Free meals on Vetrans day

navycpo7 wrote:

Baby Fat wrote:

navycpo7 wrote: The O flights (something all pilots know about in CAP) is where cadets go flying with a certified Pilot. The Pilot has to be certified to do O flights

Never did one...I was a "certified pilot" and I have well over 5500 hours-Youre full of sh**..I've had 100 check rides, but none with the CAP and no "orientation flights"


Orientaion flight? Where'd you get that? I'm a certfied double I flight instructor, type rated in the 727, 737 and I don't know what the hell your talkin about..

Well O rides are very common thing is Civil Air Patrol. But not all pilots in CAP can fly an O flight. So you are clueless about CAP. For a pilot to fly with a cadet they have to be certified by CAP There are different levels of CAP certification for Pilots. I know this as I was in CAP. CAP Certification has nothing to do with what you are certified in. That is only the beginning.

It was 1973, it was like the boy scouts except we flew airplanes and everything we did when we met involved avaition..navagation, weather, etc..etc.etc... It was fun, we wore uniforms and protected the homeland. I rose to the rank of captain and I don't remember anything about an orientation flight, there or anywhere else ever and i've been flying for almost 40 years now..I've rented planes everywhere from Tahiti, to Alaska and for insurance purposes you sometimes go up into the pattern with a guy who rents the plane, do a few touch n go's and your good to go..But most of the time they just take a look at my log book and say, you're good..


Orientation flight? lol

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And the second photo is rather suspicious.

I went to The Florida institute of Technology from 79 to 83. It's like MIT or CIT except it's in Florida, so it's FIT. I got a baseball scholorship there but I was mostly there because it's the best aviation program in the nation. The paper is messed up because I didn't take care of it. I threw out all my childhood trophies as well..I'm not into saving that kind of stuff.. BTW- I had trophy's from the precision flight team at FIT- Threw those out too..We' beat Emory Riddle (usually tops in the nation) every year that I was there and I have to take a great deal of credit for that.

2wlady wrote: I have this to say. My brother in Pennsylvania was an officer in CAP and never had a pilot's license. He did this for years. You don't have to be a pilot. You do, however, have to have a strong stomach when you go out to work at a plane crash. I had kids in CAP when I was doing my student teaching in western NC in the mountains. Every year someone would crash in those rugged mountains and the kids would be out there trying to locate the crash. They never said they were veterans, nor did my brother, who is a two-time Vietnam Vet with 100% disability.

Listen, I don't know how they ran other CAP wings..I was in a group of about 5 to 7 and we all flew..Whats the point if you don't..? There were no wannabes in my wing..All we did was meet once a week and fly a couple times a month or when we were needed. We had fly-in breakfests, and little field trips to the nearest AFB, or my dad when take us to the airport and we'd sit in the captain seat of a 747 or something..It was fun, but when somebody was lost in Lake Michigan, or when we had to find a small plane crash..It was all business. We served and we served well. I deserve a free meal

Baby Fat wrote:

2wlady wrote: I have this to say. My brother in Pennsylvania was an officer in CAP and never had a pilot's license. He did this for years. You don't have to be a pilot. You do, however, have to have a strong stomach when you go out to work at a plane crash. I had kids in CAP when I was doing my student teaching in western NC in the mountains. Every year someone would crash in those rugged mountains and the kids would be out there trying to locate the crash. They never said they were veterans, nor did my brother, who is a two-time Vietnam Vet with 100% disability.

Listen, I don't know how they ran other CAP wings..I was in a group of about 5 to 7 and we all flew..Whats the point if you don't..? There were no wannabes in my wing..All we did was meet once a week and fly a couple times a month or when we were needed. We had fly-in breakfests, and little field trips to the nearest AFB, or my dad when take us to the airport and we'd sit in the captain seat of a 747 or something..It was fun, but when somebody was lost in Lake Michigan, or when we had to find a small plane crash..It was all business. We served and we served well. I deserve a free meal

Here's the only thing you deserve...



Chew on that.

Dr Philban wrote:

Baby Fat wrote:

2wlady wrote: I have this to say. My brother in Pennsylvania was an officer in CAP and never had a pilot's license. He did this for years. You don't have to be a pilot. You do, however, have to have a strong stomach when you go out to work at a plane crash. I had kids in CAP when I was doing my student teaching in western NC in the mountains. Every year someone would crash in those rugged mountains and the kids would be out there trying to locate the crash. They never said they were veterans, nor did my brother, who is a two-time Vietnam Vet with 100% disability.

Listen, I don't know how they ran other CAP wings..I was in a group of about 5 to 7 and we all flew..Whats the point if you don't..? There were no wannabes in my wing..All we did was meet once a week and fly a couple times a month or when we were needed. We had fly-in breakfests, and little field trips to the nearest AFB, or my dad when take us to the airport and we'd sit in the captain seat of a 747 or something..It was fun, but when somebody was lost in Lake Michigan, or when we had to find a small plane crash..It was all business. We served and we served well. I deserve a free meal

Here's the only thing you deserve...



Chew on that.

Whatever...I'll be the one camped out in front of the Chocolate Wonderfall on the 14th and you'll be eating your usual tv dinner alone

VL and lil Precious singing their favorite song

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Dang that's spot on...

Mtn Gramma wrote: rofllol rofllol rofllol :roflol: :excited:

Its not that funny Gramma

Every time you pull the "I'm a veteran, I flew in the CAP" routine, I'm amazed people still fall for it.