What's that?

Quite a few, here and on other forums. I suspect the diversity of seafaring jobs represented is as wide as the range of pilots (and non-pilots) on here.

Im a knob!

IO540:Final 3 Greens:dublin pilot

Ah ... thanks you guys, you've made my christmas :D

Got the chance to do the type rating on the great old Antonov 2 and flew them a lot when I joined up here. Unfortunately, the country I flew them in was now assimilated by the Borg, err, EASA and there are basically none left. So as it is the largest airplane I am allowed to drive as PIC, here it goes.

Under JAA/EASA rules you can fly the AN-2 on your SEP class rating, as its MTOW is < 5700 kg. No type rating required AFAIK. You do need a tailwheel endorsement though (and permission from the operator, and from the insurance, and need big pockets to pay for the fuel, and so on...)
Plenty for sale on, e.g., planecheck. Quite cheap to acquire even (but I don't want to think about the fuel and maintenance costs).

Ultra Long Hauler
 

I got carried away a bit when I ordered my LSA with 5,5 hour fuel range!!

###Ultra Long Hauler###

Hi there,

All very true, at the time and place I did my rating, that country was not EASA thankfully, otherwise this would have been a dream never to come true.

Even then, the AN2 was covered in my Swiss CPL, but the good folks there insisted on a full type rating under their law of the land. I got it hanging on my wall in my office to this day and it's not going anywhere :)

And they were quite right, this is after all not a Cherokee, but in their view (rightly so) a multi crew plane (1 pilot, one mechanic as minimum crew). I would not want to fly one single handed, too much work.

I could buy "my" old training bird for no money these days, they are all shacked up as there was no way to operate them like in the old days. For sale to be operated outside Europe, that's what the ticket sais. And re cost, would you believe that when I did my original rating I rented one of these babies for $180/hour wet including the instructor? Yep, those were the days my friends.....:{ not ten years ago.... Still, one of the best experiences of my flying life.

Mind, that country had a quite large fleet of cargo planes operating under it's flag, with several hundred pilots e.t.c. employed... all gone too, not a year after they joined the EU. And they pay dearly for the electricity they used to export as the "closing deal" included shutting down their life support in the form of 3 reactors which were working as Swiss clockworks but were no-no to the Eurocratic invaders.

Used to play in a backing band for a singerist and we all wore black so we were sort of subdued in the stage lights whilst the warbler stood in the spotlights. I coincidentally at the time favoured an all black guitar as well. When a mate of mine had been to see us he commented that all he could see was a disembodied hand on the fretboard of the guitar, just like Thing off the Addams Family. The rest is history.

"Thank you, Thing!"

I don't have an Instrument Rating hence I fly Vee Eff Arr
VFR

B2N2,

Several reasons;

• Same concept as R2D2 (which was already taken)
• Modification of BN2 which is the Britten Islander on which I've flown as a little kid.
• If you say it fast it sounds like Swahili
• BN were my initials in my military ATC days (90-ies)

Every phonecall you made with ATC was finished with your initials.
You would write down the initials of the party spoken to in case of a c@ck-up the guilty party (me,usually) could be easily traced.

What is it?

It is nice to see from your club website how far very light aviation has come in Ecuador since Tony Gittes started it all with his Pterodactyl in the early eighties.

patowalker
ex-Halcon

MXP 150 Patriot
 

It´s the MXP 150 Patriot, colombian built.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3820316/Scre...2019.59.31.jpg

Patriot

Aero patriot Industria Aeronáutica

Fitted with the long range tanks, of course.

Cheers,

###Ultra Long Hauler###

My wife is on a couple of Forums,
and she posts up as 'Carmen' (not her real name)

She claims this is because she likes Cars, and also likes Men.

I like Tequilla !

;)