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Old 06-17-2004 | 12:18 PM
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Default RE: A turbine as a first PLANE

Phu-leeze

There are so many things wrong with the initial question that it's FUNNY! And all you people are going off the handle acting as if this could actually happen!

Another thing, the AMA can take a long walk off of a short pier. They are not the law. Not even here on good ole USA, which is pretty much the ONLY place where they have any pull. They can't stop me from flying anything I want to fly. If I want to build and fly a 1000pound, 400MPH turbine that fires guns and has every type of pyrotechnic device known to man I can, as long as I'm not violating some ACTUAL law by doing so. The only thing they can do is refuse to pay on any insurance claim. Oh, and I guess I wouldn't get that really cool PIECE OF CR@P magizine they put out.

Back to the question at hand: I'm not a turbine guy (my club doesn't allow them [the land owners requirement]) so I wouldn't even know how to get the thing started. However, even when newbies come to the club with a simple trainer that they want me to test fly I go through it pretty throughly. I figure that if they don't know how to fly, what are the odds that they got everything right when they put together a 4 channel trainer with like 10 moving parts? Now think about a turbine plane. Is there ANY chance that a rookie could properly put together a plane as complex as a turbine? NO!!

When a newbie comes to your club to learn to fly do they EVER have everything they need? Or do they need to borrow a buddy box, glow driver, fuel pump, starter etc? How much more STUFF does a turbine need? SHEESH!!

Oh, and . . . . nevermind. . . . I just realized that I'm all worked up over this, and it's a RIDICULOUS QUESTION [&:]