Big Iron pilot made young boys day!

"Chris Ehlbeck" wrote in message
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Just a thanks to ALL pilots that make a young person's dreams come true.

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Chris,

Great, great, great story!!

I know for a fact that I fly today because "back in the day" some ATP took
the time to do something similar for me when I was a child.

BTW, it doesn't end with adulthood. Just a couple of months ago, I was in
1st class on an AmWest flight with my AOPA hat on, the Capt noticed it and
after some happy chat, asked me if I'd like to see the flight deck of the
757 that is painted up in AZ Cardinals colors. I damn near killed the guy
next to me bolting out of my seat.

Got to sit in the left seat and had a really nice 20-25 minute BS session
with the FO as he was finishing up entering data into the FMS.

Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Thanks for sharing the tale.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL (and child at heart...)
Chandler, AZ

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"Chris Ehlbeck" wrote in message
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Just a thanks to ALL pilots that make a young person's dreams come true.

SNIP

Chris,

Great, great, great story!!

I know for a fact that I fly today because "back in the day" some ATP took
the time to do something similar for me when I was a child.

BTW, it doesn't end with adulthood. Just a couple of months ago, I was in
1st class on an AmWest flight with my AOPA hat on, the Capt noticed it and
after some happy chat, asked me if I'd like to see the flight deck of the
757 that is painted up in AZ Cardinals colors. I damn near killed the guy
next to me bolting out of my seat.

Got to sit in the left seat and had a really nice 20-25 minute BS session
with the FO as he was finishing up entering data into the FMS.

Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Thanks for sharing the tale.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL (and child at heart...)
Chandler, AZ


Indeed - I'm glad the tradition lives on! I still have my "BOAC Junior Jet
Club Log Book" logging my flight from London to KORD on a Super VC-10 (23
Jan 1972, seat 12A!) I'd sure like to know what became of Capt. signature
unreadable... I believe I also got a cockpit tour in flight at age 11!

Bruce Riggs
KADS

"Look at me way up high,
Suddenly here am I
I'm flyyyyyyyyying..."


All you need is some pixie dust and happy thoughts...


Or a bunch of cash for books, charts, and lessons...





"Jay Beckman" wrote in
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Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Thanks for sharing the tale.

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL (and child at heart...)
Chandler, AZ

Jay Beckman wrote:

Got to sit in the left seat and had a really nice 20-25 minute BS session
with the FO as he was finishing up entering data into the FMS.

First all the military hardware, now this. Where does it end Jay? Very
cool.


Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Well, ya, and your point is? :-)

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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("Jack Allison" wrote)
Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Well, ya, and your point is? :-)


I have an older sister who recently told me to take a "great big Grow-Up
pill."

I told her not to get all cranky at me, just because she's got an AARP card
and I don't. :-)


Montblack

"Jack Allison" wrote in message
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Jay Beckman wrote:

Got to sit in the left seat and had a really nice 20-25 minute BS session
with the FO as he was finishing up entering data into the FMS.

First all the military hardware, now this. Where does it end Jay? Very
cool.

If only the world situation would again allow future pilots the opportunity
to see what the world *below* looks like from the "pointy part."

It's a damn shame that the term "flying fortress" has come back into our
vocabulary, not as a historic symbol, but as a term denoting the current
state of transport-catagory aviation.

Who me? Grow Up?? Never!!

Well, ya, and your point is? :-)

;O)

It is such a joy to communicate with individuals who "get it."

Regards,

Jay B

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"Jack Allison" wrote in
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Jay Beckman wrote:

Got to sit in the left seat and had a really nice 20-25 minute BS
session with the FO as he was finishing up entering data into the
FMS.

First all the military hardware, now this. Where does it end Jay?
Very cool.

If only the world situation would again allow future pilots the
opportunity to see what the world *below* looks like from the "pointy
part."


Well, when I flew KLM LAX-AMS in the late 1990's, I actually asked to
visit the flight deck (over Greenland). I had a nice chat with the
captain. This was allowed since it was not a US airline.

On another flight (circa 2000) I got to fly Virgin LAX-HHR. While
boarding with a coworker, he told me he had once ridden a landing in the
cockpit. I told him I wouldn't dare ask for that. Well we got in and sat
down in non-adjacent seats; he talked to the flight attendant, and next
thing I knew he came to me and said - "I'm riding takeoff, you're riding
landing". So he went up to the cockpit and got to sit jumpseat on a dusk
takeoff out of LAX on a 747-400. Arriving over the UK, the flight
attendant fetched me when we were at about 10K feet. I got to sit
jumpseat and even got a headset, rode the landing at Heathrow all the way
to the gate!

And here I am, just a little old Cherokee 140 pilot! Such a great
experience! I'm very greatful to my coworker, that would never happen
today. It was a once in a lifetime experience.

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