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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Citabria on October 30, 2001, 01:50:00 AM
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curious how many AH nutts have ratings?
how many have paid flight positions?
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I'll start:
I have the commercial single and multiengine land instrument airplane ticket.
I do not have a job flying yet.
next goal is getting my Certified flight instructor rating.
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Single engine land and sea. Own a '68 172 with 215hp Franklin, constant speed seaplane prop and Edo 2440's. I fly for fun.
Never finished my instrument, but would like to get my multi-engine/commercial/instrument land and sea in a Twin Bee someday all in one shot. When I have a month to burn and lot's 'o money hehe.
Good luck getting your instructor ticket!
ts
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In my squad;
Knfe (our CO) is a retired F-15 driver. Now flies 737s. And for fun AT-6s and little bipes.
Qgun flies Helicotpers for the Army reserve.
Break (our old beloved CO, may he rest in peace) flew light planes for fish & game. He also owned several warbirds and a little bipe.
Wabbit used to own 1/2 an AT-6 untill his partner totaled it.
Jarbo and Sabre fly satalites.
Camel flies RC
I fell out of a tree once.
eskimo
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I made soup in the microwave. Twice.
Got the Commercial ATP button thingy down.
They got soup in there? That'd be cool.
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Private Pilot here, VFR only, Land and Sea, I fly for fun, mostly Robin 200 (two seater-single fixed prop) and Cessna 172.
Now working on aerobatics in a CAP 10.
Would like to do multi and instrumental, but it's SO DAMN expensive over here.
Daniel, aka Cyrano
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Comercial multiengine, land, IFR, CFI, glider, aerobatic
i've been flying glider tugs for ages to build hours (and for the fun of it.. man i love landing) got to fly a lot of different planes like Robin Remorquers and Super Cubs,
now i'm dropping skydivers out of a Shorts SC7 Skyvan and a Cessna 206 Soloy Turbine conversion for a living.
Cheers
DW6
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I have a:
ATP (issued 1981)
CFII (issued 1979)
If you want to make flying a career, I suggest going to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University(1979 grad). Just about all my pals from ERAU are now captains for major airlines.
Lost medical due to diabetes(type 1) in 1982. (still bumming about that)
I could still teach flying, but cannot act as pilot in command.
ATC
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I jumped out of plane and got a cool "Diploma" for my wall.
Two members of my family for fly Air Canada.
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I've flapped my arms before. Taxi mode only. I've never got tower clearance yet for an actual legs-up airborne flight.
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Over 50 hours in private aircraft, none of it licensed though.
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Took 5 hours of private lessons before running out of money.
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I also have wings, they pounded them into my chest when I won them if you know what I mean GUNG HO, GUNG HO, GUNG HO, RANGERS ALL THE WAY.
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PPL(A) Microlights with 50 hours P1. Own a share in CT2000. I'm doing a PPL(A) course right now on a PA28 and thinking about building hours to start AFI course.
Duck - how does one start in glider towing? To get to any FI rating you need hours and CPL but building hours to get a CPL is a squeak costwise (200 hours at £100/hour + tuition & exams... Hmmm.... I'll buy a brand new Europa for this kind of money :()...
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Private Pilot, 350 hrs Gliders, 100 hrs power, (8 hrs King Air Dual)
Flown a Glider over 36,000 feet
Took off and later landed at Atlanta Hartsfield once...
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1974 - 16th birthday - soloed; Flunked drivers test the same day.
1975 - 17th birthday - Private ticket.
Still flying, (when I have the extra cash)
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Canadian ATPL, 20K+ hours, flown commercially for 35 years (old guy :)), 25+ in airline. None of this is any advantage in this sim :(.
At least 5 others in the squad are work mates.
Sadly, the horror of Sept 11th is going to again stagnate this business and make it a very hard career for young people to enter for some time to come.
<S> all in AH
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Originally posted by Busher:
Sadly, the horror of Sept 11th is going to again stagnate this business and make it a very hard career for young people to enter for some time to come.
<S> all in AH
I plan on making a career out of it. :(
I must be on crack.
