Boy the WY outfit sounds bad, however here in PA I do not see those
problems. We take the mission and training very serious. By the way there
are 3 missions not 2, the old SAR and Aerospace Ed are still there but there
is also a homeland security side.

I also can't believe the number of non-resonse reports people have had. In
this area we all recognize that volunteers are usually over worked and if
there can be more added to the rolls the better it is for everyone. We take
any help you are willing to give and realize the average person can't be
running every weekend.

I started about 1969 as a cadet and then went USAF. Came back 7 or 8 years
ago as a SM to fly because I believe as a Pilot if I went down I'd want some
one to come looking so therefore I need to do the same for fellow pilots.
This is also what made me be a volunteer fire fighter for 15 years, if you
want someone available to put out your house fire or responded to your car
wreck then you need to be able to return the favor for others.

It is a military based system, paperwork, rule and regulations so you need
to be able to adapt to that and work with it. If you have problem units
then do what you can to change them, usually if you read and know the
regulations you can deal with those who try to buffalo you with BS.

Ron Gardner, DO
GRP 5, PAWG

"Newps" wrote in message
. ..
The Wyoming guys sound like student pilots on the radio. You have to
treat them with kid gloves.



wrote:
On Nov 5, 10:54 am, "Gatt" wrote:

A coworker is a radio specialist for the local Civil Air Patrol unit,
says
they're looking for pilots right now.

I'm just curious what thoughts or experiences people have with regard to
the
CAP.

-Chris


My experience with the Wyoming arm of the CAP was troubling at best. I
offered to go though the Form 5 jump through the hoops process. The
wing was and still is run by a bunch of ex military people who have
the system set up to make it next to impossible for anew guy to get to
fly "their" planes. After a year or so I threw in the towel and
emailed the nationa commander to view my thoughts. I warned him of
incompentence and the inbreed nature of the CAP here. I would not fly
with certain pilots and named them. Just s few weeks later he flew the
CAP plane through the Snake River canyon where it was about 100 feet
wide and hit a cable 15 feet of the water. Killed him and destroyed
the plane. This year one of the other pilots who was known as
marginal at best was on a mission and spun it in, killing himself and
two other innocent humans. Also someone posted that you will be called
for a mission in the middile of the night. i was told a CAP plane
CANNOT fly bewteen sunset and sun up. as in , no night flying.
Probably just more BS that I was fed by the Wyoming CAP chapter. YMMV


Ben
www.haaspowerair.com