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wow, one day, i will know what all these lights and buttons mean!
How long does the training take?
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civil or military? for US Navy,figure on about 3 years! and we,re always learning new things all the time.....i see you,re from the UK,you might ask MothWingThane,as he holds a Civil Pilot,s Certificate{we Yanks call it a license}
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thanxks, would like to join the RAF and become a fighter pilot! Your job must be soooo great! I love planes, all planes!!!
Will chat to MothWingThane then! Thanx!!
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Good Show.....! Per Ardua Ad Astra!
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I'll stick to my bus and it's fewer switches and thingymajigs
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believe it or not,some of the newer planes are less complicated than the older ones,many systems streamlined and automated,dispensing with the need for a Flight Engineer......very few airliners left anymore with a 3-seat cockpit.
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start studying.....you can take my place when i make The Final Departure West.......
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Ha, that's very inviting.
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think you could handle it? someday i,m going to be Too Old For That Sort Of Thing.........
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someone has to! The Industry is starting to lose many people{early half/Vietnam Veterans}to retirement. age does have a way of catching up to us.....
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Yeah I heard that on the news...also about Air traffic controllers. :3
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it,s true. a big vacuum will soon exist in The Industry,and some jobs/careers just can,t be outsourced......!{some are forbidden by Federal Law too,for reasons of Safety and Accountability.} BTW,do you have a special fave airliner? i,ll build it{if i don,t already have it!} to add to that nasty collection of mine. Meow.
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Too Low Terrain......BWOOP BWOOP! Pull up!!
i love hearing that in flight sim. BTW,i thought 757s had side sticks? Werent these the first Boeing to have side sticks?
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no side-sticks from Boeing yet. and i hope they just leave it that way. WINDSHEAR,WINDSHEARWINDSHEAR!!!!!!! {oh,Christ,how i hate hearing that one,even in a simulator!}
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Ive never heard any of my planes do the "WINDSHEAR WINDSHEAR!" blurt. My other fav one is:
"Glide Slope.....dont stink...BWOOP BWOOP PULL UP!!"
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GLIDESLOPE,PULL UP! DON,T SINK! TERRAIN! TOO LOW! FLAPS! GEAR! WINDSHEAR,WINDSHEAR!!!!!{standard aural warning test sequence}
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now thats somethin i wanna actually hear.
oh yea! here's another one from a DC-8-73F i have in Emery World Wide colors. It does this when id have full flaps down with the landing gear still retracted.
*weird phone ringing noise* "Landing Gear" *more weird phone ringing noise* "Landing Gear"
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the MD-80 had a female voice we used to call "Bitching Betty",and she had quite a vocabulary! FIRE,RIGHT ENGINE! FIRE,LEFT ENGINE! FA-LAPS! LANDING GEAR! ALTITUDE,ALTITUDE! FIRE,A.P.U.! TCAS SYSTEM TEST O.K./FAIL! STALL,STALL,STALL! shrieking tone,WINDSHEAR,WINDSHEAR!!!!! BANK ANGLE! long gone from our fleet now.
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Delta still has their MD88s and American has their Md80s,81s and 83s. Bitchin Betty is famous of the F-16 and a few F-18s.I swear....ive never heard that windshear tone before. I even tried setting flight sim with severe windshear condition. Ever tried landing a 757 with a 8knot breeze and 40knot gusts? lol
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winglets do save fuel,but Xwind landings are a bit tougher/trickier with them,it is very noticeable! FlightSim is still no substitute for The Real Stuff!
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well i cant jus strap myself into the Cap seat of a 757 and stick out a crosswind landing lol. Some people arent pilots for a living.
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had a look in BusLady,s place,wonder if it,s safer in the air or on the road? looks like she,s had a few Close Calls in her time! i,m sure you,ve had a few Beauties too,right? what kind of laws does OH have regarding cel-phones in a moving vehicle?
