doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (01/03/86)
> Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies. > This seems a good idea for net.aviation... Self-introduction? Sure, why not. I've been flying for 8-1/2 years, and have logged almost 1200 hours. Every one of those hours was paid for out of my own pocket. The first 200 were in a 1965 Cherokee 140, the next 250 in a 1959 Comanche 250, and the last 750 hours in a 1946 Cessna 120. I got my instrument rating in 1980 and kept it current for the next two years. But I never found a use for it. It always seemed like the weather was either VFR or else was so bad that I refused to fly a single-engine plane IFR in the stuff. By 1982 I finally figured out that my personal single-engine IFR minima were stricter than my VFR minima, and that unless/until I got a multi-engine rating (not very likely) I was wasting money keeping my instrument rating current. Almost all of my flying is local, fair-weather daytime VFR; just flying for the sheer delight of being flying. Just for the heck of it, once a year I fly to the Oakland area where I have family and friends; that trip is always an adventure. -- Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug
sutter@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) (01/05/86)
> Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies. > This seems a good idea for net.aviation... OK, I guess it's my turn: Unlike all you high-timers with multi-engine CFI with A&P's thrown in, I am just a student sailplane pilot working slowly towards being permitted to carry my wife along. You see, there is no cheaper way to get into the air than flying with a glider club, and your canonical impoverished student finds this a very good idea. And much fun, too. My Dad took SEL lessons when he finished his PhD. He'd had the itch since he was 8 or so, and it's hereditary. He recently got a Mooney 201 and loves to show off the RNAV and how he can cruise from here to wherever without looking outside... He has his fun and gets places, but I like to dance with clouds in the afternoon sunshine. My time is in Schweizer 2-22, 2-33, and 1-26 types, all owned by the club, the Central Ohio Soaring Association. Oh yes, I once got to take a 2-32 into the mountains with an instructor from Colorado Springs. I have the A, B, and C badges, and the Altitude leg of my Silver. No cross-countries yet, since our club (wisely) prohibits them before completion of a Private. And since I am a weekend birdman, and everybody else in the club wants to use the craft at the same time, I can't do much toward the Duration leg just yet. Most memorable flight --------------------- I was attaining the Altitude leg (1000 meters altitude gain between lowest and succeeding highest point as indicated on a recording altimeter) of my Silver badge one fine summer afternoon. There were the usual puffball cumuli floating around on top of these wonderful thermals, bases at around 5500 feet (high for Ohio). Well, by about 4:00 some of them had developed into rainclouds. Still plenty of space between and below, but since we operate from grass, the response is to land with all due haste. By the time I cloud-hopped back to the airport, it was already being rained upon. So, I just hung around a nearby (dry) thermal for fifteen minutes or so while that scattered puffball shower passed through. There was another due soon, because I could see it upwind, and I really wanted to get into the hangar with the wings dry. I didn't know just how fast a 1-26 could descend: *very*. Full spoilers, full rudder-kicking slip, dropping at maximum maneuvering speed indicated. The variometer was pegged past 2000 fpm downward and my ears were popping. Some fun, huh? It was a steerable rock (closest I'll ever come to the Columbia :-), and I steered it into the pattern. A short landing near the clubhouse, and we dragged it into the hangar and shut the doors just as the rain started. Then there's the one about picking soybean leaves out of the wing root fairings, but that's another story... -- ----- Human: Bob Sutterfield Facilities Management Division The Ohio State University Instruction & Research Computer Center Work: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service, Computer Management Group OCES VAX System Manager/Programmer (VMS) Mail: sutter@osu-eddie.UUCP sutterfield-r%osu-20@osu-eddie.UUCP or: sutter@osu-eddie.ohio-state.CSNET sutterfield-r@osu-20.ohio-state.CSNET or: 2120 Fyffe Rd rm 109, Columbus OH 43210 Bell: (614) 422 - 9034
dbp@dataioDataio.UUCP (Dave Pellerin) (01/08/86)
> Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies. > This seems a good idea for net.aviation... Short Bio: Got SEL Private ticket in '78, have only ~120 hours after all this time due to 'priority shuffling' (spent '82,'83 not flying at all). Time is in 150's, 172's, 182's and Grumman AA1C. Currently dreaming about building a 'real' airplane (with both upstairs and downstairs wings, etc.)... Most memorable flight: May 18, 1980, Boeing field to Mount St. Helens vicinity five hours after the big blast. Just happened to have a 172 reserved for the morning and when the mountain blew it's top, we knew we had to be there. Used radar following just to make sure we wouldn't get into trouble with restricted areas and the expected traffic, but it turned out to be no problem in either case. - Dave Pellerin -
falk@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU (01/13/86)
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Brief flight bio:
I've always been interested in flying. My father was in the AF in WWII and
purchased his own plane when he got out (an Aeronca Air sedan)- my first
flight (in co-pilots' seat, in mother's arms) was when I was only weeks old,
so I got the bug early. I joined Civil Air Patrol and soloed shortly after
I turned 16 (I had a CAP flight scholarship), but didn't have enough $$$ to
go all the way until a few years later. I got my private ticket in '78 when
I was 24, flying in a cessna 150. I flew 150s, 172s and (occasionally) an
american trainer (tail-dragger). I actually have left-seat time in a number
of other aircraft, but am not checked out in any of them. I started to go
for my instrument rating, but ran out of $$$ and time, and things have been
on hold since I was pregnant 1 1/2yrs. ago. However, I will get back to it
some day- the bug is still there!
Connie Falk (falk%uiucuxc@a.cs.uiuc.edu)
p.s. I also "flew" a kc-97 flight simulator which was only one of two such
simulators in the country. It was located at the 128th tactical air reserve
at Mitchell field in Milwaukee and it was alot of fun. Through CAP, we gave
tours of the 128th and through the real planes and sometimes the reservists
would let us into the flight simulator. It was very expensive to run, but it
was quite interesting. One of us would sit in the back of the "plane" and sety
up a situation for the pilot (e.g., you could have engines go out, etc.) and
we would see if we could spot the problem and safely land the plane.ralph@inuxc.UUCP (Ralph Keyser) (01/16/86)
It's been interesting reading all these flight bios, so here's my contribution. I'm another one of the "life-long dream" crowd, but the time and money didn't both end up in the same place until May of 82. I learned to fly in Indiana (where the game is not finding a flat spot for emergencies, but finding the *best* flat spot) in a Beechcraft Skipper (a T-tailed Tomahawk look alike). Lessons were mostly evenings and weekends and it took a little over a year to get my private. Too many days stuck under a peaceful (but low) overcast convinced me to get my instrument rating this last summer. I have about 300 hours in Archers, 172's, 182's, and an Aeronca Tri-Champ, in addition to the Skipper and even a few hours in 152's. I like travelling by light plane because of the flexibility and the fact that it is much more interesting to fly than to drive. I'm currently part-owner of a '76 Piper Archer II (8320C) and an active private pilot. My compliments to the readers and submitters of this news group as it has always been a pleasure to read net.aviation. If I was an elitist, I'd say this is proof that aviation enthusiasts are a cut above normal! Smooth Skies no matter how you fly, Ralph Keyser Indianapolis, IN