How many of you are Pilots?

[DASH]

Was just wondering how many of my TDR brothers are Pilots? If you are, what do you fly? I just got my Flight Instructors license and am on my way to the airlines! Oh ya, and ATC is welcome to respond as well! Thanks!!

 

[Bill Lins]

SEL earned 1971- Cessna lover (150, 172, 182, 206, 210)

 

[TR7110]

Dash,

If you ever fly into Forbes, there is a 33% chance I'll be working. Look for a Red Ram sitting at the base of the Tower and say hi.

TR

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

PPSEL, Instrument rated here. I have about 450 hours logged with a little over 50 hours of actual instrument time (in the clouds). Unforetunately I haven't been able to afford to fly for the last 2 years since my wife quit her job when our daughter was born - but I'll be back! When I was flying I flew mostly Piper products - trained in a Tomahawk then moved up to the Cherokee line (Warrior, Archer, Dakota, and Arrow). Flew a few Cessna's as well (152, 172, 182). My favorite plane though was the one I flew the most for the last 100 hours or so and that was a 300 horse 6 seat Piper Saratoga (fixed gear) - man is that a stable plane! Through a friend of mine I've gotten a little stick time in some REALLY cool planes - a T-33 (Korean vintage jet), an L-39 (Czech jet trainer), and an SNJ (WWII trainer).



-Steve

 

[Murle]

SEL, High performance. Contant Speed. Since 1990. 550 Hrs.

 

[thepitts]

Private pilot 250 hrs mostly Cessna 150 and PA28-180 did get to fly an F-4 Phantom II. Don't fly now due to lack of money. Have flown on lots of military aircraft.

 

[LEEH]

Commercial Land and Sea, Instrument rated, mostly Cessnas from 150 up to and including 206 and 195's and super cubs, approximately 6200 hours (4000 + of which are low level surveys below 300 ft). 15 years flying the bush in Alaska over most of the state except the North Slope and south of Juneau.



Don't fly anymore as I lost interest and am enjoying keeping my feet on the ground.

 

[Papa Joe]

SEL, Instrument Rating, 800 hours, mostly Cessna T210M (fine aircraft). Haven't flown for five years.

I'm interested in a tri-axis ultralight. Any comments?

 

[johnrv4]

PPSEL & A&P, Started out in ultralights (800 Hrs), then on to bigger and faster planes. Have a little over 1100 logged in a Cessna 180, Kolb Firestar, and RV-4. Built the RV-4 (Hench the name " Johnrv4") and have been flying it since October '97. Just flew the C-180 last night . Only have 42 Hrs. logged in tricycle- gear airplanes.

 

[merryman]

A has been.

Started out in a Citabia, including airobatics, but just for fun.

I helped an air show contestant friend rebuilt a taylor clipwing for air shows and in return, he gave me a full airobatic course. Also spent a little time in a 1947 international cadet. Mostly flew cessna 140 and 180 and Piper 140.

I quite because I finally decided that I was too absent minded to live to be an old pilot.

I kept forgetting little details-----should have heard my wife everytime I forgot to switch tanks and the engine would start to sputter and quit.

And when the smart a-- in the tower told me I was cleared to land, not do a touch and go; I sort of stalled the old citabria out about 20 feet in the air.

Another time, as I was ripping down the runway, I thought, wow that was a high landing speed, uh, oh, yea, flaps.



After enough of those, it occurred to me I should leave the flying for people who didn't get so distracted by things other than the flying. BUT, I miss it.



Vaughn

 

[GSchlegel]

SEL, Instrument Rated. 950 hrs. Back in the late 70's I worked for Cessna Finance, had a company plane (172 XP). Did everything including repoing planes. I've also delivered every single engine nose dragging Cessna and Piper except the Cessna Cutlass and the Piper Malabu. Owned a Luscumbe 8-D. Have also flown Citabrias and Decathalons. Just getting back flying after 13 yrs. away. I've really missed flying, but I HATE the new regs.

JohnRV4 - I've been in the EAA for about 20 years and really admire any one that sticks with building their own plane! I really like Van's designes. With a family, I wish he would design a four seater though.

Gene

 

[Skydiver]

Most fun I've ever had!

Ultralights.