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dont get me started on the cell phone deal. We actually dont have any laws regarding driving and being on the phone....but dammit we should. Every person that has cut me off on the highway or drifted over on me or poked along in the fast lane at 50mph were on their cell phones. folks jus dont pay attention when they'er talkin too....whoever! i know in Buffalo, NY, it's a law that you wear hands free head sets or have the hands free set up in your car to talk on the cell phone. we should have that here.
As far as close calls go...ive had a fair amount while driving with my Uncle in his Semi.
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some states are stricter than others. in WA,it,s a $500 fine,5 license points and the points stay on for 5 YEARS,along with lots of insurance surcharges in the meantime. and that,s for a First Offense....!
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Just sit back and vatch das pretty blinken lights.
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usually,a light on means something ain,t Kosher somewhere in the plane{Master Caution!} we Airline Pukes like a nice,dark cockpit! almost done with my c.1968 Eastern Electra,will have a whole new crop of airliner models ready for harvest soon!
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I knew that. but I thought the comment would bring a smile. lol Looking forward to more of your airliner models. Any prewar propliners?
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still working on a whole slew of Big Jets,propliners to come too,just takes time.........but i did finish that Hockey Stick Electra! to be included in a soon-to-come collection for all my special DA friends! Captain Swift in his Eastern Electra,a True Hardcore Fan of the 4 Fans.......TCD in his COAir 7?7,with LTjg Serrishi,US Navy in her F/A-18 Hornet,protecting the airspace for us all!
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Do you do any freight dogs?
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i did get a decal sheet for a Zantop Electra,just got to build it! i know,people just don,t pay too much attention to freighters,but they are important{and profitable!} i did also finish a Big Purple Federal Express DC-10 and 727-200,so the Freight Dogs are not forgotten!
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Go for the Zipper! I worked for them at Macon, Georgia back in the 80's. Be sure to get it clean below the red line before inspection! I was a senior mechanic (that was the title if I remember correctly) and we did the heavy checks on the Electra's and converted DC-8s into freighters. They came in with lots of seats and went out with bigger doors and a clear cabin. I also worked on Electras for Interstate Airlines (also DC-9s and 727s), then to Eastern, then Northwest, then Air Continental (they flew Aerostars hauling cancelled checks out of Norwalk, Ohio). I did get to fly the jump seat on the L-188, DC-6, DC-8 and 727.
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Roger,Wilco! will also later make a good,ol Dizzy-6 to go next to the Electra.{luckily,Zipper had a nice,simple color-scheme} man,you know i always make a nice,clean model...wish the real ones were that clean and polished,just think of the fuel savings....!
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Zantop did manage to keep his freighters pretty clean. I have seen others that I would not set foot in!!
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i,ll make my Zipper Electra look like it just came out of Heavy Check. Sparkling,that,s what we like to see!
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I forgot, I also worked for Evergreen Airlines for a short time at WPAFB. They had DC-9s and 727s flying for LOG Air.
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I'll be waiting to see your collection. It sounds very interesting!
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just got to finish a few more,so i can post them all at once,i,d just feel bad about leaving out any of my DA friends! this is a special collection with a special plane to represent each of us. finally,someone did a PROPER decal sheet for that "hockey stick" Electra,one of my childhood favorites!
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got 3 DC-3s so far,just need final detailing,and a B-314 Clipper to do. got that vacform kit for the Breuget Provence,so very French! ribbit.
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wow its really complex to fly on these birds, and i thought flying in flight sim04 was hard.. props to you guys.
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all it takes is training. lots of training! not bad once you "get the hang"of it,becomes almost a reflex action!
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thought you all would,more to come,including some "guts" and metallic viscera.
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I wish I knew more about planes right now, but all things take time. Especially with me, I have always been a slow learner.
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start hitting the books,plenty of knowledge available online too! took a while but if i can make it.............!
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What would we do without the net these days
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muddy,when i was a kid,the WWW would have been science-fiction! we have come a long way.
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