How many guys really fly?

[Heretik]

Got my PPL back in June. Too broke to fly ever since

[save]

130 hours in  ultralights

Not  US ultralight,gross weight is about 1000lb - rules we have in Europe.

[teevin]

no stik time, well some of course but 12 years air crew all Military..UH34,CH53, all Helicopter

[MRPLUTO]

Back in high school and college (I'm 46 now), I flew Cessna 150's and gliders.  Total stick time: about 35 hours, split 50/50, with maybe 4 hours solo in gliders, which as Jarsci points out, are much more fun than powered.  The glider training has been very useful over the last 10 years of AirWarrior/WarBirds/Aces High combat.

MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33

[2stony]

In 1997 I got 15 minutes stick time in the B-17 "Nine-o-nine". Now the FFA won't let people do that anymore. I paid $500 to fly it and it was a total erection. I also have the whole flight on tape.

[FTndr]

Originally posted by Gixer
Commercial Helicopter Licence since 95 mainly made up of PnC time in Hughes 500C, 206's and Hughes 300's. Never been anywhere near a Robinson other then to pick up the wreckage after a crash.

Also have about 12 hours fixed wing, but that bored crap out of me as only ever wanted to fly helicopters.



...-Gixer
~Hells Angels~

Helicopters don't fly....... they beat the air into submission

[teevin]

and they also vibrate themselves into some semblance of a flight configuration, at least the old 9cly radial eng UH34 did.

Mfg by Sikorsky at their plant in Conn. it took over after the older version was finished following rhe Korean War I believe. I crewed that one mostly only graduating to the CH53 after a brief retraining on jet engines.

Never did like the 53.

[Biggles]

I've been flying since 1979, but need to get current again. I let my medical and biennial lapse a couple of years ago. I've flown various Cessnas, a Decathlon, Champ (learned taildraggers in that), Gere Sport biplane, and this '41 Culver Cadet (notice the Spit-like wings!):



Algy

[Toad]

I have flown a bit in February of 2000.

I put up this batting cage with the top at 15' and used it for years but came time the property owner wanted it down, so I took my ladder out to do that.

The ground was starting to thaw and I was up right at the top of a pole unbolting a cable. I had both hands on the job and my feet on the ladder.

One side of the ladder just suddenly broke through the frozen crust into the muck underneath and the ladder lurched to the side sinking about 8-10" in on jump.

I took off, sailing out over the prairie grasses, flapping my wings and kicking my legs.

I flew man, I flew. I really, really flew.

But, like they say, the landings are the hard part.

Had an operation to remove a piece of fractured disc after that one.

[teevin]

how do you post pictures?

[meddog]

I have 4000+ hours  in variouse aircraft  both fixed wing and rotorcraft.  Rotorwing : hughs 500 series & jet rangers Fixed wing: a slew of single and multi engine aircraft.  Barons, King Airs, Lear jets.
For the airlines I fly the DH-8

[udet]

working on my PPL

[bockko]

It is quite cool to see the mix we have in here - military guys, old-fashioned arm flappers, and everything in between. The b-17's were here last week -- 400 bucks for 30 minutes, but had to buy a new leather couch instead...man, i am whipped. But I did find out about a local  guy who flies people in a t6, think I will go for an hour and find my barf limit [with a smile on my face].

Toad - a co worker of mine took the same flight school, he set his ladder up in front of his garage to take down christmas lights, only the legs slipped out and he came straight down from about .010k. I guess he did more of a bailout than a graceful flight in a horizontal trajectory.

[teevin]

Originally posted by bockko
It is quite cool to see the mix we have in here - military guys, old-fashioned arm flappers, and everything in between. The b-17's were here last week -- 400 bucks for 30 minutes, but had to buy a new leather couch instead...man, i am whipped. But I did find out about a local  guy who flies people in a t6, think I will go for an hour and find my barf limit [with a smile on my face].

Toad - a co worker of mine took the same flight school, he set his ladder up in front of his garage to take down christmas lights, only the legs slipped out and he came straight down from about .010k. I guess he did more of a bailout than a graceful flight in a horizontal trajectory.

sorry wrong quote

[teevin]

Originally posted by udet
working on my PPL

re the Curtis Helldiver..closest Ive come is flying WorldWar I planes on line.. Camel, Spad, DR1,Albatross,SE5,CL2,F2B,and the like, a lot of fun and much different then anything hre.