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BRE!!!! IT'S SAMMICH TIME! "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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So different missions are different is basically what you’re saying? Copy. Comparing unlike types of anything is a futile endeavor, but having done a wide variety of things I think you’re making too many assumptions to arrive at any worthwhile conclusions. Flying circles can be harder that you might think. Like sigmonkey, I’ve found doing those things Any Time, Any Place can be quite a demanding skill set. | |||
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 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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You really are a dick. It's getting old. | |||
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You understand that most of those responding to you are experienced instructors, right? You already stated that you're not a pilot, and yet presume to lecture regarding what you don't know and aren't qualified to do. Why is that? Yes, landing on water is both easy and routine, which is why a seaplane rating is one of the easiest (and most fun) of all pilot certifications to get. Halladay might be alive had he shown more common sens, and exercised better judgement. | |||
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If I keep opening this thread, eventually I'll wish I was with ol' Roy. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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I am NOT lecturing anyone. I'm just saying that it's different. Many aspects are different. Experience in one area does not necessarily mean you have experience in others. For example, there are TONS of very good pilots that wouldn't dare land and take off in St. Barts. Different experience is different. Is all I am saying. | |||
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Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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How many pilots does it take, to make a ton of them? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| thin skin can't win |
All the ones in boats. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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It’s runway is a little over 2100’, it’s not that short, most Gen Av can handle that, piece of cake in a twin otter. "Hold my beer.....Watch this". | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Slight drift... Halladay’s service is on MLB network now. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I guess our "INSTRUCTORS" here have no knowledge of landing on St. Barts. I guess that comes into those that fly around in circles for an hour and those that travel to different countries and the Carribbean....... See below. The landing runway is 2170 feet long, and the approach, from either direction, is often plagued by varying degrees of turbulence. As a result, the French aviation authorities require that a special permit be issued to any pilot who intends to land in St. Barts. Those planning to land in St Barts will have to land in Grand Case, French St Martin, first, in order to get their qualification. St Barts Control tower (Telephone: 590 590 27 65 33 - Fax: 590 590 27 98 96 ) will tell you how to contact a French instructor for certification. It takes a couple of hours, and includes touch-and-go in both directions. Don't do it on a windy day with a hangover. http://www.st-barths.com/en/private-aircraft.html The real thrill, as a passenger or onlooker, is an eight- to 15-minute flight away, on the tiny island of St. Barts (or St. Barths or, more formally, St. Barthelemy). With one of the shortest runways in commercial aviation, it's about the most exciting landing you can make without crashing (or, I guess, splashing down in the Hudson). To land there, pilots, unaided by electronic landing guidance, must make a steep, slow glide, thread their way between a pair of wind-buffeted peaks, skim 150 feet down a hill while holding a 10-foot altitude, then level, touch down and brake hard. "What makes St. Barts so challenging is the combination of things," said Eric Zipkin, a pilot and president of the charter service Tradewind Aviation, who personally trains his pilots for St. Barts landings. "You have to fly over a relatively large hill to land on a relatively small runway. The wind gets pretty strong, and it creates turbulence. It gets pretty exciting." A little too exciting at times: Hard landings are a regular occurrence. "A couple of times a year an airplane gets bent in some form. Ninety percent of the time nobody gets hurt," Zipkin said casually. "I've seen a couple of airplanes crunch there. Usually it's crunched aluminum, a few bruises and badly injured egos." Pilots go through two days of ground training and five to 10 hours of flight training to qualify for St. Barts landings. The only commercial planes allowed to land on the island are those specially made for short fields, such as the de Havilland Twin Otter, the Cessna Caravan and the Britten-Norman Islander, all planes that could generously be called vintage designs. If you are lucky (or unlucky, depending on your tolerance for thrills), you might end up in the co-pilot seat, as I did, to watch the pilot work the yoke violently as you pass through the notch between the peaks, trying to keep level in the gusting winds. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009020601861.html | |||
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Spent a few years flying otters out of STOL port, 1800’ stuffed between a Randeles grocery store and a two story apartment building in 100 degree + temperatures, it’s called experience, it’s not a super feat. Hong Kong was the scary one, aim for the cross on The Hill then break away to line up and land on the runway. But your doing it in a 747-400 so it was a little more exciting. "Hold my beer.....Watch this". | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
For someone as experienced in the Aviation community, you have surprisingly thin skin. Just an observation. | |||
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Safety statistics show that the most dangerous flight time for pilots is between 500-1000 hrs.  | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
About 8 Captains or 16 FOs on average. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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Rhino, cool it. Let the show proceed. | |||
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