Fabric covered airplane question

[flydog]

Avbug

You have proven that you are nothing but hot air.

Thus far you have claimed to be

1. A tanker pilot
2. A skydiver
3. An A&P mechanic
4. An expert on jet engines
5. A self proclaimed guru of the FARs
6. A crime lab technician
7. An ag pilot
8. An expert on radial engines
9. An expert on fabric covered aircraft
10. A subject matter expert on aviation law
11. A banner tow pilot
12. A corporate jet pilot
13. You claim you have flown every airplane
14. You claim to have every rating

Next thing you know you’ll be showing us your ALPA card and commenting on the RJ dilemma. Is there anything you haven’t done? How about the SR-71. Every fly that one?

In going through your posts of the last few months I see that currently you are not only engaged in aerial firefighting as a career but you also have time to work as an A&P, rebuild an airplane, go skydiving, and as if that wouldn’t take up enough of a person’s time you still find a way to log on to this message board EVERY DAY and post an average of 4 times EVERY SINGLE DAY. You must have a hard time getting your 10 hrs rest every night.

Not only that but you also seem to spend most of your day researching and regurgitating FARs and obscure references to make yourself seem credible. It doesn’t take a genius to vomit up all the info you post here. Just someone with a lot of time on their hands and a copy of the FARs.

In fact you are probably some 18 yr old punk pilot wannabe working line service down at Signature that sits around surfing Flightinfo.Com and all the neat aviation message boards all day long with your collection of aviation books trying to prove you are the aviator you are not.

Run a search on this guy’s posts. It’s a fairy tale no one has lived out in real life. Avbug is Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, Jimmy Doolittle, and John Glenn all in one.

As far as I am concerned he is full of B.S.

Write your book Avbug. It will be #1 Fiction on the NY Times bestseller list

 

[avbug]

Here we go again. Can't provide a reasonable reply germain to the topic at hand, we attack avbug. Good substitute for an intelligent conversation, I guess.

Yes, I'm a tanker pilot. The season is over. I got in 40 skydives during the season this year, as the drop zone was 100 yards from the tanker base, and I managed to sneak a few hop & pops during the day, and some freefly during the evening and early morning.

I've always been a mechanic, in conjunction with my flying. That includes prior part time experience, as well as several years of full time experience in a repair station that worked on turbojets, radial piston, turboprops, and flat piston engines, as well as performing all shop and mx functions. Everything. I was also an inspector for that repair station. Currently I do occasional work on light aircraft for fun and currency.

I have a RV-6 under construction (going very slow), and also a Sorrell SNS-2 Guppy, which is also coming along very slowly. I am a technical counselor and flight advisor for EAA.

I never claimed to be an expert on turbojet engines. As a pilot and mechanic, and instructor, it stands to reason that I should have some basic clue as to the maintenance and operation of the equipment I fly, shouldn't I? Sorry to know what the hell I'm talkign about. I'll shoot for more ignorance in the future.

I read the CFR (the FAR's are the Federal Aquisition Regulations, regulated by the General Services Administration) and post it. If you don't like what you read, then complain to the FAA. Nothing but the facts, kiddo. I post legal interpretations and past the regulations...doesn't make me a guru, and I'm sure you have the intelligence to look it up for yourself. I don't see it as a crime to take an interest in my profession. Morevoer, I use web sites such as this to force me to study. You have full freedom to look up the answers yourself and post them...that's what I do. You're most likely capable of doing the same, I'd imagine.

I have no idea where the crime lab tech garbage came from. I never worked in a crime lab.

My first commercial flying job was ag work; I attended a crop dusting school right after I graduated high school, and went to work in an Ag Truck in Kansas. My background is agricultural.

I never proclaimed myself an expert on radial engines. However, I have a reasonable amount of time flying behind them, and a LOT of time working on them. I love radial engines; always have, always will. Then again, I like to get dirty, I like the smell of avgas, and I'm not averse to safety wire cuts and oil.

As for fabric, what can I say? I'm a mechanic, and my background includes a lot of flying in old airplanes.

