Hi Christopher, you say your Trike is 15 years old, well I have a 15 year old Trike to, Air Creation rely makes god trikes!!! Sorry to hire of your small accident, hope you get bake in the air soon.
regards.
its not happy event, but it happens sometimes. If other trike parts are OK, then its good. we had a joke pilot regulations: if pilot go out of plane by yourself - this is good langing, if the plane can fly again - its BEAUTIFUL landing! You has a go…
I live in Slovak Republic in Central Europe.
1983 - I was start flying on Hang glider, I was 14 years old. My father was an instructor.
1990 - I was start to fly on trike.
1994 - trike pilot licence
2003 - trike instructor licence
Now, Im flying on Aeros Profi 14 wing, Tomi Cross 5 Sport trike, Verner VM-133MK engine and Peszke 3-blades prop
Hi Jozinko,
We as Instructors try our beast, believe me wen I tell you that I regret ever to have tought my friend to fly. What I do now, I tell all new students that this is not a game and that if they don't do as I say they are going to die. Yes it is very harsh but another death I don't think I can handle. Other tactic is to see how they drive how they take care of there car, to tell them that the trike is like having another woman, you have to take care of it and you have to spend a lot of time away from your family to tend to your trike, well you get the point, it is not fun and games and it is a lot of responsibility having a Trike. Another thing that I do now is that if someone wants instruction they have to do it in there own Trike, if they are really interested in learning to fly they will buy a trike. It is selfish of my part but that's the only way you are positive that they rely want to fly and be prudent.
Jozinko sometimes it is out of our hands, there is nothing you or anybody could have done, thats way they are called accidents. I know haw you must feel but shit happens and life must go on, with what happened to my friend, I told him sometime before that if he continues flying he was going to die, he got very upset with me because he sed that I was wishing he die.... Imagine that!!.... Lets all learn from our stories and continue doing what we love.
Fly Safe,
Diego
At 12:39am on November 20, 2009, Diego Sagrera said…
Hi Jozinko, I am an Instructor to and I have had that same thing happen to me, the student freezes, Thank God nothing serious happen that day, what I do wen I solo a student is I have radio communication with the student. I don't like being an instructor it is a lot of responsibility, if something goes wrong everybody terns to look at you. I know how you must feel, my friend who died, I teched him how to fly, I feel terrible of what happened, it feels like it is your folt, even if you know that it isn´t. You try your best to let the students know all your knowledge and to be as one is, but the fact of life is that everybody is different and they do things there way after they go solo.... I cant imagine how hard the call to your friends wife must of been.
Fly Safe,
Diego
P.S. Your English is pretty good :)
At 10:25pm on November 19, 2009, Diego Sagrera said…
Hi Jozinko, It is terrible when friends leave us this way. But life gos on and we have to learn from there mistakes. May I ask what happen to your friend? If you don't want to tell, I understand, it is very hard to remember those days, it took me 3 years to tell what happend to my friends.
Fly Safe,
Diego
Hi Jozinko.I don't English very god-toking Swahili English. I toking very good Rasshn. I am pilot ,very older,not dealer gliders.I not heave many for glider-modern.I heave older glider JETWING -wing is blek, 1988.I like flight.I have engine Trabant 26 hp.I not heave instructor for flight , ne znaju daljse anglikanski.Odnogo dnja ja sam poletel.Pisi mne po slovckom - mozno i po ruskom jazike-ne .Pozdrav iz Srbije i Bele Crkve ,Dusan .My private mail is gojkovdusan@gmail.com
Hi !
Well I think you must be make a flight in a Profi Tl with electric trim, it's really a pleassure!
The diffrence it's really important, and feel the turns with winglets, really the wing change.
I have a BMW and need 5300 rpm for go at 130km/h
I'm a dealer but this job not's a life support, I'm work in a medicine from 1988.
The flight is a hobbie and a pleassure.
Hi Jozinko!
Greetings from Argentina.
We are flying the same wing, what's your opinion about it?
You need how much RPM for flight at 130?
Verner engine is unknow here, I know it have 80 hp.
I have a BMW engine.
regards
George