NZFF

Hi guys i am just wondering what sort of things ya do in the real world. and what planes you have flown. i am currently doing a diploma in technical engineering.

I have flown a Evektor sport-star

also currently saving for more time in a C172 or C188.

I also do modeling last year when i was in Christchurch visiting my granddad and Grandma i went to Acorn models really nice selection of aviation models there.

Well YOB i'm a undiplomated in technical and mechanical engineering which now i don't care to get back into after 30 years , enough was enough .. another little shop in Wobblyville is http://www.playconcepts.co.nz/index.php .. flying .. 8 so hours sailplane , dubious 1 or so in a hang glider countless hours flying 172s and Pipers no licience , 1 hour rated on the (Ian-Disease) ANZ CLASSIC 737-200 when it was based here in the 1980s .. lotta hours in Russel Hubbers 767 and 3Plus hrs on Flight Experience 737NG .. plus the 30 plus flightsim years and planes ive jumped through and not out off ! ... you don't jump out off perfectly good aircraft .. ive been up in Harvards , Kaydets , DC-3 s .. quite a few hundred books her on all aspects of aviation and aircraft and naval aviation and the people Ive met included travelling around the country from NZFF who also have countless FS hours and the real world Space jocks to the real world test pilots ... boy that was a mouthful

cool forgot to mention that i have been in a spitfire but that was on the ground. and i am also building a payware plane for fsx.

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 7 2013,2:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

boy that was a mouthful

More than just a mouthful, it made sense first time through

I've never flown anything but I have had a few most enjoyable night flights over Auckland in cessnas, plus some unremarkable tube time in Boeings.

Gary

I'm employed as a Network Technician designing, installing and maintaining on fixed and mobile voice and data networks with a healthy dose of computer maintenance thrown into the mix.

Lots of time as a passenger in numerous aircraft, 16.5 dual and 0.3 hours solo in C-152, and the best flight I ever had was in a Pitts for a 20 min aerobatic demonstration.

Harvard,Devon, Andover , C-130,(about 10mins in each ...to name a few (pax in TA4-K, Strikemaster,B-170, Dak)....now... go to bed Yob...or study.

I've got about 6ish hours on PA38s until I ran out of cash years ago! If I go back to Auckland for work I might take it up again.

As for work, I work on the border. I've always worked airports (2x) thus far so you might think there would be the chance to see new and exotic aircraft. Sometimes but not often! The C17 a while back got cleared by someone else

Splitpin wrote:

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 9 2013,11:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Harvard,Devon, C-130, ...to name a few

Arr yeas to forget these,but the best was the ubiquituos bag of spuds in the Devon jumping on board like a Mcgyver plane moving along the ramp running out off runway at West Melton, putting more fuel in the tanks shutting an engine down as climbing out , one of the last flights out of Wigram in the Harvard and course the 1987 ripping across Wigram again at a couple hundred feet oh what a treat in a Herc course the five hour stint in the Malay 777 homeward bound and many other pre niner eleven and the many many others .. just another chew

I Have a friend who has five hours in a mark ix spitfire.

Yob wrote:

QUOTE (Yob @ Jan 10 2013,2:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I Have a friend who has five hours in a mark ix spitfire.

Me myself I am a Locksmith and Glazier by trade as well as a Qualified Firearms Range Safety Officer, I have flown no real world aircraft as yet but will..have flown the old Air New Zealand F-27 and B737-200 Simulators , I am a musician in my spare time playing guitar for 20+yrs in many different styles, when i'm not playing guitar I am shooting big and little furry animals to fill my freezer. I have produced 1 or 2 Models for Flightsim in my time but have decided that I no longer have much interest in that side of things any longer,..that may change in the future but nothing is planned as yet..

I have a father who has flown Sunderlands,Dakota's,Devon's,Harvards,Cessna 402's,P-3 Orions,C-130 Hercules and Instructed on F-27 Friendships and Boeing 737-200's,...but then this thread is not a competition it is about us not about what someone else or am I mistaken ?...

Well i was just making a comment that may have been out of place and sorry if that annoyed you.

Adrian Brausch wrote:

QUOTE (Adrian Brausch @ Jan 15 2013,7:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have a father who has flown Sunderlands,Dakota's,Devon's,Harvards,Cessna 402's,P-3 Orions,C-130 Hercules and Instructed on F-27 Friendships and Boeing 737-200's,...

Adrian .. you forgot a little more of your history , between you and your father , famed flightsim aircraft developers building P3 Orions and C130s which lasted almost a decade and a half not to mention the sound package still used by the KBT Orion team .