GOOD-ON-YER MATE!!

That's the worst of "rebuilding" our flying machines it takes MONTHS ... to get back-on-the-horse ... & THAT delay can really mess with yor head!!!

Glad you got good mates to talk you back up( & down) ... and give that confidence a boost!

Well done ... GO & have fun!

3 great take offs 2.75 perfect landings!!!
Went down on a knee (knee pads made it a nothing) but no damage to me or rig, I WILL master this thing;)

So, Benray, are the FBO's pissed when you bring back their airplanes w/ busted-up props & messed-up airframes?

Only once have I ever snarfed anything that wasnt mine. I bumped the tail skid on a 172 in Cheyenne (7200 ft alt) but.the instructor in the other seat was having me flare too soon.
No real damage, and thats why they put the skids there im told.
As for breKing my gyro bits, I rode that bitch hard! I tried to explore every facet of the envelope wether it was a good idea or not! Made me a pretty good gyro pilot ive been told.
With this rig, im just wanting low and slow portability..

That has to be a cool experience. I watched them fly at Bensen Days...and I thought using your legs as the landing gear has to demand concentration.

Concentration, yes, but knee pads help;)

That happened to me at Canberra airport.... the instructor wanted me to practice flapless landings in a 172 on a windy day

I said, I would rather not, on a better day for it, I wil do a bunch... but he insisted...

I was confident I had it ok, but he jumped in without even saying 'my ship' and the tail ended up banging on the ground. I had him over a barrel after that.... if the 'boss' found out, he would have been toast....

If you wiped a bird shit off the window with your finger, a dry cloth, or anything other than a bucket of hot water, he would explode.

Funny tho, the day I got my PPL, it was a windy day, I landed, he said taxy to the gas pump.... we sat there a minute, he said I passed, congratulations etc bla bla.... shook my hand

I thought... "Yay.... finally" then opened my door and the wind caught it and slammed open it against the strut

He spewed at me and made me feel like shit.... whilst I tried to apologise

Then he opened his door and it slammed open against the strut on his side, but his window was unlatched and fell out of the frame and broke

I tried to vanish.... or become invisible.... and tried not to laugh because of the lecture he just gave me about respecting his planes.... he said "if I damage it, that is my problem.... I own the fucking thing!" then he opened the door and broke the window

Thats awesome Muz!
Nothing I like more than a poetic story where a cheeky bloke gets his comeuppance!

What impressed me, was the timing.... he had just said if he broke it, at least it is his plane to break.... then BANG!!

Like, on cue.... like in a whollyodd movie.. . only with no explosion

I was sure glad I had the stamp and signature in my log book before I trashed my side to.... and definitely before he phucked his side

I forgot to say, when the junior instructor phucked up my flapless landing and the tail hit the deck, it bent the rear tie down ring, it hit that hard you could only just get the hook thru it after that

The owner was the instructor that would remove the dipstick, or put a card in the engine bay thru the inspection door.... to see if students were looking and seeing.... or just going thru the motions of looking... without seeing.... he caught a few, not this little black duck tho

He would.... to make it far more embarrassing for the student.... wait for the tower to give clearance to take off and the student turn onto the center line, about to go for warp factor 9.... and he would hold up the oil cap or dip stick and say.... "wasn't this on the engine when you did the preflight?" ..... and depending on traffic and the general business of the airport..... the student would have to ask for permission to taxi down the runway and off the active runway, then shut down, get out, put the cap on and start again.... all on the clock at $95 per hour

Sounds like he was a military guy at one point.

Maybe... but I think.... just an asshole