[simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:38:25 -0600

You got my work phone number Jay, and you are supposed to come by and see
the first Full Size F-16. Come see me. Obviously Today is NOT a good day to
go fly!!!!!!!!! ( bad WX)
We spent last saturday takign up about 10 different people, familiy and
friends. You have no idea how much fun it is. Call me or come by..but I am
on vacation until Thursday. : )
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Fagner" <crease-guard@attbi.com>
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....

> Ok, when do we go?
>
> Jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simpits-tech-admin@simpits.org
> [mailto:simpits-tech-admin@simpits.org] On Behalf Of Chris Woodul
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 2:48 PM
> To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
> Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Memory Lane....
>
> 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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