vett's & flight
Pro
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 529
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From: Princeton Texas
Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,123
Likes: 14
From: Booker Texas
There is a guy in the small town where I live and he had never been in a airplane and asked me to take him flying.So I picked him up in my vette and we drove to my hanger(15 miles away) and found out he had never been in a vette either.So we took care of two things that day.He loved the vette and went up with me in the Cessna 182 several times!
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: BEST Corn-Nation
2015 C5 of the Year Winner
Not a pilot but I do work on them for my job. Work for a major airline. Lots of fun most of the time. The last airline I worked for the pilot did let me fly though. Had to go to Vegas and fix a door problem with another mechanic on a 757-200. Got the door working enough to get it back to Phoenix. On the way back from Vegas, the pilot came back to talk for a while and asked us if we wanted to sit in the left seat. Needless to say, we jumped at the chance. Best time I have ever had in an airplane. I got to try and bring it down from altitude on the final and I guess I was going down pretty fast from what he was saying. He never said anything though and after he took over, he said I was descending like the United Flight that augered into the ground. Figured it must have pretty steep. But it was fun.
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,421
Likes: 8
From: Lake Mary Florida
Not a pilot but I do work on them for my job. Work for a major airline. Lots of fun most of the time. The last airline I worked for the pilot did let me fly though. Had to go to Vegas and fix a door problem with another mechanic on a 757-200. Got the door working enough to get it back to Phoenix. On the way back from Vegas, the pilot came back to talk for a while and asked us if we wanted to sit in the left seat. Needless to say, we jumped at the chance. Best time I have ever had in an airplane. I got to try and bring it down from altitude on the final and I guess I was going down pretty fast from what he was saying. He never said anything though and after he took over, he said I was descending like the United Flight that augered into the ground. Figured it must have pretty steep. But it was fun.
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