What type are you on?

Man, my list sucks compared to these lists haha.

Anyhoo....


Currently 757-200/767-300 (hopefully will be able to add the elusive 757-300 after the marriage vows are complete)

I've flown:

CRJ-200 (FO and CA)
Beech King Air 90 and 200
Beech Baron
Beech Travelair
Beech Debonair
Piper Navajo
Piper Saratoga II (normal and TC)
Piper Seneca
Piper Seminole
Piper Arrow
Piper Archer/Warrior
Cessna 152
Cessna 150 Aerobat
Cessna 172
Cessna Citabria


That covers most of them... my dad got me a bunch of time in the DC-10-30 and 40 sims as well as the 747-400. Some of the most priceless learning experience I had in my career.
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
That covers most of them... my dad got me a bunch of time in the DC-10-30 and 40 sims as well as the 747-400. Some of the most priceless learning experience I had in my career.
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When I was at Pace Airlines we contracted our training through Delta. At the time my dad was the senior instructor on the 737-200. So, my dad decided to be my instructor. It was good and bad. I probably got wacked on the back side of the head more than most people when they are in the sim.:D
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
Currently 757-200/767-300 (hopefully will be able to add the elusive 757-300 after the marriage vows are complete)

That covers most of them... my dad got me a bunch of time in the DC-10-30 and 40 sims as well as the 747-400. Some of the most priceless learning experience I had in my career.
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DC10-40.. so Northwest?

We did our training on the 757 at the NW facilities. IMPRESSIVE. but also cold.

The 757 was the airplane you wanted to be SEEN in but the 767 was the better flying machine, IMHO. Of couse, we flew the 767 light just going coast to coast. The guys taking it over the pond said it was a bit doggier at the heavier weights but FL420 was no problem domestic.
 
Fun stuff
Taylorcraft
Champ
J-3 Cub
Citabria
Decathlon
Cessna-140
Dehavilland Chipmunk
Luscombe

Trainers
Cessna 150
Cessna 172
Beechcraft Sport-Sundowner-Sierra
Beechcraft Bonanza

Multi
Piper Apache
Beech-18
Beechcraft Duchess
Beechcraft Baron 55 & 58
Beechcraft King Air 200
Piper Aztec (Mosquito control)

Ag planes
Piper Pawnee
Callair
Eagle (Ag plane, not a Christen)
Air Tractor 301-401
Grumman Ag Cat 450-600-TPE331-1
Ayres Thrush-TPE331-10
Ayres Thrush PT6 -34 (This years ride)
Air Tractor 402-PT6-15
Air Tractor 602-PT6-60 (This years ride also)
 
Civil:
737 Capt.
MD-80 Capt.
737 F/O
727 F/E
T-34B
C-172
C-152

Military:

C-9 TAC/NIP
C-131 (CV-580) TAC/IP
C-12B TAC/IP
H-46 HAC/NIP
H-1 (Huey) Student
H-57 (Jet Ranger) Student
T-28B/C Student

Sandbag co-pilot:

P-3
E-2C
 
Polar742 said:
Some dude bought an ex-Mid Pacific bird, and made a deal. I'd get a type in it (500 hrs TT/150 Multi, 22 yrs old) if I'd fly it to OMSJ.

It's still in OMSJ.
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That has got to be a story.. from the Pacific to the UAE in an airplane with little to no real air conditioning and not the longest of legs. ??? wow..

For a while, some guy in TX bought some YS-11s and being a Marine, he painted the top half of the fuselage that dark Marine blue. No way in hell the vapid air conditioning system on the YS could deal with that heat and that absorption. When we flew it, we carried a small hand towel to wipe the sweat out of our eyes. That was one hot mutha' in the summer.
 
Orange Anchor said:
That has got to be a story.. from the Pacific to the UAE in an airplane with little to no real air conditioning and not the longest of legs. ??? wow...
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I wish it was half as exciting as you think it was.

Mid Pacific relocated to Indiana when they got the Postal contract. When Emery took over the contract, Mid Pac was a fish out of water, and died there. Their maintenance base was in KLAF, which happened to be where my college was. When they shut down, they were short of rent, so the airport impounded (I think) 3 airplanes, spares and miscellany.

Of course, knowing the right person at the right place at the right time is how these one-off deals seem to work. The guy had the idea of buying the lot, and starting a feeder airline in the middle east. Back then I had no idea of what it actually took to certify and maintain a fleet as an airline.

Exacerbating it, some guys who flight instructed at the university had an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an airline that did just what this guy proposed, except using new Beech 1900s. It worked out swimmingly for them, so I thought, "Hell, I'll try it. I'm 22 and single. It'll be awesome or I'll be broke as a joke..."

But, for a first type, it was fine. I got the factory manuals from the hangar. I read the Vol II about 7 times, because I remembered from somewhere that if you read something seven times, it would be stuck in your head. Don't ask me about the HPSTW or the LPSTW or the Dart -10J though.

I did about 6 hours of flight training in the bird, and did a type ride. We had a ferry pilot (this guy, and his family, are worth a book). He installed a bladder tank (which was a wing tank from the YS), GPS (some hard-mount, which didn't work and a handheld Garmin that took us all the way) and HF.

Went to Goose, Narsarsuaaq (there's another summer overnight I'd love to do again!!!), Kef, Luton, Corfu, Luxor, OBBI for awhile, then to it's final resting place in OMSJ.

A friend of mine runs a charter/management outfit in DXB. He tells me the plane is still sitting there.
 
C-150
C-152
C-172
SR-20
SR-22
Citabria
1946 V-35 (first year of production)
Cherokee 140

Ended up right seat of a C-501SP. Guy needed a second pilot (pilot, thats all) as part of his alimony when flying his kids. Of course I couldn't log it (and didn't touch a thing), but cool none the less.
 
Capt. Caucasian said:
When I was at Pace Airlines we contracted our training through Delta. At the time my dad was the senior instructor on the 737-200. So, my dad decided to be my instructor. It was good and bad. I probably got wacked on the back side of the head more than most people when they are in the sim.:D
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When were you at Pace? I was there (in another capacity besides pilot) in 2003. Also worked with them out of SFB in 2002.
 
Polar742 said:
But, for a first type, it was fine. I got the factory manuals from the hangar. I read the Vol II about 7 times, because I remembered from somewhere that if you read something seven times, it would be stuck in your head. Don't ask me about the HPSTW or the LPSTW or the Dart -10J though.
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A Japanese airplane with British engines and systems that were designed by some guy on LSD. high stop and low stop lock-outs, WILD frequency electricals, trimming up the Darts.. it had to be one of the craziest systems airplane I ever climbed into. But it would haul 50+ pax out of Bluefield and Huntington.

We would do ATL, HKY, CLT, ROA, BLF, HTS, CVG, HTS, BLF, ROA on day 1 of a 3-4 day trip. I think 10 legs was the max. I was not unhappy when around 10 months after being hired I got a 737-200 rt seat bid. The 737 was a snap.. a Boeing is a Boeing is a Boeing.
 
Nothing like trimming the engines to start, and hoping you don't catch them on fire.

The "Trim-O-the-Day" with a full throttle takeoff.

At least cruise planning was easy.

The guy that did our training said MidPac was looking at stretching it and putting Allisons on it to make it the plane it could have been.
 
Oh yeah....

Is it me, or is the Spill Valve a dumb concept. I still don't think I ever figured out when you were supposed to open or close them.
 
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