[simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

[Sean Galbraith]

Geez!   My list comes up kinda short :(

RAAF DHC-4 Caribou,1985 about 2 hours Left seat North Queensland Australia
RNZAF P-3k Orion, 1985, Left seat somewhere out in the Pacific looking for 
fishing boats.
RNZAF UH-1H, 1989, Left seat for about an hour (and still my only hands on 
helicopter flying!)
RNZAF CT-4/b Airtrainer 1988/89 coolest little piston trainer... +6/-3G 
stressed, did my flying training in these and Airtourer T.Mk6

B737-200 Sim, about 4 hours, sometime in 84 I think (was supposed to be a 
tour of the sim faculity, but we never left the 737 cockpit!)
P-3k Orion sim, hours and hours in '85 (spent almost all my off-duty time 
flying the thing.... even had some FE's ask me to fly it for them while 
they practiced their "thing")
Aermacchi MB339-CB Jet Trainer Sim, 1999-2001 heap of hours (while I was 
working on an FS98 based PTT for the central flying school)

Sadly there are no fast jets in the list :( and there are not likely to be 
since NZ no longer has any operational combat aircraft :(

Sean.


>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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