Where is Henning?

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I agree with you except that Henning disseminated a LOT of bad information here pretending to be the expert on almost every topic raised. "Information" that could potentially get someone hurt if they followed his advice. Aviation, along with many other topics discussed here, are too serious of businesses to have misinformation gurus such as Henning polluting the stream of good knowledge.

I for one will not mourn his departure.

I second that. :thumbsup:
 
Some days you just get bored!
I still can't believe you had time to read all that BS....then cut and paste the links like we're gonna be so stupid.:yikes: :D

....and that's hours and hours of your life you ain't getting back. :rofl:

Meh....I say let Henning outta the box.....it's kinda boring around here. :popcorn::wonderwoman:
 
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O.K. we've established from eye witnesse's he's a legitimate person, but what star formation is he from?

I had to chuckle at hindsight2020's post about asking an entitled woman how to spend your money all your life.

My Father would always say "people build their own prisons" and now I know what he meant.
 

O.K. we've established from eye witnesse's he's a legitimate person, but what star formation is he from?

I had to chuckle at hindsight2020's post about asking an entitled woman how to spend your money all your life.

My Father would always say "people build their own prisons" and now I know what he meant.
True, he definitely has some unique perspective, and I maintain that added some of the color to the Blue board (bad advice to newbies notwithstanding).

Your Father was correct: some of us don't realize the foundation has been set and the bricks are being laid until the barred door slams shut. Have a pilot friend who just found that out a week ago. . .36 years of marriage down the drain.
 
I have to admit I've read a number of posts on this board over the years where my BS meter started going off a little bit, then I'd glance over at the poster and think to myself: "Ah, Henning posted this, that makes more sense."

One interesting thing is that he seems to be an expert at posting just enough information that he can somehow always defend his position. For someone with so many posts, that strikes me as a very impressive feat. It's typically pretty easy to find factual flaws with someone who throws a lot of stuff out there about every topic, and while I'm sure that's the case with some of his posts, it's impressive that it doesn't happen more often.

One other thing is that I found a few of his posts to be uncharacteristic of his typical posting. My first thought when I saw these was that he must've been hitting the scotch when he posted this one.

He also makes me wonder how much more interesting my life would be if I didn't decide to settle down.
 
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If Henning were to write a book about his life based on everything he has told us about...I'd buy the book...and I bet it'd be a damn good read.
 
I've never met Henning, but I think he's getting a bum rap.

I think Henning merely has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, which he satisfies by diving into every passing pursuit that he finds interesting. I know other people like that. They claim to have worked at so many jobs and to have learned so many things in the process that you think they're full of ****; but little by little, you realize that they're telling the truth.

They may be wrong about certain details because they didn't do the job in question long enough to really become a master at it, but they have enough exposure to make them interesting (and useful) as long as you don't assume that everything they say is inerrant.

In Henning's case, we do know as fact that he's licensed as both a ship's master and a commercial pilot (aviation) and holds numerous combined ratings and endorsements. His certificates are online for anyone who cares to look at them. Those accomplishments in themselves are impressive, especially since he never attended either an aviation or maritime college, according to his resume. He also seems to enjoy an excellent reputation and has excellent references in the maritime community.

I have no problem believing that Henning also leaped into other sundry pursuits from time to time, merely because they seemed interesting to him, with no intention of actually doing any of those things for a living. He makes most of his money commanding other people's yachts. That leaves plenty of opportunity in between missions to do other things simply to satisfy a personal craving for new and varied experiences.

Rich
 
I like people like Henning, to a point. They add color to our lives, unlike the neighbor accountant that obsesses about his lawn. I am guessing that Henning doesn't nag people about thier lawns or worries about how other people live their lives. That is a good thing.

I would rather hang out with him vs. Mr. Levy.
 
I've never met Henning, but I think he's getting a bum rap.

I think Henning merely has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, which he satisfies by diving into every passing pursuit that he finds interesting. I know other people like that. They claim to have worked at so many jobs and to have learned so many things in the process that you think they're full of ****; but little by little, you realize that they're telling the truth.

They may be wrong about certain details because they didn't do the job in question long enough to really become a master at it, but they have enough exposure to make them interesting (and useful) as long as you don't assume that everything they say is inerrant.

In Henning's case, we do know as fact that he's licensed as both a ship's master and a commercial pilot (aviation) and holds numerous combined ratings and endorsements. His certificates are online for anyone who cares to look at them. Those accomplishments in themselves are impressive, especially since he never attended either an aviation or maritime college, according to his resume. He also seems to enjoy an excellent reputation and has excellent references in the maritime community.

I have no problem believing that Henning also leaped into other sundry pursuits from time to time, merely because they seemed interesting to him, with no intention of actually doing any of those things for a living. He makes most of his money commanding other people's yachts. That leaves plenty of opportunity in between missions to do other things simply to satisfy a personal craving for new and varied experiences.

Rich

I agree with this 100%
 
Actually, all that seems totally legit for a childless non married man with an inclination for traveling and part time expat living. The dude is the dos equis guy. I kinda live vicariously through the guys exploits, even if in real life some of his accounts are probably closer to 10% truth accounts.

