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I may not be a high time pilot but there aren't many people about
whom three training captains at American Eagle have said flies better than
90% of captains they train on the ERJ and Saab.

And I had three JAL training captains tell me I could fly a 747 better than
moooozer.


Walt

Really? Got emails? I'll gladly exchange them so we can find out who is
telling the truth. I'll be waiting, but not holding my breath.

"B25flyer" wrote in message
...

I may not be a high time pilot but there aren't many people about
whom three training captains at American Eagle have said flies better
than
90% of captains they train on the ERJ and Saab.

And I had three JAL training captains tell me I could fly a 747 better
than
moooozer.


Walt

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?


It was not AM it was Southern Air Transport.

Walt

B25flyer wrote:

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?


It was not AM it was Southern Air Transport.

Walt

And I have seen pictures of his landing in SE Ohio! ;-))

Warren

(B25flyer) wrote in message ...
Hi Walt. I flew with ex-SAT pilots some. You are familiar with the
accident that put Southern out of business right? Tell me about it.


Well pacplayer which accident are you talking about?

The one in 86 at Kelly that killed a friend of mine Phil Decrenzo?
The one at Travis, a training flight that killed 6 crew members.
The one in the Sudan at Wau where the aircraft taxied over a landmine.
The one in the Sudan at Juba where the crew had a triple engine failure on
takeoff due to tainted fuel?

Sorry pac but your wrong. SAT filed BR on 10-1-98 due to a lot of screw ups by
managment and the fact that Logair, Quicktrans, and 50% of the MAC, (now AMC)
contracts were cancelled. On top of that they had a huge debt load. It was not
an airplane crash that put them out of business.

Sorry Walt,

I was just trolling you to find out if you really were a SAT employee.
There are a lot of imposters on these boards. Yes, that's my
understanding of what happened too. I used to fly A310's out of
Southeast Asia with "the queen of the Sudan." Hey, that's what she
called herself. Said she still suffered from the injuries from the
mine. Her story was she was sueing because of the fact info was
available about the mined condition of the runway but no NOTAM type
info was ever given to the crew. After SAT went under her suit was
mute. Any of that close?

Nice to meet you BTW,

pacplyer

I used to fly A310's out of
Southeast Asia with "the queen of the Sudan." Hey, that's what she
called herself. Said she still suffered from the injuries from the
mine. Her story was she was sueing because of the fact info was
available about the mined condition of the runway but no NOTAM type
info was ever given to the crew. After SAT went under her suit was
mute. Any of that close?

Nice to meet you BTW,

pacplyer







So that's where she ended up...thought she was with UPS or FEDEX. If you ever
see her again tell "Lemmon Pie" (if we called her sweety pie she promised to do
nasty things to parts of the male anatomy) I said hello.

As for the NOTAM stuff...hell there was a NOTAM for the entire country for
mines and other nasty things.

Any more questions about the difference between **** and shinola?? BWB you
want to step in here another comment?

Walt

(B25flyer) wrote
Any more questions about the difference between **** and shinola?? BWB you
want to step in here another comment?

Walt

Pac'll comment:

Yes it's true. Once you fly the B747 (even the simulator) you talk
about it for the rest of your life. Nothing else even comes close.
In about five seconds you loose the smoking-crater fear you had, and
it becomes apparent all at once: "Hey, whatyaknow: I can fly this big
MoFo!" We used to use it for interviews at Flying Tigers (but we
would lie and say the sim check was going to be in the DC-8.) I
always wondered why. I think I know now. It was to measure the size
of your balls. The check pilot would tell the job canidate: "take
whichever seat you feel most comfortable in; Left or Right."
Unbeknownst to the pilot canidate, this was a gonad test also. I
chose the left seat, aced the ILS, pointed out that we only had "one
in the green" on final, while telling a war story, and was hired in
the first class out of 5000 or so applications (thats what they told
me anyway: the truth was they feared we'd all quit an go to American:
they admitted that! [new B-scale]) Best job I ever had.

If you've got more than two engines turning, we used to say that even
a ninety-year old woman could fly the 74. Boeing outdid themselves.
The feel computers and handling characteristics are perfect. Unlike
the DC-10 which has a few bad habits with that tail engine.

Juan or Walt? Who's the best pilot? We'll, you're looking at him!
:-D
(notice, I purposely kept BWB out of the competition.)

