Instructor Fell Asleep

[TeePeeCreeper]

stop preaching from your couch ... without a shred of experience

TPC: I can't let this slide by. PF is in the process
of flying the North Atlantic, via Greenland and
Iceland, in a small piston single with stock fuel
tanks - and an engine past TBO!!

That takes balls, TPC. Great big ones. And he's
even a flight instructor, so he's probably not much
of a pilot in your opinion.

Maybe you've done 3 moon landings in the last
week, so you can laugh at PF's journey, which
is "preaching from the couch" compared to your
vast experience. But I highly doubt it.

Sorry to spill the beans, PF, but this thread turned
ludicrous.

Since when did flying across the . require "balls"?
I will opine that it requires planning, and decision making... Wait a minute... Doesn't every flight require that kind of due diligence?
Piston engine past TBO? That's simply a red herring Colonel...

As for the rest of your comments....
I have never berated nor insulted either of the two posters I had quoted. If either of them took my comment at anything other than face value... Sorry, that certainly wasn't my intent.

Furthermore I have NEVER insinuated anything that would explain or justify your comment about one of them also being an instructor.

I find it tiresome however to read so called "experts" comments when it comes to topics they are not well versed in. (re:egress from a submerged aircraft)

Perhaps you can relate whenever you read a comment from some know it all when it comes to discussing the finer points of aerobatics?

All the best,
TPC

PS: We've met before in Bobby's hangar and you already know that I don't wear epaulettes at work!

[Colonel Sanders]

TPC: my apologies. I have enormous respect
for people who fly the North Atlantic in little
airplanes with limited range, via Greenland
and Iceland.

I would have done it the easy way: put an
enormous tank in the fuselage and head for
Shannon, or better yet, the Azores. Put the
autopilot on and snooze until I need to switch
tanks.

Max Conrad had the right idea.

[TeePeeCreeper]

TPC: my apologies. I have enormous respect
for people who fly the North Atlantic in little
airplanes with limited range, via Greenland
and Iceland.

I would have done it the easy way: put an
enormous tank in the fuselage and head for
Shannon, or better yet, the Azores. Put the
autopilot on and snooze until I need to switch
tanks.

Max Conrad had the right idea.

I wholeheartedly concur.
Please send James my regards, I really should get in touch with him but work here on the west coast has keep me insanely busy and I haven't had a chance to return his calls...

Best Regards,
TPC

PS: I was the guy there with James two winters ago when one of Bobby's "4 bars" mishandled his hangar door... The same one whom taught himself to fly that "French Beaver" and subsequently checked it's new owner out on it....

[photofly]

I'm still waiting to hear the wisdom of the seven year old on the subject of underwater egress in the open ocean environment. Clearly that's a matter of some relevance to me at the moment.

Over to the expert in the subject, and I resent your cruelty for keeping me waiting to hear what you have to say.