The First Thousand Hours

Congratulations, Jay!

1502 landings without breaking anything

You gonna tell us about the *other* landings?

((:-))

And how did you get to fly a Connie?

vince norris

Anyways, Big congrats on the 1000hr mark. Truely a great achievement
(although some would say "been there, done that", they didn't do it
while raising kids, keeping the mrs happy, running your own business
and keeping household obligations intact). Congrats again my friend.

Thanks. I know 1000 hours ain't nuthin' to pilots who have ten (or more)
times the hours I have -- but most of them are commercial pilots.

While they were racking up their bazillion hours on someone else's nickel, I
was having the singular "joy" of paying for each and every one of those
thousand hours myself.

I try not to think about it too much. If you start to factor in what flying
costs per hour, plus the acquisition costs of two planes, plus what we
*could* have done with that money...

Thank goodness Mary likes to fly as much as I do!

:-)

I'm just kidding. There is *nothing* in this world like flying, and it's
been worth every penny, times ten.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

And how did you get to fly a Connie?

It was part of the deal when we put up the MATS Connie crew for a weekend...
Mary and I both got some dual with Frank Lang, the 82 year old pilot of that
grand old ship.

Which, incidentally, is now on static display in South Korea, never to fly
again.... :-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Which, incidentally, is now on static display in South Korea, never to fly
again.... :-(

Why for heaven's sake? Were the times runing low on her? ...and why
Korea?

Which, incidentally, is now on static display in South Korea, never to
fly
again.... :-(

Why for heaven's sake? Were the times runing low on her? ...and why
Korea?

Korean Air Lines used to fly Connies. They've bought the plane, and stuck
it in their museum.

Here's the story:

http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-mats_connie_korea.htm

It's awful to know that I'll never hear those awesome radial engines again.
I've flown on that plane twice, and I'll never forget that sound.

Here are some pix from that last flight:

http://alexisparkinn.com/mats_connie_flight.htm
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Life is full of little transitions and milestones. Back in 1995, when I got
my ticket, I privately vowed that I would fly 1000 hours in the next ten
years.
snip

Great write-up, Jay. Thanks!

--
Peter

Flyingmonk wrote:

Why for heaven's sake? Were the times runing low on her? ...and why
Korea?

Money.
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George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

I sat down with my log books and transcribed them into an Excel spreadsheet,

Any chance I could get a copy of the spread sheet (mmm good brie...
Sorry, I'm eating brie and crossant)? I want to plug in my hours to
see what I got.

wrote:

Congrats on the big 1000 hour milestone!... just a thought, but have
you ever thought maybe about now pursuing getting a CFI ticket to help
pass on your flying knowledge and experience to others on a casual
basis?

Now that I've finally passed the 500 hour mark myself, the oldtimer
CFIs around my airport have been pestering me on to get my commercial,
instrument and CFI tickets. The two main ones are getting old in years
and intend to let their medicals lapse someday to do the sport pilot
thing for the remainder of their flying days. I don't know if I have
the "right stuff" to be a CFI or not, and have no real desire or time
to become a regular primary instructor, but could probably handle the
occasional student such as the children of fellow private pilots who've
actually been already flying all their lives with their dads but just
need to get that "official" on-paper training for their checkrides when
they reach their 17th birthday, and to perform BFRs for my fellow
pilots, and other CFI things of that sort, since my local airport is
really like more of a big flying club with a close-knit community of
fellow aviators than it is a "normal" airport. It would be a neat way
to contribute something back to that community, but I'm still somewhat
skittish in the idea of accepting all the extra responsibility.


Its very hard to get out of the cockpit and lean back in to tell your
student to "Take the plane around a few times by yourself. You can
handle it." I never got used to doing that. It was harder every time
than my first solo.

As a suggestion, take CFI training. It won't hurt to gain that right
seat experience.

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
[snip]
I sat down with my log books and transcribed them into an Excel
spreadsheet, allowing me to extract the following mildly interesting data:

Nice write-up Jay.


- 19 different aircraft types flown (Top two: 437 flights in the
Pathfinder; 404 in the Warrior)

Some more from the list please :-)


- 190 different airports in 25 states (Top 3: Iowa, 47 different
airports; Wisconsin: 41 airports; Illinois: 26 airports)

What are the closest states to Iowa that you've skipped over?


- Highest wind noted during landing: 62 knots

When you flew up here, to Minneapolis, in 2003 for The National Air Tour you
had a GPS GS reading of over 200 mph. What's the fastest you've flown ...as
PIC?


Montblack