Cindy McCain Pilot?

Last night on The Tonight Show, Cindy McCain mentioned that she would
be doing a lot of flying as part of husband John McCain's 1982
Congressional campaign, so she attended flight ground school in an
attempt to overcome her fear of flying. She said she then received
flight training, and earned her private certificate. However, a
search of the FAA's airmans database does not find her among the
airmen listed there.

The only information I was able to find about Mrs. McCain's piloting
via Google was this cite:


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...y-mccain_N.htm
An adventurous one, as well. Cindy McCain used to be a pilot,
loves to drive race cars (her company distributes Budweiser,
NASCAR's official beer until this year) and took a weekend trip to
....

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

Larry Dighera wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

A fellow on the Bonanza list flys out of Sedona. According to him,
Cindy is indeed a pilot. She owns some sort of a business jet, but
I'm unsure if she flys it. From your post it sounds like she does.

Certainly seems at odds with John's stance on general aviation, no?


--
Frank Stutzman
Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl"
Boise, ID

On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:51:28 +0000 (UTC), Frank Stutzman
wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

A fellow on the Bonanza list flys out of Sedona. According to him,
Cindy is indeed a pilot.

Thanks.

She owns some sort of a business jet,

From the news reports I read, the jet is operated by her late father's
corporation.

but I'm unsure if she flys it.

If I recall correctly, on Leno's program she indicated that she was
piloting small aircraft. I took that to mean four to six seat
singles.

From your post it sounds like she does.

I doubt the took the time to master operating a biz-jet yet alone find
the time to remain current and attend recurrent training, but you
never know.

Certainly seems at odds with John's stance on general aviation, no?

I'm not aware of candidate's stance. I suppose, if one considers that
he refused AOPA president Phil Boyer's appoint to the federal
Management Advisory Committee that he heads, it's not to difficult to
see he's not a GA advocate.

His attitude is apparent in this hearing transcript:
http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hea...106s/80849.pdf

On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:10:51 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:51:28 +0000 (UTC), Frank Stutzman
wrote in
:

Larry Dighera wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

A fellow on the Bonanza list flys out of Sedona. According to him,
Cindy is indeed a pilot.

Thanks.

She owns some sort of a business jet,

From the news reports I read, the jet is operated by her late father's
corporation.

but I'm unsure if she flys it.

If I recall correctly, on Leno's program she indicated that she was
piloting small aircraft. I took that to mean four to six seat
singles.

From your post it sounds like she does.

I doubt the took the time to master operating a biz-jet yet alone find
the time to remain current and attend recurrent training, but you
never know.

Certainly seems at odds with John's stance on general aviation, no?

I'm not aware of candidate's stance. I suppose, if one considers that
he refused AOPA president Phil Boyer's appoint to the federal
Management Advisory Committee that he heads, it's not to difficult to
see he's not a GA advocate.

His attitude is apparent in this hearing transcript:
http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hea...106s/80849.pdf

HE'S A COCKSUCKER

On May 1, 11:10*am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:51:28 +0000 (UTC), Frank Stutzman
wrote in
:

Larry Dighera wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

A fellow on the Bonanza list flys out of Sedona. *According to him,
Cindy is indeed a pilot. *

Thanks.

She owns some sort of a business jet,

From the news reports I read, the jet is operated by her late father's
corporation.

but I'm unsure if she flys it. *

If I recall correctly, on Leno's program she indicated that she was
piloting small aircraft. *I took that to mean four to six seat
singles.

From your post it sounds like she does.

I doubt the took the time to master operating a biz-jet yet alone find
the time to remain current and attend recurrent training, but you
never know.

Certainly seems at odds with John's stance on general aviation, no?

I'm not aware of candidate's stance. *I suppose, if one considers that
he refused AOPA president Phil Boyer's appoint to the federal
Management Advisory Committee that he heads, it's not to difficult to
see he's not a GA advocate.

His attitude is apparent in this hearing transcript:http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hea...106s/80849.pdf

McCain has Boyer pegged for the liar that he is. Give him hell,
McCain!!

On May 1, 1:22 pm, Skylune wrote:
On May 1, 11:10 am, Larry Dighera wrote:



On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:51:28 +0000 (UTC), Frank Stutzman
wrote in
:

Larry Dighera wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

A fellow on the Bonanza list flys out of Sedona. According to him,
Cindy is indeed a pilot.

