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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:08:12 AM EDT
[#1]
Yea but not that much experience. 110 hrs hedgehoppin in my Aeronca 7AC and 25 or so in a 172. Had to sell my champ a couple yrs ago because of being off work 6 mos with an illness but I plan to get back in the Air as soon as I can. Never had any desire to go commercial. That would take the fun out of it for me I'm afraid.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:13:43 AM EDT
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I have several aircraft posters on my wall. Does that count?
I hope to get back to the airport, someday. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:17:50 AM EDT
[#3]
Quoted: Never had any desire to go commercial. That would take the fun out of it for me I'm afraid. Yeah, it kinda does. I'm going to the University of North Dakota (self proclaimed "Harvard of Aviation" [rolleyes] )right now, and there are a sh*tload of rules. Everything gets so routine, and studying gets so intense sometimes, that you almost HATE to go out to the airport. But it will all be worth it when I'm screamin along at mach 2 in an F-18! [tomcat] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:22:29 AM EDT
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Only level flight and turns, no take off or landing ;-}.
Seriously, I'm pineing but my gun fascination keeps my time and money tied up. When I win the lottery..... Buy me a house on a strip with a full hangar, get my private w/ instrument and complex rating. Get some serious time on a Mooney and build a Lancair VI-P. Use said plane for courier operations, no passengers for hire of course. Donate plenty of time for organ transplants/medical delivery to claim tax write-off. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:29:53 AM EDT
[#5]
I have Private license, ASEL. Fly Cessna 150 and 172 series. Dream of a kit plane someday.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:30:48 AM EDT
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Does 48 hours and a solo count? That's when the money ran dry - and haven't had the time since to start back up.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:34:35 AM EDT
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Been flying hanggliders and sailplanes (gliders) for almost 20 years now. Been 17,500 feet MSL hooked in to a hangglider above Sandia Peak in NM. What a hoot. You Stink Pot pilots should try for a 10,000 ft altitude gain with no engine. It brings on a whole new dimension.
Rocketman |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:39:00 AM EDT
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Quoted: Been flying hanggliders and sailplanes (gliders) for almost 20 years now. Been 17,500 feet MSL hooked in to a hangglider above Sandia Peak in NM. What a hoot. You Stink Pot pilots should try for a 10,000 ft altitude gain with no engine. It brings on a whole new dimension. Rocketman Damn. I hope you were on oxygen! One of these days I want to get one of those P-51 replicas. Those things are schweeeet. Would like the Stewart S-51, but that sucker is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 9:40:44 AM EDT
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I started flying a Cessna, worked up to jumbo jets with bi-planes and gliders in between.
P.S. Does Microsoft Flight on CD-ROM count? [rolleyes] Nuckles. [smash] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 10:06:11 AM EDT
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Not a pilot...but I am an old Phantom Phixer!(Westinghouse AWG-10A & B) Unless there have been a few upgrades since I left, the F-18 will "only" do about mach 1.8, but that is one sweet bird. Especially when comparing the ease of maintenance and agility between an F-4 and an F-18.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 10:32:16 AM EDT
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Back in 1991-92, 20 hours total, about 7 solo. Got too expensive...
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Posted: 1/7/2002 10:46:35 AM EDT
[#12]
Quoted: Not a pilot...but I am an old Phantom Phixer!(Westinghouse AWG-10A & B) Unless there have been a few upgrades since I left, the F-18 will "only" do about mach 1.8, but that is one sweet bird. Especially when comparing the ease of maintenance and agility between an F-4 and an F-18. I'm not sure what the top end of the new Super Hornet is..... hmmmmm...... Sounds like a research project! [:)] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 10:51:17 AM EDT
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600 hour Commercial AMEL. Fly a King Air part time, I start instructing in two weeks, headed for the airlines just as fast as I can make it. I'm thinking my as-yet unpurchased AR will look pretty good displayed in the rear window of the family C-182.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 10:51:32 AM EDT
[#14]
Yep, looks like the top speed of the F/A-18 is still mach 1.8. Ah, well, I'll just put it in a dive til I get to 2.0 then!