In 1983 I bought a used Eipper doublequick for $2500 and flew it for about a year. Talk about fun. Mine was weight shift controlled. It had the 35 hp Cuyana engine. When my x got pregnant i decided to sell it to the only person that i would even let touch it. He crashed it from 15 feet. A small gust pushed him off the center line of the grass runway and the left wing caught a cedar poll with gords on it. He made 4 passes and on the 5th it must have felt good to him so he opened up the throttle and went airborn. I told not to get in the gas before he started. He was only bruised but the good news is he paid it off.

That model ultralight would not stall,would not excede VNE even if you tried to dive it and I still say it is a safe model. After all the U-L accidents I saw that were on TV news from people putting then into dives and then folding the wings.

If I were to do it again I would find a dealer that would let me rent a plane by the hour and then buy it later.

Also have flown in a T-6 3 times. Talk about a body airgasm. The G's feel so good. The T-6 owner will do all the aerobatic manuvers except prolonged inverted flight. The carb will run dry after 6 seconds. As the pilot says "it stops producing power"

If someone wants to throw people out of a perfectly good cessna 182 and you have a commercial license let me know.

Dreams over Back to work.

Tim

 

[JBell]

pilot

Hi guy,

I flew from 66 to about 86. Then I instructed for Flight Safety for 9 years. Most of my flying was commuter carrier after a couple of years of instructing. Retired now due to cancer.

JBell

HOU

 

[DavidGardner]

ATP multi engine flight instructor-instrument flight instructor-Over 10,000 hrs total time -more than 4000 hrs multi eng turbine time. kkAm retired Washington State Patrol pilot. Was the WSP training officer and check pilot for over 17 years. 400 pluss hours in beech jet 400 A and the rest of the multi eng turbine time is in king airs. Do I miss it ? No, I enjoyed it very much while I was doing it for a living but now enjoy seeing this great country from the cab of my Dodge Cummins instead of FL 350.

 

[CAJUNCUMMIN]

I have about 100 hrs mostly Cesna 150 some Moonie super 21. Projects - fly in community and bed and breakfast 4. 5 miles south west of Louisiana reginal air port ( L38 ) under cunstruction also I plan on building a Aerocomp 7 turbine with amphibe floats its a composite high wing about the size of a c 182 it has 7 places about 275 kt cruise

 

[Chris N5CWM]

IFLY4$

I'm lucky enough to be flying for a major airline.

Right now, my ratings are Airplane Singe Engine

Land, Airplane Multi Engine Land, Instrument &

Commercial, ATP in the EMB-120 Brasilia, Boeing

757 & 767. I guess my total time is around 9,000

but I lost track! Neatest plane I have flown is

the Boeing 727-200. I worked the Flight Engineer (panel) position for about a year and a half, and

co-pilot as well for another 18 months until they

mothballed them (sad seeing the 727 go away).

I just finished 6 weeks of training for the Boeing

757/767 rating. Looks like my first flight is

going to be on July 10th.



I started flying in 1984, in a Piper Cherokee 140.

First real flying job was in '88, flying a Piper

Cheyenne II, Corporate job. Started airline flying

in 1989.



-Chris



*NEW truck!*

2001 RAM 2500 QC SB 4x4, ETC/5spd, 3. 54 LSD; about

all of the usual options except for heated leather

seats. Bright white, agate interior. No mods yet!

I think the silencer ring is going to get a

vacation though. .

 

[Millfly]

Hundreds of hours with R/C airplanes. Told my wife I needed a Ram 3500 to get my planes to the field.

 

[Sled Puller]

Back in 1989, I was just getting ready to solo, and ran of money/interest.



I also was not real keen on the landing bit. It would be easier with a chute, let the plane go in by itself!

 

[Archive]

ATC response!

I am an air traffic controller... did it for 4 yrs in the air force, and coming up on 21 yrs for the FAA. I have worked in Salt Lake ARTCC(Center) and Seattle ARTCC. I am presently a supe, so only talk to airplanes about 8-10 hrs a month.



Food for thought for VFR pilots: Call us for help BEFORE its too late. We have had pilots call us literally seconds before they have run out of fuel. Not much we can do to help them now.



Food for thought for IFR pilots: Tired of delays? Pour more cement!

 

[klenger]

I don't fly 'em, just design them. I am an Avionics Systems Engineer for a manufacturer of business and regional aircraft. Most of my work involves retrofits in older business aircraft, but we do some mods to new a/c. My speciality is FMS/GPS, but have done numerous (E)GPWS, TCAS, Airdata/RVSM, Flight Control, and EFIS, etc.