This is my first attempt to write a blog. Originally my idea was to write a book about my career as a corporate pilot with a fortune 500 company. My writing skills are not the best, writing a book was beyond what my desires were for retirement time. The original idea was a book titled, (The Care and Feeding of a CEO or The Smell of Jet Fuel in the Morning). Both titles would have summed up the professional pilot world. In this blog I will attempt to give stores of my experiences and kind of a life history of how I became a professional pilot. Also the trials and retributions of life in said aviation world.
Most of my career was spent flying small corporate jets ranging from 8 passenger seats to 10 seats. They were all certificated Federal Air Regulation part 23 aircraft, also requiring a 2 person crew. Early in my 36 year career I had the honor and privilege of flying a large turbo prop Convair 580. The airlines flew the aircraft with 54 seats and a crew of 3. Our airplanes were outfitted with 23 seats in an executive configuration. We flew also with a 3 person crew at times as required by the FAA on airplanes with more then 19 soles on board. The aircraft had a gross takeoff weight of 54,000 pounds. More stories of this aircraft later.
My first airplane ride was with my father a Navy pilot in a Piper Tri-pacer out of the local Garden Spot Airport at age 4. Garden Spot was a small airport owned by Henry Weber west of Lancaster off of Columbia Ave.
My stories will be short as typing is not one of my best skills. More on later dates.