Coming home from Houston Sunday...

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:


Wheels up means gear up, period.

I learned it as "departing the field".

Sorry!

Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a
runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred
students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a
pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form?

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle






What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip.


Bertie

B A R R Y wrote in news:yvPhk.14041$cW3.8544
@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:


Wheels up means gear up, period.

I learned it as "departing the field".

Sorry!


That'd be "Airborne"

Bertie

On Jul 23, 8:11 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote:
Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a
runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred
students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a
pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form?

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle

What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip.

Bertie

You'd have to look pretty far to find a pilot who was confused by
Jay's wheels up comment when talking about that airplane. If it's
understood, it's good communication. Let's do a poll -- all who
understood it meant departing, remain sitting comfortably. All who
didn't, let's see -- yes, move to Paris.

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

That'd be "Airborne"

I can't count the times I've hear instructors say:

"I want to be be wheels-up by 1930..." To tell a student to be ready to
be ready to go.

Maybe it's regional, but I don't think so!

On Jul 23, 8:19 pm, wrote:
On Jul 23, 8:11 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote:

Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing a
runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred
students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever became a
pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid form?

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle

What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip.

Bertie

You'd have to look pretty far to find a pilot who was confused by
Jay's wheels up comment when talking about that airplane. If it's
understood, it's good communication. Let's do a poll -- all who
understood it meant departing, remain sitting comfortably. All who
didn't, let's see -- yes, move to Paris.

But, "take off" would have been better!

B A R R Y wrote in news:tTPhk.18342$Ri.7069
@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

That'd be "Airborne"

I can't count the times I've hear instructors say:

"I want to be be wheels-up by 1930..." To tell a student to be ready to
be ready to go.

Maybe it's regional, but I don't think so!


Nah, it's common enough. it's further of evidence of terminology going down
the ****ter.


Bertie

"RST Engineering" wrote in
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Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing
a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred
students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever
became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid
form?


Only 5,000 hours and 45 years?

OK sonny.




Bertie

wrote in
:

On Jul 23, 8:11 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote:
Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft
departing a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a
few hundred students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before
you ever became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still
in liquid form?

Jim

--
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
--Aristotle

What it was was Jay distorting an aviation term to sound hip.

Bertie

You'd have to look pretty far to find a pilot who was confused by
Jay's wheels up comment when talking about that airplane.


I wasn't confused at all. It identified him as a tit straight off!

'course I already knew that.


Bertie

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"RST Engineering" wrote in
m:

Excuse me, sir, I've used it to refer to fixed gear aircraft departing
a runway for some 45 years and 5000 hours, taught it to a few hundred
students, and was taught it by MY instructors long before you ever
became a pilot methinks ... or perhaps while you were still in liquid
form?


Only 5,000 hours and 45 years?

OK sonny.

That's about normal for a private pilot, no?

I've got 1,300 in 10.