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Old 4 January 2018, 04:31 PM   #61
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Looking forward to the pictures and details from your experience! It'll be a great idea to have one, plenty of enthusiasts on this forum it seems!
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Old 4 January 2018, 06:36 PM   #62
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Reading about all of this and researching is somehow almost as much fun as being at the airport! The smell of that burning fuel from a plane pulling up beside the hanger as we finished the pre-flight has remained with me in the best of ways!
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That highlighted sentence alone confirms that you were indeed born to fly

Thanks for sharing your first flight experience, and it's great to see someone so motivated.

It sounds like you have a good plan; pre-study/ground school and then hit the flying lessons regularly when the time/weather permits. When I instructed, students who had real lives/families/jobs would often (understandably) find it difficult to find time to study and as a result their flying lessons would begin to outpace their bookwork when it came time for cross-countries/navigation, taking their written exam, and prepping for the check ride. Good to get ahead, you can never absorb too much.

1st solo, spring of '79 in a 1967 Skyhawk and she was a bug-covered, oil-streaked beauty. Flying a Gulfstream G-650ER now but almost 40 years, 13,000+ hours, and a large variety of private/corporate/airline aircraft types later I'll never forget that first love and all the new thrills she brought.

Well done, and look forward to updates as you progress.
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Old 5 January 2018, 07:52 AM   #63
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I will never forget this day, April, 1985, North Whiting Field Milton Florida.
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Old 5 January 2018, 08:16 AM   #64
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I will never forget this day, April, 1985, North Whiting Field Milton Florida.
T-34 Mentor ?

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Old 5 January 2018, 08:39 AM   #65
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Old 5 January 2018, 08:41 AM   #66
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Yep, T34C
Nice bird !

Flew one many years ago in Texas

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That highlighted sentence alone confirms that you were indeed born to fly

Thanks for sharing your first flight experience, and it's great to see someone so motivated.

It sounds like you have a good plan; pre-study/ground school and then hit the flying lessons regularly when the time/weather permits. When I instructed, students who had real lives/families/jobs would often (understandably) find it difficult to find time to study and as a result their flying lessons would begin to outpace their bookwork when it came time for cross-countries/navigation, taking their written exam, and prepping for the check ride. Good to get ahead, you can never absorb too much.

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Well done, and look forward to updates as you progress.

It was my pleasure! Thanks for that, and it certainly does feel this way. The shot I took in the hanger as we started making our way towards the aircraft... Can't describe the feeling I got there. The joy, excitement, and a million other positive emotions. Essentially, I felt right at home.



When I was still in Business school, after doing my course work my treat to myself would be spending hours upon hours reading up on aviation. Some of it things out of curiosity like Boeing PDF operations manuals (747):

http://landrover.narod.ru/gershon/AI...ons_manual.pdf

Just thinking of it excites me and as aforementioned I'll continue on this path until I'm ready to do it all in one go. The flight academy (years ago) told me this when giving the price range for the PPL. Either way there's a good chance I'll go on anther flight like this for the fun of it and to get used to the sensation.

My biggest thing is getting comfortable in the aircraft. Prior to this I hardly flew commercial, and of course something like a C172 is a lot different (psychologically anyway). I'm still amazed at how fast it all happened! All the research I did and calls made prior made it seem like they went over more. The time my instructor spent going around the aircraft explaining the various areas (engine, flaps, elevators, etc) would've been better spent going over the actual controls and what to do. I guess in that sense it's like driving for the first time ever. You never truly know until you've actually taken the wheel.

Although it may not be very soon I will indeed post any updates here in the future


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Wow! I'm glad you were able to find those pictures and post them here, Paul! Maybe I missed it but do you have any recollection of time spent in the Centrifuge? Also, what watch did you wear back then or during your service?

That's incredible and I hope you're able to find some more memories to share!
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Old 5 January 2018, 10:15 AM   #68
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During flight school I wore a Tag Heur Chronograph, it was a quartz model and can’t remember much more about it then that. After I got my wings in 86, I purchased my first Rolex, a Coke GMT II Oh yeah, I remember the “swinger.” I was 23 years old back then, I remember going to six Gs and forcing my stomach muscles like a body builder. I breifly remember eight... I think if I did that today it would kill me.
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Old 5 January 2018, 10:17 AM   #69
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Nice bird !

Flew one many years ago in Texas

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Man how did you handle that T-28? That Radial monster! What a beast! I got intimidated just standing next to one they had at the base.
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During flight school I wore a Tag Heur Chronograph, it was a quartz model and can’t remember much more about it then that. After I got my wings in 86, I purchased my first Rolex, a Coke GMT II Oh yeah, I remember the “swinger.” I was 23 years old back then, I remember going to six Gs and forcing my stomach muscles like a body builder. I breifly remember eight... I think if I did that today it would kill me.
Wow, that's cool! So you never really had an interest in any of the Breitling pieces? I'm not a big fan of most but do find the models with both analog and digital displays really useful or at least fun to mess around with! I didn't get a Navitimer because I'm an avid swimmer and water sports enthusiast. The Rolex as you all know does everything, so it made sense.

I'm not fully sold on the Breitling models yet that have the features previously discussed BUT did pick this up as a toy to get me used to the features:




More so just for fun, and although I pretty much never wear it the watch is always ready to serve as a "beater" or to provide benefits from the plethora of features.


