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Aviation related topics / Re: Helping your fellow aviator
« Last post by Mike on August 26, 2016, 10:14:57 PM »
The instructor is a trip. "Hold my cigarette, I have the controls..."
 ::rofl::
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Current Strip / Re: The Classic Signs
« Last post by Mike on August 26, 2016, 10:10:32 PM »
that sure looks like good coffee....
 ;)
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General Discussion / Re: Medicals & DWI's don't mix
« Last post by Baradium on August 17, 2016, 12:19:07 AM »
What are you going to be flying and what kind of missions?
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General Discussion / Re: Medicals & DWI's don't mix
« Last post by Plthijnx on August 15, 2016, 01:17:36 PM »
Good to hear it's progressing!  Excellent news!   

Hopefully the process will wrap up fairly quickly now.

thanks, things are starting to come together and i'm seeing results of my hard work! I finish IOP today and have made myself available to the part 91 outfit i'll be flying with as of tomorrow. granted I won't get paid but hey, hours of turbine time in the ol' logbook don't care whether you're paid or not, lol!
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General Discussion / Re: Medicals & DWI's don't mix
« Last post by Plthijnx on August 15, 2016, 01:15:01 PM »
if you have an hour to spare (ie. listen while you work) this is Lyle, the captain of the NWA flight back in 1990 arrested for flying while intoxicated telling his story about alcoholism and that morning the 3 crew members were arrested. kudos to him for his recovery and everything that followed. It's really a very very good story - unfortunately not many alcoholics have the same outcome. The program only gives back what you put into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFooDq0v_M
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General Discussion / Re: Medicals & DWI's don't mix
« Last post by Baradium on August 01, 2016, 01:35:37 AM »
Good to hear it's progressing!  Excellent news!   

Hopefully the process will wrap up fairly quickly now.
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Current Strip / The Classic Signs
« Last post by Jean Loup on July 29, 2016, 05:55:31 PM »
Can't complain about BAD COFFEE either, for I am FREE LANCE since I left VW interamericana (winter 1968) because salaries were SO LOW that I earned more money working in the streets, charging only tips (lo que sea su voluntad). So, GOOD COFFEE is for me!! ::bow:: Morning in my kitchen at Hacienda Armonía MX:
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General Discussion / Re: Medicals & DWI's don't mix
« Last post by Plthijnx on July 27, 2016, 03:12:28 PM »
update on the IOP situation: insurance surprisingly approved the claim so I am/was only responsible for the copay/deductible of roughly a grand but it's still better than paying the full amount of 5500. i'm on week 4 now of 6, attending in the evenings after work. As I expected, I'm learning many useful tools to help keep me off the sauce and this coming Thursday (tomorrow the 28th) will be my 1 year anniversary of getting sober which means that mid August will mark the anniversary of working on obtaining my 2nd class (now 1st class as of last May) medical. I have my 3rd class in hand now on a special issuance but once I finish IOP and the FAA gets the required paperwork it will be at least a year from when i started this journey if not a tad more by the time I can get paid to fly again. When I am issued my 1st class it will be on a SI as well as I'll continue to be monitored for an as yet not determined 2 to 5 years. I consider myself lucky as I've come across some line guys who took years in the system to get their medicals back and I shouldn't count any chickens as just yet either. I still don't have my 1st so it's best to just wait and see what happens next.
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Aviation related topics / Re: China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Last post by Baradium on July 26, 2016, 10:23:25 PM »
That's big... but still not the largest seaplane.   Maybe the biggest PRODUCTION seaplane though. 
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Aviation related topics / China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Last post by Ragwing on July 25, 2016, 06:56:10 PM »
China's state-run news agency Xinhu announced that the amphibious AG600 is about the size of a Boeing 737 and will be used to fight forest fires and perform marine rescue operations.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/asia/china-worlds-largest-seaplane/index.html




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