft can be called 'normal' that is.
The reason for hanging off the aircraft like this is so that they can all let go at exactly the same moment, rather than trying to all race out the door, in order to link up together into a formation on the way down.
Best of luck (from the guy that comes back down INSIDE the plane).
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