Recent content by hawk25u

English proficient, address change, plastic, etc or just passed checkride for Private, Commercial or Seaplane. Could be anything. Gotta take what the news reporters come up with with a 5 lb sack of salt.

In my 20 year career with the airlines I was furloughed twice and a company went under on me. ALWAYS have the backup job. Several old crusty pilots with major airlines said that it's not if but when you will be furloughed. One laughed and said he had 5 different uniforms in his closet between...

Fairfax in Kansas City, Kansas to Downtown Kansas City, Missouri the only thing separating them is the Missouri River. Both airports had a control tower and I was cleared for takeoff and cleared to land in the same transmission. The two towers had a facility memorandum that. Departed to the...

It is best to use the same outfit whoever you go with. The results they send back will be more consistent and meaningful. I was told this by several A/P who said that each company is a tiny bit different in their analysis. It is the trend record that really counts.

The Vietnam GI bill did say you had to get the Private on your own wallet. I can't remember what the reimbursement was for the rest they did cover a lot of my training for Comm, IFR, CFI & CFII on SEL & MEL. Some years ago someone asked me what my training cost me I told them 3 Purple Hearts.

Haven't worn one of those neck nooses for the last 12 years since I retired. Miss them like a fart in an oxygen tent.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-pilot-survived-ejection-supersonic-speeds-2016-8

Years ago at some event my wife was asked by a woman if she was worried that I would be chasing flight attendants on overnights. Her husband just said, 'Honey, what were the flight attendants like on our last few flights?' That shut her up.

They will keep the recorders in the same environment they were found in until they get them to the lab. Could be mud, salt water, fresh water, etc.

Now children play nice

- Colonoscopy California style For all you Old Farts that are familiar (or should be)with colonoscopies Being nervous and embarrassed about my up-coming colonoscopy, on a recommendation, I decided to have it done while visiting friends in San Francisco, where the beautiful nurses are allegedly...

Some years ago I jumpseated on a UPS 767 and they had a lav.