Aviation BS and Photo Thread

First leg today had me riding the ILS down to 300’ in the CJ. That was fun.

 

That's some trust building exercise right there. I was gonna go for my VFR cert and the whole "hood visor" thing freaked me out to much.

 

I don’t like the hood. It’s always a relief when you see those approach lights peeking through the clouds!

 

I'm totally fine in the clouds, rain, etc. Its just that hood being so close to my face that got me. IDK what my holdup was.

Prob didn't help I used this model:

 

Fun, but I do feel bad sharing the pattern with one in a 152.

Have you ever seen the spitfire or corsair fly there? I'm told he occasionally takes them up.

 

UPS getting it’s Christmas time help. 5 temp workers got fired and 2 arrested for stealing packages a few days ago

 

Good Ole Connie stepping up to the plate.........

 

Oh yeah I’ve seen them both flying multiple times.

 

Haha, I could imagine wearing those wouldn’t be much fun! I used the foggy glasses for my training

 

The airport I worked at in college had alot of kalittas charter division (falcons/lears) operating in and out of it and EVREYTINE their damn CC got declined. So there I was at 330am half asleep wanting to spike the cc machine into the ground because all I wanted to do was go home and back to sleep. They eventually had to prepay evreything which made us rampers life suck when they wanted a top off and we had to bill them out. Out of all the bottom feeder cargo opertors we had flying in and out of there, the most "reputable" one gave us the most problems. 2nd was USA jet, their premodonna pilots never wanted to push pallets once inside the plane and our company policy was we could not. So it was argue argue argue, shut the forklift off and sit there. Eventually the button pusher would throw a tempertantrum and start moving pallets around.


Met Connie he's cool, Doug's an asshole.

 

LOL..... I worked at Great American Marine in Clearwater during the summers early to mid 90's Scott had some funny shit to say about Connie and his flying ability in the 47 ....Scott was a really cool dude Connie was always awesome and chasing tail all over the marina....

They eventually sold out to Marine Max I think it was!

 

My recent flight~

 

Gotta love it.


Edit: I hate all of you! I want to fly but I need to make some contacts around the
OKC area. Anyone wanna trade me flight time for A&P work

 

One of the stories Scott told us was that back in the early 70's Connie needed some parts for his top fuel car at a race. Connie had the Pilot land the Cessna on the drag strip so he could get the parts....

 

Views from my most recent trip in the CJ:

White Sands missile range...Stayed clear of that!



I can't get over how cool it is to see other planes passing by in the flight levels! I have some cool video, but can't upload them here...



Never landed at an airport this low before!

 

Old paint schemes and logos are great.

 

Edwards / Armstrong has some pretty amazing aircraft...

 

Another year, another sim. It’s kind of funny that my checkride is on New Years Eve.



Edit: colors changed for the new year.

 

Few more shots from the canyon during the last months of 2018.