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Posted: 1/7/2002 11:26:36 AM EDT
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T-41, T-37, T-38, F-16A, F-5E in the USAF then I had to get a real job so now its B747 and DC10's.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 11:28:06 AM EDT
[#16]
Quoted: T-41, T-37, T-38, F-16A, F-5E in the USAF then I had to get a real job so now its B747 and DC10's. Damn. Can I have a job??? [:)] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 11:43:14 AM EDT
[#17]
have my private ASEL with about 100 hrs of cessna 172,150 time. Student helicopter with about 10 hrs R22 time and 3 in a 162F.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 11:57:47 AM EDT
[#18]
Instrument rated 250hrs. Alaska flyer [:)]
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Posted: 1/7/2002 12:11:01 PM EDT
[#19]
Not that this really counts compared to you guys but...20 something hours in an OH-23
Bout the same in a Cessna 150 about a 100 years ago....some bootleg time Wife has 80 hours in Cessnas solo'd on her 16th birthday... Think I will get her some more hours for her birthday... I love to fly...Im just really bad at it..... |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 12:13:25 PM EDT
[#20]
Fly a G5 for a Co in NYC
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Posted: 1/7/2002 12:16:23 PM EDT
[#21]
Quoted: ....solo'd on her 16th birthday... Me too! [:)] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 12:25:44 PM EDT
[#22]
I got my Private licence in '85, only got up to about 80+ hours before the money went away. Sure wish I could afford guns AND planes!
Don in Ohio |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 12:56:08 PM EDT
[#23]
Strictly a VFR pilot right now, hope to get my insturment rating soon! [:d]
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Posted: 1/7/2002 1:28:25 PM EDT
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Single & Multi Engine Commercial Instrument Land & Sea. 2200 hours total. Flew carrier-based navy jets for 8 years then got out and went into computers.
Always wanted to go airlines, but when it came to that point I thought it would be boring, plus a lot of time away from home. Not to mention a major pay cut for 5 years (until you make Captain). Haven't flown in years. I wanted to build my own composit kit aircraft, but a divorce and no money soon ended that dream. Someday I'd like to get back into it. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 1:41:44 PM EDT
[#25]
225 hours in a helicopter, .5 in a Stinson, .5 in a Falcon 10, 1 in a piper cub and about 8 in cherokees. Working on my fixed wing private now. Bought a Cherokee 235 with a couple other guys ... thinking of selling the helicopter. Too high of a repair vs. flying ratio in the helicopter so I thought I would fly the fixed wing in between. The helicopter is awesome it sure lets you know that you are flying it. The fixed wings in contrast tend to fly themselves more like driving than flying.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 2:12:40 PM EDT
[#26]
I'm working on my student license right now. I'm not quite old enough for it yet, but will have it the day I turn 16.(Or so my instructor says!)
-Marksman |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 2:40:11 PM EDT
[#27]
Private pilot. 410 hrs C-152, C-172, Arrow, Citabria, and about 400 hrs ultralite.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 2:43:27 PM EDT
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If it has a prop, I've tried to get some seat time in it. From slow 65 mph to 300 mph birds.
Sold my plane when my son was born. He's six now and wants to be a pilot and I'm thinking of another. I get very little flying time in. When a child is born, things change. He wears one of my old flight helmets in my office when he's with me and not in school. I must have one of the rarest of wives. She loves to fly and is one hell of a navigator. Best seat time I've ever had is a tie between a B-24 Liberator (WW2 Bomber) and a Yak-52 with a Mig-21 pilot as my instructor who also happen to be the Ukranian aerobatic champ. I learned more about flying in two hours flying that Yak. If you love airplanes, plan on a trip to Oshkosk for the annual EAA Fly-In this summer. It's an event you'll never forget. I been an EAA member (both national and local) since 1981. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 2:52:16 PM EDT
[#29]
Lots of time in lots of planes. Best times in my own little C-150m. I've owned it for 13 yrs now, and been airplane camping all over New England, coast, Block Island, Nantucket, Montauk, and inland. Nothing better than a grass strip, a campfire, and a little bird!
[8D] |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 3:08:54 PM EDT
[#30]
Started in 1983, PP ASEL June 1984. Racked up about 150 hours in a year, then got married and had a kid. A divorce later, I had my biennial in September 2000, and got in another 15 hours since then. Then my second divorce.
Once I get the wimmen problems out of the way, I want to finish my Instrument and Commercial like I should have back in '85. In the mean time, I have just barely started a Pitts S-1-11T from plans -- started meaning I have the plans, bought some of the wood for the ribs, I've cleared out shop space in my basement, and my heliarc welder came in today.... Edited to add: Wow! I just found out my step-dad's friend is good friends with Henry Haigh and his family. Any acro pilots here will recognize that name. I gotta scam an introduction with Henry, and ask for a ride! |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 3:13:50 PM EDT
[#31]
Only about 65 hrs now, C-152's up till now. Starting Instrument right away, then Commercial, MEL, CFI, CFII. Tons o money but if I ever get hired by an airline it will be worth it. At my school it is called the Flight Technology Major.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 3:18:26 PM EDT
[#32]
Hey Ramjet...you are right Oshkosh is the place to be... Mom's side of the family from there..I went to school there for four years..lived three blocks from the Wittman's front door...saw a lot of interesting things parked out front of the EEA shop area through the years...
