340,000 Pilots Needed For The Next 20 Years?

On Mar 8, 7:37 am, B A R R Y wrote:

I know a guy who makes beautiful landings in airliners, yet drops my
Sundowner on the threshold like a brick. He flies his limits ever month
in the jets, and does maybe three landings a year in Spam cans.

So I ask, so what? G

A friend of mine went from F/O in a 747 to Captain in the MD-11 and
flies his Navajo fairly often. I asked him how he manages to avoid
carrier landings in the 'ho seeing as it sits so much lower to the
ground. His answer was "I fly alone if I haven't been in the Navajo
for a while."

Kingfish writes:

I asked him how he manages to avoid
carrier landings in the 'ho seeing as it sits so much lower to the
ground.

What do you mean by a carrier landing?

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On Mar 9, 4:55 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Kingfish writes:
I asked him how he manages to avoid
carrier landings in the 'ho seeing as it sits so much lower to the
ground.

What do you mean by a carrier landing?

Get your instructor to show you.... oh wait a minute, you aren't
learning to fly...

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 07:13:22 -0800, Kingfish wrote
(in article . com):

On Mar 8, 7:37 am, B A R R Y wrote:

I know a guy who makes beautiful landings in airliners, yet drops my
Sundowner on the threshold like a brick. He flies his limits ever month
in the jets, and does maybe three landings a year in Spam cans.

So I ask, so what? G

A friend of mine went from F/O in a 747 to Captain in the MD-11 and
flies his Navajo fairly often. I asked him how he manages to avoid
carrier landings in the 'ho seeing as it sits so much lower to the
ground. His answer was "I fly alone if I haven't been in the Navajo
for a while."


Maybe he should put it up on floats!

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World Famous Flight Instructor

On Mar 8, 11:57 pm, C J Campbell
wrote:

A friend of mine went from F/O in a 747 to Captain in the MD-11 and
flies his Navajo fairly often. I asked him how he manages to avoid
carrier landings in the 'ho seeing as it sits so much lower to the
ground. His answer was "I fly alone if I haven't been in the Navajo
for a while."

Maybe he should put it up on floats!


LOL... Don't know if he'd go for that, I doubt a float STC exists for
the PA-31

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 11:22:17 -0800, Larry Dighera wrote
(in article ):

Boeing alleges that 340,000 pilots will be needed to fill the seats of
the aircraft currently on order. No wonder they want to take over our
nation's ATC system:


Not a problem. There will still be more than a million pilots willing to fly
for free.


Does anyone else find that lowering the bar for pilot training in the
name of necessity to fill the cockpits of airliners currently on order
is a recipe for reduced air safety?


I am not sure that this program constitutes lowering the bar.

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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor