why did you quit buster? that's just a rookie mistake.....

Fred. I guess I just wasn't interested enough. And just maybe a little scared? I hated flying solo over the marshes east of NO. 40 years ago wasn't anything there. Kind of like driving around the same block, over and over in a car with no radio. Ha ha.
Then I went back overseas to work and just never tried again. Often wish I had.
Wife problems also. You couldn't pour her in a plane. :smack:

Wind tunnel. ;)

yeah, it's not for all people that's for sure. hehe, my exwife, ah shit. this is a good one, i hope i can type it out as good as it actually happened. the very last time she flew with me i had gone to kileen, tx to pick her up and fly her home. on the way back to houston we were at 7500 ft i think and when we were flying over lake summerville i noticed a plane flying at about 500 ft agl perpendicular to our course and i mentioned it to her. well she was looking out the window from the right seat and said that she couldn't see it. i said hang on and when the plane dissapeared from my view under the plane i counted to three to myself and then turned the plane on it's side to the right and said there he is right there. instead of an "oh ok" i got hit repeatedly in the right arm with her screaming to "put this plane back level you asshole!" i was like "what??" it wasn't like a snap role or anything. oh well. of course now that she's my EX-wife, i'm glad it scared the shit out of her... :D

it had me laughing so hard i didn't even notice!

Fred I'm going to make a wild guess that this is rice fields?
http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...tid=6979&stc=1

your guess is as good as mine. that's why i was asking, maybe they are. it makes sense.....

My dad was a pilot for a long time (he's medically unfit now) and I have a few logged hours, but no ground school. My favorite thing was rolling back and forth. I LOVED it. Course, I love rollercoasters, too....

with these radio relay missions I've been on, I've rolled the wings, made the plane imitate a boat in 10 foot seas, done countless lazy 8's, flown backwards, flown forward at less than 5 knots as well as other countless bored out of my mind goofy tricks. at least today I get to go someplace. we have 2 planes left in Mexia, Tx. so i'm taking the Geronimo and 2 other pilots to get them. one of the planes though has a dead battery so I have to hand prop it. and then this coming Tuesday I have to fly some lady to Memphis for a seminar she's speaking at and then fly her back afterwards.

Fred. I'm going to stick this here, since couldn't PM it. We used a twin Otter on floats in Peru while I was working there.

I have always been facanated by sea planes , not only do you have to fly and land the plane but you have to deal with wind , tide and drift , you have to think about 5 steps ahead !!!

I'm nearly positive those are Sections of 4 Quarters. This land was probably divided for sale or granting back in the mid 1800's. Most of the land West of the Mississippi is surveyed and title given that way since the Homestead Act 140 years ago, but the article at the link below says Texas went by old land grants except in the panhandle, so this might be a more recent partitioning. People tended to clear a road of sorts all the way around their square quarter, which is why in ranching country nowdays you find paved roads that run for miles straight as an arrow and suddenly make a 90-degree turn; it's because the road reached a corner of the original holdings. Those regular squared fields you see from the air in Kansas and Missouri are composed of quarters too, and that is why they are so perfectly sharp-cornered. It's very possible those are fields in your photograph, but the reason they are shaped like that is the Homestead Act. I suspect the boundaries are flooded, which gives the impression of roads from reflections on the water.

http://www.uta.edu/paleomap/geol1435/township.htm

160 acres and a mule. :)

ok, i'll buy that tonchi. after the last few flights i deduced that they were not and couldn't be rice fields because they'd never been turned. cool, thanks for the info.

busterb, that's way cool! the first plane i ever flew was a beaver on floats on great slave lake in the great white north back in '84 and i loved it! i wish i could get ahold of that pilot today to let him know how much $ he's cost me! lol! nah, j/k, to thank him for my passion.