O.K, seriously, my guess is that Walt has more stick time, if he
wasn't just a crew chief or something, and Juan is an accomplished
builder and aspiring driver. But one thing bugs me, and that is: How
come Juan never flys his creations? I mean it would make a great
story for his writing gig. Medical?
It's worth answering to get the jackel pack off his back.

I can't seem to finish my project by the way. I think I'll just have
to stick it on a pole or something. :-(

Best wishes guys,

pacplyer

(p.s: Walt, what seat did you fly in?)

(p.s: Walt, what seat did you fly in?)




There is only one seat.....the left one.

Walt

"pac plyer" wrote in message
om...

But one thing bugs me, and that is: How come Juan never flys his
creations?

Since you asked nicely, I will tell you.

-5B #1 was bought from a Idaho NG officer who had bought it from the
original builder. Had a great time tracking down the person I bought it from
when the original builder told me my seller had never paid for the airplane
and he would not give me title until he got his money. He was really cool
about it, and when I told him where he could find the lowlife, we caught up
with him in mid-summer weekend warrior refresher. His CO scraped the fluff
of his carpet with his ass and he coughed up the money. I finished the
fuselage and was about ready to start installing the landing gear, when it
was sold because Eagle hired me to work management in Fort Worth and would
not pay to ship the bird _or_ the tools to Texas. I had already paid a
couple thousand in taxes and shipping and wasn't about to do it again. So I
sold it to an IA in PR who runs a very successful NDT shop and hasn't taken
it a paragraph further in the plans. It took me over a year to round up
enough money to put a DEPOSIT on another airframe, and lets not talk about
how long it took me to fill up a toolbox again.

-5B #2 was the old N22TR, one of the first -5's to fly. After Ted Rogers
passed away it bounced around the country until it landed in the hands of a
genius by the name of Tom Johnson, designer of the only skirtless hovercraft
that can climb hills at 70 mph, among other _way cool_ hardware sitting in
his back yard near Oakland. He was the first to put a Rotax engine in a -5,
a 532. He partnered with Keith Hinshaw for that one. They took that engine
out and installed the first prototype of the AMW-225-3 but just as they were
almost ready to fly the Rogers' estate lawyer adviced the widow about the
word "liability" and she ordered the plane destroyed. Tom put it away for
some years until she passed away, and then I got a hold of it. It became
N522PR. I spent a lot of time restoring and upgrading it with what little
money I could must out of an Eagle salary. The engine was completely
overhauled and upgraded by the folks at 2SI, and I had them put in an
Airflow Performance mech fuel injection system, upgraded the landing gear,
bought the SuperSpar upgrade, designed and built a completely new panel,
etc. It was sold when I got the opportunity to buy a -5J built in Australia
by a CASA DAR. I sold it to a Citation/Lear ambulance driver in Spain, and
bought the jet with that money and some stock options I had laying around.

Immediately after I bought the jet, and one day before I was supposed to fly
my first Angel Flight mission (terminal pancreatic cancer), I went down for
the count with acute pancreatitis and woke up 10 days later and 55 lbs
lighter, with my tongue split open and tubes in places I didn't know I had
orifices. That was Nov of 01. AOPA Escrow had a great time trying to track
me down to complete the transaction. They thought I was dead (and little did
they know that they were almost right, I came this close to going the way of
Meigs). I was not able to do a damn thing to it until March of 02, when the
last of 5 tubes was finally pulled out of my abdomen and the large slices of
my side had closed up. The plane was damaged in transit. I talked the
insurance company into bringing the builder here (first trip to the US).
Since then I've been working to make the aircraft airworthy. I am done with
all items on my list except W&B and CG, and getting the hang of setting the
fuel controller to induce the appropriate misting from the engine injectors.
It also took me MANY months just to get some information on the engine,
enough to order a custom N1 RPM and be able to operate it safely.

And of course, I lost my medical and it took me until june of 03 to get it
back.

I'm not in your league when it comes to pilot experience, but I've paid my
dues since 1974, when I worked as a line boy in exchange for training in
Grumman trainers and a few hours in a Pitts S2A. Since then I've flown... I
guess some 20-25 types of aircraft, from C150's to... well, some things I'm
not supposed to say I was allowed to fly when I was in the Marines.

Juan

And of course, I lost my medical and it took me until june of 03 to get it
back.


Life is ridiculously short isn't it? Just when you start having real
fun, something like this crops up.

Congrads on getting your medical back. Hope that airshow food doesn't
do that to you again. ;-) Good luck on everything.

pacplyer