Oh yeah, wow!

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Man how did you handle that T-28? That Radial monster! What a beast! I got intimidated just standing next to one they had at the base.
They are huge
Was at Hicks Airfield

Had to pick up a C210 there

Paul what did you fly after the T-34 ?

T-2
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Old 5 January 2018, 11:17 AM   #72
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T-2 Buckeye and some of the TA-4, I was in Texas by then for advanced.
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Super Cool!

Thanks for sharing...
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T-2 Buckeye and some of the TA-4, I was in Texas by then for advanced.
2 nice birds

I see the T-45 sometimes at PSP

Was yesterday at El Centro and the Blue Angels arrived !
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Old 5 January 2018, 04:33 PM   #76
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I learned on the C172R myself. The plane I soloed in was chopped in half by a vertical lift hanger door right before my eyes. NEVER stand under hanger doors!!! Ever!

There is Joe’s top aviation tip for the day.

I’m an air traffic controller, so if you have any ATC questions I’d be glad to help a new pilot!
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Old 6 January 2018, 02:42 AM   #78
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You’d be surprised how many GA pilots think we’re terrifying. We’re here to make sure everyone stays safe and gets where they’re going as efficiently as possible.
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You’d be surprised how many GA pilots think we’re terrifying. We’re here to make sure everyone stays safe and gets where they’re going as efficiently as possible.
I have to say that I prefer the US Traffic Controllers !

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I was once on a cross country flight, checked in with center, the guy says: “Navy November Foxtrot 204, squawk 7700 and ident....... No just kidding”
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That’s a pet peeve of mine, squak and ident at the same time, the ident delays the acquisition of the radar data on the radar screen. The beacon code change satisfies the requirements for radar identification. Identing during a code change only delays the process.

The ident feature is great for a zillion other reasons though.
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I learned on the C172R myself. The plane I soloed in was chopped in half by a vertical lift hanger door right before my eyes. NEVER stand under hanger doors!!! Ever!

There is Joe’s top aviation tip for the day.

I’m an air traffic controller, so if you have any ATC questions I’d be glad to help a new pilot!
Oh wow, that's insane! Thankfully nobody was hurt but wow! I'll be sure to keep that in mind and really appreciate the knowledge being passed in on the discussions here!

Also, anytime I've got ATC questions I'll be sure to send them your way! I'm guessing your model hobby really helps reduce stress levels if / when it's a problem?


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Was it challenging at all the first time you went outside of the US? Out of curiosity I've got to spend some time on other airports across the globe to try get an idea. I do recall listening in on a tower from Japan many months back though.


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I'm guessing "No just kidding" wasn't and isn't part of any standard phraseology?
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It was like 0300, middle of nowhere, no one else on freq, I think he was trying to liven up a boring time.
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It was like 0300, middle of nowhere, no one else on freq, I think he was trying to liven up a boring time.
Ah, no wonder Not sure why I pictured it to be totally different originally. Can't imagine anyone doing that with lots of air traffic
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As long as we’re on the subject, anyone every squawk 7700? Declare an Emergency? I did once. Low-level over the range near San Clemente Island, my Port Engine had a compressor stall. I thought the whole jet had blown up. Bang! Bang! Bang! And TGT was pegged. I was talking to tower at the time and the first and only time in my life said (yelled) “Mayday!” Of course it was about three Octives higher then normal. I pulled up, retarted the #1 throttle and being only about three miles from the runway, landed quickly and safely, had plenty of power in #2 and exept for the sound, it really wasn’t that big a deal. Well, at the time it definitely got the senses alert. I hit the jetison-all switch and somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific there are a couple BDUs if anyone wants to go get them.
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I’ve never had to squawk 7700, but I did have to squawk 7600 after my radios packed up, but mysteriously started working again.
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Squawked 7700 once. Shortly after departure climbing through 10,000' the cabin and then the cockpit of the aircraft quickly began filling with smoke. Put on the Oxygen masks, dumped the pressurization to start clearing the air, and began an immediate descent/return to the field declaring Mayday and squawking 7700. Was a over our maximum landing weight so dumped some fuel, flew a modified traffic pattern and landed on the parallel runway of the one we departed.

Luckily, we weren't on fire and nothing wrong with the engines/pressurization/electrical systems. After many days of the engineers trying to locate the source after the usual suspects were eliminated (engine seals, electrics, AC units), and finally ripping out the interior it turned out that a coating compound applied to the outside of the bleed air/hot air ducting for insulation and soundproofing under the floor and behind panels had chemically broken down and begun cooking-off, and would generate a flood of smoke into the cabin when the ducts reached a temp well below what it should have been able to handle. Nasty stuff, not sure how toxic, but happy not to breathe much before getting the mask on/clearing the air. When I looked back the first time the visibility wasn't more than a few feet through it.

On the upside, and as in Paul's case, if things s**t the bed out of the blue as they sometimes do, having an airport handy makes all the difference in the world.

(My apologies to anyone who may have experienced a light misting of Jet-A one early morning about 20 years ago for no apparent reason. Sorry).
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Wow. This is really cool. And ballsy. Thanks for sharin!!
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