Hi Jon : Good seeing ya tonight. Please send me an email with the 20 questions about who the fu*k I am. No way I was going to remember what you were asking me tonight. Having flown 50+ hrs in "tail-draggers" 35 years ago, I've only experienced around 15 some hrs in recent memory. Only a few in the L-2 and most of that was helping "Magoo" (Kreis) find his way back to the field and then finding the right runway. Oh, don't forget at least one hour flying the "Rat" at LHV. That in of itself is worth FIVE hours. Then again, it has BOTH a tail wheel AND a nose wheel. lol. Okay, besides numerous idle hours in numerous "tail draggers", I only have a total of 25,000+ hours re-directing metal tubes through the O2 and H2O'd atmosphere. It includes several engine fires, electrical fires, pneumatic fires, hydraulic fires, bird strikes, navigational systems failures over ocean, rejected max weight take-offs, go-arounds on min. fuel, tire failures, nose gear dis-assembly on landing, lightning strikes, Hurricanes, TRW's, irate flight attendants, surely agents, whiney passengers, and on and on and on, etc. I realize it's not much time operating aircraft, but it's all I have. Hopefully this will be of some benefit to those of higher intelligence and wisdom than I possess who make the extremely important and sensitive decisions regarding one's insurability. But then again, I don't give a rats ass what they think about my qualifications .... they WEREN'T there when it all happened and that's a damn GOOD thing. Otherwise I'd have to smell the shit in their pants while it all happened while I freakin' saved their ass. Later - "TD"
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