Originally Posted by Skytrucker
If you're retired, enjoy it. Take up as many leisure pursuits as you have time and energy for. Have a laugh with the old boys you once flew with and revel in the days when modern aircraft actually needed a pilot. Just let the aviation world carry on without you, your experience is good but it is just that-experience! Currency, recency and present day involvement is what we are needing not well meaning but outdated opinion. We are all big boys and can hold our own in discussions. Enjoy the summer and long may you draw your well earned pension.
Ah, so you don't want to hear about the use of flaps to hop over a fuel bowser, or the time we got a 4" lightning hole right through the wing, or the time we were thrown upside down in a four engine airplane, or the time we lost all our instruments...and I mean all of them. The sixty knot gust on the rear quarter on touch-down, I would have thought would have been interesting, if not, perhaps the time the ASIs both went eighty knots in opposite directions and we were thrown over the buildings at Palma. Oh, and the 45 minuets with totally frozen elevators and trim. Then the bit about the Russians...dodging them got us a feel for flying the airplane at the pointy end of the envelope: stalling and over-speeding at the same time can be....absorbing. Yeh, then there was the time with the drunk captain, oh and the psychotic one who would like to do flying displays for female visitors to the flight deck. Then there was the other time we lost all our instruments, and........
Nah, you're right, boring, not worth a mention really.