Different jobs and pilot skills requirements

[Blubaron]

Obviously none of you have ever given your mother in law a ride somewhere in an airplane. If you had, you'd know the true meaning of hell. Not that giving her the ride is difficult, but to fight one's inner demon, to hold back when every fiber of your being is telling you to shove her out the door and follow her down to a glorious splattering on the desert floor far from any whitnesses or prying eyes...just holding back and getting her safely to where ever it is the old bag is going to haunt...now that's perhaps the toughest flying one can ever do.

I guess I'm not the only one who has these feelings!

 

[BD King]

Hey Chuck,

The reference is to your original thread. Flying airshows today, anywhere in the world, is a pain in the old ass. God, how I miss the old days of Bill Sweet and the National Airshows. I knew Bill, and Charlie Hillard, and Harold Krier. Most Lurkers have no idea of whom I'm speaking. ..............The point is that the thread covered a number of items, and not that of airshows. After all, a invertered ribbon pick up is the same as an Ag run except its inverted.........I've never dusted a field, but I've done an inverted ribbon pick-up (once).

www.bdkingpress.com

 

[Cat Driver]

Yeh BD, the whole aviation scene has really changed.

The problem with the airshow business is f.ckin lawyers, everyone is afraid of liability suits and the cost of putting on an airshow today has been driven through the roof..

Remember the horrific accident in Germany when those Italian jets collided and went into the crowd at the airport? Well we did the first airshow in Germany just south of Munich after that accident. That was in 1998 and everyone was really paranoid about the public mood...but it went well.

Ahhh thank God we lived in a time when life was simple.

Cat

 

[mar]

I never see ANC anymore

How do you like the 747-mar. guess you get to fly out of ANC and that is about it. Nice pics guys.

The only time I'm in ANC is when I'm jumpseating in or out these days...

Trying to stay on topic and answer your question at the same time...I've been humbled by the 747. On the one hand, you could say, no big deal, we're all 250 or less below 10,000 and that's a valid comment when your ref speeds are on the order of 150 kts or less and the winds are calm.

But throw in some dark, some fatigue, some low vis, some contamination on the rwy, min fuel with a Karachi alternate and a sketchy 30 year old autopilot and I'll tell you what...

I'm sitting up straight, my pupils are dilated and my nostrils are flared and I'm every bit as focused as if I were scud running it into Anatuvuk Pass on a snowy day.

Yes, 8 hours of cruise can be mind numbing.
No, I don't yank and bank like I used to.

But for someone who is new to jets I'd say, let's be honest, I have my hands full but I'm loving every minute of it.

 

[RightPedal]

Now this was the most enjoyable thread in this place in a long time.
Thanks Guy's I needed this.
I appreciate the fact that this didn't turn into a crop duster bash session to.
Flying airplanes is just plain good guys. We are so blessed to be able to do what we do in any form of it, I think.

Bug, U-Du-Man. I remember throwing rolls of toilet paper out of the cub and spiraling down to cut it with the prop. I now dream of it being my mother-in-law, ROFLMFAO...........
Oh, and I wouldn't want to damage a cub, just circle around her, shoot her a bird and then point at the ground coming up with a smile

 

[CSY Mon]

121 involves being a voting member in the cockpit, nothing more, nothing less..

Never tried it have ya?

 

[Vandal]

Just curious, how does military flying stack up to this?

Above all...I am amazed no one has mentioned it. There isn't a more dynamic environment out there.

 

[Grumman guy]

You havent worked to many fires in the Klamath, bridger tetons , upper snake river , or the L.A. basin have you.

 

[redd]

What we need now is a former military pilot who's successfully migrated to aerial firefighting or crop dusting (if there is such an animal), maybe someone who's worked in Colombia perhaps, to settle this.

Any lurkers out there with that kind of experience?