Thanks.

She owns some sort of a business jet,

From the news reports I read, the jet is operated by her late father's
corporation.

but I'm unsure if she flys it.

If I recall correctly, on Leno's program she indicated that she was
piloting small aircraft. I took that to mean four to six seat
singles.

From your post it sounds like she does.

I doubt the took the time to master operating a biz-jet yet alone find
the time to remain current and attend recurrent training, but you
never know.

Certainly seems at odds with John's stance on general aviation, no?

I'm not aware of candidate's stance. I suppose, if one considers that
he refused AOPA president Phil Boyer's appoint to the federal
Management Advisory Committee that he heads, it's not to difficult to
see he's not a GA advocate.

His attitude is apparent in this hearing transcript:http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hea...106s/80849.pdf

McCain has Boyer pegged for the liar that he is. Give him hell,
McCain!!

I don't know who's pegging who.

But I do know something about creeping fees.
Remember that Alternative Minimum Tax, that was only for the rich? I
nearly got hit by that, and by no means am I rich! (Or I'd have the
little airplane!) the AMT nearly bit me because I was putting so much
in 401k and Roth accounts, which I have to do since I have no other
retirement sources.

I have no doubt at all that what might be just for "corporate fat
cats" would soon include fat cat owners of C152s. All airplane owners
are rich, remember?

To me, the fuel tax is a very workable answer. You can charge it to
the little Cessnas and the big jets as well. It doesn't require any
additional overhead for accounting. The only issue there would be
those who are using autogas. But hey, nothing's perfect.

On May 1, 8:25 pm, wrote:


To me, the fuel tax is a very workable answer. You can charge it to
the little Cessnas and the big jets as well. It doesn't require any
additional overhead for accounting. The only issue there would be
those who are using autogas. But hey, nothing's perfect.

Autofuel includes 18.4c federal tax for the highway fund. Considering
FAA funding is partially coming from the general fund, I would say
autofuel pilots are paying their fare share of fuel tax.

wrote:

But I do know something about creeping fees.
Remember that Alternative Minimum Tax, that was only for the rich?

Only for the rich who don't pay taxes like the rest of us.
I get hit for it even though I'm 100% normally taxed on withholding.
No tax dodges, no non-taxted, shelters, plain old income.

On May 1, 5:10*am, Larry Dighera wrote:
Last night on The Tonight Show, Cindy McCain mentioned that she would
be doing a lot of flying as part of husband John McCain's 1982
Congressional campaign, so she attended flight ground school in an
attempt to overcome her fear of flying. *She said she then received
flight training, and earned her private certificate. *However, a
search of the FAA's airmans database does not find her among the
airmen listed there.

The only information I was able to find about Mrs. McCain's piloting
via Google was this cite:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...-04-14-cindy-m...
* * An adventurous one, as well. Cindy McCain used to be a pilot, *
* * loves to drive race cars (her company distributes Budweiser,
* * NASCAR's official beer until this year) and took a weekend trip to
...

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

I won't vote for McCain simply because he has that b!tch Carly "no
American has a right to a job" Fiorini stumping for him. She gutted
HP and sent 1000's of engineering jobs to Asia while laying off the
very people who had helped build up HP so that it could even become a
"Multinational" company. I also don't like McCain's style or his
stance on a number of issues.

Can't say I'll vote Democrat either. They also suck the big one.
Look how bad our Democrat dominated Congress has been lately. Hey,
Rome is burning, but we can't have baseball players using steroids, so
lets make that our priority!

I think I may have to vote Libertarian or maybe Communist this year as
a "none of the above" vote...

Dean

wrote:

Does anyone have any additional information about here piloting?

I won't vote for McCain simply because he has that b!tch Carly "no
American has a right to a job" Fiorini stumping for him. She gutted
HP and sent 1000's of engineering jobs to Asia

Oh, hell! Not Carly the Destroyer! She'll poison his freakin'
campaign. Gave a commencement address at Oregon State University and
said she had something in common with the graduates, which was that she
was looking for a job.

She of course didn't mention that she practically destroyed HP (I was a
contractor there) and its business reputation in the process. But,
hell, they paid her to do it I guess. Hopefully McCain's not paying her
to destroy his campaign.

-c