Scudrunners

I've decided to join just to bug The Colonel 

I used to have a single-seat Pitt's and still fly aerobatics and formation.
Still fly piston twins and am a Class 1 Instructor.
And I wore three-or four-bars for fourty-one years.

So I suppose The Colonel might let me stand in his shadow.
For a few minutes, until I start drawing flies...

[quote author=Four Bars link=topic=266.msg830#msg830 date=1434178235]I've decided to join just to bug The Colonel[/quote]

The Colonel will make short work of you.

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[quote]single-seat Pitt's and still fly aerobatics and formation.
Still fly piston twins and am a Class 1 Instructor.
I wore three-or four-bars for fourty-one years[/quote]

I suspect we might have some friends in common.
It is a very small world. 

I just recommended a good friend of mine for
the flight test to renew his class 2 instructor
rating which has been expired for FORTY-THREE
years ... he got busy flying at AC for a little while.

And while he might have worn 4 bars, he is
surely not a "four bars" because he flies his
v-tail bonanza transcontinental in cloud for
hours on end, single pilot with no auto-pilot -
he hand-bombs it.

My kind of guy!  He's what I refer to as the
"old breed", that can walk the talk.  He is
surely no poser or imposter in a costume,
and rather unsurprisingly is a very good
piano player and rides a motorcycle.

Anyways, please stop by CYSH sometime,
we are always flying the Pitts or the russian
jets on nice days, generally the 421 on crappy
days, because odd characters like Rui and
Arlo get their panties in a bunch when you
fly acro in cloud, like I have seen Gary Ward,
Patty Wagstaff and Greg Koontz do.

I remember at an airshow in the USA a couple
years back, I told the air boss he had a cloud
bank at 1100 feet at the west end of the box.

The FAA monitor standing next to him, unlike
a TC Inspector, didn't start shrieking like a little
girl and running around with his arms in the air.

Then at another airshow in the USA, I had to
delay our pull to the vertical for the crossover
hammerhead, so that we had a nice hole in
the clouds to fly up through.

Again, a complete absence of whining, bitching,
pissing and moaning from the FAA monitor.  In
Canada, you'd be in court for four years for
doing that, setting really bad precedents in
Federal Court of Appeals having to do with the
applicability of Double Jeopardy to Administrative
Law.

Sometimes, I really wish I was making this
shit up.  Like the time that TC tried to outlaw
all aerobatics below 18,000 feet by requiring
3 miles forward visibility in a vertical downline.

The Federal Court judge agreed with me that
this bizarre interpretation of the CARs would
have a negative effect on airshows in Canada.

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PS  Me in the front seat, wearing a t-shirt and
a bathing suit.  Needed a hair cut, as always:

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A couple of [b]BAD PEOPLE[/b] according to Rui,
Arlo and the Four Bars, like that hipster twat
from Brampton with his perpetually turned-up
collar.

Welcome Four Bars, everyone is welcome here.
If your going to troll other users just make it entertaining and thoughtful we like a good laugh here at Scudrunners.

Well, maybe I was wrong and Four Bars isn't a Great Pretender.

I just figured anyone who had owned a Pitts would know there's no apostrophe, and anyone who [i]"wore three-or four-bars for fourty-one years"[/i] would know how to spell "forty".

Ya can't be too careful, ya know..

[quote]and am a Class 1 Instructor.[/quote]

Well that is not a high bar to step over.

Some of the most inept pilots I ever met who couldn't even figure how to pour piss out of cowboy boots with the instructions written on the soles were class 1 instructors. .

[quote]Some of the most inept pilots I ever met ... were class 1 instructors[/quote]

Can't argue with you there - I hold both
class 1 aeroplane instructor and class 1
aerobatic instructor ratings, and you sure
as heck don't get them for displaying any
notable stick and rudder skill or piloting
ability.

Hell, you could get a class 1 instructor
rating and only have ever flown a 172.

I am not making this up.

Moving up the instructor rating ladder is
all about doing ab initio training - either
well, or poorly, it really doesn't matter.

What is a matter of fact is that the less
competent you are, the faster you move
up the instructor ladder.

I am not making this up.

If you have a bunch of failures for your
flight test recommends for your class 2,
you get to count them twice - once for
the failed flight test, and once for the
partial.

So if a bunch of your students fail, you
get to be a class 1 instructor faster.

I am not making this up.

I have a better litmus test for pilot skill:

Does the pilot hold a "Statement of
Aerobatic Competence" (TC form
26-0307) endorsed for formation,
for a long list of aircraft types?  And
does he routinely 1/2 roll inverted
immediately after takeoff?

If so, he's probably a pretty good stick,
because he can walk the talk and he's
still alive.

Pilots on that list include Sean Tucker,
Skip Stewart, Patty Wagstaff, Gary Ward,
Greg Koontz and all of the Red Bull racers.

Here's a little formation flying from Skip:



I have to mention that Skip's day job involves
wearing a white shirt and 4 bars  ::)

PS Yup, we ended up flying both the L39's
and the Pitts this weekend at CYSH.  That
probably makes us [b]BAD PEOPLE[/b] but oh
well.  Eric was flying the S-2C with my old
pals at KLVK today.  People here probably
won't think much of this flight school, but I
enjoyed flying there tremendously when I
worked for cisco:

http://attitudeaviation.com/ourfleet.html

[quote]What is a matter of fact is that the less
competent you are, the faster you move
up the instructor ladder.[/quote]

That was what gob smacked me when I first owned the flight school, to me it was inconceivable one could move up through incompetence in any field.

Then I got to know the people who regulates the industry and it all became clear.

[quote]I have a better litmus test for pilot skill[/quote]

Why not just see if the can fly? ... takes me 2 mins to tell if someone has it...