[simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:47:48 -0600

Hi Stig,

I dont know If I would move just yet...if you will notice alot of that
commercial cockpit time was in the cockpits of NON US airlines. In Europe
anyone with the captains consent can fly in the cockpit  ( this may have
changed due to the events of Sept 11 for obvious reasons) but it did help to
be living in the house holds of the Captians I flew with.
 I will say that the most fun I have been having is in my fathers new
AIRCAM. We spend up to 3 hours flying around Texas at literally 5 feet off
the ground, we pull up for fences and powerlines and obviously trees! Its so
damn much fun cause its safe, and its really a good feeling to fly so low
and so SLOW. You can actually look at things and its almost like being a
bird.To anyone local to DFW that wants to go do this you are welcome to
contact me and Ill arange it.
I going to be doing bussiness soon with a company that has a CHERRY (
perfect) L-39 Albatross. I am going to barter for many flights in it in lieu
of some of the income just because I have airplane sickness. I will probably
fly in it for the first time in January of 03( next month) This time I plan
on NOT EATING AN ENTIRE CANDIAN BACON PIZZA AND A BUNCH OF ROOT BEER, like I
did when I flew that GNAT in California. By the way, thats back when I met
James Hallows, when he was at the THRUSTMASTER BOOTH at the E3 show. I snuck
off from the E3 show with a freind of mine who lives in LA and he took me to
Chino, to the airport there where I met the guy who owned the GNAT.
For the record, I did not thow up until the plane was 40 feet from its
parking lot, and I was man enough to fill my flight suit up instead of
filling up that tiny back seat with ex-pizza! I have flown lots of
aerobatics myself and have never had a problem, but my stomach was full and
I was really excited, and we pulled lots of G's, and thats my excuse and I
am sticking with it.
PS puking into your flightsuit is not a romantic thing to do.....but it
beats cleaning up someone elses cockpit!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stig Joergensen" <stig.joergensen@clearsky.dk>
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: RE: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

With this report.... in can only second Brian - you SUCK, big time......
:-)

Damn, i wish i've being able to do a third on this list....

that does it, i will find a job in US and move there..... Denmark sucks
(too expensive, too small, too much beuracki[spelled wrong] )....
dreaming again.....

/Stig

Attatched is teaser2 of my new gauge/panel.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Woodul [mailto:crewstation1@charter.net]
Sent: 30. december 2002 21:16
To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

Hey Brian,

A Bell 47 is a classic...Where do you live? Just curious about the
canals.
And just for the you suck part.. I have flown in the following:

Lufthansa 747-200 from DFW to FRANKFURT in 1984 in the cockpit chock to
chock
Lufthansa A310 from FRANKFURT to ATHENS Greece 1984 in the cockpit chock
to
chock
Lufthansa 747-200 FRA to DFW in cockpit chock to chock
Iberia 747-200 from JFK to MADRID Spain in 1985 ( sat in co-pilots seat
for
almost 3 hours over Atlantic)
Iberia 747-200 from MADRID to JFK 1985
Lufthansa 747-400 FRANKFURT to JOHANISBURG SOUTH AFRICA (over 12 hour
flight) in cockpit center jumpseat chock to chock 1990
Lufthansa 747-400 JOHANISBURG SA to FRANKFURT 1990
American Airlines 747 SP daily taxi from International Terminal 2E ( now
terminal A) to AA main maintance hanger ( did this almost every day
before
work in 1989-90 with my MTC friends at AA when I worked there in
Passenger
service) This was a blast cause the plane was empty and flew in every
day
from Tokyo ( Narita Airport) and was still full of un- eaten first class
food still hot in the oven. The hanger was 3 miles away and we often had
to
take the long way around the airport to avoid ramp traffic.
American Airlines 767-300 nite time taxi maintaince check at DFW
airport. I
actually was allowed to taxi the plane from the co-pilots seat ( the
767
has a nose wheel tiller on both sides of the cockpit) I learned about
how
NOT to brake a large jet ( I made it bounce way up and down by using too
much brakes)
American Airlines 727 simulator countless hours ( all thru 1990s)
American Airlines MD-80 ( same as above)
American Airlines MD-11 ( same as above)
American Airlines A300-600 ( same as above)
American Airlines 777 ( recenltly)
Thompson Training and Simulation *( now Thales) in Gatwick England
Airbus
A330 Simulator - 2000
North American T-28 Trojan - at airshow flew thru down town Tulsa
Oklahoma
1996
Polish Iskra Training Jet --------two flights in 1996
Bell Jet Ranger - flew around Hawaian Island of Kaui 1996
Brittish Folland GNAT supersonic Jet Trainer - Chino California ( ex Red
Arrows Jet) flew at 450 KTS at low level thru mountains around Chino
California ( puked my pizza and root beer up) have the video tape! year
2000
Multiple F-16 Simulators ( Thales MLU, L3 Block 40 UTD, F-16 Block 50
Lockheed Martin- 1997 thru this year
EF-111A Raven AMP simulator at Cannon AFB the week before the sim was
decommisioned 1998
A-10 UTD simulator- multiple times since 1998
C-130 simulator ( same as above)
F/A-18 A/ C/ E simulators ( multiple places and models since 1998)
actually since its now my line of work the full up sims I have been
privy to
have flown, is almost countless.

