By the time you are 10, you should be flying tailwheel.
Teenaged son with daughter #3 in front seat:
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Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:26 am
by Gravel Digger
Someone's eventually got to pay the bills so if you're going to play, be very very good at it and get paid to do it.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:47 am
by Colonel
be very very good at it
Exactly. And this doesn't apply to just flying,
which is merely a matter of life and death.
Be very, very good at everything you do.
You know. Give a shit. Strive for excellence.
I have lived my life this way, and it has
worked out very well for me:
Work smart.
Work hard.
Give a shit.
If you do all three of the above, you
will be very successful, indeed.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 10:18 pm
by Slick Goodlin
Colonel wrote:Work smart.
Work hard.
Give a shit.
Someone should really base a religion on this.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:34 am
by Walter Sobchak
Colonel do you make your living flying those Pitts?
Work hard at what you do and you can be anything you want is exactly what I preach to my kids. I really hope they do as I say and not as I do. I'm just a pilot. :)
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:11 am
by Colonel
I write software and fly airplanes. I
couldn't live without both. I have more
fun than any 10 people I know, which
seems to really piss off certain people ;D
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I've had an incredible life. Can't complain.
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I don't even mind cleaning the bugs
off the leading edges afterwards.
Free advice: during your lifetime, get
the following:
1) a 1000cc sportbike, built within the
last 5 years (doesn't matter what make)
that has never been crashed, and
2) a Pitts S-1S, and
3) an L29 with the Viper engine conversion.
It won't cost much money, but if you spend
the time to master all three, you will be a
very rich person indeed.
13 (yes, THIRTEEN) microseconds through
a 500MHz SOC running a TCP/IP stack, CIFS
and a web server (!!)
On that same chip, I was seeing less than 6
microseconds interrupt latency at the thread
level, and under 3 microseconds interrupt
latency with a kernel interrupt handler. That's
fucking awesome.
I did this with an interpreted LUA script (!!!)
Software is an awful lot of fun - you use mine,
every day - and it pays very, very well.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:59 pm
by woodzi
For #1, I would substitute a 500cc 2-Stroke motocrosser.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 2:05 pm
by duCapo
The Colonel is right, don't hesitate, don't wait, do it. If if I have one regret, it was waiting until I was over 60 to fly a Pitts.
Re: Don't wait until you're 56, ok?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:40 pm
by Colonel
500cc 2-Stroke
The binary torque curve of two strokes
can be "interesting" when it comes on
when you don't quite expect it >:D
waiting until I was over 60 to fly a Pitts
Hey, you did ok. Frankly your tolerance
for negative G was amazing!
(L29 Viper) new to this list
It's simply amazing, for a straight-wing jet
with no burner. Has to be experienced to
be believed. The light wing loading and
the amazing thrust to weight ratio makes
it more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
"Ghengis" John Boyd would approve!
If the only airplane types you ever flew
were the Pitts and the L29 Viper, you
really wouldn't be missing a whole lot.
Ok, maybe floats. Gotta do that. And
skiis. That's awesome, too.
