Dang the bad luck! Nice weather yesterday, I have not flown since Bensen Days! Broke the prerotator lower unit Sat evening at Bensen days, got home fixed it, got busy on houshold chores.......so I decide to go fly yesterday, preflighted, everything looked good, engine would not start, apparently something got knocked loose on the trailer on the ride home..Dang!

OUCH.
And the sign says you got to have a home in Florida to fly every day
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I bought a home today
I sad all my good byes to the good ole Atlanta
And quicly moved my ass to Florida


Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

HIPIE !!!!!


WOLVERINES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I the only northerner that ENJOYS flying year round .....often during sub freezing temps and even -15 degrees? In my younger youthful days.....God.....30 years ago!....I flew my open Bensen in single digits often in a snowmobile suit, and could enjoy it for 30 minutes in that cold of temps, then I would land. Anything above 50 was grand.

I soon had to have a pod then a full cabin, and that keeps me flying often.

It is simply how bad you want to fly. Never will trailer to a fly-in .......if I can't fly to it, I won't fly at it!.

Gabor- Love your lyric rewrite!


Stan

Florida is too danged humid in the summer.....I know Stan I know....I would love to fly to a fly in, problem is it would take way too long.. one of these days!

Hey Elwood... PeachState probably will have a BBQ at CedarTown for the 4th of July... is that too far to fly? Be SURE to skirt around the outside of Class B airspace of Atlanta Hartsfield...

Heck with that! Too many danged trees! I don't fly over forests.

Just fly "I F R" (I Follow the Roads)...

That is a bad suggestion. Roads have wires crossings. Worst enemy of rotorcraft pilots!

Yeah... not really much better if in a FW... roads in the woods are not a substitute for altitude.

One of the problems with middle GA... lots of trees. One has to plan their flight.

Yeah it would be so nice if they buried the freaking cable instead of hanging them. It makes an easy landing into a damn Russian roulette. Even a skilled pilot can't dodge the damn wire. Steve McGowan almost bit the dust because of it. And he IS skilled!

What we need is thermal imaging anti collision camera's as standard safety equipment on our gyros..........oh and smoker kits for visibility.

I wonder if Jake had a smoker on his gyro if it would get you high if you followed him to close.

You never know with him.

Nothing like living in a semi-backwards, mostly rural state... where things are not as 'up to date' as some other places.

I remember when I first came to GA, in the Spring of 1990. I went up to the N GA mountains for the day, and asked to use a phone in a restaurant... this was before cell phones. I learned a long distance call was by operator help, because the entire phone co was privately owned for the whole county... it was ALL analogue... and mostly 1960's technology. And yeah... it would have cost me a small fortune to make a call just 60 miles back to Atlanta... I declined.
I doubt GA will come into the 21st century (other than Atlanta and a few other larger cities) for a L O N G time.
OTOH: GA is not as 'metropolitan' as, say, NY and NYC... so we still have a lot of our Constitutional rights. I guess there are trade offs...

Back on flying over trees: Altitude is definitely one's friend.

Now concerning Jake's smoke machine... it is IMO the solution!!! It will render you higher than the clouds... which will NEVER allow you to come down and crash...

That is what I like about where I live and fly from, mostly cow pastures and hay feilds...I have landed in a few, A couple of hay feilds and a horse pasture anyhow.

did you figure out why it wouldnt start? my first guess would be a flooded carb.

Roger on the flooding.......Way flooded, but I think I have a weak spark, I have a spare coil and CDI unit to troubleshoot with, Plenty of compression and fuel, I have to check all the connections at the ignition switch etc...This engine is GROUND TO RUN, NOT like the more common GROUND TO STOP, so it could be a faulty or bad ground cauing all the problem, not like it is humid here or anything...

This is a much simpler engine, however my lawn mower would not start the other day....

It is either no spark or a fuel issue.

After yanking on it a dozen times... the plug was dry. Clogged fuel system.