Illini Pilots

[FlyChicaga]

Hey JB, have you started class? Hope everything is working out well for ya!

Hey D we'll have to hang when you get done with class. Wouldn't want to cause trouble you while you have studying to do... lol

 

[ilinipilot]

Hey FLY
let me know next time you got an overnight here we can hang out and or catch some dinner
D

 

[FlyChicaga]

Definitely. No more this month, maybe in April. I'll let you know.

 

[SkyW120]

Hey JB, have you started class? Hope everything is working out well for ya!
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Thanks, yes, its been a blast.

 

[Flying Illini]

Go Illini! I'll be in Atlanta on friday for the game...hopefully we'll still be there on sunday!

If they bring the same game they brought against Cincy, I think Duke is beatable.

ILL-INI

 

[tranceport]

bump for the Illinin / Duke game tonite.

I graditated in 1988 from the flying program there.
Now furloughed American, stay at home dad in
Chicagoland.

Hello everybody and hope your careers go better than
mine!

p.s. if I go to work for a regional and my wife stays home
with our two kids, I will be below the poverty level wages
and eligible for food stamps (and govt. cheese).

put that in your pipe and smoke it

 

[Flying Illini]

Well, the game sucked. My capt and I were able to scalp some tix to get in. We got the tickets cheap (lower level nonetheless)and were treated to an awesome first half. Unfortunately, Duke came out to play in the second half, the Illini didn't. But it was still fun to go to the game. Not bad for Bruce Webber's first season!

 

[ILLINI]

Graduated UofI in 1999.

Furloughed three days into ground school of my first airline job at Skyway in 2001.

Got a job flying freight and charter for a couple years until I was recalled to Skyway.

Five months later I was hired at Air Wisconsin and now i'm just about through training.

Just over three months of training at two different companies within the past six months... Yeah, it gets a bit old.

 

[ilkwamh2]

Hey JB & DM,

Glad to hear training is going well. Those turboprop systems aren't easy, I'll tell you that. MZ's got it easy, he's flying the line. Take care guys, Keep in touch.

-FeiFong(Canadian style)

 

[ilinipilot]

I was wondering who you were feefong
Training is FING tough you are correct. but so far my head is staying barley above water. We are highering like crazy starting soon i think so keep getting that time in there and once I get through this crap I will be more than happy to help anyone i can. But i have to survive first.

Peace
D

 

[SkyW120]

FeiFong,
I'll see you at KFC Give me an email sometime because I can't find your address.

JB

 

[Abus300Pilot]

1996 Grad

Hello, fellow Illinois Pilots.
I graduated Institute of Aviation in '96. Started flying freight and haven't stopped yet. Currently flying a Heavy Airbus for a non-sched operation. Hope things are going well for you all. I lost touch with just about everyone after I left for the "real world". Sorry to hear about Rick passing away.

Later everybody.

Abus300Pilot

 

[FlyChicaga]

Hey Abus, where are you based? I see some A300 freighters at one of the places we fly, wondering if that would be you.

 

[Abus300Pilot]

Probably us.

We hub out of DAY for Emery. You guys stay at the Fairfield don't you? When I get in from MEX or LAX I usually see a crew heading out about 4:30am or so.

Abus300Pilot

 

[FlyChicaga]

Yeah, then those are your jets I've been seeing in DAY. I actually start my trip early tomorrow with a turn through there. We do stay at the FF Inn. Do you see our crews at the hotel? Those are standup crews... I avoid standups like the plague.

 

[Abus300Pilot]

I do see you guys at the Fairfield Inn. That is if I stay downstairs long enough to eat breakfast. Usually after a long night sitting on my butt and looking at the stars I try and head to bed before the sun catches me out of my coffin.

 

[beechball23]

Hey Illini

Hello to fellow Illini!! I just found this post and wanted reply!!
I am an alumni Class of 1999!! I graduated the Institute in 1996. If anyone was from that time.... drop me a line!!

I am flying now for a regional that flies in the Northeast and a part of the Midwest.


Go Illini!!!


PS Will miss Rick very much!!

 

[ilinipilot]

Hey beech ball
I just started flying the beech now for an operator in the "midwest" I really enjoy it. Yeah rick will be missed and is missed but sybil is doing a great job

Regards

D

 

[beechball23]

Hey Illinipilot,

You will grow to love the "beech" or as we call it .....the "SuperD"!!

beechball