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Posted: 1/7/2002 3:40:55 PM EDT
[#33]
Quoted: Only about 65 hrs now, C-152's up till now. Starting Instrument right away, then Commercial, MEL, CFI, CFII. Tons o money but if I ever get hired by an airline it will be worth it. At my school it is called the Flight Technology Major. What school? |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 4:52:57 PM EDT
[#34]
200+hr U/L pilot. I also have 15 hrs dual time on Cubs, Champs, and 150s.
I'm currently building a 75% scale WW I Fokker D.VIII fighter replica, and I'm gathering documentation and data to build a full scale replica WW I Albatros D.Va fighter. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 5:04:28 PM EDT
[#35]
Ground school and some introductory flights only --still trying to find the time to get lessons in. Now that work has slowed down that will happen the good part is it is offered at a local comm college as an adult education class and my Co. will pay up to 90% of it.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 5:19:54 PM EDT
[#36]
Never had the yearning to fly, father flys though, I think keeping them up in the air is more of a challange. I'm the guy who keeps you safe, the guy behind the scene, I'm the A&P mechanic!
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Posted: 1/7/2002 6:06:25 PM EDT
[#37]
Private at 14, instrument at 18, commercial 2 months later. Right now 737 200 series ATP rated and almost 9,000 hrs total. N95343 was the first for me an old Piper pa28 140.
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Posted: 1/7/2002 6:39:10 PM EDT
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Somewhere around 15,000 hrs. (I haven't added it up in a while) Former 727 check airman now flying 757-200/300. Authorized for domestic, North Atlantic, Pacific, South American and Asian operations.
"LNAV select, VNAV select, Center autopilot on.........where's my USA Today?" Jim |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 6:47:12 PM EDT
[#39]
Commercial-instrument, rotary wing, turbine. About 750 hours helicopter, US Army.
[img]http://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v3/8/67/97/21086797DdJJwiRvSX_ph.jpg[/img] Ross |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 7:12:58 PM EDT
[#40]
Solo when I was 16
Private License at 17 Payed for it all myself. Everythings been downhill since. |
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Posted: 1/7/2002 7:17:16 PM EDT
[#41]
Private ASEL, Rotorcraft/Helicopter. A&P/IA. Operate a GA maintenance hangar with Enstrom Helicopter Service Center.
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Posted: 2/28/2002 7:33:34 PM EDT
[#42]
started my pilot training about 4 years ago, still too young to get my liscence. but i have my solo! finnally!
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Posted: 2/28/2002 7:46:18 PM EDT
[#43]
Comercial airplane and glider, Instrument Rating, aerobatics, glider and banner tugging, night mail, lots of tailwheel time in many different airplanes.
I have owned a 47 Luscombe, 48 Cessna 170, 75 Decathlon, Monerai sailplane, and Moni motorglider (it's for sale or trade). |
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Posted: 2/28/2002 11:03:50 PM EDT
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yup, currently, I fly a PC12/45. The first one of you aviators to identify that one wins a 30rd SKS mag.
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Posted: 3/1/2002 12:52:58 AM EDT
[#45]
A&P close enough?
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Posted: 3/1/2002 3:58:51 AM EDT
[#46]
Billofrights, its a Pilatus single, King Air killer. Western Aircraft in Boise is a dealer. I have about 2800 hrs. commercial flying single engine for traffic watch. Volunteer police air unit (in Boise we are all they have). Caught a drunk hit and run driver last night. Dang, that was great! Also, A&P with inspection authorization. Maybe we could start a gun nut annual inspection discount at Peterson Aircraft Maintenance- my shop. I already have a 10% discount for CCW holders. Planerench out.
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Posted: 3/1/2002 4:01:50 AM EDT
[#47]
BTW I launch for traffic watch in fifteen minutes. My AR-15.com time is from preflight done to launch every morning. Planerench out.
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Posted: 3/1/2002 6:11:43 AM EDT
[#48]
18 Solo
19 Private 20 Commercial/instrument 21 CFI 22 MEL 23 CFII 24 MEI 25 BA in Airway Science 26 ATP 27 Quit aviation and started my own business 34 Happier than ever now that aviation is just a hobby |
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Posted: 3/1/2002 8:29:15 AM EDT
[#49]
I've been known to strap my ass into a Huey, Kiowa or Cessna every now and then... [:D]
Aviator [img]www.milpubs.com/aviator.gif[/img] |
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Posted: 3/1/2002 8:41:25 AM EDT
[#50]
Quoted: Instrument Rating, 200 hours, Commercial Aviation major and starting my commercial rating training tomorrow! [:)] Any other propheads lurking here? My brother graduated with a commercial aviation major last summer. The employment prospects didn't look too good right after sept. 11 but he just got hired by atlantic coast airlines! |
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