Recent content by Ralph Parmenter Bennett

"The camera person might have been a 75-year-old female incapable of doing anything except taking pictures.", you just previously wrote Billy Zeldman. Ouch, watch that ageism and sexism Billy , signed Ralph age 81 years, CFII Gold Seal, MEI, AGI, IGI, FAA Master Pilot Award. Take care of...

Within our special 'United Flying Octogenarians' (aka UFO) we have a number of pilots that have successfully begun flying in their mid to late 70's. Continue to legally fly as a pilot in command past 80 years and join our ranks in UFO for your duration. Also perhaps find a CFI with lots of...

This is heart breaking. Departed Springbank Airport west of Calgary enroute to British Columbia. One father leaves a 1-year-old son, a second leaves a four-month daughter and a third leaves a son who will be born in August. Other pax. names not yet released. PA-32 crashed and was ELT located...

It may have already been written within, but consider joining 'The United Flying Octogenarians'. If you can legally serve as PIC on or after your 80th Birthday, then you qualify for membership in our special organization for your duration. A major emphasis of the UFO is pilot insurance reform...

Being in agreement with your assessment of AOPA E FIRC for the first time I left AOPA and went with the Aviation Seminars FIRC and was well pleased with their unique online format. Support and IACRA requirements were well handled. Aviation Seminars is also one of the very few FIRC providers that...

UFO has a new auxiliary wing for those pilots 75-80 years. Join now and then join UFO in a couple more years. We are looking for Wisconsin pilots that might help spread the word at EAA Oshkosh? Contact our UFO President Ken Brown!

If not already I hope the OP and others will join us in the special and elite international 'UNITED FLYING OCTOGENARIANS (UFO) Too precious a privilege to voluntarily surrender If you serve as a PIC on or after your 80th birthday admission is yours for the duration. Google us & Keep Flying !

Old huh? My hope is you that many of you pilots will in future years be able to join our ranks within the special & elite, 'THE UNITED FLYING OCTOGENARIANS'! (U.F.O,). We are international and also have an auxiliary wing for those in their seventies. If a pilot serves as PIC on or after their...

Research has shown that with gyros inop there is an strong possibility of further disorientation given the clash of conflicting information from the panel between the gyros, pressure instruments, turn indicator etc. I lost an experienced CFII friend who declared an emergency due sudden vacuum...

For the first time I switched from AOPA E-FIRC to Aviation Seminars Online and found it a more enjoyable experience with all paperwork handled by AV.. Aviation Seminars is also the only outfit still offering in person FIRC, except for American Flyers, & then only at their regional AF HQs. AV...

A slow sleepwalk into a terrible wider war? If so, this one won't be like overcoming our past Middle Eastern adversaries with overwhelming firepower. The shock and awe will be a mutual exchange. The present US propaganda is absurd and fantastical and is grooming us for a possible war that might...

I am old enough, sadly, to remember when 'Walking the Dog' was a popular dance number. In the day, Freight Dogs like me, landing at ORD real late could still go drinking & dancing at night Chicago night spots that didn't close until 3 AM. Oh dear

16 years and 17 hours. That demon summer SW crosswind for runway 14, J-3 (1680 long) would not relent. The day it did was my first solo.

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OH Dear. " A Bobcat' you say. Well, we will be watching on November 19th for the annual 'GRIZ-Cats 'Brawl in the Wild'. MSU is doing way better than the GRIZ this year. Maybe we can agree on 'UFO' in spite of this serious Alma Mater divide. Beaucoup "bumps" on my road too. The Best, Ralph