Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Primary Aircraft Proposal (long and warm) Message-ID: <18390@lanl.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 18:43:41 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.18390 Posted: Thu Dec 20 18:43:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:11:45 EST References: <693@ihnp4.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 20 > [...] If, however, you are willing to get your hands dirty, > fly low and slow, and put some effort into learning about your airplane > and the environment in which you fly, this class of airplane is a good > alternative for you. Unfortunately, I can't fly low and slow. Slow is maybe alright, but I'd have to get a shovel out to fly low. The rocks around here seldom get below 6000 ft., and that's in the bottom of the really deep canyons. Around here, you almost need a service ceiling of about 16,000 ft. to fly safely at all times of the year. It gets real hot and dry here in the summer, I wouldn't try to fly over a fourteener in these conditions unless the plane was rated at least 18k to 20k ceiling. Performance is required for other reasons than fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so - Louis Pasteur James Giles