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Title: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 18, 2012, 05:05:18 PM
Jim Lynch, Barry Turner and I poured our pad today. Note the wire mesh.  <=

It is going to be great to fly and not think about what you are stepping on. Clumps of grass or a fire ant mound.  j1

I need to just focus on flying the plane.
 AP^
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 18, 2012, 05:06:00 PM
One more photo
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: John Stiles on April 18, 2012, 05:13:53 PM
Dang Paul, that's some state-of-the-art equipment right there!  LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ ;D
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 18, 2012, 06:59:05 PM
Yea, I wanted the new looking Black and White one but the guy said my hitch was not big enough.

Guess size does matter???   HB~> LL~ Z@@ZZZ
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Chris Wilson on April 18, 2012, 08:24:52 PM

It is going to be great to fly and not think about what you are stepping on. Clumps of grass or a fire ant mound.  j1


How about stepping off the edge?

Looks like an ankle twister waiting to happen!
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 18, 2012, 08:33:44 PM
Yea, I know. We are on a old land field and can not break the ground. So we are going to put dirt up around the sides. Kind of build it up like a Baseball pitchers mound. And over time it will settle in.

I would say in two years we will have to weed eat the grass off of it.
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: John Fitzgerald on April 19, 2012, 06:40:09 AM
If it is a little bit raised at the pilot position it will save some planes that might otherwise graze the ground in too low maneuvers.
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: John Stiles on April 19, 2012, 12:56:22 PM
If it is a little bit raised at the pilot position it will save some planes that might otherwise graze the ground in too low maneuvers.
You could always put your pilots pad right on the top of a hill... LL~...that way you can do stunts way below the horizontal! :##
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Tim Wescott on April 19, 2012, 01:19:07 PM
Wing-unders?
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 19, 2012, 01:31:50 PM
Kreth one of my flying buddies told me of a story that they use to fly and one side of the was down hill. He said they learned how to stunt on the down hill side of the circle. Makes a lot of sense to learn this way.
 ;D
Title: Re: Pilot Pad poured !!!
Post by: Paul Taylor on April 19, 2012, 05:38:27 PM
Barry sent me this pic.