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"Montblack" wrote in message ... ("Jay Honeck" wrote) It's been a win-win for my son and me. Sounds great ...until CAP adults start getting called up to Iraq? Won't happen? Hmm, I think I heard about some recent legislation - maybe it was just an Executive Order... :-) Chamberlain at Gettysburg Honeck in Iraq There's something about those English majors g CITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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A good number of CAP adults are retired folks. I think your information is not correct. "Montblack" wrote in message ... ("Jay Honeck" wrote) It's been a win-win for my son and me. Sounds great ...until CAP adults start getting called up to Iraq? Won't happen? Hmm, I think I heard about some recent legislation - maybe it was just an Executive Order... :-) Chamberlain at Gettysburg Honeck in Iraq There's something about those English majors g Montblack |
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I have dropped by the local CAPs office at Addison Airport, but there is
never anyone there. I haven't been able to reach them by phone either. http://www.cap.gov/ Because they are a volunteer organization, it can be hard to make contact with your local CAP squadron. This website should allow you to determine who to call in your State (at the Wing level, anyway), who can then direct you to the proper people at your local level. Good luck! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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While the CAP sounds like fun and provides a valuable service, I've
heard from people who've tried it that there's a lot of military wannabes, politics, and things that take away the enjoyment. Is this common, or just the situation at some units? That's very common. When you spend more time doing useless paperwork and silly training classes than flying its very discouraging. The actual flying and SAR mission training is great. Yes, there's a lot of crap involved. But no more so than I've found in other large national organizations. Bureaucracy rule all organizations. But CAP is the only one I've found that has airplanes, and actually lets you fly them around! :-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Sounds great ...until CAP adults start getting called up to Iraq?
Yeah, we'll scare the heck out of the insurgents with our radio direction finding equipment. Look just like big TASARs... And I can just imagine the noise complaints from the locals about those low flying Skyhawks! ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Don't you know that CAP stands for Come And Pay ? While mission flight
costs are usually reimbursed to you, becoming qualified to be a mission pilot is a time consuming effort which will cost you some money. It will cost you a lot of time -- but compared to flying in the "real world" not much money. I am in the process of getting checked out in CAP as a pilot -- I'll report on it when I've finished the process. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote And I can just imagine the noise complaints from the locals about those low flying Skyhawks! There was a bad guy that said Skyhawks are better than A-10's making a funny buzzing noise! -- Jim in NC |
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but to take members of your family... they have to be members..
imagine that.. BT "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:qMG7e.15754$Bb3.6312@attbi_s22... While the CAP sounds like fun and provides a valuable service, I've heard from people who've tried it that there's a lot of military wannabes, politics, and things that take away the enjoyment. Is this common, or just the situation at some units? That's very common. When you spend more time doing useless paperwork and silly training classes than flying its very discouraging. The actual flying and SAR mission training is great. Yes, there's a lot of crap involved. But no more so than I've found in other large national organizations. Bureaucracy rule all organizations. But CAP is the only one I've found that has airplanes, and actually lets you fly them around! :-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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While the CAP sounds like fun and provides a valuable service, I've heard from people who've tried it that there's a lot of military wannabes, politics, and things that take away the enjoyment. Is this common, or just the situation at some units? That's very common. When you spend more time doing useless paperwork and silly training classes than flying its very discouraging. The actual flying and SAR mission training is great. CAP pilots as a group are the dumbest ones out there. Give me a pattern full of first solo's rather than one CAP pilot in the units 182. They don't know how to talk on the radio, they have no idea where they are or where they're going, they don't do what they're told or even what they request to do, etc. It's amazing that CAP can ever find anybody who went down. |
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"Newps" wrote in message ... While the CAP sounds like fun and provides a valuable service, I've heard from people who've tried it that there's a lot of military wannabes, politics, and things that take away the enjoyment. Is this common, or just the situation at some units? That's very common. When you spend more time doing useless paperwork and silly training classes than flying its very discouraging. The actual flying and SAR mission training is great. CAP pilots as a group are the dumbest ones out there. Give me a pattern full of first solo's rather than one CAP pilot in the units 182. They don't know how to talk on the radio, they have no idea where they are or where they're going, they don't do what they're told or even what they request to do, etc. It's amazing that CAP can ever find anybody who went down. We had a doctor in a Bo go down near here a few years ago and they called in CAP for the SAR. They flew for 3 days at 1000 agl searching. One of the pipeline pilots finally decided to expanding spiral search pattern from the last known position and found him less than an hour later about a quater mile fom the center of the CAP grid. |
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