Tall tale of a scamming unqualified ferry "pilot"

[ogc]

I found this over on pprune.

Blown away by this thread.

http://www.pprune.org/biz-jets-ag-flyin ... ience.html

After getting an idea about the character and you want to be flabbergasted you can read his past posts from when he was 16 back in 2004 here:

http://forum.keypublishing.com search for username R.weaver

Here are some choice posts

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=18386
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=18661
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=19041

Unbelievable that this is a real person...

[jet a1]

....wow! i couldn't stop reading about this guy...thanks for the interesting hour.

[crooked timber]

best.

[iflyforpie]

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!

[Shiny Side Up]

Unfortnately I've run into more people than I would like to like this in aviation.

[kevenv]

Hands down THE best thread ever!

[ScudRunner]

wow it was like one of those choose your own adventure books, start reading one forums thread then click on a link to another and another story about this guy would be on there it just kept going.

[modi13]

He can't get a commercial licence because he's blind in one eye and was trying to find ways around that to fly commercially, but he now has an FAA CPL and instructor rating? He owns a major company with bases on two continents at age 24? He's ferried jets and large turboprops without getting type ratings? Nothing at all sounds fishy about this. He doesn't have any pictures of himself actually flying any of the aircraft he supposedly ferried, and the picture of his "secretary" looks like it was taken from a stock photo website. He doesn't sound like he's all there in the head either; he wouldn't say which airfield he was doing his training at for "security" reasons, but he used his real name as his PPRUNE username and posted his e-mail in the forum.

[ybwflyguy]

Just stumbled upon this Pprune thread a week ago, glad you posted it here. It's addictive reading.

[floatpilot]

wow! 31 pages later, all I can say is that would make a great W5 episode.....

[BigglesNBella]

Wow that was crazy!

[ogc]

He can't get a commercial licence because he's blind in one eye and was trying to find ways around that to fly commercially, but he now has an FAA CPL and instructor rating? He owns a major company with bases on two continents at age 24? He's ferried jets and large turboprops without getting type ratings? Nothing at all sounds fishy about this. He doesn't have any pictures of himself actually flying any of the aircraft he supposedly ferried, and the picture of his "secretary" looks like it was taken from a stock photo website. He doesn't sound like he's all there in the head either; he wouldn't say which airfield he was doing his training at for "security" reasons, but he used his real name as his PPRUNE username and posted his e-mail in the forum.

If my understanding is correct, he is unable to get a CAA or JAR CPL because he is at least partially blind in one eye.

He did manage to petition the FAA to award him a class 2 medical which allowed him to get an FAA CPL and instructors rating legitimately. He only ever completed a single engine instrument rating.

It looks like his "company" is not actually incorporated, anywhere. Its just a webpage and he appears to have used his personal bank account to collect money. The address given is fake as well.

He also has a "flight school" to do FAA renewals, and apparently he had a "charter" company at some point as well. Again none are real.

It also appears that he had set up a fake solicitors (law firm or something like it) from which he would send letters threatening legal action.

Absolutely incredible... This has provided me hours of reading material so far haha.

[jump154]

Warning- just finished and it's 32 pages...seemed like every time I finished a page another 2 popped up. Life is certainly stranger than fiction.

[Rowdy]

Wow... simply amazing!

[CLguy]

You couldn't write a movie script this good. All I can say is WOW! You have to love the internet and its capabilities.

[all_ramped_up]

i've seen some epic threads on forums before... but that really takes the cake.

amazed that this fellow is still free!

[The Old Fogducker]

That guy reminds me so much of the late Raf Z..... of "(your town's name here) Flight Centre."

It used to be such fun to go to the men's room in the old South Terminal building at VR and read the unflattering graffiti which went front ankle height up to the ceiling ... quite a display.

OFD

[all_ramped_up]

That guy reminds me so much of the late Raf Z..... of "(your town's name here) Flight Centre."

It used to be such fun to go to the men's room in the old South Terminal building at VR and read the unflattering graffiti which went front ankle height up to the ceiling ... quite a display.

OFD

lol

there's a name I haven't heard in awhile.

[The Old Fogducker]

Be thankful!

Still .... it was absolutely hilarious to watch his antics ... as long as you weren't involved with him.

I posed as a prospective student once and had him try to sell me lessons while holding a hankerchief over a bleeding lip he'd collected from a group of aircraft owners who had been stiffed for lease payments about 2 minutes prior.

The Old Fogducker

[Indanao]

Be thankful!

Still .... it was absolutely hilarious to watch his antics ... as long as you weren't involved with him.

I posed as a prospective student once and had him try to sell me lessons while holding a hankerchief over a bleeding lip he'd collected from a group of aircraft owners who had been stiffed for lease payments about 2 minutes prior.

The Old Fogducker

Yuh, he was something else to work for, think I was one of the few he never fired...i quit.

Heard he was killed flying in Florida ?

[The Old Fogducker]

Engine failure in light twin somewhere in the 'States ... killed everyone on board. Somehow, it didn't surprise me to hear of that.

I was CFI of Staron Flight (YVR and YPK bases) when it was sold to Raf. After 3 weeks of lunacy and 2 bounced cheques, I quit too.

OFD

[SeptRepair]

Put a smile on my face when I heard he was dead.