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Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: nddons on July 05, 2017, 06:20:39 PM

Title: Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
Post by: nddons on July 05, 2017, 06:20:39 PM

Flew the Fisk Approach into OSH in the PT-26 on Saturday as practice for "hopefully" doing the same in the Big Show in three weeks.  Piece of cake, especially when there aren't 30 other planes merging with you at Ripon.   I wanted to get the sight picture of the route. My only disappointment was that I landed on runway 9 vs 27 with a four mile final. Not quite the same. I wanted to try my hand on hitting the orange dot.  Still it was a great flight.
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Title: Re: Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
Post by: MarkZ on July 06, 2017, 08:11:43 AM

I'm jealous in so many ways. Beautiful plane!


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Title: Re: Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
Post by: nddons on July 06, 2017, 09:34:44 AM

Thanks. I only have 16 hours in her, and 30 tailwheel hours, so I'm relatively new to this. That being said, with its wide landing gear and 2,800# gross weight, the PT-26 is much easier to land than the Champ that I flew for my tailwheel endorsement.  But I'm not getting cocky by any means. My goal is to get into our SNJ after about another 100 tailwheel hours, so with they as my goal there's no room for getting comfortable.