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10-03-2005, 05:41 PM | #76 |
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why did you quit buster? that's just a rookie mistake.....
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10-03-2005, 06:05 PM | #77 |
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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.
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10-03-2005, 07:17 PM | #78 | |
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10-03-2005, 08:49 PM | #79 |
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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...
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10-03-2005, 09:41 PM | #80 |
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"put this plane back level you asshole!" i was like "what??"
You evil basterd !!!!! Did you have to scrape the shit from the seat ?????
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10-04-2005, 04:35 PM | #81 |
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it had me laughing so hard i didn't even notice!
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10-04-2005, 06:05 PM | #82 |
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Fred I'm going to make a wild guess that this is rice fields?
http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...tid=6979&stc=1
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10-04-2005, 06:31 PM | #83 |
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your guess is as good as mine. that's why i was asking, maybe they are. it makes sense.....
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10-13-2005, 11:27 AM | #84 |
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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....
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10-14-2005, 09:12 AM | #85 |
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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.
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10-19-2005, 08:01 PM | #86 |
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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.
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10-19-2005, 10:18 PM | #87 |
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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 !!!
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10-20-2005, 02:19 AM | #88 | |
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10-20-2005, 02:39 AM | #89 |
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160 acres and a mule.
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10-20-2005, 08:06 AM | #90 |
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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.
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