("One Fifty Two") Ted celebrates Mosaic Day by breaking free from the "walled garden" of light sport aviation and "soloing" both a purple lightning-bolt Cessna 152 and a 172. As our friend Dominic eloquently writes, sport pilots are now "loose upon the natural wilds of general aviation," discover...
("One Fifty Two") Ted celebrates Mosaic Day by breaking free from the "walled garden" of light sport aviation and "soloing" both a purple lightning-bolt Cessna 152 and a 172.
As our friend Dominic eloquently writes, sport pilots are now "loose upon the natural wilds of general aviation," discovering that some planes "require you to hold the yoke one-third to the right just to fly straight and level. It's a feature."
Ted's conclusion: "I buttered almost every landing...they're so easy to land compared to the egg." The bad news? He keeps forgetting carb heat exists.
Ben logs his "maybe second best landing ever" (wife-verified!) at the Gainesville fly-in and surprises her with a short field takeoff. Brian gets Nashville Approach's fastest "stay outta the Class Charlie" dismissal ever, attends a stellar Commemorative Air Force hangar dance, and reminds us that filing IFR doesn't guarantee instant gratification when controllers are slammed.
The crew tackles listener feedback from newly-minted MOSAIC pilots navigating "airframe chaos" (G1000s, steam gauges, and seats "smushed flat" so you "can hardly see over the firewall"), motion sickness solutions featuring Chick-fil-A minis and relief bands, and why even Bob Hoover dealt with air sickness.
Plus community shoutouts including a 60-year-old nailing his commercial checkride with a power-off 180 in 15-gusting-25, and Xyla Foxlin getting her plane back after losing her medical.
Mentioned on the show:
- ABY - Albany Ga: https://www.airnav.com/airport/ABY
- GVL - Gainesville Ga: https://www.airnav.com/airport/GVL
- FlySto: https://www.flysto.net/home
- M93 Southernaire: https://www.airnav.com/airport/M93
- M54 Lebanon Tenn: https://www.airnav.com/airport/M54
- Ted's "soloing a 150" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXyFeK09ng
- Checkmate Aviation: https://www.checkmateaviation.com/
- myaeroglass: https://www.myaeroglass.com/
- Xyla Foxlin lost her medical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H8oVS7qg
- Xyla got her plane back!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-T7P3o6tU
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