With enough Coors Light under my belt I can tell stories all day and all night. Lots of folks said I should write a book, but a tell-all would...
Wow, you were lucky.. If they had 100 lbs less fuel, they would have flamed out 30 seconds earlier and possibly crashed into your house. Do you...
Guilty..
Yeah, no steering on the tailwheel, use rudder, differential power and brakes to keep the old girl straight. It was a fun job.
Typo. Yeah very familiar, almost miss it..
Did not quit, still here and look young as always..
Need stability? Get a cutter rigged sloop sailboat, cross to the Bahamas in a gale with 2 reefs in the sails. Stable as rock, thank me with beer...
Not sure about the name: I was in Alaska on and off from 1980 to 1984: then back from the USVIs for fish haul contracts on the beaches and later...
Not making excuses for the Captain or Port Pilot, just saying I have witnessed currents while being immersed in them :cool:
Yeah, fun job hauling those DC-3s around: Felt like I was in a movie from the 1940s: Tailwheel airplane, steep incline to get to the cockpit, big...
Currents around Cozumel, although not sure if the harbor is affected: https://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/caribbean/yucatan.html Did a few...
But of course, been there, done that, 19 flying jobs with big and small outfits: Worked for the worlds smallest airline (One DC-3: Virgin Island...
Ha, you knew Paul? Quite the character. I was his assistant Chief Pilot and a company instructor/ check airman. Checked out on all 5 types of his...
wow, stepped on sore, or sour toe didn’t I? :D Here is another case study of Latino Macho, not stopping for fuel....
Remember that crash really well: I was in the airplane behind the Avianca 707: (Worked for Evergreen International Airlines back then, copilot on...
Yup, done a few of those, once with the FAA and NTSB onboard in St. Thomas after I picked ‘em up in St. Barths investigating an accident for the...
All true, but I’ll take a good old ILS any day, if low on gas, ride it all the way down to the deck, then go the bar and have a strong one. Half...
He is on YouTube, here is the boat @ about the time this thread emerged, [MEDIA]
I have been flying into St. Maarten Airport for over 30 years and they never ever installed an ILS (Instrument Landing System) a basic approach...
Got all of the above, works great, never had a problem. (Better be lucky than good, I guess) My Citybank CC however has been hacked 3 times, we...