About 16 hrs. Four more to solo!
:D
[ 10-30-2001: Message edited by: Thrawn ]
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Single-engine-land, Private.
Rotorcraft, Private.
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Wanted to fly since I was a youngster, got a flying lesson as a present after having plastic surgery on my left hand when I was 13(severly burned when I was 2). Kinda hard to hold a yoke in a cast, but if you are determined enough, you can! Got the bug, folks had enough extra to spot me a flying lesson every so often to keep my enthusiasm. At 15, began working part time, washed airplanes for the local Air National Guard Aero club in exchange for free time to fly. Solo'd when I was 16, 3 days later I got my driver's license so I didnt have to walk to the airport anymore :)
Got my Private Pilot's Certificate in 1991 (Single Engine Land), went to North Shore Community College in Beverly, Mass. to do their Airline Pilot program. Passed, with flying colors, all the ground school tests for High Performance, Instrument and Commercial but just didnt have the funds to do the flying.
Kinda where I've left it. I have 200+ hours logged, got many flying with the local Civil Air Patrol. Still fly when cash allows, weary of the local rentals so I bought a guys 90% complete BD-5. Gorgeous plane, saving up to have it sent to the factory and finished up and modernized. You can follow my [lack of] progress at http://bd5.checksix.net (http://bd5.checksix.net)
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i have rocks in my shorts so im stuck on the ground
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- 8/8/1963 - Glider -soloed (Ka-7 4692T)
- 9/30/1964 - 16th birthday - soloed (Mooney Mk21 6420U)
- 9/30/1965 - 17th birthday - Private (Mooney Mk21 6420U)
- Still Flying
- Online Flight Sims
- Air Warrior DOS (when it started)
- Air Warrior
- WarBirds
- Aces High (to date)
- R/C Flinging
- Just started - Soloed 8/9/2001 (Instructor- Dale "HiTech" Addink)
- having a blast!!!!
Thunder
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Lynx:
Well i happened to come from the other side .. basically i'd been towed a lot cause i started flying in gliders .. and when i decided to make my PPL it was kind of the thing to do .. in our club they are allways craving for folks who fly the tug because we are mainly a glider club with hardly and powered a/c drivers...
The thing i can suggest to you is search out the nearest glider field, hang out there for a while (glider pilots make a LOT of hangar flying) talk to the people and see if the maybe need a tug driver. I don't know the UK regs for towing but here in austria it's a special rating and you have to do a flight test for it .. but it's not that hard.. you need 5 tows in the glider, then 15 with a flight instructor and then off you go for the flight test.
The flight test is a normal tow, then level 360s, and then coming back for a touch and go with the glider still in tow, at least that's all it was here.
It's fun flying but beware .. it's WORK if the field is busy and it can be quite hazardous... i had my tail pulled up at about 500 feet AGL once and managed to pull out at tree top hight.. well stuff like that. But nevertheless it's a great experience and i still enjoy doing it.
Cheers
DW6
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(AlgyFT) Single engine land, 496 hours TT. got my private ticket back in 1979. An ear problem prevents any better than a 3rd class medical so I've never given serious thought to flying for a living.
I've owned four planes over the years: Gere Sport Biplane (http://home.earthlink.net/~dccowan/biplane/geresprt.htm), Quickie (single seat with Onan engine), KR-2 (with Barker VW conversion, supercarb, etc), and a 1941 Culver Cadet LCA (low-wing, two-place retractible, Continental C-85).
I don't currently own an aircraft, but hope to change that in the near future.
All of my flying has taken place in Western Washington.
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Private Pilot cert. SEL 1983
Starting IFR training in next few months.
Own a 58 Piper Comanche, (retract and constant speed)
Own half of a C 172 on leaseback.
Currently working towards an A&P certificate and just overhauled the engine of the 172. Now I am testing my work by breaking the engine in before it goes on the line for hire.
Mav
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PP (ASEL) 8/2000 about 200 hours total in single engine Pipers. Got about half way through my instrument before I realized that I didn't much enjoy flying "in the system". A few hours in a 172 but I didn't like it as much as the Cherokee 180 & Archer.
