lionelmandrake
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Let this be the last word on the Pro Pilot article of April 2003 on the UPI flight department. My name is Jack Nisen. You may know me better as the guy who supposedly slept in the back of the specially equipped "sleeper" Lear 35 in London or wherever the event was supposed to have taken place. I have caught so much flack over this piece of fiction that I feel I must respond to it with the truth.
First of all, I have been into London in a Lear before, but it was into Northholt and it was while I was flying with Flight International, not UPI. While there, I have been put up in a hotel, or quick turned back to Naples Italy where I was based. I have never been "across the pond" in a Lear.
Secondly, I have slept in the back of the Lear, but only while it was in flight, and usually on top of several hundred pounds of cancelled checks. Those of you who haul checks know exactly what I'm talking about. By the way, if you really want to do it right, in the Lear you can lay the divan seat down , and if you have no baggae in the aft baggae compartment, there is room enough for a six foot plus person to lay down if you lay corner to corner. Not that I have ever done such a thing!
Thirdly, note my conspicuous lack of presence on the cover of the issue in question. My boss, Bill Killabrew, wanted me to come down to the airport to interview for the article and to be in the photo. I wanted no part of it, and forcefully declined. Killabrew, being the egomaniac that he is, fabricated just about everything in that story to inflate his already gigantic ego. The only truth in that article was the part about not having any health benefits. Killabrew is one cheap bastard!
Fourthly, "specially equipped" Lear with bunks? What kind of an idiot would believe such a thing. The only specially equipped, "bunked" Lears I have ever flown were of the air ambulance variety up in Alaska.
Fortunately, I no longer work for Killabrew; six months was as long as I could stand his antics. What is amazing to me is that a national magazine like Pro Pilot could put such un substantiated crap into print and damage my reputation, as apparently they did judging from the nasty letters I read concerning my working for such a jerk. I wrote Pro pilot a letter similar to this post, but as yet have recieved no reply. I doubt they ever will.
I just want to set the record straight. I am no time building doormat who whores himself off for flight time. Anybody who would do what I supposedly did in that article is certainly doing a great disservice to the industry as a whole. I AM the guy who wrote a scathing rebuttle to an article in another national aviation rag about how great Ameri Flight was. At that time AmeriFlight was letting foreigners pay $30 thousand dollars to sit right seat in a Metroliner and build time. They used this extra income to underbid other freight haulers, including the one I was working for at the time, and steal routes from them.
I AM the guy who threw a Norwegian off of the crew bus in Cincinnatti because he was paying for his 135 time AND stealing bunks in the crew house.
I AM the guy who HAD a friend that bought a job at Continental Express. I say HAD because I dissowned him after that.
So let geeks like Killabrew rant their delusional heads off about real and imaginary aviation exploits. I don't care. My friends in this business know where I stand, and now so do you.
Thanks for listening, Jack Nisen.
First of all, I have been into London in a Lear before, but it was into Northholt and it was while I was flying with Flight International, not UPI. While there, I have been put up in a hotel, or quick turned back to Naples Italy where I was based. I have never been "across the pond" in a Lear.
Secondly, I have slept in the back of the Lear, but only while it was in flight, and usually on top of several hundred pounds of cancelled checks. Those of you who haul checks know exactly what I'm talking about. By the way, if you really want to do it right, in the Lear you can lay the divan seat down , and if you have no baggae in the aft baggae compartment, there is room enough for a six foot plus person to lay down if you lay corner to corner. Not that I have ever done such a thing!
Thirdly, note my conspicuous lack of presence on the cover of the issue in question. My boss, Bill Killabrew, wanted me to come down to the airport to interview for the article and to be in the photo. I wanted no part of it, and forcefully declined. Killabrew, being the egomaniac that he is, fabricated just about everything in that story to inflate his already gigantic ego. The only truth in that article was the part about not having any health benefits. Killabrew is one cheap bastard!
Fourthly, "specially equipped" Lear with bunks? What kind of an idiot would believe such a thing. The only specially equipped, "bunked" Lears I have ever flown were of the air ambulance variety up in Alaska.
Fortunately, I no longer work for Killabrew; six months was as long as I could stand his antics. What is amazing to me is that a national magazine like Pro Pilot could put such un substantiated crap into print and damage my reputation, as apparently they did judging from the nasty letters I read concerning my working for such a jerk. I wrote Pro pilot a letter similar to this post, but as yet have recieved no reply. I doubt they ever will.
I just want to set the record straight. I am no time building doormat who whores himself off for flight time. Anybody who would do what I supposedly did in that article is certainly doing a great disservice to the industry as a whole. I AM the guy who wrote a scathing rebuttle to an article in another national aviation rag about how great Ameri Flight was. At that time AmeriFlight was letting foreigners pay $30 thousand dollars to sit right seat in a Metroliner and build time. They used this extra income to underbid other freight haulers, including the one I was working for at the time, and steal routes from them.
I AM the guy who threw a Norwegian off of the crew bus in Cincinnatti because he was paying for his 135 time AND stealing bunks in the crew house.
I AM the guy who HAD a friend that bought a job at Continental Express. I say HAD because I dissowned him after that.
So let geeks like Killabrew rant their delusional heads off about real and imaginary aviation exploits. I don't care. My friends in this business know where I stand, and now so do you.
Thanks for listening, Jack Nisen.
