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Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: bockko on September 19, 2003, 09:56:33 PM
Just curious, I wonder who really has real stick time and what kind. I am a simple 100 hour wonder, stopped flying when I had kids, which was soon after getting private single engine ticket. Plan was to fly carrier planes, ran into the old -1 on the 20/20 chart. I have divined that some of you are quite the sticks with quite the real life [allegedly] time in old ww2 birds.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: B17Skull12 on September 19, 2003, 10:48:48 PM
wrong thing. (being an idiot <skull12:stop being a tard >:D )


skull12
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Ozark on September 19, 2003, 10:53:26 PM
Pilot for 29.5 years. Started by washing and waxing airplanes for flight time when I was 15 years old. In 1974 a Cessna 150 rented to $13 per hour... instructor was $5 an hour more.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: 1Duke1 on September 19, 2003, 11:43:08 PM
No civilian time yet.  400 military hours in various platforms :)
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Ack-Ack on September 20, 2003, 12:11:15 AM
Hopefully Voss will step in and engross us all with stories of his stick time.


ack-ack
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 20, 2003, 12:14:38 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Hopefully Voss will step in and engross us all with stories of his stick time.


ack-ack
:rofl
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: brendo on September 20, 2003, 02:00:51 AM
(http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~poges/up.jpg)
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Nilsen on September 20, 2003, 04:17:02 AM
I have 30 mins sticktime on a Bell412SP :D
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Furball on September 20, 2003, 04:56:42 AM
i have only had 1 lesson, but a lot of 418 squadron are commercial airline pilots for Air Canada Jazz
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: hogenbor on September 20, 2003, 05:39:15 AM
The best I can do is an hour in an old (1970's vintage) flight simulator in a musuem :D
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: acepilot2 on September 20, 2003, 08:42:44 AM
I am currently taking flying lessons in a piper warrior.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: NOD2000 on September 20, 2003, 08:57:40 AM
i have 30 mins in a t-6 texan.....:D
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Bonden on September 20, 2003, 11:06:35 AM
Approx 550 TT hours mostly in 1946 Ercoupe 415 C/D. Some (but not much)in Waco Taperwing, UPF7, 450 Stearman, Cherokees, C150s, Shinn, etc. Time I most liked was in Aero Commander Twin.

Don't fly anymore - refuse rides regularly, fraid I might like it too much again and at this time I can't afford it anymore...
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: bigred on September 20, 2003, 12:49:51 PM
Same here as bockko...

About 100 hours.  Got my private then got a house/married...

house/married:1   flying:0....

Besides, its cheaper per hour here ;)

-bigred
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Lone Wolf on September 20, 2003, 01:07:17 PM
200+ hours  (Mostly in 172...some in T-34's, Marchetti, Yak, 1 hour in stearman(first spin))
Private, Instrument, taildragger, complex/high performance.
There are a lot of guys flying with a lot of experinece tho.
LW
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: F4i on September 20, 2003, 02:18:11 PM
didn't get a chance ($$$$) to finish my private 5 years ago.  lately, i've been reviewing (about 25-30 hours, now) while in the right seat during flights with my brother (C150's and 172's, Piper Warriors).  getting through private training should be a breeze next time around.  :)

if you have the chance, take a quick flight at a local flight school.  you won't regret it.  intro flights are usually cheap!  


F4i
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: airbumba on September 20, 2003, 03:54:11 PM
Somewhere around 300 hrs., many of them on floats. Haven't been current for a bit, gotta get around to recertifying my medical slip. Someday the bug will bite again, then I'll rush down to the doc, hehe. ( I still may be found  grabbing the stick from the right seat now and then, shhh. don't tell the MOT).

Bumba
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: jigsaw on September 20, 2003, 05:03:27 PM
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Hopefully Voss will step in and engross us all with stories of his stick time


Is he even still alive? It's probably been close to ten years since I've talked to him.

Back to the question at hand...single/multi engine instructor reporting in. Anybody know a place in AZ to get a seaplane rating? AFD only had one listed in Kingman. Thought I'd seen/heard of a place at Havasu.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Gixer on September 20, 2003, 06:22:51 PM
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~
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Gixer on September 20, 2003, 06:25:17 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Hopefully Voss will step in and engross us all with stories of his stick time.


ack-ack




Not to mention, his Air to Air Kills.... :D :lol :rofl


...-Gixer
~Hells Angels~
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: SunKing on September 20, 2003, 07:42:20 PM
From all the "xxx420" names i shoot down. I'm sure alot do.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Booky on September 20, 2003, 09:39:51 PM
What is "Stick time"?





 I think I got hit with a stick when I was  a punk, but not sure if thats what your talking about.



