Any Pilots Here?

JetRanger · Post by **JetRanger** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:08 am

I saw there was one pilot here, Cessna152Towser, and read another post by pilot (forget who).

Are there any/many other pilots here?

JR.

talon2mech · Post by **talon2mech** » Thu May 18, 2006 6:59 am

I am a instrument pilot. I work in aviation as well as maintenance quality assurance.

isobar · Post by **isobar** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:02 am

PPL, lapsed

MAPLEDUDE · Post by **MAPLEDUDE** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:00 pm

I hold a private pilot certificate. Have type ratings for the Cessna 150, 152, 172 and the mighty Piper Tomahawk!

Bob

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:03 pm

Well flying was what I really wanted to do for a living. My father served in the Royal Air Force during World War 2 where he became an aircraft engineer and post war he had a career in civil aviation until he retired in 1983. He lived to the age of 85 and died in 2004. As a youngster I washed and valetted planes for Loganair at our local airport and was a member of the Air Training Corps. When I went to university I was unsuccessful in gaining selection to the University Air Squadron so ended up qualified in law and had a 30 year career in local government. Now that I'm semi-retired I spend two or three days a week in the world of aviation, unpaid -mainly as a volunteer at an aviation museum. I eventually gained my PPL and fly Cessna 152, Piper Cherokee and Piper Tomahawk. I'm currently part way through the course for an IMC rating.

jlhansen · Post by **jlhansen** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:10 pm

cessna152towser wrote:My father served in the Royal Air Force during World War 2

My Dad taught the British how to fly during WW2 down at Thunderbird Field, AZ ... who knows, maybe he was your Dad's instructor ... if he was a pilot?

John

G.Shaw · Post by **G.Shaw** » Fri May 19, 2006 1:14 am

I have been unable to make the time to complete my rating. I have 84 hours of flight time and only have 1) tower controled airport landing and a check ride. to complete. The sad thing is the Flight School I was going to lost 'my' instructor and the next instructor wants a minimum 20 hours before he will sign me off for the check ride. Another flight school wants 10 hours and $4300 to sign me off. I attempted to return to my original flight school and finish there but they have since closed. I love flying but at this point I'm going to have to put it off until I have more time. My Medical (Class III) expires in two months. I am going to pick flying back up one day. In the meantime I spend a substantial amount of time flying my computer around the world.

Greg

talon2mech · Post by **talon2mech** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:38 am

G.Shaw wrote:I have been unable to make the time to complete my rating. I have 84 hours of flight time and only have 1) tower controled airport landing and a check ride. to complete. The sad thing is the Flight School I was going to lost 'my' instructor and the next instructor wants a minimum 20 hours before he will sign me off for the check ride. Another flight school wants 10 hours and $4300 to sign me off. I attempted to return to my original flight school and finish there but they have since closed. I love flying but at this point I'm going to have to put it off until I have more time. My Medical (Class III) expires in two months. I am going to pick flying back up one day. In the meantime I spend a substantial amount of time flying my computer around the world.

Greg

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

talon2mech · Post by **talon2mech** » Fri May 19, 2006 6:40 am

I am rated in the Cessna(s) 150,152,172,175,177 and 182. I have logged 3.5 in a skymaster. My recent favorite is the all glass Diamond air DA-40. What a graceful machine!

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:43 am

jlhansen

My father served with 36SFTS at Penhold Alberta and also served at Gananoque, Ontario where he was involved in maintaining the training aircraft, Ansons, Oxfords, Harvards, etc. In late 1943 he sustained a serious head injury and was in sick bay for some weeks and was eventually shipped home to Scotland where he served the latter part of the war with 57MU at Wig Bay and Castle Kennedy on the Solway Firth, hence my active involvement with the Solway Aviation Museum at Carlisle Airport.
talon2mech

That sounds like an impressive line up. I had hoped to get checked out on the Cessna 172 while at Perranporth on holiday last year but bad weather and limited availability of the aircraft meant I only managed a short trial flight with an instructor. I also had a trial lesson in an ex-RAF Chipmunk trainer - the one on which Prince Charles flew his first solo. I can thoroughly recommend the Chipmunk experience - probably the next best thing to a full size warbird. My wife is disabled and is unable to access the Cherokee or Tomahawk though another pilot once helped me lift her into the Cessna 152 and she enjoyed her short flight, so I'm thinking of getting a share in an Ikarus C-42 microlight which besides being easy for the disabled to board would be fun to fly in fine weather.

isobar · Post by **isobar** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:52 pm

cessna152towser wrote:Carlisle Airport.

Hey, I grew up in Carlisle but learned to fly in Fullerton, CA., on Cessna 150/152s. Subsequently added a 172 rating at Long Beach and flew a bit in the UK, but it wasn't the same and I eventually gave it up. I flew in a chipmunk once, with the air cadets. Also open-top gliders at Catterick - IN THE WINTER!

Gregg1100 · Post by **Gregg1100** » Fri May 19, 2006 7:19 pm

Hi John,
Did you mean that your dad taught the British how to fly a CERTAIN make of American aircraft in WW2.??
As you know, the Brits and Germans were slugging it out over Europe in WW1.
Greg

Big and Bashful · Post by **Big and Bashful** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:10 pm

Jings, crivens and help ma boab!
People near Carlisle, where my Mum lives and I visit regularily. I have even spent days kilted wandering round Carlisle with the excuse "me jeans are in the wash".

Maybe there could be a meeting of us near there sometime? if I lose enough weight to get into the kilt again!
Maybe in the Auctioneer, land of the best carvery in the World (that I have seen so far). stranger things have happened.

cessna152towser · Post by **cessna152towser** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:21 pm

Well I've only once worn a kilt to go flying but I usually wear one when I'm on duty at the aviation museum and my next duty day will be Sunday 28th May.

jlhansen · Post by **jlhansen** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:59 am

Gregg1100 wrote:Hi John,
Did you mean that your dad taught the British how to fly a CERTAIN make of American aircraft in WW2.?? Greg

I think they were called AT6's and whether the British flew them also ... I couldn't tell you.

Here is a photo that was hanging on my Dad's wall of him flying one of these beasts ... if you look REAL close you can see him as the pilot ... looks alot like me, huh?
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Now, I believe this is an AT6. And yup, that's my Dad standing next to his baby ... debonair looking character.
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I would give him a call to clarify, but he is somewhat unavailable right now.

John

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Any Pilots Here?

Any Pilots Here?

Interesting ...

Student Pilot Certificate but.....

OK, I'll indulge you boys ...