If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
Now THESE are the posts that make wading through the usual "Earn quick
money now!" crap worth it. I love reading the day-to-day exploits of a career helicopter pilot. I'm a private pilot working on the commercial rating but that's mostly just for the added proficiency (and bragging rights, to be honest 8^) ) - I will probably never earn a single shiny simolean flying a helicopter. So, SelwayKid (and others), keep this stuff coming. I love it. This makes me wonder again what happened to Bob Barbanes - he had some fine stories to tell here but AFAIK he disappeared from the group a couple years ago. Dave Blevins On 20 Jun 2005 05:58:53 -0700, wrote: Well we had heavy T'storms last night but now it looks good. ..snip. |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
wrote:
This makes me wonder again what happened to Bob Barbanes - he had some fine stories to tell here Yes he has been heard from in a couple of years. Last I heard through the group he was test flying turbine machines for one of the manufacturers. |
#23
|
|||
|
|||
Correct. I talked with him a couple months ago. He is still in the
Pensacola area. Rocky |
#24
|
|||
|
|||
Rocky,
Did you live in Portland a few years ago?? wrote in message oups.com... Correct. I talked with him a couple months ago. He is still in the Pensacola area. Rocky |
#25
|
|||
|
|||
wrote in message ... Snip I'm a private pilot working on the commercial rating but that's mostly just for the added proficiency (and bragging rights, to be honest 8^) ) - I will probably never earn a single shiny simolean flying a helicopter. So, SelwayKid (and others), keep this stuff coming. I love it. snip Dave Blevins If you get into Ag-Flying you won't have any shiny simoleans either, the sulphur makes them corrode and also makes your wifes delicates smell funny when they come out of the dryer. Frank |
#26
|
|||
|
|||
"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message ... wrote: I doubt there are more than 5000 active ag pilots in the country. fewer each year in any case. The operators are having a really hard time finding qualified pilots and I don't know of ANY schools that I'd recommend to a new ag wannabe. Well thanks once again for taking the time to tell the group what life is like in the real world. That number 5000 at first glance seems like such a high number. You don't realize how big a country is until you start to look at how many pilots it takes just to provide the services to such a specialized industry. If many of the pilots are approaching retirement age like you are, then I could certainly see where the operators will have a realy hard time filling those seats. There was a guy that used to post here a few years ago that ran a small business with a couple of fixed wing and a helicopter as I recall. Can't remember his name but I sure miss his participation. That'd be Steve Austin wouldn't it? -- Beav Reply to "beavis dot original at ntlworld dot com" (with the obvious changes) |
#27
|
|||
|
|||
Beav wrote:
Can't remember his name but I sure miss his participation. That'd be Steve Austin wouldn't it? Yuppers..... That's the one. |
#28
|
|||
|
|||
Close by...up in Woodland, and down in Sweet Home during off season.
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
2 helicopters abandoned | Bill Chernoff | Rotorcraft | 17 | December 14th 04 02:44 AM |
Is it time to arm crop duster pilots as well as airline pilots? | Larry Dighera | Piloting | 12 | April 6th 04 08:47 PM |
*White* Helicopters??!!! | Stephen Harding | Military Aviation | 13 | March 9th 04 07:03 PM |
Taiwan to make parts for new Bell military helicopters | Otis Willie | Military Aviation | 0 | February 28th 04 12:12 AM |
FA: The Helicopters Are Coming | The Ink Company | Aviation Marketplace | 0 | August 10th 03 05:53 PM |