My youngest Son is a commercial Airplane Driver. I never saw this coming when he was young and to say I am proud of him would be an understatement.
He does not like me calling him an "Airplane Driver" but does understand when I ask him,"What airplanes can you not fly?" his answer is,"I can fly them all Pa." He has thousands of hours and makes good bucks flying all over the world.
I hate flying because of a couple of bad experiences in RVN when we came DOWN hard, but I survived, others didn't.
I love helicopters because they saved my life a time or 40 in RVN but, although he has ratings to fly them, my Son has told me a lot of times that, "Helicopters do not fly, they just beat the air under them into submission." and he has a lot of hours in them.
Some of my happiest times are going with my Son in an aircraft where he lets me hold the handles but I am quick to say,"You got it?" because I don't.
Many times I have taken the plane off of the ground and flown around and set it back down with no problems, but there does come a time where you really need someone that has all of their shit together in case of a mechanical failure or, I wasn't holding the handles right. to do it right. My Son doesn't tell nor ask when I am riding Dirt Bikes, Flat Track Bikes, just asks for advice. He has his thing and I have mine.
My Son has a few of those things under his belt too and did good with them. Up in Alaska a time or two but one at ABQ, Thank God. I still have him. 2 were with rotary wing aircraft and he gave that up and only flies fixed wing now.
Were my Son to tell me, "Hang on, we are going to fly through that barn, hangar, or what ever, " I will be on for the ride as I know he can do it, but never would. He is too smart.
Old, Bold, all of that shit, he is still flying. and I would ride with him to forever. FM
He does not like me calling him an "Airplane Driver" but does understand when I ask him,"What airplanes can you not fly?" his answer is,"I can fly them all Pa." He has thousands of hours and makes good bucks flying all over the world.
I hate flying because of a couple of bad experiences in RVN when we came DOWN hard, but I survived, others didn't.
I love helicopters because they saved my life a time or 40 in RVN but, although he has ratings to fly them, my Son has told me a lot of times that, "Helicopters do not fly, they just beat the air under them into submission." and he has a lot of hours in them.
Some of my happiest times are going with my Son in an aircraft where he lets me hold the handles but I am quick to say,"You got it?" because I don't.
Many times I have taken the plane off of the ground and flown around and set it back down with no problems, but there does come a time where you really need someone that has all of their shit together in case of a mechanical failure or, I wasn't holding the handles right. to do it right. My Son doesn't tell nor ask when I am riding Dirt Bikes, Flat Track Bikes, just asks for advice. He has his thing and I have mine.
My Son has a few of those things under his belt too and did good with them. Up in Alaska a time or two but one at ABQ, Thank God. I still have him. 2 were with rotary wing aircraft and he gave that up and only flies fixed wing now.
Were my Son to tell me, "Hang on, we are going to fly through that barn, hangar, or what ever, " I will be on for the ride as I know he can do it, but never would. He is too smart.
Old, Bold, all of that shit, he is still flying. and I would ride with him to forever. FM
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