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Author Topic: Flying Lessons (questions) Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-20-2007 08:28 PM                     Tim.... you can still finish ya know... hair or not . Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-20-2007 09:35 PM                       Eh, I doubt it, Mark. Not now. I get sick, really. Must be changes in air pressure, or oxygen levels doesn't agree with me... something. But it sure happens.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-21-2007 06:26 PM                        ERAU grad here, BS Professional Aeronautics - class of '93. Go Eagles! At the Prescott, AZ campus there are most definitely "wrecks" out back - it's the lab for the aircraft accident investigation course. I took that course (without the lab dammit!) as part of my degree studies at ERAU's satellite campus at Nellis AFB. Even without the lab it is a fascinating course of study, one that all professional pilots should take. ERAU is a private university and hella expensive. I recommend it only for those that are going into aviation or aerospace as a career. One can go to any local flight school to train for an FAA airman certificate. Much cheaper and easier if an airman certificate is all you are looking for.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-21-2007 06:58 PM                     You did all that to be able to service planes on the ramp? What gives? Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-13-2008 12:12 AM                        Just a bump for me to selfishly say today is my 30th anniversary as a pilot. May 12, 1978 - North Las Vegas Air Terminal (VGT) 1947 model Cessna 140A - N55DC Dave Baker was my instructor, Bob Thorne was the unfortunate designated pilot examiner that day. Written and oral exams went fine, but it took two tries for me to get the wheel landings down to where I wasn't scaring everyone. Went on to fly for another 17 years and 2100 hours. Flying - Drugs would be cheaper. My how time flies.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-13-2008 09:23 AM                        Congratulations! Learned in 1981 along with my wife. Many fun times together. Daughter is FO with Republic on the Embrarer 170/175; a "girly girl." (looks like she should be the "stewardess." Louis  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-13-2008 02:25 PM                     Congrats, Paul! One of the ways I'm trying to confront my fear of flight is by watching aircraft take off and land down at our airport. They have an observation area that allows you to tune in to the air traffic controllers over the car stereo. It's weird because I'm starting to get a little geeky about it. I look up n-numbers on the FAA registry, try to guess type of aircraft before I look it up, etc. At the end of July, I'm planing a trip that will include 3 flights, a 737, a CRJ700 (don't much like these), and an A320 (love these). Anyway, It's not a full blown fear where I refuse to travel, but flight hasn't ever been something I've thought of as fun. I'm just a little amused at myself for starting to geek out on something I'm fearful of.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-13-2008 02:50 PM                        quote: Mike Olpin At the end of July, I'm planing a trip that will include 3 flights, a 737, a CRJ700 (don't much like these), and an A320 (love these). To me, A319/20/21s are completely featureless - just like the name says, an Airbus. They don't have a characteristic sound or feel or anything. The only thing which sticks in my mind about them is that they can do longer distances than I guess I'd expect (e.g. I've done Seattle to Memphis and Detroit to LAX in an A320). They must be pretty versatile across both short haul and medium haul trips, given that, along with the 737, they also seem to be the bogstandard plane for taking 150 people or so on a 250 mile/one hour flight, too. I kind of miss the Northwest DC-10s, because they sort of had a retro chic to them. I could still feel the vibration from that tail mounted engine through the fuselage several hours after stepping off the plane, and boy did you feel it as they accelerated for takeoff! The A330s they replaced them with are a lot more comfortable, quieter and calmer, and the cabin air feels a hell of a lot fresher, especially towards the end of a transatlantic flight. I've never been on a NW DC-9, but am hoping to manage it before the last ones are retired. It's pretty amazing that some of those aircraft are 40 years old or so, and still perfectly reliable in revenue earning operation.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-13-2008 05:07 PM                     Congrats Paul! Keep on flyin..... Leo, If you watch that Luftansa Airbus(on U-Tube) try to land in 140 mph cross wind you will have alot more respect for Airbus . I still don't know why they even attempted that landing except they may have been low on fuel... they had to go around again anyway and they landed safely on the second try. There was almost no damage to the left wingtip and the plane was repaired and back in the skies the next day. However no doubt that all the passengers had to buy new shorts right after de-planeing. Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-13-2008 05:31 PM                     I was referring to the cabin. The A320s feel more spacious inside, so If I have to be bar-b-qued to death, I'd prefer it on an A320  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-13-2008 08:14 PM                     quote: Leo Enticknap To me, A319/20/21s are completely featureless - just like the name says, an Airbus. Well, We can all thank God that Greyhound didn't do a double take and buy some of them !  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-14-2008 01:34 AM                        Mark, I think I'd need a new pair of shorts after this! ...and here's one done right at my local airport.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-14-2008 10:18 AM                     Thats interesting... even after the RJ145 lands its still being blown sideways. Watch the wing landing gear tires...  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-14-2008 12:48 PM                        That ERJ landing was a thing of beauty - absolutely perfect kickout technique. Unlike a lot of so-called pilots these days, that guy or gal definitely knew how to work a rudder. Couldn't have done it better myself. As for that BAE Quadrapuff at London City, well, you can't win 'em all!  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-15-2008 12:33 PM                     You guys are all a bunch of woosies!!!! Ya aint flown unless your behind the throttle of a P & R R2800 or RR Merlin V-12!!!  |  IP: Logged

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