Scudrunners

I’m at the top of the food chain, which has afforded me the opportunity to play with the toys, which are arguably at the bottom of the proverbial food chain.

Go figure.

I’m at the top of the food chain, which has afforded me the opportunity to play with the toys, which are arguably at the bottom of the proverbial food chain.

Go figure.

Here let me help you out Nark.

Close your eyes and ask yourself which you would most like to take off and land.

A Beech 18 or a A320?

and on that subject:

Chuck Ellsworth wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:30 am

I’m at the top of the food chain, which has afforded me the opportunity to play with the toys, which are arguably at the bottom of the proverbial food chain.

Go figure.

Here let me help you out Nark.

Close your eyes and ask yourself which you would most like to take off and land.

A Beech 18 or a A320?

The beech hasn’t flown since 2004, soooo…..


The A320 is an Avenue to get to the Beech and Cessna taildraggers.

Nark wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:57 am The A320 is an Avenue to get to the Beech and Cessna taildraggers.

Preach. I miss the ‘320 funding my own shenanigans and look forward to the day it covers the cost of even cooler stuff.

If I could do whatever I wanted, I think I’d just tour around the country VFR in a Citabria or SE5. Don’t get me wrong; flying something heavy is a great way to make a living, and it beats the hell out of a real job, but I like may days off.

I tried that for a year, after my first divorce, decades ago.

I got bored. I went back to work.

I'm sure there's a master's in sociology in this if anyone wants it. When I worked
at cisco in the late 90's - early 2000's there were a couple guys I worked with - Kirk,
Joel - that made so much money on stock, they retired. And went home, and were
so bored, they went back to work. For fun. They didn't need the money, so they didn't
live in fear of being fired like a normal corporate drone.

Management must have hated them - all John Boyds. They were fearless and spoke
up and tried to do the right thing, which is not how you run a company.

Kirk was hilarious. Dressed very humbly, his badge number was "5" (mine was 40,000)
and he would phone up the President of the company - John Chambers - and tell him he
was making mistakes.

Just fucking wild, watching people tell billionaires they were screwing up.

Pro Tip™: no one tells a billionaire they are screwing up. I worked at Blackberry for a
very brief but exciting time. It was called "RIM" back then, and I told them I wasn't
enjoying my RIM job very much.

Sometime, I will tell you about Tony Li. Ever heard of the internet? BGP? Well, he
lived his life with no fucks given about money. You wouldn't believe how he quit
cisco. The first time.

Nark wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:57 am

Nark wrote:I’m at the top of the food chain, which has afforded me the opportunity to play with the toys, which are arguably at the bottom of the proverbial food chain.

Go figure.

Here let me help you out Nark.

Close your eyes and ask yourself which you would most like to take off and land.

A Beech 18 or a A320?

The beech hasn’t flown since 2004, soooo…..


The A320 is an Avenue to get to the Beech and Cessna taildraggers.

What’s that, personal recreational airplane number 4 you own and 3 of them are currently ready to fly airplanes?

So you’re winning and your veins are flowing with tiger’s blood.

Meanwhile in classic form, some jealous troll is online itching to give you advice.

As if it would be fun to try and get a job paying less than minimum wage, flying some clapped out Beech 18, most likely owned by a jerk. The line up of guys desperately trying to get that job if it even exists must be staggering.

Maybe on your next day off you can hop in the 180 and go flying while some of us close eyes and remember flying.

Well, that’s probably enough internet for today. I should go close my eyes and ask myself where I’d most like to post.

A here or a place with more members posting to tell me I’m doing it wrong?

Well... I think it's awesome if you can climb your way to the big leagues as it were and then fly the little fun ones as a hobby. It sounds amazing. I commend anyone who paid those dues and stayed away from family for all that.

I'm just okay flying the fun planes for a living I guess.

Dave:
I’m not quite in the Colonels league, I own 3; 2 of which are airworthy;)

I sold the Stinson about 2 years ago.