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flyingtexastiger
Favorite team: | LSU |
Location: | Southlake, TX |
Biography: | |
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Occupation: | Major airline pilot |
Number of Posts: | 1645 |
Registered on: | 10/23/2005 |
Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Direct flights from Baton Rouge and New Orleans to Las Vegas for the season opener.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/18/24 at 9:49 pm
[quote]Southwest should have Nola to Vegas.[/quote]
Your aunt shouldn't have balls and she'd be your uncle...
re: Plane that departed Gonzales has crashed in Tennessee.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/16/24 at 7:54 pm
[quote]Skydiving is safer than riding in hot air balloons and flying in small hobby planes.[/quote]
Statistics???...
re: Plane that departed Gonzales has crashed in Tennessee.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/16/24 at 6:50 pm
Lawsuits for what??...
re: Plane that departed Gonzales has crashed in Tennessee.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/16/24 at 2:07 pm
[quote]Doctor killer because it was a mass produced high performance airplane the was relative inexpensive. So a lot of professionals (like doctors) bought it with it's 285-300 HP engine right after getting their pilot's license. So it was like getting your 16 year old a ferrari soon as he got his d...
re: Plane that departed Gonzales has crashed in Tennessee.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/16/24 at 7:41 am
[quote]More specifically forked-tongue doctor killer[/quote]
Because the airplane looks like a snake????
Because they kill a lot of lying doctors????
Which is it????...
re: Plane that departed Gonzales has crashed in Tennessee.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/15/24 at 8:26 pm
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Extremely old plane[/quote]
It's only as old as me and my plane was built in 1947...
re: USAF Instructor Pilot Passed Away This Morning Due to Ejection Seat Malfunction
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/14/24 at 12:27 pm
Nothing is 100% guaranteed.
The zero-zero seat is exactly the same whether you’re 5’8”/180 or 6’3”/225. Pull the handle on the ground and you’re getting markedly different rides.
Seats have malfunctioned. There have been inadvertent ejections, partial ejections, etc, etc.
It’s an unforgivi...
re: anyone have seats in section 408?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/9/24 at 6:24 pm
I'm in 408 Row 8 and I (and the wife more importantly) think they're awesome. But yes, you're mostly watching the screen when they're inside the other 20. Row 20 should be very nice!! Also, walk right in, walk right out. Very nice.
...
re: Girl you went to prom with
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 5/1/24 at 3:02 pm
Both still fine as frogs hair!...
re: Tokyo, Shanghai, Osaka……why is that?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/29/24 at 3:59 pm
Say what you want, but 3 years living there taught me don't let your white wife or daughter ride the subway/train alone. There's a reason you can buy used ladies underwear from vending machines over there....
re: When will plus-size airline passengers get their body size-justice?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/29/24 at 3:48 pm
[quote]
quote:
To turn that on its side, do airlines need to redo the interiors of all its planes to conform to the hyper-obese? Ticket costs suck now. Fitting fewer people on a flight because someone can’t put the fork down is going to get expensive
The airline sells a ticket to a passenger....
re: The protestors at Harvard have hoisted the Palestinian flag
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/28/24 at 7:19 pm
[quote]Per Israel, there were four confirmed rapes.[/quote]
Just curious, how many confirmed rapes are you comfortable with before you decide to get discomfitted???...
re: Joe Rogan Podcast with Bart Sibrel - who here believes the Moon Landing was a hoax?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/27/24 at 4:33 pm
[quote]One poster tried, props to him for giving it a go. But no one has provided an explanation that makes logical sense as to why no other country has gone to the moon in the last 54 years.[/quote]
During the 10-yr period covering the NASA Moon program, the US devoted an avg 2.5% of GDP to the ...
re: WSJ Piece: Young Americans Are Getting Left Behind by Rising Home Prices, Higher Stocks
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/27/24 at 3:21 pm
[quote]But when you think about it, the current 7% to 8% if what 80s and early 90s babies' parents were used to as the norm.
Well yeah, but home prices for a starter home were like $75k not $300k. Huge difference when your interest rate is 7%[/quote]
Hate to break it to y'all but $75K in...
re: Maason Smith to JacksonVille
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/26/24 at 8:36 pm
I also thought he was making a mistake, but just yesterday while working out I happened to watch a replay of the bowl game vs Wisconsin and was a little impressed by him.
Wish him well! Geaux Tigers!!...
re: Hot redhead knows her way around lumber.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/19/24 at 6:54 pm
Was afraid this might feature my wife!! :cheers:...
re: FAA & United investigating incident w/ Colorado Rockies charter flight
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/19/24 at 6:43 pm
"I missed the last 23 years of training on who is allowed into the cockpit during flight!"??????????????????????????????...
re: ‘Listen To The Screams’: Planes Nearly Collide On Reagan Airport Runway
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/19/24 at 6:29 pm
Flying thru DCA tomorrow morning. Very small/congested airport. Mainline jets use the one N/S runway, Regionals can generally use the two cross runways. Mainline jets are talking to Ground Control while they cross the two crossing runways.
Sounds to me like the controllers were at fault here...
re: ‘Listen To The Screams’: Planes Nearly Collide On Reagan Airport Runway
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/19/24 at 6:23 pm
My son applied for an ATC position, crushed the hiring tests, waited almost 2 years for a class date while slogging through drug testing, psych testing, background testing, fingerprinting, etc, etc, etc. Finally gave up and got his Dispatch license and is working for Air Wisconsin.
Watch the new...
re: Seat is down on a public bathroom toilet
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/18/24 at 8:13 pm
I grew up in Rayville and Oak Ridge swimming in irrigation ditches. A little piss on my hand aint gonna kill me!!...
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