re: Sticky Miss State OT thread?

This board is severely lacking activity. Do y’all just post on SPS or ED instead?

Y u do dis sorant

Check ride is Dec 13th

Sixpackspeak and Elite Dawgs

Sps aint horrible but ED is absolutely horrible. I’d rather stay over here

I do sixpack. I'm not sure why i don't use this board tbh.

I got my private pilots license in Starkville, KSTF.

It's been awhile since I have flown. I kept a plane out there in the hangar for several years.

I had a Piper Cherokee 160 PA-28 and later a Mooney M20C with the manual Johnson bar for retracting the landing gear. I never even got qualified in the Mooney since it was a complex aircraft but it was half again as fast with only 20 more HP. I lost my health card and had to sell my planes.

I loved flying early mornings. Think of how smooth a lake is early in them morning. That applies to the skies as well. That and watch the weather closely.

After I got my license I would go out there by myself and do lots of touch and goes when the winds got high just to get my landing skills up with high winds. Of course, I never pushed it to be unsafe.

KSTF is plenty wide and long. I kept missing the center of the runway so my instructor had me fly over to Ackerman.

You either hit the center or not at all, that runway was tiny in comparison. That was the first solid smooth landing I ever made. Had to, that runway looked like a pencil as compared to KSTF.

We have a picture of some dudes seemingly in the middle of the ocean in our slideshow of a TV spot. I assume they're just out in Sardis.

Just thought of this when rereading your post. There is a game day TFR in affect in Starkville or any other large venue.

AT KSTF you can take off headed on runway 18 and head south to southwest and never get close to the restricted air space.

If you take off north using 36, you have to bank West before the end of the runway to stay out of the restricted space. No real task to do it but it's not something I recommend since it takes you out of normal traffic patterns. Know your obstructions and your plane well before you do this.

The only way to land legally is 36 though. Enter downwind at 45 degrees on the west side or do a straight approach and you should be fine.

I would not do it if it was as busy as it gets on game days out there.

Game days the plane traffic is stacked with jets, bigger prop plane and single engine planes and no tower to control it. I just stayed away most days or got out there really early and didn't return.

You should not turn before the end of the runway at towered airport without getting permission though. There are some further IFR restrictions as well, of those I am not familiar. 400 ft AGL and 1/2 mile past the end of the runway rings a bell but don't quote me on that one. I am only a VFR pilot.

Looks like an off season tGrind may be afoot on the main board