Ferry Pilot Down

On Feb 19, 6:24*am, wrote:
On Feb 17, 4:55*pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:



We wouldn't be here if we didn't believe that flying was
the greatest thing to do,

Not really. Many of us believe that flying is a nice hobby, but we do
other things that are more important, more challenging, and more
enjoyable.

Wanna bet??? {: - )

Sometimes I would ride my bicycle to the airport for a weekly flying fix.
Even though flying is an important part of my life, the bike ride was at
least as enjoyable as time in the airplane.

Diversity makes life much more interesting.

--
Best Regards,
Mike

http://photoshow.comcast.net/mikenoel


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On Feb 17, 4:55 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

We wouldn't be here if we didn't believe that flying was
the greatest thing to do,

Not really. Many of us believe that flying is a nice hobby, but we do
other things that are more important, more challenging, and more
enjoyable.

Sometimes I would ride my bicycle to the airport for a weekly flying fix.
Even though flying is an important part of my life, the bike ride was at
least as enjoyable as time in the airplane.

I hope I never become so jaded with flying that it becomes as mundane as
riding my bike. That would truly be....awful.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:


I hope I never become so jaded with flying that it becomes as mundane as
riding my bike. That would truly be....awful.


Bike riding doesn't have to be mundane. G

Hills help.

On Feb 20, 1:47*am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Sometimes I would ride my bicycle to the airport for a weekly flying fix..
Even though flying is an important part of my life, the bike ride was at
least as enjoyable as time in the airplane.

I hope I never become so jaded with flying that it becomes as mundane as
riding my bike. *That would truly be....awful.

The thing is, people who have activities they esteem more highly than
recreational aviation don't necessarily appreciate flying any less
than you do. They may just appreciate some other things more than you
do.

On Feb 11, 8:34*pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Just got off the phone with NWPilot, calling me from a wake (at Hooters) for
a fellow ferry pilot who went down today in the North Atlantic, 50 miles
short of Keflavik, Iceland.

Here's the story, from Airliners.net:
************************************************** **************************************************
At 15:50 local time, contact was made with RKV ICG centre from a Cessna 310,
arriving from Narsarsuaq, which had lost power in one of its engines, 60
miles off Keflavik. In an effort to pump fuel between tanks its feared both
engines failed and the pilot had to rely on gliding the aircraft. At the
time he was descending through 7000 ft heading towards Reykjavik.

RKV ATC Centre initiated emergency status in KEF and the ICG Centre sent its
Super Pumas, TF-GNA and TF-LIF out to the incident site.

At 16:10 the Cessna 310 disappeared from radar, around 50 miles from
Keflavik.

A Challenger 604 from the Danish Air Force was sent straight to the scene of
the incident and a full search was carried out from that point.

TF-LIF arrived at the scene around 17:00. No sighting of the Cessna 310 had
been made and no signal from the emergency transmitter was noticed.

Three trawlers which were near the scene of the incident where called
immediately into action and a full scale search was underway. A Cessna 172
aircraft was also involved in the search operation as well as various rescue
boats from Slysavarnarfelagid Landsbjorg.

ICGs own F27 TF-SYN was sent out as a surveillance aircraft to replace the
efforts of the DAF CL604. A patrol vessel from the ICG was also sent out to
help the search efforts.
************************************************** **************************************************
Pretty much a worst-case scenario. *High seas, ice cold water, gliding a
dead stick C-310 into 40-foot swells. *NWPilot says he didn't start drinking
until 3 hours after the crash -- survival time in the water is estimated at
2 hours, maximum, in a survival suit. The pilot's name was Jeff Hall, and he
helped NW get into the biz.

Raise a toast to a brave man, gents....
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

O'sheenana,

Not intending to disrespect the dead, but can a Ferry pilot get life
insurance? How about the insurance for the plane in ferry mode with
tons of fuel on board? If so, that's gotta be very very expensive.

Wil

Bike riding doesn't have to be mundane. G

Hills help.

Nothing against bike riding. It's especially fun when combined with flying.
(Last summer Joe and I flew to Washington Island, in Lake Michigan, and rode
our mountain bikes all over. The year before we flew to Madeline Island,
out in Lake Superior, and did the same.)

However, to equate bike riding with flying is just troll fodder, to me.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

John Smith wrote:
Bike riding doesn't have to be mundane. G

[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]

However, to equate bike riding with flying is just troll fodder, to me.

I don't know about that.

Oh brother, when I began climbing the coastal hills between San Francisco and
Pt Reyes, Marshall, Petaluma on my Eddy Merckx after three years on a
Specialized Allez...

That was flyin'

--
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http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200802/1

There is a big difference in riding a bike occasionally and riding often
enough to get good at it. Once you're conditioned to a long, fast ride, it
is one of the best 'highs' around.

And it doesn't help keep the bad guys in power.
--
Best Regards,
Mike

http://photoshow.comcast.net/mikenoel


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:uWWuj.41980$9j6.1508@attbi_s22...
Bike riding doesn't have to be mundane. G

Hills help.

