airplane owners
 

Besides myself and KC from Paycounter...

who else on gfy has a pilots license or owns an aircraft?

Here

Cirrus,

Do you have a Cirrus? I'm thinking of getting a SR-22.. Took a test flight in one and fell in love with it. Where do you fly?

Spunky, Oz from TrueCash is a pilot too.. he flys a really cool Pitts.

I have about 16 hours done in the air and zero ground school. I was working on it but then I realized I can get it later and I need to make more porn instead.

Buy my content so I can finish the license!

VirtuMike, get to it!

KC... right now i have three planes
a Pulsar, a Cherokee 140 and a Glasair

the pulsar and cherokee are flying and the Glasair is about 30% done, I should have it flying by this time next year

Pulsar is for sale :)
http://www.mrpheer.com/pulsar.jpg

Plane handles like a fighter and I'm only asking $20k

Cirrus

If you do own a Cirrus... then I guess I'm just gonna be jealous
those are nice planes

do you own rotten.com ?

I only own a licence - for gliders and Ultra-Light Aircrafts

no... and i wont even go that site, thats some disgusting shit

Damn Spunky thats a badass looking plane, one or two seater?

Member at bizjets and used it many times

some more pics anyone?

its a 2 seater
more pics at http://www.imcamodifieds.com/pics.html

Here are a few of the pics from my test flight in an SR-22.. That was a beautiful plane.. cruises at 180kts and has an all glass cockpit. They now have an option for a PFD in addition to the MFD.

Here's a pic of the plane:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/c...m_IMG_0490.JPG

Here's my Final into Palo Alto, CA:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/c...m_IMG_0492.JPG

Camera work courtesy of our very own Smegma ;)

Sweet

:)

I have a pilots license and I am building a Culp Special bi-plane

That was kick ass (The PA flight of the SR-22)... that plane had some power (over the 172).

KC is an awesome pilot.. within two minutes, he had mastered the funky flight controls of the SR22. It has an awesome cockpit with this kick ass situational awareness display. You can overlay terrain, weather, and other traffic on the one 10" screen fed by the Stormscope, Garmin, and TCAS.

droooooolllll..

When KC landed the plane, even the test-pilot was impressed. He usually had to provide a little extra stick and rudder for the first-timers landing the SR. KC kissed the runway... nice rollout.

I finished ground school at American Flyers.. passed the FAA exam.. need to put in hours (and take a refresher course on the ground stuff).

KC - I know I took more pics than that.. post em!

This is my plane just as soon as I get $2.8MM and finish my VFR and get my IFR ticket. PILATUS PC-12/45

http://www.aircraft.com/images/contr...e/70527171.jpg

http://www.aircraft.com/images/contr...e/70527179.jpg

http://www.aircraft.com/images/contr...e/70527188.jpg

Cockpit in LS8-18 :winkwink:

thats awesome man...

I live an hour from Steve Culp, I'm seen him fly & do some amazing stuff with his green & yellow Yak. I considered buying one of his kits but I bought a Glasair instead.

whats the string taped to the canopy for? some sort of slip indicator?

Yes a slip indicator, almost all gliders use this because it's far more accurate

My goal was to get a Velocity XL-RG John Denver Special homebuild and have my retired dad build the thing. How cool would that be?

It's an 800 hour jobbie with all the fast build options. Totally.

The plane that porn built.

BUY MY CONTENT!

I have a buddy thats selling a plane, its either a velocity or a plane very similar, one of the pusher planes with a canard

i dunno how much he is asking though, he moved to a place with an unpaved runway and you dont fly one of these there, the nose wheel kicks up gravel which gets thrown into the prop

Very interesting thread....

I associate planes with the ones I get on at the airport... I was totally ignorant to the world of Personal Aircraft before I read this thread. I think I just found my next mission in life.

Thanks for the idea guys.... and...
anyone know of good places on the web to start collecting info. about licenses etc. ?

I am licensed but no plane :( and I dont do anywhere near the hours I used to.

ICQ me and I can help.. I know of a few good starting points..

Where do you live? That would help determine schools, etc.

looks like fun :c)

check out
http://www.aopa.org

lots of info...

Pilot here, too

I own a Malibu Mirage...the world famous doctor killer.

Great plane, just harder than hell to land...it doesn't like to slow down on descent...only good thng is you can drop the gear at 150knts...about throws you throw the cockpit, but you can do it. The plane get can get way ahead of you on IFR approaches. Pressured to 25,000....so you can get up and find some good winds or weather alot.

