Hobbies.............?

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 20 Jan 2006 4:24 pm

Since many steel players are into either Harley's or airplanes; I'm wondering, how many of you pilot-type steel guitar pickers have TYPE Ratings and in WHAT?

Frank Speights · Post by **Frank Speights** » 21 Jan 2006 3:49 am

Hello Ray:

I have single engine land rating. I am working on my instrument rating. My favorite plane is a Cessna 172. I do, however, have about 500 hours of unofficial flight time in a Huey (Tuna can)and an OH-58 (Bell Jet Ranger). If you are a pilot, I have a question for you. When do you have too much fuel? Take care and have a good day.

Norm Kidwell · Post by **Norm Kidwell** » 21 Jan 2006 5:36 am

I am not a pilot, but i would say you have too much fuel about five seconds before you crash. That fuel would make a BIG fireball. Norm Kidwell

Dave Grothusen · Post by **Dave Grothusen** » 21 Jan 2006 5:44 am

I have SEL rating and am happy with that. I own a 73 Cherokee 140 that is IFR but I am just a fair weather flyer. I have my own grass strip and hanger out behind the house. What a wonderful way to enjoy this sport. No traffic no hassle.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 21 Jan 2006 6:05 am

Frank
Answer : when your on fire .

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edit
- to say - avocation is the question !
not vocation . it takes me a minute to
catch on some times .

my avocation is A PSG 8 pedal /land instrument
rating
Hick[This message was edited by Bob Hickish on 22 January 2006 at 04:28 AM.]

Sidney Ralph Penton · Post by **Sidney Ralph Penton** » 21 Jan 2006 6:36 am

well i have a few hobbies. i like the cowboy action shooting i am a member of singele action shooting society. i love my draft horses. and i like my trike. it is a 1988 grand am rear half of the body with a 450 hp 350 chevy engine on the front. this trike eats mustangs for a snack. its a lot of fun and gets a lot of looks. i just got it last october and i am waiting for warm weather so i can start putting it into shows. as far as airplains go well dont care much for them you just can't pull over if something is wrong. too many country singers and others too have ended their life in a plane. but if thats what floats your boat, makes your liver quiver, trips your trigger have at it. i prefer the safer things in life.

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Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 21 Jan 2006 10:32 am

Been flying 172's,182's and warriors etc. since 1988 SEL only but am considering MEL in near future if gas prices would ever come down which will probably never happen.

I have a lawyer friend who has a Lear and he recently called me to fly right seat.Sadly, I wasn't available and that would have been the biggest thrill of my life.

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Frank Speights · Post by **Frank Speights** » 21 Jan 2006 11:25 am

Bob, you and Dave provided the correct answer to my question. You never have too much fuel unless your on fire. I got that from my brother who I call the Epitome of the Army Aviator. He was instructor at Mother Rucker, AL. He asked that question to a class of flight canidates one morning about 0600 hours, he said he got varying answers. I really enjoy flying, in my opinion, it is safer than driving on the Watermelon 500 (I285 around Atlanta). For those of you who are close to Atlanta I would like to invite you to the Northwest Georgia Steel Guitar Show on Sunday, 5 February 2006. Take care and have a blessed day.

Wally Maples · Post by **Wally Maples** » 21 Jan 2006 12:41 pm

ASEL/commercial/tail dragger. Sold my '47 Stinson 108-1 the last time I scared myself.

Emmons D-10/Fender 400/Nash 400

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 21 Jan 2006 1:23 pm

Wally
Stinson ?
if it was still powered by that Frankinstine Engine !
the 150's were the worst - they would spit the
jugs off !
that might be scary ! did it have the wing slots ?
you can't hardly stall them ! pull it all the way
back and keep it level with rudder your some where
around 700/ft/ minute decent .

Hick

Roger Edgington · Post by **Roger Edgington** » 22 Jan 2006 7:58 am

I fly my 1946 T-Craft everywhere. I was over half way through my instrument and just got too busy picken. I own a hangar at a airport near San ANtonio. We also bought 6 acres at a Flying community where our I just pull my plane to my hangar in my yard. We're going to start the house next spring. I fly Giant scale RC. And I am building a Baby Great Lakes arobatic plane that I may be to old to fly by the time I finish. Someones worried about flying safety!

