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b1x4nqb · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 214 Location: Orwigsburg, PA

Tailgragger,

You are one crazy guy! I just watched your dead stick takeoff and I laughed the whole way through it. My wife about had a heart attack. I'm still laughing! Hats off to you but I couldn't do it. It looks as if you're pushing it then jump in for the ride before it gets away.

Check it out if you havn't seen it yet!

Paul, PA

Av8r3400 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z985xdXW-3w

Here's the link. Awesome!

Neighbor Pete · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

Super sweet! And here I was trying to decide between a Highlander and a sailplane....(not really... Highlander in my future very soon)

Steve, keep making those vids as we all obviously get a big kick out of them. Is that area SE Oregon near the Owyhee?

Pete

taildrgfun · Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 26 Location: Nampa Idaho

Ya it's out there on no-tellum hill. :wink:

Neighbor Pete · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject:

That's what I thought :wink: Don't get any chukars stuck in your prop up there... oh wait, I guess it's not always fired up and you can just roll over them eh?

Pete

KevinC · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: Another question answered

Well, that answers another one of my questions about the flying characteristics of the Highlander that I've been meaning to ask: How does it glide....?

Be careful out there!

k

Dave Krall CFII SEL SES · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 338 Location: Seattle WA

taildrgfun wrote: Ya it's out there on no-tellum hill. :wink:

Outstanding! Thanks for the VID.

scubarider2 · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 259 Location: Cleveland, GA

WOW, what a great way to save gas!!! :shock:
Dennis

rgmullins · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 91 Location: Cincinnati

Ha! Laughing my a$$ off!

You know they have been doing that for quite a while now. It's called HANG GLIDING! But you get a lot better performance if you get rid f the motor.

Keep posting the videos. I've got a long way before I'm THAT comfortable with the plane...

Johnny C! · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 163 Location: Brevard, NC

Thats Nuts, in a really fun kind of way.

Keep coloring outside lines for us wannabe's!

Thanks!

John

gme9261236 · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 105 Location: Hampton, NH 7B3

taildragfun.

I am very loosely affiliated with www.airlinepilotcentral.com and you are now semi famous! Here is the link http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/web_video/now_showing/dead_stick_takeoff_and_landing_20080827321.html

I put up the vid because who wouldnt want to see it and it got added to the main page. I figured since it was on youtube you wouldnt mind it public. Let me know if you would like it taken down.

Johnny C! · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 163 Location: Brevard, NC

That video won't play there, but
others will...

John

Johnny C! · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 163 Location: Brevard, NC

That video won't play there, but
others will...

John

Lynng · Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 46 Location: Gainesville, FL

Taildrg.

Please post best glide from our flight testing for all those pilots that would like a good hard number and how fat before you find the prop tries to turn??

Lynn :P

taildrgfun · Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 26 Location: Nampa Idaho

Hey Lynn,
One day I was over High Valley at 10,000 (amazing I didn't get a nosebleed) and I shut off the engine and glided about 10 miles to Garden Valley and landed without the engine. Besides being a lot of fun, I tried different speeds etc to see what worked the best. On my plane it was 1 notch of flaps at 55 to 60 IAS. I lost about 600 feet for each mile traveled. I have shut down my engine while in flight many times but I never do it unless I'm close enough to a place to land should it not restart.
I haven't seen how fast I have to go to push start with my IVO. I should do that. When I had the Kiev on I was right at 130 before it started. It was a pretty steep dive.
:)