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[Flying Trucker]

Good morning all

[Steve M]

Nicely done Doug!    8-)

[Flying Trucker]

Glad you liked it Steve...

[Jeph]

Excellent post! Thanks for sharing. As a sim pilot and real life A&P soon-to-be, I can appreciate the sentiment.

[Ang2dogs]

Good evening all

[Flying Trucker]

You are welcome Jeph and good luck on your chosen career... 

[Flying Trucker]

You are welcome Ang2dogs, am glad you like it...

Never say you will not have a chance to fly a real aircraft, who knows what might come about tomorrow or the next day.

[H]

Hello, Flying Trucker;
I admit that my only actual time at real controls was while training in a Cessna (training was cut short respective to my supporting job and failed relationship with a young blonde -- but that's another story); my initial filght was with the CFS Sopwith Camel (admittedly, a very simulated model), my former association with the old aircraft was just looking them over where they sat. However, relative to my reading over material of aviatic operations during WWI, your story seems to have skipped a section after the following:

[quote]Observe your trusty steed as you walk through the wet grass.
The morning dew dripping off her wings and empennage (tail assembly), with the sun rising over the horizon and gleams off her wet skin.
Using the hand hold you step up to remove the front and rear cockpit covers, ensuring the second joystick is not held back by the seat belt, securing the seat belt and checking the magnetos are off.
Dropping back onto the wet grass still holding onto the cockpit covers you fall on your butt.

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks "H"....

I am sure that has happened more than once...but not to me...

Oh and it is illegal to leave an aircraft running without a qualified person on the brakes...

[Bud Greene]

Really cool Trucker & Dogs!

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Bud...

Yes I am quite familiar with the Poem written by Pilot Officer J.G. Magee, Royal Canadian Air Force and I usually post it around November 11th, Remembrance Day...

http://www.macla.co.uk/scopwick/magee.php

[H]

You'd put the chocks back so you leave your lady warming up (surely don't want her getting flighty with a cold front) while you pass the few minutes with your preflight coffee. You take your first sip then turn your head towards the field to see how she's doing... better than you intended -- she jumped the chocks and now she's rising into the air without you!

Thanks "H"...
I am sure that has happened more than once...but not to me...
Oh, and it is illegal to leave an aircraft running without a qualified person on the brakes...

Brakes? The chocks were the brakes for the old WW1 bi's. The occasional unpiloted, non-remote-controlled flights of the time, I'm sure, were the raeson for the subsquent "...it is illegal to leave an aircraft running without a qualified person on the brakes..."

8-)

[Bud Greene]

Hi Bud...

Yes I am quite familiar with the Poem written by Pilot Officer J.G. Magee, Royal Canadian Air Force and I usually post it around November 11th, Remembrance Day...

http://www.macla.co.uk/scopwick/magee.php

Awesome! Sorry I posted it early.

[Flying Trucker]

No problem Bud, thanks for the reply...

[Flying Trucker]

Hi "H"

I just got told by one of our grandson's who apparently knows more about aviation than I do...