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 22 Jan 2006 10:34 am

I collect Yo-Yos,and I'm learning some tricks.

John Coffman · Post by **John Coffman** » 22 Jan 2006 1:05 pm

I also square dance, program computers, non pedal, and pedal steel. Enjoy listening and playing country and western music. Harley's are ok and so are planes. Just can't afford either of them. Spent to much time and money on steeling. LOL

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Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 22 Jan 2006 1:33 pm

Ray, I used to LOVE marbels!

I used to cheat and use a painted ball
bering,

Bob and Wally, Just sold my '47 Stinson 108-1, N 8179K with the Franklin 150, yep, all my rocker arms broke and I had to replace one cyl. last year. But when it was working correctly, it was wonderful. But I never went far from home, that's what the Bonanza was for. [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 22 January 2006 at 01:38 PM.]

james sluder · Post by **james sluder** » 22 Jan 2006 9:13 pm

i may be way out of line here with this..but hobbies came up..so i was wondering if any of you are into ham radio..

i was talking on echo link a few weeks ago & a man that was in the session was a psg player..so i just wondered..

if im out of line with this question im sorry..

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 22 Jan 2006 9:43 pm

NOPE! Not me. I could never learn to do and receive Morse Code at the 60 words per minute requirement or whatever, of the FCC back in the olden days.

I do have some olde radio knobs that might be of interest to any olde Ham operators. Any takers?

Ray Rasmussen · Post by **Ray Rasmussen** » 26 Jan 2006 5:10 pm

I have an SEL rating. When do you have too much fuel? It's all about wieght and balance - my girlfriend lost a husband because of an overloaded out of balance airplane.

Vance Monday · Post by **Vance Monday** » 26 Jan 2006 5:51 pm

I have a single engine land pilot license. I have about 650 hours in a 172 and several hours in other types. What a way to enjoy life, Steelin' and Flyin'.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 26 Jan 2006 6:36 pm

james
I had a tech Ham License back in
the 50's - K6DKS - but got busy
with life and forgot about it -

we only had to do five word a minute
to pass the test back then .

Hick

Bill Bosler · Post by **Bill Bosler** » 26 Jan 2006 6:43 pm

James,
I've been a ham since 1963. Call sign is WF3M. A real extra class ticket, not an extra-lite.

Sidney Ralph Penton · Post by **Sidney Ralph Penton** » 26 Jan 2006 6:53 pm

i started studding to get my ham license a few years ago but never went throgh with it. i don't think many talk on ham today too many computers. but i did find it interesting.

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Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 26 Jan 2006 7:06 pm

When I was in the Signal corps in WWII, I had to do 15wpm hand key and 35 wpm clear text with a Bug, to get my stripes. I also had to learn Japanese Kata Kana code.
We worked the Pacific area.

When I got out I was offered a Radio job with an airline co. and said I didn't want to look at another radio again!! I just wanted to play my Steel guitar...al

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Chris Grotewohl · Post by **Chris Grotewohl** » 26 Jan 2006 7:11 pm

Howdy Folks, I am a ATP with all Instuctor Ratings. I am a Designated Pilot Examiner for the KC FSDO. Private thru ATP and Muliengine, CFI checkrides. A PPE for DC3s.
My Types are DC3, DC3TP turboprops and BU2000 Trimotors. If anyone saw the trimotors at Oshkosh last year I was flyin one of them. I'm trying to get typed on my MSA which is the hardest so far...Chris

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 26 Jan 2006 7:27 pm

Ham radio was one of my biggest joys when I got my General ticket (WD5CBO) in 1977 although I'm pretty much inactive these days.

I'll always remember staying up all night banging away at Morse Code making contacts all over the world.

I have probably spent as much in that hobby as I have playing steel guitar.

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Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 31 Jan 2006 4:22 pm

I took a few flight lessons, Solo'ed in a Piper Traumahawk then the money for lessons ran out. I rode Harley's off and on for years, crashed in 2001 on a brand new Roadking Classic and spent a week in the hospital with broken bones in my back. No more planes, no more motorcylces. I have a 10/11 meter Mobile/Base Ham radio set up that I use to keep in contact with my DX buddies all over the world but I'm going to sell it to buy more PSG stuff. Most recently I've taken up photography. Cheaper and safer! HaHa!

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