How many of you are Pilots?

[Spooled-up]

ATP Multiengine land

CL-65 Type Rating

4600 hrs Total time



Started flying in 1992 in Sanford FL. Flight instructed and got hired at a large regional airline in Cincinnati in 1996. Flew the right seat of the EMB-120 Brasilia for 750 hrs or so, then went to the right seat of the Canadair Regional Jet. I made captain on the regional jet in June of 1999 and have been flying as a captain since then. I met my future wife while flying as a captain. She's a first officer here. We were paired together on a flight from Vegas to Tulsa to Cincinnati. She's a keeper!



Chris N5cwm,

Do you fly for AA? I have an uncle and a friend based in Dallas, one friend flies for DAL there also. I've been trying to get hired with AA for years now.

 

[JEMOORE]

Privat Pilot SEL around 500 hrs. Mostly C-172's. Hope to build experimental someday.

 

[TFabian]

Private Pilot, SEL. Currently own a Pitts Special S1S. Also currently building a One Design DR107 (acro monoplane). Pretty much fly only acro. . Cross-countries inverted only... ...

 

[Charley]

SEL 1957 in a 125 Tri Pacer, J3, PA 11, PA 18, C172, 175 & T6. Only about 170 logged hours and many hours right seat that were not logged. Haven't had my hands on in many years but get lots of rotary passanger time flying pipeline construction jobs and some time standing on the skid taking movies of same. Completely around the world three times in 1982 as passanger on 747, got to be the finest aircraft ever built. Have a nephew with his own set of keys to the Skunk Works so get to snoop on lots of exotic stuff most people never even get to see. Even nephew can't get me close to some of them without us both risk getting shot.



Would never have thought so many smoke sniffers held tickets.



Charley

 

[CAJUNCUMMIN]

I am planing aviation as a carear,thinking about Comair academy seems like a great program any thoughts. www.comairacademy.com I love flying and seems like it could be rewarding.

 

[Rcpilotlv]

I FLY MODEL AIRPLANES DOES THAT COUNT!

 

[jthorpe]

Not a pilot, but former controller. TRACON, not tower

 

[HEMI®Dart]

TWA Flight 800 Rebuilt, Ready To Return To Air..

Is this safe? :-laf

 

[aharmstrong]

Flew Guns with the 1Cav. 68,SELfor 10 years. Tiger24

 

[MD500E]

Comerical Helicopter pilot for about 7 years flying the Bell 206 Jetranger/Longranger, MD500, Enstrom 280, and a little time in a EC-130.



Kevin

 

[Jakebud]

I've got just around 5300 hours flying the USAF's finest. I have time in the T-37, T-38, B-52G, B-1B, the E-4B (747-200), a couple hours in an F-111F, and around 60 hours in B747-100s and B747-200s owned by UAL. I have my ATP and also am type rated in the B-747 Classic (-100, -200, -300 series). For those of you that might of noted Idaho Native's post on page two of this thread, we are in the same squadron together. I have to wonder if we are the only squadron mates anywhere on TDR.



SPIKE

 

[Shelby Griggs]

Spike,



You guys operating out of Offutt? That is a lot of hardware! How much seat time in the B-1B? That thing will rattle your teeth on take off, at least outside the cockpit. I was at Ellsworth in 2004 doing some contract work, a mighty impressive flying machine, was just at Barksdale about 30 days ago, again working as a contractor, those B-52's are still there!



Next USAF base will be Mountain Home in April-May. I know there is a least one TDR member there.



SHG

 

[RandyHamilton]

Never Flew em

But I spent 15 of my 20 in the Navy controlling em. . Intercept control,, You ATC guys spend all that time keeping em apart and then us Air Intercept Controllers run em back together. . F-4, A-7, A-6, KA-6D, EA6B, F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, A-4. All in all I worked about 2500 Intercepts of my own and supervised another 1,000 or so, mostly training, but sometimes the other guys would come out to play,, Vietnamese, Russian (lots of Russians flying in the Sea of Japan when the USN puts 2 CV Battle Groups up there!), Iranian, Indian, Pakistani, Japanese, French, Brits, Israeli and probably a few more that slip my mind.



Probably the only thing that kept me in the Navy was the fun of controlling front line fighter and attack aircraft.

 

[AfterBurner]

2. 5 years to go till I'll be in the seat of one these, if all goes right. Oo.

 

[RandyHamilton]

"Fox-2"

2. 5 years to go till I'll be in the seat of one these, if all goes right. Oo.

Nice pic of the AIM 9 Sidewinder launch.

 

[Jakebud]

Shelby



We do indeed operate the E-4 out of Offutt. Have you ever been out this way and caught sight of one. We call them the BWJ, or Big White Jet.



Years ago, during my time in the Bone, it was a treat to have Supervisor of Flying duties and be in the truck on the taxiway as close to the runway as we could get. With the airplane in full burner, the sound and vibration would just go right through you, and that was magnificent to say the least. At that point, each engine was burning 55,000 pounds an hour, and by the time we broke ground that went up to 80,000 pounds. My first sortie here in the E-4, the engineer asked if I was impressed with our CF-6s using 14,000 an hour. I said no, and he didn't understand. When I explained the numbers from the Bone, he said "OK, I have no point!"



With a bit of luck, a magnificent 24 year career will come to a close in May of next year. I'm going to miss this.



SPIKE

 

[Jakebud]

Shelby



I forgot to mention that I have a shade over 2,000 hours in the Bone.



600 at 200 forever!



SPIKE

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Around 250hrs SEL Private. Most of it in my Cessna 175 converted to convetional gear. Lots of fun jumping gravel bar to gravel bar looking for fish.



Make my living as a certified aircraft mechanic. Someday I may take the pay cut and fly commercially.

 

[Jengle]

Got my first license in 81, been flying ever since. Mostly Cessna, 152,140, Luscombe 8E, Taylorcraft F-19, PA-38-150-Supercub on Tundra Tires, 172, 172 on floats, 177, PA-140, 172RG, 182, 182RG, 210, PA-23-Apache, PA-44-Seminole ,303-Crusader, BE-58-Baron, BN-2A-Britten Norman Islander, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Flown a lot of time out of a grass strip, and Dulles. I owned a Cherokee 140 for a while, then sold it to pay bills, and since then, the cost of a plane has skyrocketed. Thanks to the lawyers. Got the seaplane rating in Maine a few years ago, and that was the most fun I have had in a plane. Maine has lots of places to play on the water. Would love to fly in AK, one of these days. My dream plane would be a 185 on floats or tundra tires.

 

[GAmes]

8 years as an Army helicopter mechanic, then 19 as a pilot and maintenance test pilot. UH-1s, OH-58s, AH-1s and AH-64s. Something over 3000 hours as a pilot, no idea how many as a crew chief.