Apophis
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Not just boxes. This is true in any facet of aviation, especially single pilot IFR.
Ameriflight memories, trauma
- Thread starter Cal Goat
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Not just boxes. This is true in any facet of aviation, especially single pilot IFR.
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What happened? Where?
Maurus
The Great Gazoo
Last winter AMF had a fatal accident going into PHX. David was the pilot.
EatSleepFly
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Decent story but he was trying way too hard to sound like Earnest Gann. Ruined it for me. Be original next time.
Oh yeah... and I miss my time at AMF (sometimes).
Oh yeah... and I miss my time at AMF (sometimes).
z987k
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I miss the type of flying. Nothing else.
Inverted
mmmmmm wine
Ya I miss the flying its self. There are people there I miss, some I don't, but that's about it.
Really fancy dual ADFs
illini8o3
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But one is deferred
z987k
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When were you at UofI?
illini8o3
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I was there from 2007-11. Did you go there?
z987k
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05-09
Tommay85
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Sir, there's only ONE UofI!!!!
z987k
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Ya, and a dirty bird isn't their mascot.
Tommay85
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Negatory
Tommay85
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The good, you can live like this!
and fly to places like this
and layovers like this
Sunsets like this
The bad initially, REALLY bad. Look up registering a car. It's insane, but only temporary I suppose
Other than that, sometimes GenAir in Aruba is slow and it can take 2 hours to get your cargo unloaded, fueled, and get you to the terminal. Happened to me on Friday while it was 103 degrees and a million percent humidity. Things also happen that can be quite irritating to be honest. Also the days can be long and you will be sweaty and tired, especially by the end of the week. We pretty much live for the weekend, and they can be amazing. You can PM me if you want
I'm based in BQN, but I've TDYed to SJU. The BQN Metro is what you want. The 1900 runs are LONG days, a little bit better flight time, but you're working all day, where as in BQN you get a 5 hour break on Mondays and 4 hours the rest of the week. The single Metro run in SJU is only 2.5 hours a day and it can be pretty awful if it's a hot and slow day on the islands. It's only an 8 hour duty day during the summer and 7 in the winter, but other than flying into St. Maarten, I'm not a fan of that run at all.
Presently, one Brasilia captain is from Aguadilla and doesn't appear to ever want to leave, and the other is the ACP, and there's only one run for that plane for now. I don't see a quick upgrade to the Brasilia happening anymore until something changes. Rumor is that St. Lucia is going back to the brasilia and also picking two more runs to Venezuala on the brasilia as well. Then there's the whole CRJ rumor...
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ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
If it's like the UPS flying I did - the answer is most of it.