Nothing against bike riding. It's especially fun when combined with
flying. (Last summer Joe and I flew to Washington Island, in Lake
Michigan, and rode our mountain bikes all over. The year before we flew
to Madeline Island, out in Lake Superior, and did the same.)

However, to equate bike riding with flying is just troll fodder, to me.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Oh my. I leave town for a few days of R&R and Larry the NetKopp goes
positively ape**** with his script kiddie tools. How amusing... Let's
see what he's frothing about now...

Larry Dighera wrote:
Perhaps it is his mindless arrogance, unnecessary profanity, and
neurotic compulsiveness to which "some ignorant folks" object. But I
wouldn't expect a mid-western apartment dweller to possess the
discretion to be aware of those obnoxious personality defects in which
he so exuberantly revels.

When I can observe them in you?

Apartment dweller? Bwaaaaahahahahaaaa!!! By your measure, Rupert Murdoch
is an apartment dweller as well.

What makes a low-time private pilot think his assessment of this
troll's aviation experience is sufficient to compensate for its
stinking vituperation? You're just attempting to spin a cover over
the blatant hipcrimeinization that you and the other self-proclaimed
net-kooks openly support.

Wow. Did you eat some bad bologna to cause you barf that nonsense out?
Hipcrimeinization? Clap, clap, clap!!! Larry made his own word! Can I
try one? How about Digheratype - an obsolete photographic process used
for self-portraiture in which the self-image is made by smearing one's
own feces on a surface of tin foil, then developing it with one's own
flatulence..

And I've seen his certificates and type ratings, by the way. And flown
with him. And seen the aircraft he is building. So private pilot or not,
I'm in much better position than just about anyone here to know how
experienced he is. But far more senior pilots in the group than either
you or I have also concluded he's the real thing. Jealous, are you?

Your true agenda is evident in your chosen domain name:

Main Entry:l*se*majest*
Variantr lese majesty \*l*z-*ma-j*-st*, *lez-, *l*z-\
Function:noun
Etymology:Middle French lese majest*, from Latin laesa majestas,
literally, injured majesty
Date:1536

1 a : a crime (as treason) committed against a sovereign power
b : an offense violating the dignity of a ruler as the
representative of a sovereign power
2 : a detraction from or affront to dignity or importance

Awwwww...is Lawwy's dignity or importance feeling diminished???

And if you don't think our "rulers" need their dignity violated further
(what little they've left themselves in this administration) you're even
a bigger idiot than I thought. Which is almost unimaginable. Perhaps
your stupidity has reached such levels of density that it is collapsing
upon itself? No intelligent remark, in the highly unlikely possibility
of your coming up with one, can cross your event horizon?

(It's also curious, that one who uses
as the Registrant Name contact of
his domain puts his e-mail address on his home page:
)

Of course you don't understand it. You're too much a craven coward to
stand up for yourself.

Open your eyes, man; is that what you want to be associated with?
Consider how what you foster here might affect Internet Broadcasting's
image in the eyes of its TV station clients; how do you think Dave
Abbott (or Reid Johnson) might find the repugnant attitude you
support? Is Internet Broadcasting a spamnaus or what?

What do you think, Mr. NetKopp? You swinging for a kook award by
threatening to go real life or something? You have the balls to make a
try at it? Prepare to be laughed at in the very least.

Further, is this the public image of airmen that you feel is
appropriate to project worldwide? If you think this trolling
abomination is what your airmans certificate entitles you to inflect
on your fellows, perhaps you should go back to "messing about in
boats." Think about it, Rich. Please. This behavior reflects on the
entire worldwide airman community.

Not half as badly as your pathetic little NetKopp games reflect on the
human race in general, Larry-boy.

As it is we're constantly being characterized by the public as
snobbish, noisy, hobby flyers who don't deserve to share the skies
with airline passengers.

I'm sure you are. But not the rest of us. Don't project the rejection
you meet everywhere you go on the rest of us.

Oh, and you really pathetically stupid enough to believe that any
meaningful fraction of the world has the slightest clue what goes on in
RAP??? I doubt the number of regular participants reaches three digits,
and when you factor in lurking readers, I suspect we're talking the low
four digits. So don't inflate your importance or this newsgroup's, kook.

Imagine the field day the news media could have publishing the
scandalous public display of asininity you both foster in this
worldwide public forum.

Legitimate news media recognize Usenet for what it is and would hardly
treat this little self-selected bunch of geeks as representative of
anything. The kind of crap rags you probably read simply don't matter.

Personally, I'd prefer to welcome a sober-headed, responsible member
to our ranks than an arrogant, destructive anarchist. Think about it.
Please.

Shove it up your ass. Please.

Oblig. r.a.p content: Are you making any progress in accumulating
cross country hours toward your instrument rating?
http://lesemajeste.org/

Wouldn't you like to know? But I urge *everyone* to take a look at the
site. Openly urge them, unlike your chicken**** implication...