SRRV Holders Working in Philippines

[BudM]

OK Bud,
Now I know! So, NO g/f and NO job! Now that's the way to relax,
except for looking after yourself as a Bachelor, unless you still have
your live-out maid around! Anyway, enjoy your retirement! 

Sorry Art and anyone else that misunderstood.  This is not quite 100% accurate.  I just don't know how to spell or pronounce the word.   Like the saying goes, there is a first time for everything and sooner or later I guess I had to bite the bullet.

[medic3500]

Lee, I'm sure you have already checked it out in reference to your Commercial Ticket. I find it strange if your current they won't let you just do a checkride and go through the motions. That's all I had to do when I went to Panama, then again we're talking 20+ years ago and it was only for private.

[coleman2347]

Dan, its not that simple, im current except for medical, both multi engine and single engine but they want me to go to a school to learn how to fly, yea WTF...I rented a plane to fly from Tacloban to Cebu and back and had to have a Filipino pilot with an instructors license to fly with me.  On the way back, I thought I would just practice some (it was my dime) come to find out

[coleman2347]

sorry, missed the tab, but when I was practicing the pilot that was with me, had never done a spin, never slipped an aircraft and a bunch of other things, when I took the aircraft up to about 6k and spun it down to 3k i thought he would wet his pants...a sore point with me as you can understand...

[meylou]

Congratulations, Bud. Wishing you both the best.

[medic3500]

Lee,
Are you kidding? yeah I know your not. All I can say is wow, my instructor had me doing those maneuvers in under 40 hours. I wasn't taught at a commercial school, he was an old school barnyard CFII that was true fly by your seat type pilot. He was nice but unforgiving when critical mistakes were made. I think what you have witnessed is commercialized aviation by the numbers and not experience.

[coleman2347]

Yea, wish I was kidding, but hey, its a new improved world...BTW, I learned from an old crop duster in a 1200 foot grass field in Allentown Ala. when I was 16