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hello from Illinois

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:34 pm
by cornfieldflyer
Hello everyone, student SP here from the state of IL.

Tony

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:44 pm
by Mike B
Welcome...I'm new here too.

Mike

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:24 pm
by drseti
Good to have you aboard, Tony. Feel free to post lots of questions; you'll surely get a wide variety of answers here! :lol:

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:46 pm
by CBKERR
Welcome Tony. Tons of great help on these pages

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:44 am
by 3Dreaming
What part of Illinois? I'm in the southeastern part. Tom BTW welcome to the group.

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:46 am
by cornfieldflyer
3Dreaming wrote:What part of Illinois? I'm in the southeastern part. Tom BTW welcome to the group.
Hello Tom, I am in the Springfield Area, are you around the Mount Vernon area?

Tony

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:52 am
by 3Dreaming
Olney. I know a SP in your area that did his in an old T-Craft.

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:09 am
by cornfieldflyer
3Dreaming wrote:Olney. I know a SP in your area that did his in an old T-Craft.
The question I have is..Who was his SP CFI.....Did he have to do all 20 hrs in the T-Craft

Thanks for the reply, it's very much needed here in Central IL. Myself if I had a SP CFI I would start a school just for the type of fliers I am speaking of, the man with the EAB single seater that would otherwise be labeled a Fat UL. But today is registered EAB.

Maybe make it a Club thing and the CFI is paid through the Club not by how many hrs he/she teaches. Something like this. make the members the owners of this club, everyone has some imput and they control who runs things.

I dream.......come dream with me...lol


Tony

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:18 am
by 3Dreaming
I think he used a regular CFI, because this happened early on. He might of been the first sport pilot in Illinois. I don't know if all of his training was in the T-Craft or not. He may of had some previous training before.
cornfieldflyer wrote:
3Dreaming wrote:Olney. I know a SP in your area that did his in an old T-Craft.
The question I have is..Who was his SP CFI.....Did he have to do all 20 hrs in the T-Craft

Thanks for the reply, it's very much needed here in Central IL. Myself if I had a SP CFI I would start a school just for the type of fliers I am speaking of, the man with the EAB single seater that would otherwise be labeled a Fat UL. But today is registered EAB.

Maybe make it a Club thing and the CFI is paid through the Club not by how many hrs he/she teaches. Something like this. make the members the owners of this club, everyone has some imput and they control who runs things.

I dream.......come dream with me...lol


Tony

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:26 am
by cornfieldflyer
3Dreaming wrote:I think he used a regular CFI, because this happened early on. He might of been the first sport pilot in Illinois. I don't know if all of his training was in the T-Craft or not. He may of had some previous training before.
cornfieldflyer wrote:
3Dreaming wrote:Olney. I know a SP in your area that did his in an old T-Craft.
Are you speaking of Marty?

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:33 am
by cornfieldflyer
If you are speaking of Matry the place he hangars or use to hangar, not sure if he is still there, but those are some of the nicest people I have met.
John invites me to fly over all the time, but its about 7 miles away and I do not go that far from home. I have flown there before, but just not comfortable doing it.
Tony

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:56 am
by 3Dreaming
I think Marty is at Capital now, but yes that is who I was speaking of.

Re: hello from Illinois

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:38 pm
by cornfieldflyer
3Dreaming wrote:I think Marty is at Capital now, but yes that is who I was speaking of.

Marty and those men and women over at John's place are some of the best, like most of you folks in aviation. One thing I noticed from being in aviation only a short time and being 50 something. You folks in aviation are a different bread. Others need to look at this group, It amazes me how nice and just out right friendly aviation people are.

Now don't get me wrong you also have a lot of headstrong folks, but I believe you have that right to be a little headstrong, IMO anyway.

Marty takes great care in his birds and I love those Mice things he made to keep mice out. Someday I will make me some of these. But like I tell my wife, everything I do takes a lot of time...I am very slow....lol

Tony