The First Thousand Hours

Which, incidentally, is now on static display in South Korea, never to
fly
again.... :-(

Why for heaven's sake? Were the times runing low on her? ...and why
Korea?

Korean Air Lines used to fly Connies. They've bought the plane, and stuck
it in their museum.

Here's the story:

http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-mats_connie_korea.htm

It's awful to know that I'll never hear those awesome radial engines again.
I've flown on that plane twice, and I'll never forget that sound.

Here are some pix from that last flight:

http://alexisparkinn.com/mats_connie_flight.htm
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Flyingmonk wrote:

Why for heaven's sake? Were the times runing low on her? ...and why
Korea?

Money.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A4861214C

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

And how did you get to fly a Connie? ... It was part of the deal when we put up the MATS Connie crew for a weekend

You definitely did that on the cheap - I recall reading years ago that
plane was kept out in the southwest after Travolta sold it and for a
measly $4000 you could get an hour or so right seat time..

Wooly

And how did you get to fly a Connie?

It was part of the deal when we put up the MATS Connie crew for a weekend...
Mary and I both got some dual with Frank Lang, the 82 year old pilot of that
grand old ship.

You made a good swap!

vince norris

Jay Honeck wrote:

Life is full of little transitions and milestones. Back in 1995, when I got
my ticket, I privately vowed that I would fly 1000 hours in the next ten
years.
snip

Great write-up, Jay. Thanks!

--
Peter

I sat down with my log books and transcribed them into an Excel spreadsheet,

Any chance I could get a copy of the spread sheet (mmm good brie...
Sorry, I'm eating brie and crossant)? I want to plug in my hours to
see what I got.

Any chance I could get a copy of the spread sheet

Actually, having now done it (it took *days* to do, in dribs and drabs), I
would recommend against using a spreadsheet.

Use a database. It would be MUCH easier.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Here is my shameless plug for Dan Checkoway's logshare.com site. I use
it (as a backup to my paper logbook) and LOVE it.

Chris G.
PP-ASEL, 8-27-05, OOOOhhhhh so close to that 100 hrs


Jay Honeck wrote:
Any chance I could get a copy of the spread sheet


Actually, having now done it (it took *days* to do, in dribs and drabs), I
would recommend against using a spreadsheet.

Use a database. It would be MUCH easier.

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
[snip]
I sat down with my log books and transcribed them into an Excel
spreadsheet, allowing me to extract the following mildly interesting data:

Nice write-up Jay.


- 19 different aircraft types flown (Top two: 437 flights in the
Pathfinder; 404 in the Warrior)

Some more from the list please :-)


- 190 different airports in 25 states (Top 3: Iowa, 47 different
airports; Wisconsin: 41 airports; Illinois: 26 airports)

What are the closest states to Iowa that you've skipped over?


- Highest wind noted during landing: 62 knots

When you flew up here, to Minneapolis, in 2003 for The National Air Tour you
had a GPS GS reading of over 200 mph. What's the fastest you've flown ...as
PIC?


Montblack

- 19 different aircraft types flown

Some more from the list please :-)

- Alon Ercoupe
- Piper J3-Cub
- Decathlon
- Grumman Tiger
- Beech King Air
- Blanik Sail plane
- Cessna 150
- Cessna 172
- Cessna 182
- Cessna 310
- Lockheed Constellation
- Mooney M20B
- Piper 140
- Piper Warrior
- Piper 180
- Piper Archer
- Piper Pathfinder
- Boeing Stearman

- 190 different airports in 25 states (Top 3: Iowa, 47 different
airports; Wisconsin: 41 airports; Illinois: 26 airports)

What are the closest states to Iowa that you've skipped over?

Hmmmm. Dunno. I've flown OVER most states, just haven't landed in all of
'em...yet.

When you flew up here, to Minneapolis, in 2003 for The National Air Tour
you had a GPS GS reading of over 200 mph. What's the fastest you've flown
...as PIC?

Well, my fasted noted groundspeed in a single has been 243 mph. (The
multi-engine planes don't "count"...) I don't know what speed we were
doing in the Mooney -- it may have been faster than that -- but that flight
pre-dated GPS, and I was more focused on the sound of the engine and the
fact that I couldn't see land in any direction!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"