(Joke)

Radioaltimeter: “40, 30, 20- RETARD, RETARD”

That’s an aviation joke right there.

I think only the Airbuses do the "RETARD, RETARD" thing. Hopefully they never get rid of it.

Wow. I never knew that. I had to look it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svSePWwisQ

I'm surprised it hasn't been changed with today's atmosphere.

What generally appears to translate to "slow down! slow down! slow down!" in French is something that is known for doubling as a synonym for 'mentally challenged' in another more internationally established language.

Hah, well he got it on the ground and it doesn't seem like he's got too many problems ahead of him. Guess third time really is the charm.

Being in one piece always helps!

I'VE NEVER SLAMMED A PLANE...oh wait well, there was that one time....and that other time...oh and i guess that one too. Okay yea, I've done it.

Yes indeed, all part of the learning curve.

Oooch...hard landing. Still, let's see what he'll do on the next try.

So that's one narrow miss taken care of. How many more does Chucky need to do before he's passed the test?

He needs three takeoffs and three landings. So far he's got one of each, although you can't have one without the other.

It's an institute you can't disparage
Ask the local gentry
And he will say it's element'ry

Try, try, try to separate them
It's an illusion
Try, try, try and you will only come
To this conclusion

Love and marriage

Oh wow, even with Vmin, those canard designs still cook at a good clip.. Not to mention float on that ground effect like a British Hovercraft.. I can see why the skunk is having difficulty here. Can't blame him for feeling a bit dejected about that touch down. Getting back up should not be too much of a problem at least.

You've got this, Chucky!

I did slam my Piper Warrior on the runway a few times during those first 12.1 hours logged where I did touch-n-go landings with my flight instructor. On my first solo flight, I never did slam it though, or anytime afterwards. I think it was probably because ground effect was much more noticeable. That first landing was with all three wheels though, or at least almost.

I did a number of all wheel landings in Pipers. I was used to Cessna 152s and the Pipers sat slightly nose-high in comparison. So I tended to push the nose forward on landing to get the view I was used to in the 152, and would get all three wheels.

I've never flown any Cessna aircraft. So I have no point of comparison. I wonder if it might be because the windshield of the Pipers are more slanted than the Cessna, geared more towards resistance to bird strikes than sight-seeing and visibility.

No, it was certainly the larger cowl and higher nose attitude of the Piper, I realized this well after my private license. The Cessna 152 has a particularly small engine cowling to accommodate the little O-235 engine. So it feels like you're sitting tall with a nice view over the cowl. Since nearly all of my primary train was in the Cessna 152, I got accustomed to the visual cues that came with it. Adapting to new airplanes is fun, but the learning experience can be interesting.

Oh yeah. I fully get it. The Cessna 152 is such a tiny, under-powered airplane. The 180-HP Lycoming of the Piper Warrior would take up more room. The same went for the Piper Archer that I also flew.

I'm hoping to finally resume flying in the coming year. The Aspen Flying Club here in Denver has some Diamond DA-40 that I'd love to fly once I've done my refresher.

i hope you do. A friend of mine who'd been out of flying for quite a while just did a refresher flight. He was amazed how quick everything came back to him.

those trainers are tough built to take all the years of abuse from student pilots. I Love the design of this one. he is almost there two more and he's got it in the record books then it's nothing but the wild blue yonder.
I should have gotten mine out of high school there was a "young aviators" program at the local air center back in the late 70's that looked interesting but i had other things on my mind at the time.
(drop that one from the bucket list)
--Rick

You should have. I wish I had something like that in high school.

This is more exciting than the old Smilin' Jack comic ever was!

He's got the right attitude now. Not 'OMG!' but 'Okay, I could've done that better. I think I know how.'

I still wonder if they are laughing and cringing at him at the same time...

Nope. Tower controllers take it very seriously. Every time I've been in a tower it's a completely professional attitude.

minor question. do they say Newtek seventy-nine or newtek seven-nine? I ask because in ham radio NTS format, you don't say a pair of numbers as what ever tens place, instead you say each number separately...

In a local setting like this, it would most likely be said as a pair. When I taught flying, the tower controllers knew all the college airplanes and addressed them like Newtek seventy-nine. If Chucky leaves the local area, he has to use the aircraft tail number. If he was flying for some sort of carrier, he would use his call sign of Newtek seven-niner.

whats funny is that following Chucky makes me think about airplanes, and so I go to Youtube and look up Air Disasters. seems the Gimli Glider isn't the only one who ran out of fuel, but it is the only one that also landed safely...

I just realized it's been nearly a year since I last commented on anything here, wanted to post my first comment in a long while on another image but thought I'd come back here first just to see if anything new had been posted and..low and behold!

A lot has happened in my life in the past year that I'd like share, but I'll save it for a private note some time if that's alright with you Chucky. In the meantime though I thought about doing a backlog of commenting on earlier uploads of yours that I wanted to comment on over the past several months but never had the time or ambition to.

I wouldn't be expecting you to respond to any of my comments that I leave on any of your older submissions, but I would still like to take the time to analyze comment and critique some of your earlier story arcs from through the years, though it would be cool or nice if I knew you would at least read some of them if you wouldn't mind.

Sure thing! Comment away!

and he sticks the landing good job

well, of course you are going to have to push it when close to the ground, the ground is pushing that air right back up! Should have remembered that from class, chucky boy. But you know what to do now!

oh yeah, heck even the local air force base sometimes has a couple chirpies echo off the woods. You just know someone hit the strip hard.

Those guys don't get a lot of practice. They usually fly just enough to stay current so I imagine their landings get a little rough.

They are actually fairly busy, but its always midflight refueling planes flying around. Not much else. Id figured its new guys being taught the ropes or the weather....Chicago is about 75-100 miles away and its known as the windy city for a reason.

There's a reason flight schools buy a lot of plane tires