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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
My Stratoclub Friends Resume
So, I am an aviation insurance broker for 25 years... Here is the best response to a pilot history questionaire yet. Thanks TD. Happy Landings.
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"
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"
My start in Aviation!
14 CFR Part 121 Scheduled operation of EASTERN AIR LINES INC
Event occurred Saturday, October 16, 1965 in CHARLOTTE, NC
Aircraft: DOUGLAS DC-7, registration: N824D
FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA
F S M/N PURPOSE
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1-0063 65/10/16 CHARLOTTE,NC DOUGLAS DC-7 CR- 0 0 5 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE
TIME - 1647 N824D PX- 0 0 57 41, 12879 TOTAL HOURS,
DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 1463 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT
RATED.
NAME OF AIRPORT - DOUGLAS AIRPORT
OPERATOR - EASTERN AIR LINES,INC.
TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION
UNDERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN
GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN
PROBABLE CAUSE(S)
PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE
FIRE AFTER IMPACT
REMARKS- FIRE IN RIGHT WING AREA.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Crazy Horse
My Bucket List... Item #1 is to fly a P-51 Mustang.
Crazy Horse will fill the bill but lighten my pocket book $6,500.00. So you see if God had intended me to fly he would have given me more money! My dream is alive...Praise GOD!
Please Send Money to P.O. Box 815 Frederick, MD 21705
Crazy Horse will fill the bill but lighten my pocket book $6,500.00. So you see if God had intended me to fly he would have given me more money! My dream is alive...Praise GOD!
Please Send Money to P.O. Box 815 Frederick, MD 21705
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