Thread: who has a pilots license

cardiac surgeon friend of mine has a pitz special,he was an airforce jet jockey back in the day (mid 60s,vietnam)
So he had this thing parked at palo alto airport,asked me one day after work if I wanted to go for a ride,sure Dr Daily,be done with lunch shortly and ready to go.
Long story short,had never been in a smallish plane before (or since) he was heavy into aerobatics that day,my lunch ended up all over the front of me,my hair, everywere( never again.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

cardiac surgeon friend of mine has a pitz special,he was an airforce jet jockey back in the day (mid 60s,vietnam)
So he had this thing parked at palo alto airport,asked me one day after work if I wanted to go for a ride,sure Dr Daily,be done with lunch shortly and ready to go.
Long story short,had never been in a smallish plane before (or since) he was heavy into aerobatics that day,my lunch ended up all over the front of me,my hair, everywere( never again.

Dr. Daily was an @rse!

Flown several Pitts S-2's ( 2 seat version ) My buddies and I and used to try to make each other puke doing goofy stuff. it got real crazy one morning, but we didn't know how crazy until we landed and everybody that looked at us, looked at us like we had leprosy. BOTH of us had broken blood vessels in the whites of both eyes from all the negative G stuff we were slamming each other with.

We didn't look so very much pretty. THAT WAS FUN!!!!!!

Sneaking up on everyone working in the old hangar and rolling your wheels across the corrugated tin roof was EVEN MORE FUN!!!!

Originally Posted by Wullie

Flown several Pitts S-2's ( 2 seat version ) My buddies and I and used to try to make each other puke doing goofy stuff. it got real crazy one morning, but we didn't know how crazy until we landed and everybody that looked at us, looked at us like we had leprosy. BOTH of us had broken blood vessels in the whites of both eyes from all the negative G stuff we were slamming each other with.

We didn't look so very much pretty. THAT WAS FUN!!!!!!

Sneaking up on everyone working in the old hangar and rolling your wheels across the corrugated tin roof was EVEN MORE FUN!!!!

Bahhaaha - you kids in Texas play hard LOL!! That is fun... well, if you like that kind of thing But doing it to a noob, isn't cool if you ask me? Takes away from the sport! It's like telling a dude to run a straight from left to right

Originally Posted by earcutter

Bahhaaha - you kids in Texas play hard LOL!! That is fun... well, if you like that kind of thing But doing it to a noob, isn't cool if you ask me? Takes away from the sport! It's like telling a dude to run a straight from left to right

I agree, doing that stuff to a noob is wrong and can be dangerous. WE knew what we were getting to ahead of time and if a new guy or girl wanted a flight, we'd tell 'em up and what was going to happen, and then tell when during the flight it was going to happen and if they got woozy on the first one or two easy ones, there weren't any more. LOL

The only thing I HOPE pixelfixed did was make that Dr clean up the plane.

I'll tell about landing and water skiing on the lakes some time. LOL

Originally Posted by Wullie

I'll tell about landing and water skiing on the lakes some time. LOL

Now THAT... I would like to hear lol!

Years back I was flying with Customs. We were diverted cause a plane was acting suspiciously. It was night and we were in an older King Air and we got on back of this Skyhawk. No lights with flaps down to try and stay behind this guy. It was the roughest plane ride I ever had in my life. I don't know how our pilot kept the thing in the air flying so slow. We finally got the guy to land. Turned out he was some old dude fling to a convention and he was flying from Vor to Vor he had no GPS which was why he was flying erratically.

I learned years ago, when you fly in a small plane you don't eat no big meals before-har har.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Dr. Daily was an @rse!

Not an arse,just a very expert but nutso pilot,but looping a very famous landmark bridge up san Fran way (very illegal)
would make anyone sick

Originally Posted by jaswarb

Thirty years ago I was about 10 hours in and prepping for my solo when life interrupted.

same here. 8 hours in a cessna 150 until a stomach ulcer and a love affair gone awry made it uncomfortable to stay in that locale. could never keep the ball centered and went up one morning with a vicious hangover and all i wanted to do was look out the window. the instructor dug out the hood, and then all i wanted to do was go to sleep.

Originally Posted by Noisykids

same here. 8 hours in a cessna 150 until a stomach ulcer and a love affair gone awry made it uncomfortable to stay in that locale. could never keep the ball centered and went up one morning with a vicious hangover and all i wanted to do was look out the window. the instructor dug out the hood, and then all i wanted to do was go to sleep.

Too funny.