With a little luck I'll be in a CRJ in about 3 more years, prolly more like 5 though. Mesa Pilot Development is accepting all my cash along with Arizona State.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: AKKarma on September 20, 2003, 09:49:19 PM
The phrase "100 hour wonder" pretty much sums up my aviation career.  I flew Piper Cherokee 140s back in the late '70s.   I was flying solo before I could drive a car! :eek:

 I had all my night, instrument and cross country hours, was prepping for the flight test when, one day, I went away to college, got married, had kids, lost my hair and never flew again.

AKKarma
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Jumpp on September 20, 2003, 10:32:08 PM
I'm another 100-hour wonder, though I haven't given up yet.  My most recent stretch of real flying was about six months ago.  Twice I've been close to getting my ticket before real life intervened.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: gunnss on September 20, 2003, 10:42:21 PM
Hmm Stick time... did an intro flight the otherday, but most of my "Stick time" is  with Rattan 30+years in the SCA Hittin folks with sticks.......

Gunns
AKA Thorgierr GUNNarSson KSCA
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: mjolnir on September 20, 2003, 11:13:00 PM
Just the basic 50 or so hours in a 172 to earn my PPL, but I hit the flightline this week to start flying one of Cessna's more venerable planes, the T-37B Tweet.  Still can't believe I get paid to do this for a living.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: TheCage on September 21, 2003, 12:32:22 AM
Geez, do actual combat hours count?
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Guppy35 on September 21, 2003, 12:38:42 AM
Quote
Originally posted by AKKarma
The phrase "100 hour wonder" pretty much sums up my aviation career.  I flew Piper Cherokee 140s back in the late '70s.   I was flying solo before I could drive a car! :eek:

 I had all my night, instrument and cross country hours, was prepping for the flight test when, one day, I went away to college, got married, had kids, lost my hair and never flew again.

AKKarma


That's my story exactly.  Piper Warrior IIs when I was 17-18 in 77-78, got all my solo time in etc, went away to school, got married, had kids and have been broke ever since :)

Still remember the kite I soloed in.  N3332Q.  I had roughly 60 hours in when the real flying stopped.  I'll always remember my instructor getting on my case for my curving approach to landing.  "This isn't a P51! You gotta do it by the book!"

Dan/Slack
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci on September 21, 2003, 07:22:05 AM
About 12-15 hours per year, total now about 100 hrs, including 35 h of gliders (much more fun, in our club acrobatics are allowed in gliders.. :) )

Cessnas and AA5 mostly. C152 is fun plane, its quite agile compared to those C172 series.

The best part is that as I am working as an Air traffic controller my flying hours are tax deductable ( at least 5-10 hours) so I will get something back.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: flaps737 on September 21, 2003, 05:19:47 PM
been flying about 5 years, flight instructor for 2.  about 700 hours in various singles and multi.  also some level D time in 737-300 and BE1900D.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Heretik on September 21, 2003, 11:22:20 PM
Got my PPL back in June. Too broke to fly ever since :(
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: save on September 22, 2003, 06:30:00 AM
130 hours in  ultralights

Not  US ultralight,gross weight is about 1000lb - rules we have in Europe.
Title: stik time
Post by: teevin on September 22, 2003, 09:31:31 AM
:) no stik time, well some of course but 12 years air crew all Military..UH34,CH53, all Helicopter
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: MRPLUTO on September 22, 2003, 11:05:27 AM
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
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: 2stony on September 22, 2003, 03:38:34 PM
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.

:D
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: FTndr on September 22, 2003, 04:19:54 PM
Quote
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 :D
Title: choppers
Post by: teevin on September 22, 2003, 04:29:07 PM
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.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Biggles on September 22, 2003, 04:49:09 PM
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 (http://home.earthlink.net/~dccowan/biplane/geresprt.htm), and this '41 Culver Cadet (notice the Spit-like wings!):

(http://home.earthlink.net/~dccowan/cadet.jpg)

Algy
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Toad on September 22, 2003, 04:56:42 PM
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.
Title: whimper
Post by: teevin on September 22, 2003, 05:05:11 PM
:confused: how do you post pictures?:)
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: meddog on September 22, 2003, 07:44:43 PM
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
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: udet on September 22, 2003, 08:22:16 PM
working on my PPL
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: bockko on September 22, 2003, 09:09:20 PM
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.
Title: hmmmm
Post by: teevin on September 22, 2003, 10:51:45 PM
Quote
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
Title: BiPlanes
Post by: teevin on September 22, 2003, 10:56:31 PM
Quote
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.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: AHGOD on September 23, 2003, 12:20:52 AM
21 hours in a 152 and a 172.  And I still suck at flyin in a simulator.
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: hyena426 on September 23, 2003, 12:42:21 AM
only flew once,got to take the stick of a b-24 liberator while in flight, experience ill remmeber forever,,it was a colins foundation b24,,,and for 300 bucks you got a 1 hour ride and 30min on the stick,,only got to barly turn it,,,but it was worth it,,lol
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Gixer on September 23, 2003, 03:16:41 AM
Yeah, yeah....


