Travolta Private Pilot???

If you look at the pilot registry, he's a private pilot. Duh? Qantas
Captain?

Mike Weller

In a previous article, Mike Weller said:
If you look at the pilot registry, he's a private pilot. Duh? Qantas
Captain?

Besides a private pilot license, instrument rating and appropriate type
ratings, what else does he need? You don't need a commercial license or
ATP if you don't fly other people for hire, do you?

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"Fly the airplane, then work the problem"
-- Rick Grant (quoting RCAF pilot training)

Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, Mike Weller said:

If you look at the pilot registry, he's a private pilot. Duh? Qantas
Captain?


Besides a private pilot license, instrument rating and appropriate type
ratings, what else does he need? You don't need a commercial license or
ATP if you don't fly other people for hire, do you?

No, you don't, especially when it's one of your personal airplanes.

I heard John bought that 707 from Qantas. I'll bet it's fun to drive.

Theorem wrote:

I heard John bought that 707 from Qantas. I'll bet it's fun to drive.

GOOGLE is your friend......

Here is just one return

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/...124267,00.html

Paul Tomblin wrote:

Besides a private pilot license, instrument rating and appropriate type
ratings, what else does he need? You don't need a commercial license or
ATP if you don't fly other people for hire, do you?

Type rating; over 12,500 lbs and turbojet

Eric Rood wrote

Paul Tomblin wrote:
Besides a private pilot license, instrument rating and appropriate type
ratings, what else does he need? You don't need a commercial license or
ATP if you don't fly other people for hire, do you?

Type rating; over 12,500 lbs and turbojet

Yep!, that's just what Paul said.

Bob Moore

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:27:44 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

Besides a private pilot license, instrument rating and appropriate type
ratings, what else does he need?

Nothing. Except for the private pilot certificate, he does not need
any thing execpt a current medical to act as a co-pilot. He would
have to have a Flight Engineer's cert to sit at the sideways table in
the 707, but real pilots don' do that.

You don't need a commercial license or
ATP if you don't fly other people for hire, do you?

Nothing more, but don't you need a B707 type rating?

Nah! If you can afford the 707, a few more dollars with get it
equiped with a rated pilot.

More power to him. Here's the search find with one question - What
does the P/ mean on the type ratings?:

DOI : 09/04/2003
Certificate: PRIVATE PILOT

Rating(s):

PRIVATE PILOT
AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
AIRPLANE MULTIENGINE LAND
INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE

Type Ratings
P/CE-500 P/G-1159 P/HS-125 P/LR-JET

Limits
CE-500 (VFR ONLY).

Ah, well, I can only like the man. Anyone who can dance like that has
to be a first rate stick and rudder flyer.

Mike Weller

In article m,
Mike Weller wrote:


More power to him. Here's the search find with one question - What
does the P/ mean on the type ratings?:

The P is for Private Privileges, C is for Commercial and A is for ATP.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Mike Weller wrote

Nothing. Except for the private pilot certificate, he does not need
any thing execpt a current medical to act as a co-pilot. He would
have to have a Flight Engineer's cert to sit at the sideways table in
the 707, but real pilots don' do that.

Well Mike,....I spent 10 years as a US Naval Aviator, the last tour
included about 5 months of combat missions in the Vietnam theater of
operations. I then joined Pan American World Airways in 1967 where
I spent the next three years sitting sideways in B-707s. Not really
a bad job if you consider that it paid more than the Navy, much better
working conditions, and the sideways seat was a lot closer to the
pretty girls in the back. (Remember, this was 1967). Checked-out as
B-707 PIC in 1972.

BTW, Travolta need not restrict himself to SIC duties with his Private
Pilot Certificate, he is legal to operate as PIC with as many PAX as
the B-707 is certificated to carry.

Bob Moore
How many carrier landings have you made?

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:49:47 GMT, Robert Moore
wrote:

Good stuff snipped, thanks.

Bob Moore
How many carrier landings have you made?

You know, I don't think it would be too hard to land a C-172 on a
carrier. I can just hear the conversation...

"Cleared to land on any runway."

"Great, but you need to slow down a little for me to stick to the boat
(I'm ex-Air Force).

Mike Weller

Now a C-130 is a whole nuther thing.