[VANITY] Free Flight Training By: Freeper David Osborne

fly.davidosborne.net ^ | 03 December 2005 | David C. Osborne

[davidosborne]

I posted a vanity thread on the VANITY section of FR about this class and it was pulled.

I hope posting it in the blogger section is appropriate.

I am starting to teach a Private Pilot Course. You can participate FREE OF CHARGE online or in PERSON, when I get a classroom reserved (which I am working on)

AGAIN the purpose of this thread is to discuss the class, which begins as soon as you send an email asking to join in.

FReegards,

David

[davidosborne]

I appologize in advance if this thread does not meet FR standards and gets pulled from this section.. I am hoping that this thread meets FR standards for the BLOGGER section of FR.

[davidosborne]

I don't know why the pop ups are showing up on the website.. I am working to get that resolved.. in the meantime if you link DIRECTLY the pop ups dont show up..

http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/davidosborne/fly.html

[Straight Vermonter]

I'd jump all over this if I was in your area. My son is planning on studying flying at Embry Riddle starting in '07.

BTW, the pop-ups are always on angelfire sites. It is part of the user agreement.

My site---> http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristscorecard/index.html

[davidosborne]

I pay to have the pop ups NOT show up on my site.. I am not sure why its not working using the masked forwarding from my domain

[davidosborne]

Great.. you can participate ONLINE too..

[balrog666]

Good luck!

But, alas, I am too experienced to want to learn to fly now. Same with skydiving and base jumping.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

ping FYI

[davidosborne]

Prior Tag line removed..

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[KDD]

Interesting...bump

[3D-JOY]

My son-in-law is a graduate of ER and loved all his time there and his employment has been exciting for many years.

Good Luck to your Son.

[davidosborne]

The response to my "little" class has been GREAT for only having been "active" for a couple of days.

In case you did not check the class website. The first assignment is to send me an e-mail and tell me WHY you want to take this class, and include any previous flight training you have had...

I look forward to getting this thing "OFF THE GROUND" right away !!

David

MY E-mail for STUDENTS ONLY

cpt_osborne_cap@hotmail.com

[davidosborne]

E-mail #5 to the GROUP (04 December 2005)

Greetings !!

Wow I am very excited about how fast this class in growing ! Many of you have requested to participate in the class ONLINE rather than in person and that is GREAT !! However, classroom participation is STRONGLY encouraged!

I have started a FreeRepublic thread for those who want to share thoughts and questions publicly.

The URL for that thread is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1533534/posts


A link is also provided at the TOP of the class website.

I have only recieved a couple of e-mails for the 1st class ASSIGNMENT (tell me why you want to take this class, and include ANY previous flight training.

To those who have responded THANKS ! This information will be very helpful to me.

ALSO if you want to submit a question please do so ONE e-mail per question and put the word QUESTION in the subject line. This will help me to respond to everyone at one time with the ANSWER to keep from having to repeat the answer.

Again, I am looking forward to getting this class "OFF THE GROUND" !!

David C. Osborne
(850) 933-8511 http://www.fly.davidosborne.net

[davidosborne]

RULES OF THE AIR

Date: Friday, February 08, 2002
From: Harold Reynolds
Subject: Aviation rules
This appeared in the current issue of Australian Aviation Magazine (June 2000?)

1. Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
2. If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
3. Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
4. It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
5. The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
6. The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
7. When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.
8. A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away.
9. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the plane again.
10. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
11. You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
12. The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
13. Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
14. Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
15. Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you've made.
16. There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
17. Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
18. If all you can see out of the window is ground that's going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be.
19. In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
20. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
21. It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible.
22. Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
23. Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.
24. The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.

[davidosborne]

A Solo Student Pilot:

Tower:
"Aircraft on final, go around, aircraft on runway."

Student:
"Roger" (Continues descent.)

Tower:
"Aircraft, GO AROUND"

Student:
"Roger" (Continues descent.)

Tower:
(Screaming) "AIRCRAFT, GO AROUND!!"

Student:
"Roger" (Continues descent.)


So, the student pilot plunks his airplane down on the numbers, taxies up to where the twin is sitting in the middle of the runway, GOES AROUND it, and continues on to the taxiway.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[davidosborne]

:)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[M Kehoe]

Cool.

5.56mm