ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

In article , Steve
Foley says...

I've always been told that flying a plane over gross 'makes you a test
pilot'. Doesn't flying a plane beyond your abilities do the same thing?


Hmmm never thought of that,I guess that's how he claims to be a test pilot
:-) Ever wonder about how many of these airplanes companies let zoom fly SOLO ?
Anyone ever see zoom fly one of these new ships ALONE? Anyone ever seen a
picture of zoom flying solo in a magazine. You would think a guy with 15,000 hrs
could be trusted to fly pretty much anything after a check out.

Notice yawn won't let him fly his BD-5J.


I know he flew a Hawk solo years and years ago and claimed to loop ,roll and
spin the plane and explore the corners of the envelope. Sounded daring but not
true. I know he flew the Mini 500 solo and almost pranged it when he said he
tested the landing gear. He was so bad a pilot that the old ruse of chips on the
"chip detector" was used as an excuse to keep him out of the machine for
another flight.

"Tested the landing gear" = euphamism for a really hard landing?


I've seen pictures of him going for a ride in a ANG jet but not as PIC but he
claims "jet time". I've never heard of what company /companies he acted as test
pilot for. In fact I don't believe he ever jumped with a parachute from "almost
10 miles high" after talking to a HALO group in CA.

Boy have you got that wrong, there was no parachute involved. He landed
on his head, no damage done.


By that standard it seems both zoom and jaun are "test pilots" we await the
results :-)

Chuck S RAH-14/1 ret

"zoom can fool most of the people some of the time,some of the people none of
the time and jaun and himself all of the time" chuck s


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired