Re: What is the marine equivalent of "Hanger pilot"
I came up around a guy that had flown everything the military had that was post WW2. He had flown everything the airlines had prior to the present electric jets. The man quit logging flight time at around 40,000 hours and 65 years old. He continued to fly crop dusters into his 80's and just died one day.
I ask him once to teach me how to be a spray pilot. He said, boy, I know you can fly, I done seen you do it. I can't teach you how to spray cause none of my planes have 2 seats. You got to teach yourself that. What I do have to do is teach you how to crash an airplane and walk away from it but do a good enough of a job to see to it that it belongs to the insurance company when you finish.
Took him one hour to show me I was a wan-a-b pilot. That was the first time I herd; Never run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas at the same time. Don't bust yo *** and by all means don't let nobody else make you bust yo ***. Now you do what I tell you to do and you do it right now. When I tell you its my airplane you grab yo nuts and hold on.
All the time and money I had invested up to that point was meaningless after a few hours with that crazy old man.
Our elders are our schoolmasters. Listen carefully.
