oh I forgot to add the exposure to many SOPs, as other have said it nice to see how everybody 'does their thing' and I just love jets [the technical side]
but i feel all pilots are spotters too i'm always looking up and saying ooh look there's an A340 LOOK!!! a Boeing 727 ahh marvelous there's the QUEEN herself or from the ramp while taxiing my li'l piper, Flight Controls...Free and Correct, Cool a lear 45..Flaps SET for TO, there's a cessna CE500 Wow it's a KINGAIR... Mixture RICH. is that a G iV, or V, Carb heat... OFF.. Engine Guages... All Green...so Pprune is a natural place to visit and learn
Re-entry I'm a nut, a scientist and a pilot, but a non-airline pilot who loves Airliners
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