Aviation law? See the FAR comments. If you dont' understand aviation law, you don't belong in the business...it's your livlihood. Did I ever proclaim myself an expert on anything, let alone aviation law? Nope. You keep throwing these things out, but have nothing accurate or intelligent to say about them. Why is that??

I started and operated a banner business. I did the initial tows for the FAA, arranged the aircraft and equipment, checked out other pilots, sold the banner tows, and flew most of them. I even proposed to a girl at the time with a banner I was towing (she said yes).

Not only did I fly corporate, but was also a director of maintenance for a corporate department. My corporate career was rather short lived, matching the life of the department. Like many corporate departments, it was going great one day, and shut down the next.

I won't claim to have flown everything, but I'm not going to sit down and take up bandwidth (or whatever you call it) with a litany of what I've had the opportunity to tool around in. Nor is it particularly relevant. I'll discuss certain types when the specific need arises or the topic comes up, but hours and types and so on are meaningless. No matter how much experience you have, the only hour that counts is the last one you flew...or if you happen to be reading this in the air, the one you're flying right now.

I average 3-4 hours of sleep, not ten. Does anybody get ten hours of sleep??

You'll note that I haven't made a single comment on the RJ issues, nor do I intend to. Leave me well clear of that.

I touched a SR71 once. Does that count?

Nothing in any post I have ever made is falsified, exaggerated, or embellished. Nor should it be. Nor do I have any need to explain myself to someone who can't maintain an intelligent conversation on the most simple of subjects. If you care to converse on any of these subjects, or if you have any experience that will make that conversation meaningful, I'm all ears.

Aside from the other things mentioned, you forgot to attack my ground fire experience, EMT expeience, air ambulance experience, skydiving accident, pet cat, government work, glider towing, stable-mucking career, charter, grand canyon time, love for raw onions, or my one winter working in a rubber stamp factory. After all, there's so much material for you to work with, seeing as you've given up on the thread subject matter at hand.

Several other posters recently started threads to attack avbug, apparently out of a lack of anyting better to do. Perhaps you'd best start your own and get a lynch mob together; seems to be a good time for it, and the board will be plugged up with 09-11 posts in a day or so here. Get it in while the getting's good. Good enough?

I still submit that if you pay eighteen grand to recover your airplane, you're in need of some serious support. It's your cash, have a ball.

Incidentally, what exactly is your claim to fame? I haven't got one, but I'd love to hear from someone so far from a glass house that he has nothing better to do than throw stones. Tell me about yourself; it's only fair now that you're in the sharing mood. What makes ya shine, mate??

 

[Rvrrat]

I'll shoot for more ignorance in the future.

Is that a new target at the arcade shooting gallery??

I average 3-4 hours of sleep, not ten. Does anybody get ten hours of sleep??

Guilty. I am seriously attempting to recover a number of those naps my mother says I plainly rejected as a youngster.

Several other posters recently started threads to attack avbug, apparently out of a lack of anyting better to do.

Perhaps these folks insist on proving the validity of the old axe "Pride goeth before the fall." or simply do not know how to wear green well. Looking forward to hearing how the RV wrung out.

 

[TurboS7]

This is bs. I believe every word that avbug says. I too am an A+P with an inspection authorization. Flying came naturally to me I had to work hard for my A+P, the maint. part of aviation is a real challange for me. I am not the greatest mechanic but I can hold my own. I have worked on CJ610's taking them all the way down and building them up. I used to own an engine shop the rebuilt IO-520's and 540's and I still have a garage full of tools to prove it. I have flown fish off beaches, landed on little jungle strips and the list goes on and on.............The bottom line is that when you are in aviation, especially general aviation you get a lot of neat experience. Avbug is just a great aviation buff, I respect that. As for all the rules etc. they come right off a CD Rom. Avbug has said that on numerous occasions. My wife is calling be for breakfast but I will defend avbug as he is just one of a breed that I am afraid does not exist in this upcoming generation of pilot's. Of course the kind of guys we are talking about right now would be back in a hangar somewhere tinkering with a radial or fixing the Aeronca that one of the new generation pilot's just ground looped. Touche.