The International Cessna^® 170 Association

Following another thread it sounds like we have a lot of people who fly other airplanes for a living. I my self don’t fly for a living but I am a part time C-130 Flight Engineer. I'd like to hear what people fly when they aren’t flying their 170’s.

While I'm relegated to the back seat all the time, I have the great fortune to fly F/A-18's every once in awhile. I was just accepted to the United States Naval Test Pilot School, so I will get to fly a few other aircraft like the T-38, T-6, Beaver, Otter, and few other types while I'm in the school.

v/r,
Jud

rupertjl wrote:While I'm relegated to the back seat all the time, I have the great fortune to fly F/A-18's every once in awhile. I was just accepted to the United States Naval Test Pilot School, so I will get to fly a few other aircraft like the T-38, T-6, Beaver, Otter, and few other types while I'm in the school.

v/r,
Jud

CONGRATULATIONS
Now we know to expect a few technical articles contributed by you.

C182RG, C206, C206 Ambib, Turbine C206Amphib. All at 170 AGL
But the 170 is the most fun.

I'm have a current 135 check in a Sikorski S-76, Eurocopter Bk-117, Eurocopter EC-135 and a Bell 222UT SP.

While I primarily fly the S-76 and the BK-117, I've been flying the 222 the most lately.

None of our aircraft are standardized. We have every GPS known as well as comm and nav radios not to mention the medical radios. We have 2 different S-76s and while I primarily fly the one I can be called to fly the other which has a different FMS. We have about 4 differently configured Bk's as well. So to be honest there is about 10 different aircraft that I might fly on any day at work.

Though it's been a while I occasionally do some work flying a Bell 206, a Eurocopter Astar and a Agusta 109MKII.

Yep I pretty much have the helicopter world covered.

Thanks George,
They tell me my editing skills will be honed as well as my piloting skills, they've also said it's the million dollar education shoved up your a$$ a nickel at a time

v/r,
Jud

Tow gliders with an Aviat Husky, Blanik L-13AC and L-23 gliders for instruction and scenics, Cessna 172N and XP for scenics and instruction. My son is an F/A-18 instructor at NAS Lemoore.

sphillips,
I was out at NAS Lemoore last year, what's your son's callsign( I can't remember last names anyway) I spent a week out there with the Strike Fighter Weapons School.

v/r,
Jud

When not flying my 170A, I have flown Cessna 182’s, 140A. I just sold my Kestrel 17 Glider and am in the process of selling my ASK 14 motor glider. I work as ground operations engineer for Boeing, I do not fly them. I maintain the airworthiness for the airplanes in our military projects. I just delivered a “Green” 737 to Georgetown Delaware and when there picked up another green airplane with permanently installed Aux fuel tanks and delivered it to Turkey via way of Rome Italy where we spent the day touring.

My sons call sign is Frosty, VFA 125

Flight instructor in the "mighty" UH-1H Huey...I just spent the last 6 days flying out to west texas then up to Oklahoma and back. 28 hours flt time, 6 days, all in a 34 year old helicopter...my two students were 24 years old. I love it, but those seats are the worst ever. Not to mention my on the leg GPS showed a 55knt groudspeed on a couple of legs!!

cheers,
Lee

Lee I'm envious. Well maybe I'd do it once. Flying this 222UT is the closest I'll ever get to getting back in a Huey. When I get it making that wop wop wop I love it. Then I look for the SASS and it's not there. Oh boy.

Well, currently (last three years) the Airbus A319/320/321; same airplane, just different fuselage lengths. It's a good airplane to work in, but since the flight controls are fly-by-wire, they all fly the same. Can't say that about the DC-3s I used to fly - they were all slightly different in trim, control pressures ect.

For personal aviation in addition to my 170, I have access to a 1960 Piper Comanche 180 - nice airplane, but quite a bit more than the 170 to operate and maintain. Flew a 1940 Piper Cub J-5 a few months ago - great fun! Russ Farris

Flying a 140 most of the time right now, thinking I want a 170B too. Also flying a Robinson R-22 helicopter. Have time in 150/152/172/177, Citabria, Beech Sierra, T-34, O-2A (Cessna 310), Aztec. Fair amount of freefall after departing 182's, UH1's, DC-3's, twin Beech and a baby Great Lakes inverted, that was a hoot.

sphillips,

I trained your son when he went thru 125 the first time. He followed in my footsteps to the Mighty Shrikes.

Latka