Rides from the Digginfool's Garage

[digginfool]

Here are pictures of my Raptor and the Austinator's ride.

[Young Gun]

Nice rappy!

[SWAMP_DONKEY]

Nice Job... those look sweet!!

[Bigscrb15]

yea, but didn't I read somewhere that you have a C182? I wanna see pics of that.  That's a sweet lookin raptor.

[digginfool]

I owned a 1980 182RG (N182EB).  It was an awesome airplane with Bendix KCS 55A HSI, DME, Stormscope, 4 place oxygen, CD player, fuel flow/totalizer, 6 channel engine analyzer (both were JPI), and I had a Garmin 295 GPS.  I flight planned for 153 kts.  Of course, that was when expensive AVGas was $2.70/gal.  I could fly from FXE to PHK and buy fuel for $1.95.  Cheapest fuel in the state at that time was Keystone Heights; $1.89.  Those were the days.      I'll never forget being handed off from Cairns to Tallhassee Approach.  I was on the backside of a cold front.  The controller asked to repeat type.  I repeated that I was a Cessna 182.  He said I must have one heck of a tail wind because he was showing ground speed of 192 kts.  I told him that I was an RG but yes, I must have a good tailwind because my GPS was showing 203.  My favorite story of many.  Owning an airplane is truly a rich man's hobby.  I do pretty well in life but I couldn't justify the expense (I was spending about $27,000.00 per year in maintenance, fuel and hanger) so I sold the plane in August of 2002.  I can't fly anymore due to equilibrium issues.  I still have some equipment you might be interested in.  I have a Lightspeed N/C headset (fantastic - I recommend them to anybody that flies), a couple of Clark headsets (114H I believe, but they are stereo), some children's headsets and the Garmin.  Let me know if you're interested.

[LTR450 994]

Ive  seen that raptor in person and it made my raptor700 look like crap. that is one sick looking raptor with all the goodies.

[Bigscrb15]

I owned a 1980 182RG (N182EB).  It was an awesome airplane with Bendix KCS 55A HSI, DME, Stormscope, 4 place oxygen, CD player, fuel flow/totalizer, 6 channel engine analyzer (both were JPI), and I had a Garmin 295 GPS.  I flight planned for 153 kts.  Of course, that was when expensive AVGas was $2.70/gal.  I could fly from FXE to PHK and buy fuel for $1.95.  Cheapest fuel in the state at that time was Keystone Heights; $1.89.  Those were the days.      I'll never forget being handed off from Cairns to Tallhassee Approach.  I was on the backside of a cold front.  The controller asked to repeat type.  I repeated that I was a Cessna 182.  He said I must have one heck of a tail wind because he was showing ground speed of 192 kts.  I told him that I was an RG but yes, I must have a good tailwind because my GPS was showing 203.  My favorite story of many.  Owning an airplane is truly a rich man's hobby.  I do pretty well in life but I couldn't justify the expense (I was spending about $27,000.00 per year in maintenance, fuel and hanger) so I sold the plane in August of 2002.  I can't fly anymore due to equilibrium issues.  I still have some equipment you might be interested in.  I have a Lightspeed N/C headset (fantastic - I recommend them to anybody that flies), a couple of Clark headsets (114H I believe, but they are stereo), some children's headsets and the Garmin.  Let me know if you're interested.

Sorry to hear about not flying again. That sucks. But at least you realized you needed to give it up instead of putting people in danger like some pilots would do.

PM me a price and more info on the lightspeed, Garmin, and the DC's.
Wow, I like the paint scheme. Never seen those colors together. Was that a factory scheme? Was this taken while you owned it?

[digginfool]

That picture was taken by the guy I bought the plane from (Eric Bernstein, thus the EB in N182EB).  It was part of the ad on aso.com when I bought the plane.  It was an after-market scheme.  He had purchased it from a flight school in Sarasota that went belly-up in the late '80s.  He lived in Ohio at the time and obviously had big bucks with all the goodies he put into the plane.  He moved to Colorado (where that picture was taken) and decided he couldn't go on with a naturally aspirated plane anymore (can you imagine density altitude in Rifle, Co. on a summer day?) and there were no STC's to add a turbo to the Lycoming O540 in that airplane (the motor has a number of oddities to it to fit with the retractable nose gear, although Cessna did have a turbo Continental version).  It was a real head turner on every ramp.  The plane is now based in Charlottesville, Va. at a flight school there.  There's not a beautiful flying day that goes by that I don't feel a pang of regret for ever selling that plane.  I do miss it.  I'll get you all the information for the gear, work up a price and PM it to you.  BTW, I was pretty sure you would Google the N number.  I knew that picture was still out there.  That's why I posted it.  I'll post pictures I have of it later.