Age, was Re: [simpits-tech] RE: F-16 flight

[Chris Woodul]

Hi Brian,

I get all that, and I wouldnt go into comercial flying today due to all the
hassle and such. But my father flew for Delta for 30 years ( while
simultaneously flying for the military in the reserves for the first 10 of
that)
He was what they called an A Scaler and flew relatively little and made
almost 250K per anum...not a bad deal. In fact since he was an A scaler at
Delta, they paid him almost a million to retire early ( he retired Five
years early ) becuase delta wanted to promote less expensive cockpit crews
up to save money.
I think my dad is going to live much longer as a result of this. And all
that good money bought alot of nice things including both of his airplanes.
As for bush flying, my dad is a huge fan of Alsaska, and he intends to fly
the Aircam all the way to Alaska and back, next year..that will be an
impresive ( yet very slow ) trip. The Aircam can land just about anywhere
and of course he will be sitting out in the wind at low level watching the
world go by. I would love to go along with him if I could, but I have to
work for a living and cant take the time off to do it. If I could have flown
in the military first and then flew with the airlines in the good old days
( Delta from 1967 to 1996 was just about right, no furloughs and good pay
through out that time) I got to fly all over the world, and vistit hundreds
of exotic ( and not so exotic) places. I lived a very comfortable lifestlye
becuase of it as well.
I do know that he longed for something that held the excitement of combat
flying ( he was 23 or 24 years old flying A-4Es off the US independace in
Viet Nam. He said that nothing can match that excitement- he is hard to
impress these days since he has done so much. But I see him giggle and smile
in his Aircam, which I get becuase its not like flying anything else. You
are out in the air, in a big twin engine plane and you fly low and slow over
hill and dale. That is very much like bush flying ( with a second engine) So
I DO GET WHAT YOU MEAN!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Sikkema" <hangr18@hotmail.com>
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: Age, was Re: [simpits-tech] RE: F-16 flight


> Yeah, I've always liked flying commuters much better. People say they hate
> flying 'em, but both my trips have involved Saab 340's for a good section
of
> the trip. Each time I've gotten the flight attendant to move me to the
front
> row (due to my unmanagably long legs), which is fun because then you get
to
> talk to them the whole flight. And all the flight attendants I've gotten
so
> far have been very interesting and fun people. On my trip this summer, it
> ended up being me and one other guy, who was headed to AETCFC same as me,
> both sitting in front talking to this flight attendant. It was really
cool.
> I also think the service might be better because the new FAs and cockpit
> crew are (naturally) on the commuters, so they haven't grown to hate the
> passengers yet. Lord knows I would... I am never, ever, ever, never ever
> ever never ever, flying airlines. If I ever start to think otherwise,
> someone please hit me with a bat or something, k? Something hard that will
> do damage. I know some people love it, but I would never be able to... I
> dont care about the pay, or about the enormous amount of time off (I
talked
> to a 767 pilot once who had literally half the month off), its just not
> worth it to me. Some people say its not really flying, I know that's not
> true, but to me, it isn't fun flying. My plan is to do my time in the AF,
> maybe make a career out of it, maybe not, we'll see. But once that's done,
> I'm gonna abandon civilization for the Canadian north country... or
Alaska,
> that would be ok with me, too. I just gotta find myself the right
> significant other, you know, one who isn't gonna spoil the whole plan ;)
But
> bush flying appeals to me more than anything else, even Air Force flying
> sometimes.
>
> Brian
>
>
> >LOL.... now tell me how you really feel.
>
> >I am lucky, I fly mostly from LA to TX and MS.  Nothing over 500 >miles.
> >If
> >it is a long flight, I bite the bullet -- oops wrong metaphor -- and >fly
> >the
> >cattle cars.  Lafayette, LA doesn't know what first class is.  :)
>
> >John
>
>
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