What's the coolest thing you've done in an airplane?

tiredcfi said:
Do you remember what the tail number is on this plane? It is not clearly visible in the pic. I used to fly one just like it.
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tiredcfi said:
Do you remember what the tail number is on this plane? It is not clearly visible in the pic. I used to fly one just like it.
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That plane has been rotting in front of Odyssey for a while. I'll be in Exuma this week, I'll get the tail number for you.

Wait, I see someone got it for you.
 
Pretty sure she is a yoga instructor in the Jacksonville area now, in case anyone wanted to re-ignite an old flame :)
 
I can update my entry I guess -

The best would probably be SIC on the B24 a few weeks ago doing a formation arrival with THE B29 and a P51, and I just got back last night from a Seminole trip (MEI training/PIC time building for the student) from Illinois to Key West and back that involved a lap around Florida at or below 500' AGL. We were doing a lot of sweating but the views were worth it
 
Actually the mile high club in a 172 is a little overrated. Lets be honest.

....unless you're solo...
 
Bumblebee said:
Lisa Reagan?
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Okay, so I googled her after your last post and I'm at loss with why you mentioned her and advised us to look her up. Is she hot? I'm not sure because I can't find any real photos of her.

Or did you just mention it to assert that you were at one time linked to the scandal? If that's the case, I'm not really sure it's worth mentioning. I hope it's because she's hot.
 
killbilly said:
Is this story perhaps related to why you hate the -99 so much? Remember the making-deals-with-God discussion we had in Vegas?
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I'd be lying if I said I remembered said discussion very well, for obvious reasons. But there's a very dim bug-light going off in the ole domepiece. IMS, the triggering event for the deals-with-God was a much earlier flight...right at the beginning of my tenure at FLX (stop me if I've told you all this one before...oh, you can't, too bad!). It would have been late 2005, and I'd been at CPS maybe a couple of weeks after about a month of flying a run out of Jackson, MS, which had mercifully never required any serious weather flying. And THAT was right after my flight training/check ride at FLX, which was itself right after I hadn't touched an airplane for a couple of years (and I'd NEVER touched one, let alone flown one as BIG and threatening as a 210). My 135 IFR PIC checkride at FLX was also my BFR/IPC. So let's just say that I was, as you kids might say, a bit of a Noob.

Got to the hangar at my normal OhmygodO'clock show time, walked in through sheets of rain to see that all of the other planes were gone. Well, gosh, they're mostly going the same way, so if they can do it, I can do it! Right? Uh, right. It was pretty much a disaster from start to finish, other than I kept breathing, shockingly. Blasted off and, wouldn't you know it, some joker had put VIH out of service, and welp, I'm /A so I'm a gonna have to go east down towards FAM. Except that's where the squall line is. No worries, those controllers have radar, right? RIGHT? I'll spare you the next hour and a half or so, except to say that the KC Center controller didn't hand me off to Memphis in a timely fashion (or I didn't hear it), and I got a quick refresher on "where do you find center frequencies on a sectional".

Except I couldn't read said sectional because I was in the middle of a line of level 3-4s and pooping my Pampers. Like, literally, it was impossible to read the frequencies due to the turbulence, and it was constant. For something on the order of 45 minutes. Came up on Guard to get a frequency and got the predictable "YER ON GUARD" (no screwing poop! Does it sound like I'm trying to order a pizza!?). Some kindly Sky Nazi or another finally told the Guard Police to shut up long enough to get me a frequency and I got vectored, finally, in to SGF. Where I proceeded to shoot a VOR to 20, miss (this is right around the time of frontal passage at the field...they're putting out specials as fast as they can press "record"), then shoot an ILS back in to 02. Landed in, and I'm pretty sure I'm not making this up or exaggerating, although I do have Halfheimers, a 40G52 knot crosswind from 10 degrees off the right wing. Put it on the right side of the runway, and by the time I'd stopped, the left main was almost in the grass on the other side. Had to taxi over to the right side of the runway to turn around, because my right leg was shaking so hard it couldn't hold the brake to turn the other way.

Now, here's the funny part. Once I got out, I had the Athiest's Epiphany. I mean your religious type might say that God answered my prayers and if I had any sense at all, I'd never fly again, as I'd promised over and over again. But, being a Supra-Genius, I recognized that all that had happened was that I was an Awesome Pilot. So I got right back in and off I went. I must have been right, because I haven't been struck down by lightning since! Oh, wait, well, that's not exactly true...

But this thread was supposed to be about COOL things. My bad.
 
Cal Goat said:
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just to say that there was a real person, not a floozy or a person with an agenda. Just a nice person who was thrust into a situation that was way out of control. Guys who defend the actions there, either weren't there or are in denial. She was severely affected by the event, and then by the attitude of the people pissed at her for coming forward.

I only mention that because I have first hand knowledge on how this affected a nice woman...
 
Truth be told, though...this is probably the coolest thing I ever did in an airplane:



Still shocks me that anyone had the bad sense to turn me loose in that incredible machine at 30. SOMEONE made a good deal with God, that's for sure.
 
Bumblebee said:
just to say that there was a real person, not a floozy or a person with an agenda. Just a nice person who was thrust into a situation that was way out of control. Guys who defend the actions there, either weren't there or are in denial. She was severely affected by the event, and then by the attitude of the people pissed at her for coming forward.

I only mention that because I have first hand knowledge on how this affected a nice woman...
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...and it was shocking to me because I always had (and still do) hold Naval Aviators in high regard. whlile those tailhookers might still be pilots, but they lost the distinction of being gentlemen...which is an important part of being an officer...(In my personal and non initiated opinion)
 
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