Dad's idea

Doug Taylor said:
Kind of a short guy, was a -1900 captain when I first was hired, did a lot of "The Simpsons" impressions, flew C-130's in the guard... ring any bells? :)
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I know who he is...but don't really know him.
 
Here I am calling someone short when I'm a massive 5'8 with shoes on...
 
DE727UPS said:
FBO's don't like it when you don't buy their expensive avgas and they complain to the airport managers. Got kicked off of Boeing field in Seattle cause of that.
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Oh, yeah! I remember topping the wings of your old C-140 with avgas on the West ramp at BFI as bizjets, F-18s and heavies taxied by and watched.

Not surprising that the FBOs would work hard to put a stop to that.
 
DE727UPS said:
"Bring it out to Arizona. JC Flight school!"

The only reason I haven't sold my poor 152 aerobat that I never fly is cause I think I'll be spending a lot of time in PHX after I upgrade and it might work out to take it down there.
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Are you going to be PHX based or something? Is PHX a base? If your going to spend lots of time here at some point we should all organize a get together somewhere when you and the big man are in town!

-Matthew
 
DE727UPS said:
"Your father's error is that he doesn't know aviaiton"

You can't touch a 172 for 25K but that will get you a nice 150/152. You can burn auto fuel and save about half what avgas costs you. No need for a hanger, tiedowns work fine, just a little more work if it snows. If you can make friends with a free lance mechanic looking for some flight time, that can help a lot of maintanence costs. Also, if you know anyone in the same boat as your with the same goals, a partnership my work.
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I've always wondered where you got this MOGAS from.
 
DE727UPS said:
It's called humor Chris...
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Thanks for spelling that out for me Don. :banghead:

I know it's called humor. Do you think it really made my head explode to see numerous grammar errors (and non existant words) ?
 
Philip said:
I've always wondered where you got this MOGAS from.
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You taxi it up to the pump?

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CapnJim said:
Ya know, if you really want to get hog wild with the whole buying an airplane to train in idea, you could always buy a light training twin like a Seminole and put it on the line at a local flight school as a trainer, and then fly whenever and wherever you want. Of course, this opens up an entirely new and extra-wriggley can of worms vis-a-vis maintenance, financial complications, and legal responsibilities, not to mention that if you don't already have a PPL you probably don't want to do your initial training in a twin, but it does have one huge atvantage: It's cheap!
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Thats the way I would done if I could do it all over again. I would work out an agreement with the owner of the flight school to the effect of flying any plane he has on the line for free. That way, I could do my PPL in a single and do everything else in the multi.:rawk:
 
Chris_Ford said:
Ugh that was supposed to be a pic of the SWA 737 that overran at Burbank... mods can you delete this and previous post? Thx.
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I like how jetphotos.net use a logo instead of a red X when they find out someone hotlinked them.
 
"Are you going to be PHX based or something"

I'll still be based in ONT and live in GEG. UPS staffs a 757 at PHX from 1500 to 2300 weeknights to do hot standby. What that means is you show up, preflight the plane, and go sit in the comfy chairs and wait for them to tell you to go somewhere. You only fly if a plane breaks down somewhere in the southwest or if there is extra volume (that's what UPS calls packages). I've been tracking the usage and it seems like they fly this plane about one night a week, on average. This duty goes very junior and I'm not sure why other than guys don't like being on a 30 minute call and not knowing where they are going. To me, it beats getting beat up all night, every night, which is about all I can hold as a Capt.

That's the deal. Getting off at 2300 should leave time for adult beverage consumption. We stay in Awatukee.
 
"Where? I've never seen a MOGAS pump on the ramp"

It's pretty rare but I've seen it. Mostly you'll find individual owners with tanks in the back of their pickups (warning, this is against the fire code at BFI, Seattle) or you'll find guys just using 5 gallon cans. (warning, this is against the fire code at RNT, Seattle)

Do see why I moved my planes to Northern Idaho. We may have a problem with the Aryan Nation's folks, but nobody cares how I operate or fuel my little airplanes.
 
DE727UPS said:
"Where? I've never seen a MOGAS pump on the ramp"

It's pretty rare but I've seen it. Mostly you'll find individual owners with tanks in the back of their pickups (warning, this is against the fire code at BFI, Seattle) or you'll find guys just using 5 gallon cans. (warning, this is against the fire code at RNT, Seattle)

Do see why I moved my planes to Northern Idaho. We may have a problem with the Aryan Nation's folks, but nobody cares how I operate or fuel my little airplanes.
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How does your acrobat perform up there?

A guy here at APA has a 152 sparrowhawk conversion (115hp? I can't remember) for rent at like 55/wet, for solo flights I didn't think it sounded half bad... but at about 250lbs I probably wouldn't want to roll dual in it.

the 150 I did my PPL in years ago had an STC for auto fuel, I would have bought some had I seen it anywhere. How do you go about finding it in some guys truck? Know a guy who knows a guy or just ask around?
 
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