Movie about VNY

[canyonblue]

Nice movie about a great airport. click the link and then select TRAILER.


http://onesixright.com/

 

[Irish Pilot]

sweet

 

[FlyBarneyJets]

Learned to fly there. You can bet I'll be picking up the DVD. Thanks for posting the link!

 

[HMR]

Thanks canyonblue! Looks like a gret flick. Is Phil the best controller on earth? Who else can handle 25 planes in the pattern while simultaneously carrying on a serious conversation about your RON in Aspen?

 

[HMR]

I think I'll make a documentary called 34 Left-The Other Side... You know: 3am callouts, no line service, studio Apt., single pilot, broken A/C, near mid-airs, 29 on/1 "off" schedule, no money/no girlfriend/no life, CP's&DO's who re-write FARs as needed... learning the ropes, making great friends and having some of the most fun possible at a "job". Ahhh, the memories...

 

[lakelivin]

I did my Commercial out of there with a guy that had 60,000 hours. Adam Burg, not sure if he's still around. Great airport, great people!

 

[chperplt]

Adam Burg gave me my private ride in 87.. Told the guy I was thinking about going Navy and that was that!

 

[Huck]

I got my multi commercial at VNY in 1991 in a Seneca that (at that time) had 36,000 hours - all instruction flights at that airport. Sussex Aviation.

 

[FlyBarneyJets]

Is Phil the best controller on earth? Who else can handle 25 planes in the pattern while simultaneously carrying on a serious conversation about your RON in Aspen?

Phil's the MAN! I remember the crazy way he used to record ATIS broadcasts..

"Vaaaaan Nuuuuuuuuuys Airpooooooooooort Infooooooormation Echooooooooooooooo....."

When I was helping my nephew out with his Aviation Merit Badge a few years back, I managed to get ahold of him and he arranged a tower tour for us. He even let my nephew record an ATIS broadcast as well. A class-act, that guy.

 

[SWA/FO]

I was a CFI there at Sky's the Limit, Green Hornets and flew out of Petersen Aviation. Phil is awesome.... I heard he retired?

 

[HMR]

I did my Commercial out of there with a guy that had 60,000 hours. Adam Burg, not sure if he's still around. Great airport, great people!

Is he still around? I sat through many of his checkrides when I was a CFI. The trick seemed to be to answer the first few questions (10 minutes) and then make a comment about that picture of his wife that hung on the wall (Oh, is that your wife? She's beeauuutiful....) this would lead to a 3hr life story (hanging w/Sinatra & Elvis, war hero, his latest movie project, etc.) and then out to the plane.

I love how he'd drop that "60,000hrs" line so often. I did the math and I think it comes out to 8hrs/day, 5 days/week for 30yrs!

 

[Skater]

I soloed at Sanval aviation in 1983 with Dr. Gene "Z's" Ezekial. He was known for dozing off during instruction. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't with me since I made him so airsick. Haven't thought about that place in awhile!

 

[TCAS]

Did my Instrument, Commercial, CFI, CFII and MEI at VNY. I also instructed there for two years. Only place I know where a freelance instructor can work 5 days a week flying 5-6 hours a day.

Anybody remember Jay "X" Brands?

 

[ShadowFlight]

Got all my helo ratings from '87 through '92 at VNY - Air Cav, Jetcopters, and Helical (which became Orbic). Later on, after getting my airplane ratings at LGB, I came back to VNY and flew traffic watch for 16 months in '98 and '99. Phil was one of the best controllers. Met him once on a tower tour - just as down-to-earth in person as on the radio.

VNY will ALWAYS be my hometown airport. Lots of fond memories. Once a SoCal native, always a SoCal person! Need to move back home...

Peace

SF

 

[Inconceivable]

Burg was still there in '99--did the wife's commercial

 

[PastFastMover]

Got my private in 1963 and worked at the local cessna dealership, Adam Burg
was working there at the time. 60,000, I don't know about that. Funny thing about VNY, everytime I would go back the same people were working there, but had just shifted from one side of the field to the other or around the corner, or back at another hangar, but still all there.

 

[lakelivin]

When Mr Burg did my comm multi ride back in 96' he told me he had a million hours.? My instructor at the time said to ask about the pictures on his wall. I did and the oral lasted almost 2 hours. He told me about the fix they named after him on an approach ( I think it was in Chico CA ).. etc... Can't wait to see the movie. Anyone know if Burg will be in it?

 

[737tzcpt]

I soloed in 1986 at Bud Walen Aviation. I worked for Bud as a line boy. Bud got me most of my tickets at a very reduced rate and then made me one of his flight instructors. Adam Burg did all my rating rides up to comm. multi.. Adam Burg use to be a B movie actor in the 50's or 60's, I saw him in a small part on a Twilight Zone episode. I miss VNY.

 

[Eagle-ista]

Ah, memories...

I was a VNY rat too. I got my CFI there in 1990, then taught at Bud Walen's till it shut down in 94. The building isn't even there anymore.

Phil is the best controller, anywhere. If I had a student that I was ready to solo, I made sure it was when Phil was in the tower. I knew he would keep an eye on my students, even while talking to every other plane in the sky. His comforting drawl set my students at ease. He would want to meet every one of them, it was a great way to make students comfortable while flying in some of the busiest airspace in the country. I was a safety counselor for the FSDO there and Phil used to come by Walen's and give talks about what the tower wanted from pilots flying in the area. He used to talk about our Tomahawks, calling them N22poo-poo, making wakes for the C-130's that used to be based there.

Flying lots of planes, teaching for hours and hours, pumping gas for Petersen, learning the charter business while flying Chieftains for SunQuest, sitting in the sun on the CFI bench next to the abandoned Caravelle, the temporary tower after the 94 Northridge quake, the crusty old guy that used to sell parts in the shop next to Walen's, watching the fighters and the heavies coming in for the airshow every year, listening to Blossom go off on her soapbox when she had an audience on the weekends, Greg and his Thailand stories, flying my first jet with Zack when he worked at Schaeffer, Flight 1, going to the ditch for Sunshine, fueling Citations on taxiway H at 3am, flying traffic watch in a C150 at SkyTrails, it goes on ad nauseum...

What a great place. I haven't flow into VNY for at least 8 years, but I will never forget the frequencies or the airport layout. I have waited for the moment that LAX goes below minimums and VNY is the only place to land, I'd go there in heartbeat!

Did they ever build anything on the ANG ramp? There have been so many movies shot on that ramp, that could be a thread on it's own!

Didn't Adam Berg go on to produce porno films?

I sent a Japanese student to Adam for his commercial single-engine. He got in an argument with him when Adam said he shot down a Kate at some battle, and my student told him there were no Kates in that battle... He still passed, but I told him to argue with the examiner after you have the ticket in your pocket, not during the oral...

 

[SWA/FO]

We should start the VNY alumni association. Myself from 1995-1998.
Class of 98 baby~!