Originally posted by Straiga
Hitech,
I do have an engineering degree in aeronautics. I soloed in 3.5 hrs too in a airplane and also in a helicopter I recieved my RotorCraft rating at 40 hrs. I started flying when I was 14 I wasnt legal when I was soloed but when your dads own the airport with no feds around I didnt care. I had 376 hrs by the time I recieved my private pilot certificate this was because of my age, at the same time I took my Instrument and Commercial licences at 17. My CFI at 19 and ATP at 21.
I been flying for 30 yrs, I probabley have more logged instructor time then most pilots have total time. I have over 7,000 hrs rotor time alone 1/3 of that as an instructor. The only ratings I dont have is float plane, glider, tiltrotor, hot air baloon, but there next when I get time.
**Cough, bull**** cough, cough**
I think I need to put on my boots cuz it is getting deeper and deeper in here. Your telling me you have 7,000 hours just in rotor time? Give me a break. yOur dad owns a dealership too doesnt he?
So let me get this straight. You soloed at 14? you are openly admiting this? I have a hard time with this one. See even a big GA airport like the one I work at is still small at heart. Most of us pilots know one another, we all shop at the same pilots shop on the airport. We all stand around by the coffee pot talking about flyings. Hell there are old timers that dont even fly anymore, yet they still come down and talk for hours about flying. They watch the planes that are coming and going, talk about some of the other pilots...aka man gossip. Most of all we talk about the morons on the feild. The pilots that we dont feel are up to standard. The guys with more money than brains.
Now I know for a fact this happens around the country. I have worked at three other feilds in MD and PA, so I know it is the same everywhere. So I find it hard that you did your pre-flight, taxied and took off, without anyone noticing. Whats more nobody reported your bellybutton to the FAA. You dad may have owned the airport, but the Fed Govt owns the airspace son.
-Keg