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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:17:59 PM EDT
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Current ride. Previous assignment B40 tucked in for the evening.
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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:35:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I did pretty good in the Maverick stuff on Flight Sim if that counts  Question for GA guys from someone hoping to start soon - am I an idiot for wanting a Piper Cherokee/Warrior over a Cessna 172? Is there any particular benefit to finding a school that has the specific plane you'd intend to end up with, or are they close enough that just getting in the air is the more important thing to do? Switching from one to the other is NBD. What’s most important is flying often. 2-3 days a week at least. |
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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:43:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:47:38 PM EDT
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Will post some of the planes I have owned/restored/flown over the past 40 years
Last one was this C-152 Sparrow Hawk we restored and exported to the Czech Republic in 2020 https://mountainlife.smugmug.com/Sparrow-Hawk/ Here are some others, mostly tail wheel    
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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:49:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/30/2022 1:53:47 PM EDT
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A few more
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Posted: 7/30/2022 2:11:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/30/2022 2:41:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/333347/Super_Connie_jpg-2469756.JPG I didn't fly it, but I flew in one NY to Paris and back in the 1950s. I flew in one also, sometime in 1956 it was a MATS flight from McGuire AFB to Tempelhof Airport. I got to set right seat for about 15 minutes, I was 6 years old. 
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Posted: 7/30/2022 9:44:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Based on the date that was well after I left her in 2000. That is so cool, incentive ride? I can't tell if you are O or E from the pic. I-ride as an E-5. The Knights went up against F-22s at Tyndall. |
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Posted: 7/30/2022 10:11:06 PM EDT
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I used to fly the Swearingen / Fairchild SA-227 Metroliner hauling freight across the US and Mexico. Most of the time I was single pilot, the only person on the entire aircraft. I've moved on to jets since then, but still, this was the most unique and challenging flying of my career. Sometimes no autopilot, and sometimes not even GPS equipped. Icing, thunderstorms, equipment malfunctions, approaches to absolute minimums, this was some interesting flying. The decisions that you have to make in the air, by yourself, to successfully complete a flight legally and safely, and sometimes just barely making it by those criteria, was what made this so fun.
    I previously did a short stint in the beginner turboprop flying the Beechcraft BE99 / C99 out in rural Nebraska. This was a different kind of fun, getting rest time at a local bed and breakfast and heading to the airport early before my night shift so I could BS with the airport manager. Great times 
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Posted: 7/31/2022 10:13:32 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/31/2022 12:57:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:01:16 PM EDT
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 Only if computer games count. |
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:10:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:16:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I did pretty good in the Maverick stuff on Flight Sim if that counts Question for GA guys from someone hoping to start soon - am I an idiot for wanting a Piper Cherokee/Warrior over a Cessna 172? Is there any particular benefit to finding a school that has the specific plane you'd intend to end up with, or are they close enough that just getting in the air is the more important thing to do? Nope. Whatever you want to fly. I got my private in a Cherokee (started in a Traumahawk). I’ve flown a 172 and it’s good too. TC |
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:18:13 PM EDT
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Never got any stick time, but I did get to do the IP or co-seat in almost everything I was assigned to, even if a lot of it was because the f**king generators weren't behaving. Lots of US and NATO AWACS, V and W model RC-135s and two of the super-secret squirrel variants, and both the U and H model gunships.
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:20:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I used to fly the Swearingen / Fairchild SA-227 Metroliner hauling freight across the US and Mexico. Most of the time I was single pilot, the only person on the entire aircraft. I've moved on to jets since then, but still, this was the most unique and challenging flying of my career. Sometimes no autopilot, and sometimes not even GPS equipped. Icing, thunderstorms, equipment malfunctions, approaches to absolute minimums, this was some interesting flying. The decisions that you have to make in the air, by yourself, to successfully complete a flight legally and safely, and sometimes just barely making it by those criteria, was what made this so fun. https://i.postimg.cc/J7HXXXmF/11111.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gkv6SPxq/22222.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dtMyj0VV/33333.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/xdFkJfZY/44444.jpg I previously did a short stint in the beginner turboprop flying the Beechcraft BE99 / C99 out in rural Nebraska. This was a different kind of fun, getting rest time at a local bed and breakfast and heading to the airport early before my night shift so I could BS with the airport manager. Great times https://i.postimg.cc/CxSn96Dy/66666.jpg Some of the toughest flying out there. If you can do single pilot night freight, you can do anything. TC |
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Posted: 7/31/2022 1:21:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Coasting in over Ireland at dawn, 787. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/13440/IMG_0362_jpeg-2471550.JPG Good lord…when that sun hits you in the face, you can feel the hair growing. TC ETA: I can’t hold the 777/787 but I can’t imagine doing full time international. We had so much domestic on the 767/757 and even the L1011 when I started that I never did an entire month of Int. Hats off to you. |
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Posted: 8/5/2022 12:54:07 AM EDT
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I really need to re-up my membership so I can post pictures.
I've flown: The usual training planes; Cessna 150, 152, 172, some low wing pipers. Various other GA; Piper PA18-150, vagabond, Porterfield, Scout, Mooney, others I can't recall. Aborted career as a crop duster; Cessna 188T AgHusky. Penniless skydive pilot; Cessna 182, 206, 207 Soloy turbine conversion, Caravan, Beech Twinbonanza, DHC-6 Twin Otter. Alaska 135 pilot; 207, Caravan, Piper Navajo Chieftain, Beech KingAir 200. Cargo Airline Pilot; C130, 747. I've been around the block a few times. I'm really enjoying flying the Queen of the Skies now. Probably do it till I retire. 5 minutes in a Jet Ranger and 3 glider flights too... |
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Posted: 8/6/2022 8:25:41 AM EDT
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Not this Tail Number
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Posted: 8/6/2022 8:53:29 AM EDT
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C-150/2
C-172 Beech Musketeer C-310 Licensed in '76 |
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Posted: 8/6/2022 8:54:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/6/2022 9:39:47 AM EDT
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Glider that I can’t remember the make and model of as a kid, plus:
R44 (little time on the controls, but passenger) UH-1H (passenger only) (PPL Lessons) PA-28 C-150 C-152 C-172 C-182 Stearman (couple hours on the controls with the owner, including aerobatic time) Was working on my PPL and took a hiatus at around 35 hours due to cash flow, when I came back to it my eyes were shot. I did a night flight around my home field where I’ve done 90% of my flying and couldn’t find the airfield; had to hand the plane off to the instructor to get us on the ground. Absolutely broke my heart. I won’t even bother trying to pass a medical at this point with my eyesight so poor; but I am going to do a few paid jet trainer rides over the next year or two just for the experience. |
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