Hey Bill,

In my opinion this is a motocross term; WTFO: Wide Throttle, Full
Open. It is not used in aviation. By the way 4,000 hours in GA is
probably equiv to 10,000 hours in airline hours since most of that is
on autopilot reading magazines.

I agree. Down low, dirty and slow, riding in the wx and the bumps is
where I spent that 4000 hours. I have 2000 more in the front seat of
Huey's on floats flying in **** wx. It was all real time.

10,000 in the Boeings on autopilot above 10 thousand msl talking about
pussy and real estate deals is not the same.

But, there are some good guys out there with a lot of experience who
did that too. I have a buddy I just had lunch with who just retired
from Continental with 35,000 hours. He flew P-3's and the
Constellation before that in the Air Farce. He's got some
stories...like flying through typhoons. But, he also built a Pitts
S-1 and competes with it too, so he really can fly.

BWB




pacplyer