Beats spending all your money on what an entitled woman tells you to, asking permission to spend your own money like a chump all the days of your life with a tired idle threat of divorce and child support looming over you head. Prison walls are made of such choices.

Here's to the legend gracing us with his presence once again.

Henning was married at one point. His wife resorted to Yahoo Answers in an effort to figure out Where in The World is Henning:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060909081645AAqLrpZ

:)
 
I agree with you except that Henning disseminated a LOT of bad information here pretending to be the expert on almost every topic raised. "Information" that could potentially get someone hurt if they followed his advice. Aviation, along with many other topics discussed here, are too serious of businesses to have misinformation gurus such as Henning polluting the stream of good knowledge.



I for one will not mourn his departure.


I've been around a lot of bull**** artists in my life, but I've never seen someone pile it any higher or deeper than he did. And that's before the delusion of speaking for God.
 
I've hung out with Henning in Florida and NY. I met him on Long Island as he was docking an 80 ft. yacht he had just brought up from Florida. I asked if there was anything to eat onboard and he directed me to go to the galley.
In the galley I met a beautiful, half dressed girl making breakfast and coffee. During breakfast, I asked how long she had known Henning. She said they met in a bar a week ago and he said he could use a mate on the yacht for the trip north. I asked what she did for a living, she was a stewardess on corporate jets and had some time off.
He's his own man and answers to no one. I think that bothers some of you.
 
I've hung out with Henning in Florida and NY. I met him on Long Island as he was docking an 80 ft. yacht he had just brought up from Florida. I asked if there was anything to eat onboard and he directed me to go to the galley.
In the galley I met a beautiful, half dressed girl making breakfast and coffee. During breakfast, I asked how long she had known Henning. She said they met in a bar a week ago and he said he could use a mate on the yacht for the trip north. I asked what she did for a living, she was a stewardess on corporate jets and had some time off.
He's his own man and answers to no one. I think that bothers some of you.

So you just walked up to a random multi million dollar yacht and asked for food?
 
My dads brother was in the marine industry, similar to Henning with a masters license and a long list of former employers. Hennings yarn reminds me of the stories that would be told whenever some of my uncles buddies from his fishing and tramp steamer days would get together.
 
The guy may or may not be for real, but he is certainly the only PoA'er whose post count goes down each time he posts here.
 
The guy may or may not be for real, but he is certainly the only PoA'er whose post count goes down each time he posts here.

Not anymore apparently, seems to me he wanted to be banned for a while, sounds like he got his wish.
 
If Henning were to write a book about his life based on everything he has told us about...I'd buy the book...and I bet it'd be a damn good read.

Probably have to be self published. Pretty easy to just string together all the posts here and ship it to Amazon as a e-book. The chapter organization might be a bit incoherent. :D

Cheers
 
Here's a short list of his exploits...

Hennings short list from 2005…

Auto mechanic/ race car wrench
Used Car Salesman (sold first car when I was 12)
Machinist/Fabricator/Welder
Rail Inspector/ NDT (Sperry Rail Service)
(edit) Strip club Bartender
Photographer
Photo lab tech/ Custom Color Printer
Construction Worker/Supervisor
Deckhand sailor
Captain
Aircraft Mechanic
Crane Operator
Diver (although Mel Fisher didn't really pay, but you got a bit of booty at the end of the year)
Pilot
Project Manager
Boat Builder

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=352993

Some of those may be repeated below…

Flew for regional airlines

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=227530

Landed a Duke after bending a spar

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=112049
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=746914

Fled Haiti with a Barge and some its dock while under fire

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1128136

Dove on the Lusitania

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1398875

Flew a bent diver at 25’ AGL from the Bahamas

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1204700

Divemaster

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=944630

Rescued all passengers and crew from a helo and salvaged it.

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=942346
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=393328

Raced motorcycles and three wheelers

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=923950
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11014424

Operate all forms of machines designed in the name of mass in motion

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=986683

Strip club bartender

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=353000

Crop Duster

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1437194
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1437499
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=976300

Flew 5 gallon water jugs from Pompano to Homestead after hurricane Andrew

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1128146

Insurance adjuster (for at least four companies)

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1128146
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1397714
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1310952

Survived two major earthquakes

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1128118

Expert witness

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1310952

Knew Sam Walton

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1311387

Car Repo Man

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1315856
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=945424

Truck driver

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=821333

Father was a shrink

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=1316142

Computer maker

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=29666
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10795386

At the helm while porn was being filmed

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=29686

Used car salesman and sold his first used car at the age of 12

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=533411
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?p=906113
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10911554
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=945424


Got knocked on the ground by an explosion near a nuke weapons storage area

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=55663

Ran Balboa Boat Rental in Newport Beach

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=55650

Lived as a kept man in Moscow

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24462

On a boat in New Orleans that exploded and killed two fire fighters

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=542705

Aerial Firefighting

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=16112

Asked to dilute the Menanite gene pool in Canada

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=123067

Pipeline Patrol

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=672270
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10936041

Railroad engineer

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=749798

Possibly did his girlfriend’s mom

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=289937

Took bullets while doing T&Gs in a 152 during a riot

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=93633
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=55663

A relative designed the A-4
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=755913

****ed on his divemaster

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=769350

Proofreader

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10781309

Had a wing on fire

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10782466

Had a bull take out a tailgate on a truck

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10782901

Knows more about blimps than a blimp pilot

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10781997

Knows how to get 192 proof liquor

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10785290

Writer

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10786074

Came up with regenerative braking on cars in the 8th grade

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10786392

Damaged at least 100 engines

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10786764

Ordained minister

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10786748

Butcher

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10788706

Mile high while standing on a helicopter skid

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10792417

Horse owner

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10792662

Goat rancher

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10796669
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10973576

Field service for computers

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10844579

Worked with some sort of radiation sniffing helicopter

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10910303

Animal surgery

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10916013

Photo recovery

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10918946

Demo pilot

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10929320

Arrested for running across the street, got officer fired

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=961710

Towed other boats with a sail boat

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10947878
http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10948204

Wreck cleaner

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10984271

Dated a gal from the Honor Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=10986299

Professional Photographer

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11039820

Got signed off for private pilot with less than 40 hours

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11051584

Flew a 777 sim

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11086977

Delivered travel trailers and fifth wheels

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11087398

Drove to school in the 8th grade

www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11088030

Can live off of Ensure

http://www.purpleboard.net/forums/showthread.php?p=11088838

Made gun parts as a teenager

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1970149


Sounds like a bit from Top Gear when they do the "Some say..." about the stig !!!!
 
Oh, his posts were full of it, and he didn't let facts sway him in the face of higher truths; I would tend to skip past his stuff, one I figured out he was all transmit, and no receive. But I didn't mind him posting, and sometimes he was weirdly entertaining. . .I must have found some of his writing worth my time. I never put him on ignore, like Cuervo, and those sorts.
 
Your Father was correct: some of us don't realize the foundation has been set and the bricks are being laid until the barred door slams shut. Have a pilot friend who just found that out a week ago. . .36 years of marriage down the drain.


That's sad. All that work and family and probably half his money for some new boy toy to enjoy while he pokes his ex-wife. Life sure ain't fair.

Another one of my personal favorites:

"You've never really met your wife until you meet her in divorce court." :yesnod:
 
Nah...he was just that bored. It'll likely be a long time before someone else tops 60,000 posts like Henning had. Even Ron, who was quite a prolific poster, only had 30k ish before he threw his hissy fit and stomped out of the sandbox.



Even Nate has only 28,000...but I'd bet that Nate has typed twice as many words here as Henning...hell, maybe four times! :goofy:


:)

It's a curse having grown up attending a school that mandated significant reading and writing. A whole lot of writing.

Keep in mind that our society thinks a website named "Reddit" that created a meme of "TL;DR" is all quite normal.

Sound bites are in. Newspapers are dead.
 
I agree with you except that Henning disseminated a LOT of bad information here pretending to be the expert on almost every topic raised. "Information" that could potentially get someone hurt if they followed his advice. Aviation, along with many other topics discussed here, are too serious of businesses to have misinformation gurus such as Henning polluting the stream of good knowledge.

The same can be said for many other posters, including some who seem to be revered on this board (and who have posted critical comments in this thread).

The reality is that if someone doesn't think through and verify information across multiple sources, he or she is probably going to end up in trouble someday because of it, with or without any input from Henning. Yes, I know that many people don't do that. It's still not Henning's fault.

In my opinion, Henning's list of exploits are a stretch even for a single guy who likes to travel, but I suspect that much of his story is possible for such a person of his age. The information in his posts often appear to be correct, but are just as often incomplete. His collective works seem to be a hundred miles wide and an inch deep. Regardless of how he acquires the knowledge behind his posts, the fact that he finds the time to acquire it and become such a prolific poster while presumably working enough to fund his lifestyle (or being smart enough to have someone else fund it) is at least a little bit impressive. It is all somewhat hard--but not impossible--to believe.


JKG
 
I have met Henning. Good guy.

Also, this thread violates the RoC.
 
I've been around a lot of bull**** artists in my life, but I've never seen someone pile it any higher or deeper than he did. And that's before the delusion of speaking for God.

How do you know it's a delusion?

Just in the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is recorded as having inspired the speech of an abandoned baby, several kings, multiple shepherds, a carpenter, several fishermen, a tentmaker, a physician, a tax collector, and a donkey. So why not Henning?

Rich
 
How do you know it's a delusion?

Just in the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is recorded as having inspired the speech of an abandoned baby, several kings, multiple shepherds, a carpenter, several fishermen, a tentmaker, a physician, a tax collector, and a donkey. So why not Henning?

Rich


Wait, ....that was Henning?

That's right, fool! Now I'm a flying talking donkey! You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkeyfly! Ha, ha!
 
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