Recent content by Licketysplit

Hey, a J3 cub and a Stearman made me a better pilot. The NTSB accident reports tell of a many IR rated pilots got real dead thinking their IR gave them the skills to fly in and around thunderstorms.;)

I do. Never seen a crop duster with much of a VFR panel, much less an IFR panel. Heck, I get excited when I have more than a working oil pressure and tachometer.

I vote for 2 & 4. If they only knew the importance of those bee's. Moving that hive would have be so easy, and safe. The queen was inside there somewhere, That's why they were there. A few phone calls and someone would have been glad to come get them. What a sad display of idiocy.

Probably already retired once from the beach starship.

In my part of the world, crop dusting is a dead sport. Just two years ago there were four operators in this area. I didn't see a yellow plane fly last year, at all. Last week I watched a 1966 piper pawnee work a cotton field near my house. Took him all day to do what we did in three hours with a...

I was a PA-28-180 owner for over 20 years. Dang good airplane. That airplane will be good to you with little more than regular TLC and use. In other words, Run it often and keep up with the oil changes and the other little things that go with aircraft ownership. I did a dumb thing and sold it...

:D yeah, me too!

There was one of these hangared at an airport where I learned to fly back around 1978,79. It belonged to some air force colonel. Other than big and roomy inside I don't remember much about it. I think it was a foreign manufacture, can't remember for sure. I fueled the plane and talked with the...

I bet I've sprayed a million acres setting on the toilet using the plunger as a control stick. Setting in the passenger seat of my dad's truck with a claw hammer between my legs using the window crank handle as the power lever.

Two for me, a 1972 M4 Maule and a 1965 Cherokee 160.

I owned an M4-220 for six years. I loved it and woud like to have another one some day. I paid $16,000, logged just shy of a thousand hours and sold it for $16. The most expensive annual was $875 which included some fabric work. I couldn't touch one now for less than in the $40's. To me it was...

I'd like to start some kind of training just to give me a purpose for flying. I don't really have a need for an instrument rating other than it looks good on paper and the insurance companys like it. Crop dusting is where my interest is and there is no need for an IR in a spray plane. I don't...

My brother and I built a grass strip on the family property in 1988. It was 1095ft measured with one of those civil engineering wheel thingies. At the time we couldn't get anymore lenght due to a drainage ditch across one end. One end had a pecan orchard we called a 100ft obstacle. The other end...

I worked for a man for over a year before we found out each other were pilots. I dropped off my Maule at a local radio shop one morning for service. When they called to tell me it was ready, my boss took the message. Couldn't believe we never talked about it. Sure changed our relationship from...

One of the fatalities was the owner and webmaster of flightinfo.com. Sad thing for sure. My prayers go out for all involved.