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Offline Toad

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« Reply #105 on: February 15, 2005, 12:32:53 AM »
Me too.

This really isn't a big deal except that he has chosen to make it one.

If you got the time, it's no big deal to say which airplane you got it in.
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« Reply #106 on: February 16, 2005, 08:24:21 AM »
First Solo, 1980, Piper Traumahawk, N number ended with 888KC.

I remember like it was yesterday being alone for the first time and saying "888 Kilo Charlie, ready to taxi to active"

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« Reply #107 on: February 16, 2005, 06:51:18 PM »
Just a name please straiga.
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« Reply #108 on: February 16, 2005, 07:58:54 PM »
I'd just drop it, it is Voss under a different name.  

Pretty much everyone knows it, just like everyone pretty much knows the dude is gone.

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« Reply #109 on: February 16, 2005, 08:10:12 PM »
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First Solo, 1980, Piper Traumahawk, N number ended with 888KC.

I remember like it was yesterday being alone for the first time and saying "888 Kilo Charlie, ready to taxi to active"


Same thing.  "Triple three-two quebec over the Maple Grove tower with Charlie"....

LOL talk about a flashback :)

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« Reply #110 on: February 16, 2005, 08:52:08 PM »
Late to the party, but a heck of an entertaining read.

Golfer, love to hear what happens in Vegas.

And, though he is clearly convincing on vox, Straiga's long avoidance of this thread makes me suggest that you may want to have some cab fare with you when you land.
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« Reply #111 on: February 16, 2005, 09:12:45 PM »
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Late to the party, but a heck of an entertaining read.

Golfer, love to hear what happens in Vegas.

 


I'm sorry to tell you that Golfer's head is probably being used as an Ashtray in Straiga's "Flesh dungeon"  right now.  Always meet internet lunatics in a public place.


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« Reply #112 on: February 16, 2005, 11:28:53 PM »
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I'm sorry to tell you that Golfer's head is probably being used as an Ashtray in Straiga's "Flesh dungeon"  right now.  Always meet internet lunatics in a public place.


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lol

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« Reply #113 on: February 17, 2005, 03:23:42 AM »
Golfer posted in the O' Club yesterday. Guess he's afraid to show himself here.
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« Reply #114 on: February 17, 2005, 09:48:56 AM »
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yeah.. my instructor said i was the fastest he'd ever seen, and that he wasn't trying to rush me... everything came so easily though. i really think a lot of it had to do with playing every flight sim i could come across since i first got msfs.

of course now 2 years later and i still have no license. ran out of money :( trying to finish now though so i can enjoy the summer with my friends instead of solo


 Every student I have ever had that flew with a flight sim before learing how to fly, had his (or her) head looking dead on at the panel chasing the altimeter, trying to keep it at the assighned altitude I gave them. That being said when they go up for there IFR training they make some of the sweetest ILS landing's I have ever seen a student make. So I tend to think there are pros and cons to flight sims like MSFS, but the fun factor is still there.

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« Reply #115 on: February 17, 2005, 11:07:46 AM »
I've talked to Golfer in the game.  My impression is that he is intellegent, rational.  A good guy.  I'll be interested in what he has to say.

In passing, I could not have come up with the N Number of the airplane I soloed in if you held a gun to my head.  It's in the logbook and on the shirt-tail I expect.
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« Reply #116 on: February 17, 2005, 12:11:46 PM »
Kegger26: Getting my head out of the cockpit, and flying by visual only was very hard for me.

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« Reply #117 on: February 17, 2005, 12:27:37 PM »
There are a few people I've talked to via private emails in this thread, and with the exception of them I will say this:

Get a life.



To say I am "afraid" to post here is laughable.  I've just been reading the posts here in the morning, sipping hot chocolate before work and wondering where things come from.  I can asssure the community of a few things.

Straiga is not Paul Hinds. (That would be Voss)

Straiga's initials are two consecutive letters of the alphabet in reverse.  i.e xy his initials would be yx.

He's an ATP, flies for Hawaiian.  Gimme a friggin break...I looked at the aerial photo of LAX posted by chairboy several times and if you didn't work for Hawaiian Airlines...would you have picked out that little white speck of an airplane?  I didn't.

I know a few former Naval Aviators.  For the most part (9/10) they are real level headed, quick thinking and pretty reserved guys.  I know 2 and Straiga who are a little more headstrong, less of a 'people pleaser' who will take to the attitude of "Why should I prove myself" just for the sake of a BBs community.  I doubt you'll hear from him on this issue.  It's easier just to stop posting and go on about his merry way.  I think if you went to him directly he would have given the information.  Attempting to run him over your virtual coals on a BBs that has no bearing on my daily life anyway...it wouldn't mean anything for me to stop posting here.  I'd just stop.  Play the game with my squadron and wonder how so many can be so petty.

Grow up.  If you want information, requesting it in the form of insults on a public forum isn't going to get you anywhere.  You're all pretty smart guys why act like 4 year olds.  Not long ago I had a kid come up to me and say he had a moon rock.  I took a look at the piece of limestone and asked how he got it.  He'd been on the space shuttle and when they stopped on the moon he picked it up.  If this had been the BBs the reaction would be to steal the moonrock, place it in a pedestal and labeling it "Justin's moon rock" while asking Justin all these questions to confrm he was an astrounaut.  Instead, I took the kid off where we could talk alone.  I told him lying isn't a good thing, and where he really got the rock.  He said the moon.  "Fair enough" I said then proceeded to enlighten him a bit about the shuttle program.  It doesn't land on the moon, in fact it doesn't get even 1/2 way there.  I asked if he had a college degree...not yet he said.  Well when I told him that saying stories like these are going to make people not like him instead of appreciate his imagination...he'd gotten the picture.  The other kids forgot about it as soon as it happened but I'd like to think he's not going to do it again.

I don't know the point of that story, but I think dealing in person and being civil will get you further than demanding to be satisfied.  If at the very least, you'll earn the respect of whomever you're 'confronting' and that will take you further than you could ever imagine.  Good luck.

-Arrive in Las Vegas 10 pm on Sunday.  Have an invite to Straiga's house and a lift to the ATP apartments where I'm staying.  I won't have my own computer while there so keep your friggin pants on until I get back March 11th to hear what happened.

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« Reply #118 on: February 17, 2005, 12:37:51 PM »
Hope ya got taxi money
 Also, I'm pretty sure that HT knows this fellas name, unless he prepaid with a cashiers check.
 Need a name for any CC transaction.

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« Reply #119 on: February 17, 2005, 12:56:10 PM »
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Hope ya got taxi money
 Also, I'm pretty sure that HT knows this fellas name, unless he prepaid with a cashiers check.
 Need a name for any CC transaction.


HT could not give this info out if he wanted to, it is a protected private transaction.

The other thing though is straiga has already mentioned his name to some other people through emails in the past and in conversations online in game.  So, it's not hard to get.
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