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Posted: 1/28/2015 10:28:27 AM EDT
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Is it commutable?
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Posted: 1/28/2015 11:25:26 AM EDT
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Not a bad gig. Flying top knotch aircraft. They all sure seem to enjoy it. I thought this thread was gonna be about Great Lakes.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 12:35:42 PM EDT
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I was Sure it was going to feature Hulas Air.
Flying a Pilatus in that Terrain would be heaven. hauling Africans and eating African food, would be horrible. Can you imagine the smells? 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 1:25:48 PM EDT
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A guy I fly with is looking at flying for Great Lakes as a time builder. From what I understand it's a company which will hire low experience pilots to fly right seat on multi engine planes.
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Posted: 1/28/2015 1:44:10 PM EDT
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I dream of landing a Porter on the side of a mountain.
Native savages are never in the fantasy. |
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:28:35 PM EDT
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Not a bad gig. Flying top knotch aircraft. They all sure seem to enjoy it. I thought this thread was gonna be about Great Lakes. I got a letter from them a while ago. Seems they are hiring!
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:33:07 PM EDT
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the worst place is at a crash site
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:39:58 PM EDT
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A Turbine Porter is on the top of my list when I win the Lottery...
...now if I could just remember to play the lottery
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Posted: 1/28/2015 4:27:23 PM EDT
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In 1974 I lived in Kingston, Jamaica flying a DC-3 for four months. Being a white southern boy in a black slum was something I only needed to do once in a life time.
Never left the hotel except to go to fly. When through flying it was directly back to hotel. I drank so much Red Stripe beer that I still gag when I see one. I got a really good sun tan at the hotel pool that probably accounts for my concerns about skin cancer now. The flying was actually quite good. The longest leg was 30 minutes between Kingston and Montego Bay. The other legs were fifteen and twenty minutes to Port Antonio and Ocho Rios. I got a metric shitload of takeoffs and landings. Kingston is the world's orifice through which the stuff of "poop threads" flows. 
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Posted: 1/28/2015 8:24:47 PM EDT
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Wow...thanks!
I got roped into a few episodes on you tube. Total mismanagement of my time tonight! |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 5:54:30 AM EDT
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I got a letter from them a while ago. Seems they are hiring!
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Not a bad gig. Flying top knotch aircraft. They all sure seem to enjoy it. I thought this thread was gonna be about Great Lakes. I got a letter from them a while ago. Seems they are hiring!
You really can't consider yourself to be an experienced pilot without having had at least one comically shitty flying job. I, myself, have had two. So go for it! Treat them like a condom. Try it on, try to enjoy the ride, don't even think it'll be comfortable, use them for your purposes, and when your done with them just toss em in the garbage and move on to better things. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 10:24:48 AM EDT
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Hell, I've had a couple of flying jobs that were so shitty that I couldn't afford to buy new condoms, so I had to wash and reuse them.
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Posted: 1/30/2015 12:08:16 AM EDT
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el supremos comments are the best.
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Posted: 1/30/2015 12:11:15 AM EDT
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Great Lakes has become the hiring pipeline for Travel Management, FWIW.
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Posted: 1/30/2015 12:25:55 AM EDT
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A Turbine Porter is on the top of my list when I win the Lottery... ...now if I could just remember to play the lottery We had a couple for toys. The owner ground looped the one on 2 different occasions. I never had an issue. Sold them both and bought turbo beavers. Not nearly the same performance, but less issues. |
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Posted: 1/30/2015 2:56:40 PM EDT
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We had a couple for toys. The owner ground looped the one on 2 different occasions. I never had an issue. Sold them both and bought turbo beavers. Not nearly the same performance, but less issues. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A Turbine Porter is on the top of my list when I win the Lottery... ...now if I could just remember to play the lottery We had a couple for toys. The owner ground looped the one on 2 different occasions. I never had an issue. Sold them both and bought turbo beavers. Not nearly the same performance, but less issues. What is this "Turbo Beavers" of which you speak? I will forever be fond of the "original Beavers". Original Beavers had big round jugs on the front end. In days of old many original beavers could often be seen whilst traversing the skies in Texas clad in orange hot pants and high heeled boots. In the bush the easiest way to tell the difference between an Otter and a Beaver is that the Otter has a bigger ass than a Beaver....or so it is said. 
Sadly so, it is rare to see an original beaver these days. Otters of the larger-ass variety seem to be most prevalent in this day and time. 
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Posted: 1/30/2015 3:51:04 PM EDT
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Natural round jugs or a longer aftermarket, expensive, looks good front. The balance isn't the same with the aftermarket one. It isn't natural.
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Posted: 1/30/2015 9:30:31 PM EDT
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Natural round jugs or a longer aftermarket, expensive, looks good front. The balance isn't the same with the aftermarket one. It isn't natural. What were natural, full round jugs back in the 70's are now 36" & 38" longs. Time marches on.
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Posted: 1/31/2015 12:21:31 AM EDT
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Those nasty little strips look just about perfect for a helicopter.
After being done instructing, my first job offer was to go to Papua New Gunea. During the interview though, the chief told me I could go to PNG, the locals would try to kill me and cut my head off, the food would be shitty, and there would be no safe place to land. Living conditions would suck too. Or, I could go to Afghanistan, where the locals would try to kill me and cut my head off, living conditions would be better (U.S. Bases), the food would be good, and they would pay me nearly double. Easy choice.
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Posted: 1/31/2015 12:39:22 AM EDT
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Those nasty little strips look just about perfect for a helicopter. After being done instructing, my first job offer was to go to Papua New Gunea. During the interview though, the chief told me I could go to PNG, the locals would try to kill me and cut my head off, the food would be shitty, and there would be no safe place to land. Living conditions would suck too. Or, I could go to Afghanistan, where the locals would try to kill me and cut my head off, living conditions would be better (U.S. Bases), the food would be good, and they would pay me nearly double. Easy choice.
And now you will go through life never knowing the secrets of pygmy pie 
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Posted: 2/2/2015 8:14:48 PM EDT
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Not a bad gig. Flying top knotch aircraft. They all sure seem to enjoy it. I thought this thread was gonna be about Great Lakes. The good news is that 117 and the ATP requirements seem to be choking those places to death, slowly. |
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Posted: 2/3/2015 7:08:44 PM EDT
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I thought the worst place to be a pilot, in terms of trying to pick up the wimminz, would be in Alaska. There's no wimminz, and everyone's already a pilot.
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Posted: 2/4/2015 3:01:48 AM EDT
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I thought flying out of Hong Kong with a cargo load of fake dog shit was bad.
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Posted: 2/4/2015 3:31:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was Sure it was going to feature Hulas Air. Flying a Pilatus in that Terrain would be heaven. hauling Africans and eating African food, would be horrible. Can you imagine the smells? He's got a glass cockpit too! Mine still has steam gauges. ... in FSX
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Posted: 2/5/2015 11:19:01 PM EDT
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I thought flying out of Hong Kong with a cargo load of fake dog shit was bad. I have hauled bull cum in a Twin Beech, 6,000# of Polaroid cameras in a DC-3 and I could make off color jokes about my C-130 days, but I won't |
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Posted: 2/7/2015 3:34:36 PM EDT
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Thinking back, I spent 6 weeks during the summer of 1969 living in a one bedroom trailer house in Coyanosa, Tx (pop. - 98)
. I flew 176 hours during that period in a 135hp Super Cub with a Sorenson belly tank killing bugs with parathion. I was a summer time millionaire with a cardboard suitcase. I took the proceeds and bought a new 69 Roadrunner convertible on my way back to college, dayum I wish I had it today !! 
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