How many full scale Pilots fly C/L

[Scott Richlen]

Took ground school while still in high school, soloed in 1973.  Flying around in a Cessna 150 building up hours for my Private's and the thought occurred to me "this isn't nearly as much fun as flying my toy airplanes..."

Landed, walked away, and never put up another solo hour.

I think if there were a glider port nearby I might try that.

Might.

Scott

[Joseph Patterson]

 Mike, I was going to add some others to your list that I know, but most have chimned in except, Joe Bowman, corporate pilot and very good Expert flier. 
        Doug

[Scott Richlen]

Were Todd Lee, Ron King, and Tom McClain included on your list?

[jim gevay]

ATP, 4 Type Ratings, Commercial, single engine land and sea, Certified Flight Instructer, instrument and multi-engine.
Currently I'm a struggling Corporate pilot, slowly working on restoring my 1946 Aeronca Champ.
I soloed in 1970 when I was 16, flying Cessna 150's.

[YakNine]

I never finished my private was almost done when 9/11 happened and I live right on the edge of the EWR TCA (Newark Terminal Control Area) they take their airspace management very seriously and I just didn't find it fun anymore, I couldn' t afford it anymore anyway with 1 little one and 1 in the oven, Still have 1949 Piper Clipper project in the barn but am going to sell it, unfortunately in this economy I am better off scrapping the airframe and selling the engine seperately . I might get my sport pilot ticket eventually just so I have something to show for my efforts. If I were to do it again I would have built an ultra light. T.J.

[Michael Boucher]

Hi Ed, I was in Elmira at Harris Field over the summer watching the glider action. How did you like flying out of there?

[john e. holliday]

ATP, 4 Type Ratings, Commercial, single engine land and sea, Certified Flight Instructer, instrument and multi-engine.
Currently I'm a struggling Corporate pilot, slowly working on restoring my 1946 Aeronca Champ.
I soloed in 1970 when I was 16, flying Cessna 150's.

Jim, the pictures of the plane reminded me  of when we flew at the Basehor KANSAS airpark for a while.   A grass runway with some metal buildings for the planes.   Don Mayberry would come pull his plane out of the shed.  Do the walk around.  Then  fire it up and do touch and goes for about a dozen times.   I don't think he ever went cross country with it.  His plane looked almost identical to yours.

[EddyR]

Hi Ed, I was in Elmira at Harris Field over the summer watching the glider action. How did you like flying out of there?

Michael    I was in high school in 1957 and several other students and I were taken from Binghamton once a week to take lessons at Schweizer at the Elmira Corning airport . They all gave up,I was the only one who finished the lessons. I never flew from Harris Hill. Schweizer paid for all my tows out of the Elmira Regional airport. I was heavy in to FF then and  I had a much better feeling for gliders flying and finding lift than the average student. Not many young people were interested in gliders and that opened up several opportunities to do test work for Schweizer. My last tow there was in 1970. I visited Harris hill about 10 years ago and there is a lot there now. In the 50's there was nothing there except the sled for launching gliders.
Ed

[Michael Boucher]

Hi Ed, Thanks for your experiences with gliding in Elmira. I was coming home from a contest and stopped off there. I wasn't sure how I would react to the flight and still had a few hours car drive from there. I definitely want to try a glider flight out of there in the future.  It looks like a great place to fly a glider.

[Rod Claus]

Working pilot last 30 years. Pretty burnt out....much prefer to fly C/L.
Rod, you must remember Jim Perry? A true pirate. I used to fly his Porters in Canada

MLAF (Martha Lake Air Force)


Hi Greg,
Jimmy is an old and current friend of mine.A true pirate indeed!!
Rod

[Chris McMillin]

I wanted to be a rock and roll singer and my parents hated the music business. I performed as a singer from childhood up until my college years. When I turned 21, in school with a new wife and baby, I followed dad's advice and continued as a professional pilot and ended up at TWA and American eventually. It has been fun and I still love flying little airplanes and big ones. I have flown a lot of neat airplanes, my parents had a flight school and antique airplanes so I soloed in 1974 on my 16th birthday in one of our Aeronca's and our family Staggerwing, then flew corporate in little airplanes like Bonanza's, Skylane's and the like, freighters like the Twin Beech and DC-3, the Shorts 360 for a small airline and then the L-1011, 727, 757, 767, and DC-9 series for TWA and the MD-80 for American. I also got to fly warbirds for a few people, B-25, T-6, PT-17, and gave rides in Staggerwing, N3N, Bushmaster 2000, and then did aerobatic competition and air racing in Pitts Special's I had, one was a 160 hp and the last one 180 horse.

I have an ATP, Commercial SEL, CFI-A, and a type rating in the DC-9, SD-3, BU-2000, 757, 767.

I like FF, CL and RC, currently flying RC Pattern and Scale mainly. I'm trying for an Old Time and Classic VSC appearance in 2012.

Chris...

   

[Dennis Saydak]

Well, a lot of us certainly have much in common interest-wise. Here's a couple of projects I started after I retired back in 2006.

[jim gilmore]

At first read I was epecting someone to wonder what exactly were full scale pilots. And maybe a snub about people whom are vertically challenged.


I am not a pilot but I do hold an A&P license which allows me to work on full scale aircraft. Though I have been retired since 1994 due to injury.

[Bruce Perry]

Got my private license as a millenium project.  Bought a 1950 Cessna 170A in 2003 and have been fixing/tinkering/improving it ever since.  My Dad and I work on it together and have made some major improvements, recently we stripped the interior and rewired  the whole plane along with a new headliner. 

I have time in a C-180 and several Citabrias. I have 100% tail wheel time.  The airplane has a nice heated hangar and a friend with a Luscombe shares it with me. 

I started back with CL in 1992, I wasn't pattern capable until early 93 and attended my first contest at the NW regionals the same year.  I placed 3rd in intermediate on the 17th pattern ever.

I love both pastimes tremendously.  I was meant to be around airplanes!

Merry Christmas to all

Bruce

[Matt Colan]

I currently have 40 minutes of flying time in full size airplanes.  With my eventual goal to be an airline pilot, I'll be getting a lot more hours in!

[Lester Nicholson]

Started flying in 1966 w/ a ride in a J3. Licensed in 1973 w/private ticket and same year bought a Stinson 108-3 that I kept for a short time . Accumulated 8oo+hrs and for some reason unbeknownst to me walked away from it in 1987 after my last bi-annual rfview. Have'nt been in a light plane since.