(Al) wrote in message . com...

Why do you think BWB has homebuilding experience?

I glean that from his posts and from conversations with the man.
Other posters however, in contrast, are nice folks but, I've seen no
evidence that they have any experience in aviation at all (again,
gleaned from the absence of anything substantial in their posts.)

He built a Mini-max
and a weight shift Quicksilver. If you have an A&P you have 10 times
as much experience as he does. He bought all his airplanes. People
have more homebuilding experience in an RV-8 tail kit than he has.
Forget about his hours. He's never worked as a professional pilot.
He has the ratings now but do you really think he's flown 3000 hours
in helos in 3 years?

This seems like an emotional exaggeration to me. Where did BWB make
such a claim? I believe he's flown 3000 hours in helos total, yes.
Is all of it loggable? No. Did he actually fly the Hueys all over
the U.S. as sole manipulator of the controls? Yes. Would I bet my
life on him at the controls? Yes. The man's an Rotocraft instructor,
for Christsake. They don't give those ratings away.

Or that he learned to fly when he was 8 years
old? Or that he flew CIA helo missions in Cambodia as a 17 year old
civilian without a helo license? Or that he flew radioactive cloud
tracking missions in Nevada 10 years after the atmospheric test ban
treaty?

Yes, Yes, and Yes. I flew ILS's with my dad at about that age (but
did not solo.) I took formal lessons at 14. What's so hard to
believe about this? Kids learn quickly if they get the opportunity.
CIA stuff can't be discussed here. If you don't believe the CIA was
in Cambodia and would grab any E-2 attatched to the crew chief of a
helo they needed to accomplish the mission, then I can tell you've
never been in combat operations. It's very loose. Lot's of stuff
went on over there you wouldn't believe according to my old man who
was there.


Sure, the EPA let him fly Hueys without a rating or a helo license.
That's the way the government works, it doesn't matter if you have the
paperwork or not, if you can do it they give you a million dollar helo
to cruise around in. You want to buy a bridge in New York?

I've flown lots of stuff I wasn't qualified to fly in my career. I
flew a season as a co-pilot on a Beech 18 cause the pilot who was
qualified was too bored to do it any more. He slept after the gear
came up. He was so poorly paid he had a second job. You think flying
for a living is glamorous don't you? Much of it is hard dangerous
boring stressful thankless work. Companies and governments schedule
to get the max productivity out of your hide that they can. You give
up normal sleeping and eating cycles and this makes you fatigue easy.
People like Bill and I did it because we loved it. Bill may not have
been checked out in a lot of the aircraft he was a crewmember on, but
he flew the missions, I've seen the pictures. Ask yourself this Al:
Ten years after a treaty ban is it necessary to verify that new
radioactive trace particles aren't showing up circling the globe in
the upper jet? Of course it is. If it weren't for that verification;
countries might still be tempted to test up there. And I bet that
verification is the hardest job in the world, because you're expected
to loiter forever. My father flew 135 tankers over the artic during
the Cold War. It got were he hated it, and couldn't wait to get out
of SAC.

Bill can't create anything, so the best he has is tearing people down.

Bill is just tired of the B.S. He's tired of explaining these things
to you guys Al, who can't ask him about it in a respectful manner.

Pacplyer

As always, all my posts are my opinion only.