Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 26 Sep 2025 07:08:28 GMT Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <7ZYzQ.83$Qzga.44@fx10.ams1> <10asc3o$2jpdr$1@dont-email.me> <10av7vu$39al7$3@dont-email.me> <10b2h5m$37ee$3@dont-email.me> <10b577b$p1s5$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net +wgF4KaixrQbBzEv9nEliwcca6q/Il1GwmqRwXCsU3EEAfYS+h Cancel-Lock: sha1:PhrANHBfsOq+EoRvITfj93vC9/4= sha256:6nDEK4a6OtC6Ds38SXVHp6CvxL/BuIWwE+RLO1Iqyrs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75273 alt.usage.english:1129027 On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:10:03 -0600, lar3ryca wrote: > Went in and out of some pretty interesting (read that as a bit scary) > places. SWMBO and I flew into a BC Hydro right-of way up around > Desolation Sound one time, camped there and fished for a couple of days, > then flew out the way we came in, Another time it was Pender Island, one > way in, same way back out. Coming in the grass runway was flat for a > little bit, then up a fairly steep hill, needing power to get to the > flat part at the top. Taking off downhill made for a very short takeoff run. I was only a passenger but I flew into a US Forest Service grass strip in the middle of a wilderness area in Idaho. The plane was a Maule so short strips were its bread and butter although this strip was long enough for 172s. There was a nearby river and I was amazed by the number of people that flew in to party for the weekend. It was almost enough to get me back into flying. Back in the '80s I was doing contract work and thought a plane would be ideal. I quickly realized that a light plane isn't exactly dependable transportation. When the US came out with the sport pilot license it sounded good. Unfortunately the weight limit excluded almost everything but old tail draggers and very expensive new planes. The guy who taught me as an ag pilot and unshakeable but he told me to find someone else if I wanted to learn to fly tail draggers. He flew an old Snow for crop dusting but wasn't interested in teaching. At the same time I was trying to deal with fixed wing he was trying to figure out helos since there was a market for precision spraying in the orchards.