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SEL rating here with a high power, complex signoff.
Currently flying T-34's and Piper singles, with ~200 hours. Getting into the warbird/airshow/fly-in type of thing.
40 minutes in R-22 egg-beaters
1.5 hours in 777 Flight Safety full motion sim.
MiG
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otw to ppl (money willing) with about 15 hrs logged, half of that solo. Fly as a hobby.
Several hundred hours as a flight test engineer. I guess that counts as being paid to fly even though I wasn't at the controls, I was just telling the bus driver what to do. :D
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Although none of this seems to help my k/d ratio...<grn>
Civilian:
Commercial/single-engine/multi-engine/instrument
Lear Jet Type Rating
Military:
Designated Naval Aviator
Aircraft commander: KC-130 / UC-12B
First solo flight was in June of 1971 (L-2 Taylorcraft). First solo in a Navy jet trainer (T-2C) in 1981.
Not flying currently, got a nice comfy ground job.
Regards,
Magic
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Glider/SEL
(Sorry, I always bite on these 'who's a Pilot' trolls)
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I've developed an aversion to flying, I tell myself that if I was PIC it would be different but I ain't gone near an airplane in 15 years. Prior to this little psychological jewel I loved spending every minute I could in the air and have a Commercial License with ASEL and CFI ratings. Before going bonkers I accumulated over 4,000 hrs.
Now, here's a little jewel that caught my eye. What does it tell you when guys like me and Busher say that none of our real life flight experience means anything in this sim? It tells me that we need at least one arena where old buzzards like us can have airplanes that require engine management etc. A place where crosswinds and weather are real and where FW190s, ME109s and F4Us exhibit the tendencies they were really known for. Then maybe I can shoot down some of the Nintendo generation dweebs that are constantly killing me.
Beeg
Originally posted by Busher:
Canadian ATPL, 20K+ hours, flown commercially for 35 years (old guy :)), 25+ in airline. None of this is any advantage in this sim :(.
At least 5 others in the squad are work mates.
Sadly, the horror of Sept 11th is going to again stagnate this business and make it a very hard career for young people to enter for some time to come.
<S> all in AH
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ATPL/IR, Multi, QFI (as was), Glider ticket. 2200 hours, mostly instructional. All sadly junk now due retirement from flying due injury.
Fidd
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well i guess i must post can't resist.
i am a commercial single and multi engine land instrument airplane and also hold a CFI and double I and a measly 415 hours logged (just started the instructing thing) i am really hung on this flying this and hope to fly for a really reputable cargo company.second choice would have to be flying corporate, dunno why i have no interest in flying for the airlines just nothing there for me in my mind.
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Ok, Ill bite:
First flight w/my dad in J3 Cub when I was 6 months old.
38 parachute jumps in 1st.sqdn., 17th. Cav 82nd. Airborne Division, Ft.Bragg NC. (1966-1967
Owned Ercoupe 415cd 3085H for a few years, installed Cont.0-200 under STC, 553 hrs.
42 hours in AeroCommander twin.
Few hours in Shinn (later Varga Cachina)and fun times in Stearmans, Waco UPF7's, and a memorable flight in a Waco Taperwing along w/J3's, older Bellanca, etc. Lotsa fun times in some great planes - grew up near 1B2. (Katama Airpark), Martha's Vineyard.
Retired from Manager of Martha's Vineyard Airport in October 1999.
Haven't flown since 1987.
"Sit Down, Shut up and Hang on"
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I got 3 1/2 minutes in one of them pink airplanes infront of K-mart ..... till the quarter ran out :(
NUTTZ
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Private, instrument, approx. 500 hours.
Currently own a Skybolt built by the Camarillo Wing of the Confederate Air Force (had the honor of taking it up for its first test flight).
Fortunately in RL there's no shooting going on or my flight hours would be substantially less.
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Private Pilot SEL 1989
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Commercial Multi-single, CFII.
In 1 year, I sucessfully trained :
- 4 privates
- 6 IFRs
- 3 commercials
- 1 CFII
- 0.5 CFI (damit, got terminated before finishing him).
