Caravan Gouge?

[BajtheJino]

Yeah, I've forgotten the jockstrap before. I wondered by the prop wasn't turning.
Second question-how big of a flame have you shot of starting up again?

Theres a reason I don't use the tail stand!

[WalterSobchak]

Originally Posted by Stone Cold

As do a lot of people posting in this thread. I personally have about 900 hours in the Midwest, including STP based, and have had my fair share of encounters. Most of the guys posting here, from what I've read are or were all Turbine Suburban drivers for several hundred hours.

Any info you need, feel free to ask!!! I know I could dig up my little cheat sheet for you if needed. It has pretty much everything you need to know on it...

Good for you. I was based in ANE for 4 1/2 years flying the van, aztec,navajos,senecas, etc.

[minitour]

Originally Posted by mnixon

Well according to one instructor at a certain airline, they're designed rip themselves out if you do that. I suppose he's right, I'm just unsure of the damage said ripping would cause.

That's interesting information. I wonder why FSI doesn't tell you that little gem but they stress that the tail-stand will break away if you forget it.

I have yet to see how the tail-stand can break away, unless it's a newer model tail-stand.

I don't think I want to be one to find out how much damage it causes. That's a check my body can't cover.

Originally Posted by USMCmech

A little tip, If you put the prop strap on, put the gust lock in the controlls.

I'm definitely going to start doing that. Excellent idear!

-mini

[Stone Cold]

Originally Posted by WalterSobchak

Good for you. I was based in ANE for 4 1/2 years flying the van, aztec,navajos,senecas, etc.

Good for you too..I was based in LCK flying the Van, Jo, and Baron for a year, and the Van solely for almost a year in STP.

[mnixon]

Originally Posted by BajtheJino

Yeah, I've forgotten the jockstrap before. I wondered by the prop wasn't turning.
Second question-how big of a flame have you shot of starting up again?

Theres a reason I don't use the tail stand!

I use to think the tail stand was pointless too, until I did a special out of Charlie West and I was in getting coffee when a forklift came up to my plane and promptly threw a 1000 lb box in the back of the plane. Only reason that plane has a tail anymore is because it's tailstand.

[Zephyr]

Whenever I have a load of any significance in the Van before I take off the tailstand I hop up on it and see if I can swing freely. It's a little w&b sanity check. I figure if it can hold my 180lbs at the very tail and not tip over, it'll probably be alright. Only had that fail once coming out of LCK, hopped up on it and had the tailstand hit the ground... had to rearrange things a little on that one.

~Z

Originally Posted by mnixon

I use to think the tail stand was pointless too, until I did a special out of Charlie West and I was in getting coffee when a forklift came up to my plane and promptly threw a 1000 lb box in the back of the plane. Only reason that plane has a tail anymore is because it's tailstand.