Got VFR, IFR, mulit, commercial and instructors license. Don't have real big hours, tho, 2100 hrs.

By the way, one of my buddies fly's a Pilatus for a local business man...cool plane. It's a smoker. I go right seat with him alot, awesome avionics.

that sounds aewfully cheap for an airplane!

I thought the Bonanza was the "Split Tail Doctor Killer" ;)

2100 hrs aint too shabby!! I'm only at about 250 ;) lol

http://www.beapilot.com/ is where I normally send people to get info.

and of course http://www.aopa.org/ is a great resource as well.

it IS cheap, I'm motivated to sell it because i dont have a hangar space for it anymore

i'm seriously gona try and get my recrerational pilot's licence in the next year or so

Why bother with recreational... for just a little more trouble you can get a private license and have none of the restrictions

nobody ever gets a recreational license, i dont even know why the FAA offers it

Yep, Private Pilot is the certificate you want. :)

this : http://lightspeedcash.com/internext2003/ is about the closest i'll get to flying in one of those :)

I never thought of the nosewheel kicking up gravel to the rear prop. Interesting.

So Virtu ConAir is going to have to fly something else like a cessna 206 or something...

The reason I like that Velocity is that it hauls ass, has great specs, and you can maintain it yourself if you so desire. For the price it's way better than anything in its range, it matches the specs of aircraft at multiples the price.

Or I could wait for those new badass Eclipse personal jets to come out. When the rest of the world catches on to Got Jizz and Porn in Public I'll surely be able to pay cash for it. Those things haul ass and they are supposed to cost 52 cents per mile total to fly. That's sweet. I'd be doing weekend runs to Miami all the time. I hate having to show off my cameras to airport people because they're too fucking stupid to realize those camera looking things in the xray are cameras. Idiots.

I now invite you to buy my content and help contribute to the aircraft fund of VirtuConAir.

Sweet.

Damn, I need to get me a pilots license.
Looks like alot of fun!

Here are some cool pics from a flight I did 2 weeks ago with my brother and his girlie.. Views like this are why I love it so much!

Buzzed San Francisco International at 2,000 feet:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/b...m_IMG_1009.JPG

Another of SFO:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/b...m_IMG_1011.JPG

Downtown San Francisco:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/b...m_IMG_1025.JPG

The Rock! (Alcatraz):
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/b...m_IMG_1032.JPG

Golden Gate and SF:
http://www.paycounter.com/personal/b...m_IMG_1045.JPG

Here are a few more from a flight I did with MissEve in Alaska. Camera work courtesy of MissEve. :)

http://www.paycounter.com/personal/h...m_IMG_0703.JPG

http://www.paycounter.com/personal/h...m_IMG_0704.JPG

http://www.paycounter.com/personal/h...m_IMG_0707.JPG

http://www.paycounter.com/personal/h...m_IMG_0708.JPG

How does it work with flying in public airspace like that?
I mean there has to be a shitload of flights coming in and leaving the airport, how do you know what their exactly flightpaths are and how to avoid them? Probably sounds stupid but it is a question that I have always wondered..
Also, what kind of training must someone go through if they wanted to fly something like a military fighterjet? For personal use of course

I love it. I can't believe the price. Will you provide some mechanical history on it if you don't mind?

Wow, awesome pics KC

When I was in the military I joined an Air Club. They had an old Avion and I got my student license, but a slot in a military school opened and when I completed the school, for whatever the reasons were the Club had shut down and to my regret I did not persue flying after that.

I haven't a license but all pics above are very very nice to see...I must start thinking about that
I envy you:thumbsup

I am educated as a pilot (former ATP) but because of a accident on a motorcycle, I cant fly commercial any more.
I started at Crystal River FlightSchool in Florida. Thats a REAL nice place beside the sea on the WESTcost of florida. I still visit the place at least 2 times a year.

If any of you guys EVER wanna fly to Florida - please visit another little airport called "Cedar Key" Its paradice on earth - but watch out for the runway - where the runway stops, the water begins

I've been wanting to get a pilots license forever. My childhood dream was fighter pilot (of course)..

It's about $7500 CDN to do it, and of course a fair bit of time.. Gonna have to do it in the new year for sure.

I envy you pilot guys. ;>

Cheers,
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