I have been a pilot of small aircraft since 1987 ( was in a plane crash
on
my second lesson!!!!!!!!) and I fly my fathers 2 airplanes almost every
weekend depending on weather.
And last but not least.. I spend countless hours dreaming in my own
personal
cockpits.

I was lucky enough to have grown up in an Aviation household, as my
father
was a US NAVY fighter pilot and also a Captain for Delta Airlines (
which is
how I scored all the flights in those foriegn airlines cockpits, I was
an
exchange kid with other airlines families thru ALPA, and it let me get
to
live in some cool places for the summer as well as fly in the cockpits
with
my friends fathers on my trips to and from those stays)
Since I work in the Flight Simulation world as my carrer, I constantly
use
my position to get into and fly different simulators either for fun (
cuase
I beg) or because its condusive to my job. Either way, dont think for a
second that I dont know how to wrangle my way into some cool stuff...and
always will.

I expect a full report from you on the TEXAN II when you go off to fly
it
Brain! That is a really cool plane, and it will be much more safe and
comfortable than a TWEET!

Chris Woodul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Sikkema" <hangr18@hotmail.com>
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

> In light of these revelations, I'd like to read a short statement I've
> prepared:
>
> *clears throat*
>
> You SUCK!
>
>
> LOL, that would be so much fun, I think I'd have to wear a diaper to
the
> flight just in case. I love to give my dad grief about his obsession
with
> hoopalopters, but they are definitely cool. My first time flying,
ever, in
> anything, was in a Bell 47, and I'll never forget it...
>
> When I first got to school this year, just before classes started, I
was
> setting up my room and I heard a helicopter, nice and close. I ran out
and
> there was a Coast Guard Dauphin crawling along about 30 feet above the
> canal, just over a coast guard boat. They got to the middle of the
canal,
> and then practiced hauling people up in the basket. Very cool to
watch, I
> managed to get some decent pics, too. Fun stuff.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Chris Woodul" <crewstation1@charter.net>
> Reply-To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
> To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
> Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:19:10 -0600
>
> While in Jacksonville Florida at the SAFE show where I took my F-111F
> Cockpit ( sim) and some of my seat collection, I met some pilots from
the
> local sheriffs department. They wanted to sit in my Cockpit so I said,
"sure
> if you will let me go flying in your Helicopter" and the guy thought I
was
> serious ( I would have let him sit in the cockpit anyway) well long
story
> short they invited me and my freind Mike to come to the roofttop of
the
> downtown police station where they would come fly in and pick us up. I
had
> the funnest nite of my life getting 3 hours in the front left seat on
the
> first trip, and then  flying in the back for 3 hours in a second
helicopter
> while Mike sat up front for his "turn". I went on at least four police
> chases, got to operate the NITESUN spotlight while circling a
neighborhood
> for over an hour looking for some punk with an AK-47 who was hiding,
as
well
> as the pilot letting me fly the thing most of the non-tactical time. I
even
> got to fly along the beach at nite at 100 feet with the spotlight
shining
on
> the waves. On mikes flight we flew with the NVG goggles and did the
hunting
> that way. I am a fixed wing pilot, but I realy enjoyed getting to fly
in
> those helicopters that nite for over six hours total. ITs even more
fun
when
> you get to chase bad guys, that made it feel like some sort of combat.
The
> coolest thing was them letting us fly lot, and that they let me fly up
the
> river there and hover outside of the waterfront hotel area and then
take
> pictures. I took almost 100 pictures that nite! I am going back there
in a
> month or so to do it again, I cant wait!
>
> Chris W
>
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