:mad:
And I'm looking for a job!!! :D :D :D
(http://home.cfl.rr.com/rauns/sig-frenchy1.jpg)
[ 10-31-2001: Message edited by: SFRT - Frenchy ]
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Hmmm --
PP-ASEL, December 1990
"Five level" RAPCON controller, December, 1988.
USAF ATC Tech School, Kessler AFB, MS, September, 1986.
First flight on SubLogic's FS2 for the Commodore 64, Thanksgiving Day, 1984. (Cripes, that makes me feel old.... :eek:
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I have 6 hours logged with a CFI in 172's, also 1.1 hours in King Air twin, not sure which model but the twin isn't logged. I got 1.1 hours in the AV8B simulator down at MCAS. and I got about 300 total hours flying time in various singles, one was a '39 cub, and some others.
In Jan if I get a big enough bonus with work, I will finish private and work on IFR. deffinetly in summer of 2003 I will proceed to obtail IFR (if not already have), commercial, ATP, multi, and turbin, and hopefully get into a position with airlines.
Thought about Embry here in Prescott, but they want like $30000 a year, and I only make little over $40000 a year so I guess thats out of question :-(
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Single-engine land and sea, instrument, glider. I've been tossing around the idea of getting a commercial ticket and trying to get someone to pay me to fly, but I don't think there are that many stupid people who own airplanes out there. Maybe I'll become a gigolo instead.
ra
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Finishing up my private ticket. Soloed at 17 hours and now I have over 52 total time a couple of more lessons and I finish up to go to the FAA check(scary thought).
Gonna get my type rating on HP and complex as soon as I get my ticket, then work on Instrument,Commercial & CFI rating in States.
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Hehehe I put my resume online : http://home.cfl.rr.com/rauns/resume.htm (http://home.cfl.rr.com/rauns/resume.htm)
You never know, one of you guys may find a job opportunity for me :D
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I fly gerbils around my living area, am hoping to move up to larger rodents, say hampsters and Guinea pigs.
I had enrolled and began preparations for 4 year commercial pilots rating in Australia but I chickened out, scared of heights + $32000 in costs.
:D
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Fidd! Bless your heart, it's good to see ya. I've been wondering if you fully recovered or not. Is there much chance of a SAC for AH? Has anyone approached HT yet?
Take care, man. < S >
Oh ... damned near forgot what the thread was about ... then again, I'm not yet flying AH (repeat, not yet ;0)...still:
My puny flying experience:
Soloed in a 152 in 1980 (age 18) joined the Nav before I could finish up and take the exam (figured I'd finish at my final duty station but never got around to it). Got to fly around (ride) in P-3s some. Never did finish getting my license. I'd have a tough time passing a flight physical right now. Flying sims made me even lazier than I was before. :(
Originally posted by Fidd:
ATPL/IR, Multi, QFI (as was), Glider ticket. 2200 hours, mostly instructional. All sadly junk now due retirement from flying due injury.
Fidd
[ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: Arlo ]
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I am about halfway through flight school at Pensacola NAS to be an Air Force strike navigator (WSO). I will be flying back seat on either a B-1b or F-15E (hopefully the strike eagle). I have about 15 hours stick time in the T-34C all logged plus small amounts of time in a Cessna 182, Cessna 177 Cardinal, Piper Warrior, and Piper Archer. I have also flown the Air Force full motion simulators for the B-1, B-52, C-130, and C-141. After I have been a WSO for awhile hopefully I can go on and move up to the front seat. I have known plenty to do it before but even if I dont I have to say, back seat in an F-15 is better than any seat anywhere else!
A bad day in the air beats a good day on the ground!
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P U N T
that can't be everybody (i know i've done a poll for this before)
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Private SEL, Glider
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Did PPL at the age of 18 - certified for Cessna 152 and Piper Warrior II... lost it since I hadn't time & money to keep on flying... :(
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"A bad day in the air beats a good day on the ground!"
Thats true, but remember this:
"It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than to be in the air wishing you were on the ground."