Any Pilots Here?

Since1982 · Post by **Since1982** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:26 am

Somewhat unavailable? Yeah, my dad and mom are somewhat unavailable too. Except in my dreams and pictures on the wall. By the way, I can see the family resemblance in both pictures very clearly.

G.Shaw · Post by **G.Shaw** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:07 pm

talon2mech wrote:Seems criminal huh..I hate that 20 hour crap. In fact I would talk to the chief instuctor.

Yes it does. Problem is it's so small the only full time instructor is the chief instructor. So I guess quality or lack thereof is an issue here. He only had 420 hours of flying time himself. Very little experience if you ask me.

Greg

Gregg1100 · Post by **Gregg1100** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:15 pm

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Hi John,
What a great picture of that plane in flight.
My parents are out of reach too, except for in my head and heart. No offence intended.
Greg[/FONT]

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:40 pm

Yep, the North American AT-6, better known as the Texan but also known as the Harvard by the Brits - that's one of the types my father serviced during World War 2. My parents are also sadly now out of reach - we ourselves on this forum seem to be mostly getting up in years - but I have a small display of my late father's World War 2 artefacts displayed in a cabinet at Solway Aviation Museum and one of his photo albums has been left open to display a page of the aircraft he worked on including two illustrations of AT-6's. From my father's generation he has a younger cousin Eric still living who soloed on Harvards as part of his pilot training, but he couldn't pass the instrument exams so ended up as a flight engineer on Lincoln bombers. I'm planning to take Eric flying in a Tomahawk next month.

Dasani · Post by **Dasani** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:58 am

Commercial Helicopter pilots license here. Only 160 flight hours so far in Schweizer 300's. What a situation, to be in it over $50,000, and have just enough flight hours to get your license, but not enough flight hours to get a job. Can't get the job without the flight hours, but can't get the flight hours without the job! Incapable of being a flight instructor just yet to build my flight hours that way, so my current plan is to buy my own damn helicopter and build flight hours flying it. Ha ha. That's how I got started driving truck. No one would hire me because I was only 18 and had no experience, so I bought my own. Fairly succesful in the trucking world now. Same principal in buying a helicopter, just a lot higher initial cost, and much more regulated as far as the maintenance and things go.

Only problem with flying a helicopter, is skirts might kind of get in the way of the cyclic that goes between your legs:think:

ChrisM · Post by **ChrisM** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:07 pm

She was a mechanics' test pilot in WWII, flew AT-6s and UC-78s on check-out flights. You know, make sure the guys had put the engine in rightside up and so forth.

It was a pretty unusual talent for a woman in 1944.

Chris

Pythos · Post by **Pythos** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:30 pm

Comercial pilot, SEL, instrument rated 570hrs.

WSmac · Post by **WSmac** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:56 am

Ha, I feel like such a flake here

I started working on my private up in Fairbanks, Alaska in '93 at the Eilson Air Force Aero Club.

Nothing like having the tower position you inbetween an F-16 and a C-130 taxiing for takeoff!

I finished my third flight, a night flight (hardly night in the summer up in Alaska though) sometime after midnight.

I drove the 30 minutes to home, eased myself down into bed beside my pregnant wife and promptly fell asleep for a few minutes until her water broke

Spent the next 36 hours wide awake delivering a beautiful baby girl.

OH, and the flying?

Never went back again. Someday though!

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