I am so sick of Chuck Yeager...

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I have to be honest. I met Chuck Yeager in the mid 1990's. I was working at the Hood River airport FBO. He landed in a Jet Ranger when he and his pilot couldn't get up the Columbia Gorge VFR. They were trying to get to PDX so he could catch a flight to I believe it was San Diego.

There were a few other pilots standing around on the ramp waiting for the Gorge to clear. Even though the Gorge was down at Cascade Locks it was clear and pleasant in Hood River like it often is.

After he had a cup of my great FBO coffee he came out and chatted with folks and signed some autographs. There was another fellow there that Chuck Yeager knew from the Air Force (he was a really good guy he would fly up sometimes in his T28 and take people up for free) with an A36 that was getting fueled. He was from Hood River but lived in San Diego. He was heading home after fueling so he gave him a ride.

All in all he was very nice. He did give my friend a hard time about his clipped wing J3 that was on the ramp. He couldn't understand how anybody could do that to a perfectly good airplane.

I met him again at the Kermit Weeks hangar at Oshkosh a little while later and he talked to me about the TLS approach system I was demonstrating. Again he was very nice.

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Now as annoying as the holy cow, anyone can get an SIC type rating, I I mean "Gulfstream Girl internet sensation" is, lets not presume the worst.
 
I thought she was PIC typed? Her FB says she's a pilot in command although I am 100% sure she is not signing for flights as captain lol.
 
I have always been fascinated at the following question: How has Gulfstream girl and her rapid ascent into Gulfstreamdom in any way affected or diminished anyone else and their career climb? Did Gulfstream Girl somehow take the seat YOU were going to sit in? If in fact she blew her way to the top...are people somehow jealous that they did not get the same opportunity (to blow their way to the top that is)? It's like Amjon in another thread complaining about how much doctors make - the fact that YOU make what you make has no direct correlation with what doctors make. Want to make what a doctor makes? Do what it takes to be a doctor. Want to sit in the Gulfstream? Do what Gulfstream Girl did to get there. Self promotion? Sure, she's a self-promoter. That doesn't make her unique in the age of Facebook and live-blogging every bowel movement you have.
 
TrustMeI'maPilot said:
I flew with a guy that had him as a passenger, said after they landed Yeager told him off because his altitude was +/-100ft. He was using his altimeter watch inside of a pressurized airplane. Wouldn't have believed it except I trust the guy who told me and it correlates with other stories I've read.

Also when I was about 17, I read his biography because I didn't know better, thought he's completely full of himself after I got done with it.
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Sorry, but I heard about 15 different variations of this bit with 15 different "passengers" doing the proclaiming.
 
Bob Ridpath said:
Whoa ... Whoa ... Whoa ... Creepy Old Man here. This is actually possible? Are you sure?
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Hit her up on FB! Although you better be able to get her in a G650 or a Global, not much more room on the sex ladder above GV... If only she was flying a CJ2...
 
WacoFan said:
I have always been fascinated at the following question: How has Gulfstream girl and her rapid ascent into Gulfstreamdom in any way affected or diminished anyone else and their career climb? Did Gulfstream Girl somehow take the seat YOU were going to sit in? If in fact she blew her way to the top...are people somehow jealous that they did not get the same opportunity (to blow their way to the top that is)? It's like Amjon in another thread complaining about how much doctors make - the fact that YOU make what you make has no direct correlation with what doctors make. Want to make what a doctor makes? Do what it takes to be a doctor. Want to sit in the Gulfstream? Do what Gulfstream Girl did to get there. Self promotion? Sure, she's a self-promoter. That doesn't make her unique in the age of Facebook and live-blogging every bowel movement you have.
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As an aviation professional, I feel it takes a relatively low-experienced professional and almost brings that person to the level of spokesman for us on an almost "cartoonish" schtick.

She's a girl flying an airplane. Wow.

At my airline, we have many women flying airplanes, day in, day out. Tall ones, short ones, civilians, veterans, former (and present) chief pilots, line check airmen, some that would have a great radio career and some that will literally stop traffic in the terminal.

My female co-workers expect to be treated like everyone else.

If her fanbase was socioeconomic groups that thought "I can't fly, but now I know I could if I put my mind to it" that all of the internet hype is meant for is one thing. But it seems like the same basement dwellers that fawned over one of our previous, admittedly attractive users from the early 2000's, who would engage in elementary school-level private message fisticuffs over who claimed protective custody and ownership of, it's something else.

One of my really good friends from college, who is one of my co-workers now, part owner of a Aerospace firm in Illinois and (I think still) owns and flies her own L-39 Albatross who is almost a dead ringer for Tina Fey would sooner kick your ass than let you reduce her to a internet meme for 18 year old boys and old men in their mom's basements.

Like me. I'm a pilot. And I'm black. BIG FLIPPING WHOOP. I have more professionalism than to market myself as "BlackBoeingBoy" to lonely schoolgirls in Florida.
 
Derg said:
One of my really good friends from college, who is one of my co-workers now, part owner of a Aerospace firm in Illinois and (I think still) owns and flies her own L-39 Albatross who is almost a dead ringer for Tina Fey would sooner kick your ass than let you reduce her to a internet meme for 18 year old boys and old men in their mom's basements.

Like me. I'm a pilot. And I'm black. BIG FLIPPING WHOOP. I have more professionalism than to market myself as "BlackBoeingBoy" to lonely schoolgirls in Florida.
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This is how I feel 100%. Her being somewhat pretty doesn't make me feel safer in the cockpit with her, and it certainly doesn't make her a good pilot. You can just tell the way she self gimmicks, that she is playing up her strengths, which is looking pretty in the cockpit.


Chuck Yeager sucks!!!!!!!!
 
Funny story. We're taxiing into the terminal area at a location that has fairly "non standard" taxiway markings and nomenclature.

I have a female captain from the "old school" who probably took a lot of heat back in the old days because there really weren't that many around like there are today. We have A LOT now, which is fantastic.

Anyway, she's rolling up on the intersection at a clip that makes me think she's not going to make the turn so verbalize "(name), here comes Inner-2 where we go left"

She says something of the sort of "Does watching a woman make you unconfortable with my ability to understand taxi instructions?" and the aircraft brakes fairly firmly and she turns.

I said, "No, it's because I'm black and we don't assume anyone knows where they're going cause we goin' get da blame fo' it anyway"

After that, we had a good understanding that I was helping on a crew level, as my job insists I do, not second-guessing because of gender.

*Southernjetters -- feel free to PM me if ya wanna know.
 
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