Aviation types on THR?
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Rocket Man
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Hi Guys. I'm a longtime lurker, but this is my first post.
I've been a commercial Hot Air Balloon Pilot for over 25 years. This was my full time business until last year. All the airspace restrictions after 9-11
have really killed the general aviation business in the DC area. We can't fly within 30 miles of the city, and most of our customers don't really want to drive 40 or 50 miles to do a flight.
I've taken a job as an Armored Car driver/guard. I'll be one of the few MD residents with a handgun permit. Anyway, I just thought I would add a different kind of avaition to the mix.
I've been a commercial Hot Air Balloon Pilot for over 25 years. This was my full time business until last year. All the airspace restrictions after 9-11
have really killed the general aviation business in the DC area. We can't fly within 30 miles of the city, and most of our customers don't really want to drive 40 or 50 miles to do a flight.
I've taken a job as an Armored Car driver/guard. I'll be one of the few MD residents with a handgun permit. Anyway, I just thought I would add a different kind of avaition to the mix.
rritter
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I'm a private pilot, no instrument rating. Rocky doesn't have instruments, so it just doesn't make sense to take that extra step 
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.Rocket Man
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J. Parker
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I retired in '98 after 23 years with the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller. Started out at Bay Approach Control as a data duck, then Concord Tower, San Jose Tower, Oakland Tower, Pasco Tower/approach where I retired. It was a fun ride. I retired to early.......kinda miss it. ....well, kinda
....well, kindaAla Dan
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I always wanted to be a "Dust Off" chopper pilot in Nam;
made it as far as a 91A10 medic assigned state-side,
what a bum!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
made it as far as a 91A10 medic assigned state-side,
what a bum!
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Elminster
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Newly minted private pilot here!
entropy
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Beat the air into submission for all of about thirty seconds in a UH-1N once, a bored CW2 thoght it would be funny to let me try it. Dust-off!
AZLibertarian
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Atc1man,
I am a captain at a major national airline. By the phrasing of your question, it appears that you aren't aware that a major part of the FFDO program is that you don't ever publicly identify yourself as such. Even though we're all safely behind our nom's-de-THR, I'd be surprized if anyone here who is a FFDO would ever tell you that they are.
chrisher
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Airline Transport Rated-Fixed Wing/Helicopter
Certified Flight Instructor-Airplane, Single/Multi-Engine
Instrument Instructor-Airplane/Helicopter
Ems Helicopter Pilot
Former Gulf of Mexico, Off-shore
Certified Flight Instructor-Airplane, Single/Multi-Engine
Instrument Instructor-Airplane/Helicopter
Ems Helicopter Pilot
Former Gulf of Mexico, Off-shore
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Leatherneck
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About 5000 hours primarily in jets and queer experimental VSTOL aircraft as a Marine test pilot. I now fly a desk in the Pentagon, but ride with aircraft in several test programs every chance I get. V-22 Osprey is on the front burner right now. Can you believe it has NO guns? 
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JamisJockey
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Nope didn't know that bit.
By the way, Salt Lake is now the 12th busiest Approach Control in the country!
BHPshooter
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Well, when I was a kid, my Dad got really into R/C Airplanes (Nice one, Chris ) and he got me one.
Fast forward to High School, when I took a ground school course. The "Intro flight" with the school was something like $60 for 15 minutes of flight time.
My Dad's cousing (CFI) did us a lot better with the price and flight time, so we went on a flight with him. This got my Dad hooked, so I like to say that he got me started, and I got him started.
My major is Aviation (commercial pilot), but I'm going to have to drop it. I've posted here about my headaches before... apparently either the headaches or the stuff I'm on to treat them is an FAA no-no, so there you have it. The birth and death of a college major.
My Dad is still at it -- he should have his Commercial by the end of the month, and his Multi-Engine not too long after that. Then he's going for his CFI rating.
To keep it somewhat on topic, if I could have made it to the cockpit of a commercial jet, I would carry.
P.S. A guy that my roommate and I (roommate had the same major) knew owns Nordic-Track and all those fancy companies, and he has a Gulfstream GIII. He let us ride with him to a celebrity golf tournament in Mesa -- from Logan, Utah to Mesa, Arizona in an hour. You can't believe the thrust!
) and he got me one. Fast forward to High School, when I took a ground school course. The "Intro flight" with the school was something like $60 for 15 minutes of flight time.
My Dad's cousing (CFI) did us a lot better with the price and flight time, so we went on a flight with him. This got my Dad hooked, so I like to say that he got me started, and I got him started.My major is Aviation (commercial pilot), but I'm going to have to drop it.
I've posted here about my headaches before... apparently either the headaches or the stuff I'm on to treat them is an FAA no-no, so there you have it. The birth and death of a college major. My Dad is still at it -- he should have his Commercial by the end of the month, and his Multi-Engine not too long after that. Then he's going for his CFI rating.
To keep it somewhat on topic, if I could have made it to the cockpit of a commercial jet, I would carry.
P.S. A guy that my roommate and I (roommate had the same major) knew owns Nordic-Track and all those fancy companies, and he has a Gulfstream GIII. He let us ride with him to a celebrity golf tournament in Mesa -- from Logan, Utah to Mesa, Arizona in an hour.
You can't believe the thrust!aircarver
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Aerospace Defense Biz (pointy airplanes....) and Aircraft owner/operator (twirly-thang airplane....)
fix
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Atc1man,
When were you at Yuma? I went through WTI at MAWTS1 twice in the 90's. First as a student, then an augment instructor.
When were you at Yuma? I went through WTI at MAWTS1 twice in the 90's. First as a student, then an augment instructor.
JamisJockey
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June '93 to Sept '97. When I stepped of that plane in my A's, I almost melted....110* @ 10am!
aircarver
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Glocktalk: the Flight Deck.
Bobarino
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fix
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Good chance I've heard your voice over the radio then, although you've never heard mine. I was too busy in the back shooting!!!
I hear you brother! The first time I went there, I remember looking at the thermometer outside the hangar and thinking it was broken. It read 118!!!
Coltdriver
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I have been a private pilot since 91. Just got started building a Pitts.
Won outstanding J-3 Cub in the classic division at Oshkosh a few years ago with a pristine 46 Cub that I flew from North Carolina to Oshkosh and then on to Colorado. I could not wipe the smile off my face for weeks.
I always carry a gun when I fly, however, once in and secure I do un load it.
Don't have to ask the TSA for permission to do that either.
There are some fellows down in Colorado Springs that used to base out of Meadowlark with a Cub. Many many years ago when it was legal to shoot coyotes from a plane one of them inadvertently shot the tip off of their wooden prop. They shut the motor down and landed on the prarie, in the middle of nowhere. So they took the shot gun they had and shot the tip off of the other prop blade. It left it balanced enough that they were able to limp back to meadowlark.
The prop used to hang in the resturant there.
Won outstanding J-3 Cub in the classic division at Oshkosh a few years ago with a pristine 46 Cub that I flew from North Carolina to Oshkosh and then on to Colorado. I could not wipe the smile off my face for weeks.
I always carry a gun when I fly, however, once in and secure I do un load it.
Don't have to ask the TSA for permission to do that either.
There are some fellows down in Colorado Springs that used to base out of Meadowlark with a Cub. Many many years ago when it was legal to shoot coyotes from a plane one of them inadvertently shot the tip off of their wooden prop. They shut the motor down and landed on the prarie, in the middle of nowhere. So they took the shot gun they had and shot the tip off of the other prop blade. It left it balanced enough that they were able to limp back to meadowlark.
The prop used to hang in the resturant there.
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