"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in news:qFwik.67$JH5.22@trnddc06:

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Good grief.



I was pointing out that if you gotta tell 'em who ya are...



In any case the term is crap and poor usage coming from a percieved
need to
"sex it up"

Civil Air Patrol reports "wheels up" and "wheels down" times back to
mission base and has ever since their planes have had radios.

Oh well, if the sily ass patrol does it, then it must be standard..

The CAP squadron I belong to has retired airline captains, and professional
pilots, and no cadets as members. All but one of the members are pilots and
almost all have advanced ratings including several ATPs and CFIIs. We also
have a B17 pilot from WWII who still has a current medical and more than one
pilot who has 30,000 hrs. We fly all types of missions on a regular basis
including disaster relief, search and rescue, fire spotting, low level
military route surveys, and searching for missing pieces of space shuttle
Columbia, just to name a few. Perhaps you think that's silly, but then you
spend a good proportion of your time trolling usenet desperately in search
of something you think is clever to say, so I'll consider the source.
Perhaps sometimes you succeed, but in this case you're waffling, but not man
enough to admit it.




Practically every one of their fleet of over 500 aircraft are fixed
gear. I've also heard Blackhawk helicopter crews use the term as
well.

I've never thought of the term as all that sexy, but whatever does it
for you.

Not me...


Bertie