And If the Wing's Don't Go Around, It Should Stay On The Ground.   :-)



Quote
Originally posted by FTndr
Helicopters don't fly....... they beat the air into submission :D
Title: ahahahahahaha
Post by: teevin on September 23, 2003, 09:21:10 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Gixer
Yeah, yeah....


And If the Wing's Don't Go Around, It Should Stay On The Ground.   :-)




roflmto:lol
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Golfer on September 24, 2003, 01:01:42 AM
Going on 200 hrs and an Instrument rating.

just over 15 hrs in an AT-6 and an SNJ, all dual. (lopping them together as one since they're basically the same airplane) flying to and from airshows with a late friend of mine who was killed performing in an airshow in the AT-6.

30 hrs tailwheel time on my own (aeronca chief, champ, Super-D, citabria and a precious few in a Pitts, also dual)

For those of you who think you can hop into a 'warbird' and fly it...you're wrong.  i've seen guys get thrown off the runway in C-180's and planes as small as taylorcrafts...and you wanna sling something around thats got 1000 or more horsepower.  I can see it now..."throttle to full, torque, 1.2.3.4.5.6 runway lights, groundloop, Deposit $100,000 into maintenance fund please."

Got the UFI from the EAA (Ultralight Flight Instructor) over the summer and give dual in a Challenger II, nifty gig and all it took was a checkride and a few hours of dual...its a nifty little plane for 15 grand.

Hopefully i've got a lot more hourse left and have been enjoying every minute.  maybe one day i'll have a career as distinguished as Voss' :D :lol :rofl :eek: :rolleyes:
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: BGBMAW on September 24, 2003, 02:06:10 AM
43 hours duel...8 hours solo..

c152....dam fun..

piper cherokee--- alrigth but a slug

Baron..bad asss fun as hell twin

B-17 "909"...best 300$ for 30 min i ever spent

B-24 'Dragons Tail".. Best $300 i ever spent for 50 min!!!!

broke my hand..HAD bone graph done...havent flonw for 4 months..

need to refresh ground school crap and take check ride

God i want a twin of some sort

Lovew
BiGB
xoxo
Title: Thank YOU Golfer
Post by: teevin on September 24, 2003, 02:24:48 AM
:)  good to hear the voice of truth, far too many do equate the flight sim with real world flight ( someone told em about Microsoft Flight Simulator )LOL......same thing with bullets NOT the same here as in the real world, anyone in a ruch to go to Iraq, Iran or anywhere else to make a point or wreak vengence and havoc stop and think first please.

Ya only get ONE life over there,and it hurts ta get shot too. lLast I checked we only get 2 arms 2 legs and like that sooooooo, need I say more.

Thanks again for the truth, we need it sometimes;)
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: Heretik on September 24, 2003, 01:29:49 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Gixer
Yeah, yeah....


And If the Wing's Don't Go Around, It Should Stay On The Ground.   :-)


Nah.  Helicopters don't fly, they so ugly the ground repels them :D
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: nuchpatrick on September 24, 2003, 02:19:25 PM
Started my PPL and stopped with about 10 hrs.. about 3 years ago..

Got some fun time this year in a AT-6 out 2 hours worth with an aerobatic's instructor this is the cake!! This was the best time of my life the SOB had me blacking out. :rofl

Once I get the new home. It's back to getting my PPL..
Title: How many guys really fly?
Post by: udet on September 24, 2003, 09:05:53 PM
ok, hours

about 26 total
about 3 solo-during those 3 hours I felt more alive than ever before :)
Title: I think I got something over 270 DAYS in the air...
Post by: fofy on September 25, 2003, 04:05:06 AM
I fly jets, here are some of my favorites...
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p602137f101b705cd8af5eaa21e6e0583/fafe86e6.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pc8cc7df182ca088458cef6413969b99a/fafe8746.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid30/p865d37c6f51cb2a0656d3bdbebc3b3e8/fd51d3ce.jpg)  Well, it's not a jet but looks nice..

(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pdb18638b97bc54201eb14cdf683dd3cb/fafe82f8.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pc9151e951dbf46e56fbfd52ca4f0c468/fafe82f3.jpg)
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pabae9bffe887a507ece85746a072741d/fafe82f5.jpg)

And my favorite one....
(http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pc6d52d060803b50fa12d805d37149d79/fafe84c8.jpg)