How many pilots / retired pilots are mavic owners?

[gunpilot]

Retired Commercial Pilot (Australia) with extensive outback flying experience.

 

[DrDyno]

Former US Army UH-1 pilot and Aviation Maintenance Officer.
4th Division: Pleiku, Vietnam, 1967-68.
FAA Commercial Rotary Wing
Coastline Helicopters, Opa Locka, FL, 2000-2001.

 

[MavPro75]

AF pilot, retired, B52,B1, DC3, ATP, B757/767 Cpt, 14K hours, retired. P4, P4P, Mavic Pro

 

[Dan Lee]

Wow...I'm amazed at the number of manned aircraft pilots there are just in here that also fly UAS. I know a few manned pilots that fly for a living and they are not drone fans. I understand their position.

 

[MavPro75]

Wow...I'm amazed at the number of manned aircraft pilots there are just in here that also fly UAS. I know a few manned pilots that fly for a living and they are not drone fans. I understand their position.

It's in the blood

 

[MavPro75]

Just curious, how many of you are either actual pilots or retired pilots?

(As in, Licensed Airplane or Helicopter pilots. Not just 107 certified.)

What's the difference between a retired pilot and an "actual" pilot?

 

[AlanTheBeast]

SEL Complex, Instrument training. 800 hours logged. My dad had a Piper Cub, Tripacer, then Cherokee. I have owned a few Pipers, Cessnas, and Mooneys. I used to buy and sell small planes for a while along time ago.

My last and favorite plane was a 1979 Cessna 182RG which would takeoff with almost anything you could stuff into it as long as you could get the doors closed. She would cruise along at 130 knots at 13 gph. Flew it coast to coast a few times, and all over the Carribean.

I wanted to be an ATP but couldnt afford Embry Riddle and didnt want to spend another 6 years in the Navy.

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Wonderful airplane - but I like the straight leg 182 more... that said ...

My father and I were flying a C-182RG one afternoon - he was PIC.

He did a stall with a pretty aggressive climb and it broke clean (gear up).

I offered a sage observation, "ya know Dad, I read somewhere that the higher the nose is up when you stall, the angle of the nose will go down just as far after the break. So if it breaks at 30° nose up, should hit 30° nose down after the break. Think you can hit 60°?"

So he dove to pick up some knots and pulled it slowly but surely nose up ... not sure if he ever reached 60°.

When that SOB broke it did not go nose down to 60°. More like more than 90° and we were both hanging in the straps ... a nervous giggle later... and he said, "is the hood back there?, maybe time for some approaches ..."

 

[AlanTheBeast]

Commercial, CFI.

My father was private. I offered to set him up commercial while I was an instructor, but he refused. (He had well over 2000 hours, ME, IFR).

My son has just to write his exams and do the final flight test to get his private. After the semester is over, I guess. Meanwhile one of his engineering school projects is a drone that maps out rooms with IR sensors...

 

[blacksheep]

New Zealand PPL holder here. ~250 hours on C152, C172, various PA28. Last plane I regularly flew was a PA28R-200 (Arrow II, retract, CSU, 200 hp)

 

[Former Member]

a nervous giggle later... and he said, "is the hood back there?

I would have asked for a new pair of underwear if I wasnt PIC.

 

[AlanTheBeast]

I would have asked for a new pair of underwear if I wasnt PIC.

It was my idea so not like I had an excuse... It wasn't that bad. Just not what we expected.

 

[Former Member]

It was my idea so not like I had an excuse... It wasn't that bad. Just not what we expected.

Glad you had fun.

 

[MavPro75]

Retired Commercial Pilot (Australia) with extensive outback flying experience.

I will trade my experience for yours, any day

Former US Army UH-1 pilot and Aviation Maintenance Officer.
4th Division: Pleiku, Vietnam, 1967-68.
FAA Commercial Rotary Wing
Coastline Helicopters, Opa Locka, FL, 2000-2001.

Was just east of you at Phucat

 

[Former Member]

Former US Army UH-1 pilot and Aviation Maintenance Officer.
4th Division: Pleiku, Vietnam, 1967-68.
FAA Commercial Rotary Wing
Coastline Helicopters, Opa Locka, FL, 2000-2001.

After reading the book "Chickenhawk" I joined the Navy. I have alot of admiration for you guys.

 

[BorisTheSpider]

Former US Army UH-1 pilot and Aviation Maintenance Officer.
4th Division: Pleiku, Vietnam, 1967-68.
FAA Commercial Rotary Wing
Coastline Helicopters, Opa Locka, FL, 2000-2001.

Although I've the feeling we might have been on rather different sides of the culture war had I been around in 67-68, I'm not silly enough to think either of us would have been entirely right so I'll just say that's a very nice photo indeed - makes me wonder how I'll look back at some of my own in 50 years. Life is so short.

 

[Jimmie Hanson]

I flew both a V35B Bonanza and a Baron B58 twin Beechraft. Also a hang glider

 

[tictag]

Ex British HM Forces, Avionics Engineer, REME. Love fixing 'em!

 

[Steamer]

USMC CH-46 then MV-22 pilot (retired)

 

[hatipoglu777]

12000 hours airline pilot.
A300, A321, B757, B767, B777(currently).

 

[DrDyno]

Was just east of you at Phucat

Welcome Home!

I probably flew right by you on my way out to Qui Non.