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Post by Bill Holland on Dec 6, 2008 17:53:35 GMT -5
Hello everyone, sorry I have been gone for so long.
A lot has changed, I graduated college, went to flight school, got all my pilot ratings and licenses and work full time as a flight instructor now.
I also now live in Florida and currently tooling up a new workshop to continue my live steam projects.
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Post by Harlock on Dec 7, 2008 5:02:18 GMT -5
Welcome back!
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Post by hitandmissman on Dec 7, 2008 8:12:52 GMT -5
Welcome back. Looking forward to seeing some of your projects.
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Post by pkastagehand on Dec 8, 2008 13:11:32 GMT -5
Welcome back.
I was a private pilot for a while. Never did the instrument or multi-, jet or commercial route. With price so high and a wife who hears about small plane crashes and worries I decided it was time to bail out.
Can't afford both hobbies, (tools and flying) and wasn't interested enough in the flying to make it a career/wage earner )instead of wage burner).
Hope to see some progress on a loco from in the not too distant future.
Paul
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Post by Harlock on Dec 8, 2008 20:55:36 GMT -5
When I got into live steam I decided to drop the idea of doing a home built aircraft. like Paul says, way too expensive for both, even trying to be cheap.
--M
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Post by Bill Holland on Dec 9, 2008 22:40:04 GMT -5
Friday I am flying up to Maine to bury a friend who just died in a mid-air collision, he was only 21 years old. He was my class mate and good friend while I attended ATP flight school.  It is expensive, you have to be broke at first if you want to have a career in aviation. Welcome back. I was a private pilot for a while. Never did the instrument or multi-, jet or commercial route. With price so high and a wife who hears about small plane crashes and worries I decided it was time to bail out. Can't afford both hobbies, (tools and flying) and wasn't interested enough in the flying to make it a career/wage earner )instead of wage burner). Hope to see some progress on a loco from in the not too distant future. Paul |
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Post by Harlock on Dec 10, 2008 0:10:46 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your friend... My instructor Dick Rutan (yes, that Dick Rutan) likes to tell his students that he knows exactly how he's going to die. He's going to die in a mid-air because he wasn't watching out for other traffic in the pattern. That was his way of telling us to look out for other traffic...and maybe especially so that he won't die in a plane with a student at the controls, after surviving hundreds of low altitude F100 MISTY missions in vietnam as well as flying around the world non-stop unrefuelled in the Voyager in 1986.  Sadly I gave up the lessons because didn't have the wherewithal to overcome the air sickness that came with the generous dollops of turbulence we experience here in the high desert. --Mike |
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Post by BruceMowbray on Dec 14, 2008 9:45:51 GMT -5
Bill,
Welcome back. Congrats on your pilots license!! I have a package for you and I need your new snail mail address.
Bruce
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Post by Bill Holland on Dec 17, 2008 19:33:10 GMT -5
PM sent
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