Cool site. I didn't even know it existed.
I searched myself and found I still have my certificate as an ATC, even though it's been years.
JohnDoeX: "I'm a real boy!"
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Cool site. I didn't even know it existed.
I searched myself and found I still have my certificate as an ATC, even though it's been years.
You are an official expert!
qarnos
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Didn't JDX mention that he flew one of the last Independence Air flights? I tried looking for the dispatch release he posted but he has "pulled" the image.
In any case, Independence Air ceased operations in January 2006. JDX had his last first class medical examination in May, 2004. The first class medical is only valid for 6 months at which point it reverts to a second class for another 6 months.
The first-class medical is required to fly under ATPL and the second class for CPL. This means that as of May 2005, JDX would not have been allowed to fly as a CPL.
Did anybody save a copy of the dispatch release?
In any case, Independence Air ceased operations in January 2006. JDX had his last first class medical examination in May, 2004. The first class medical is only valid for 6 months at which point it reverts to a second class for another 6 months.
The first-class medical is required to fly under ATPL and the second class for CPL. This means that as of May 2005, JDX would not have been allowed to fly as a CPL.
Did anybody save a copy of the dispatch release?
chipmunk stew
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This is the one and only time I'll ever deliver a message for Rob "JDX"
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=36331#36331johndoex said:
Well, that explains it........oh... except:
- No ATP(a requirement for all airlines)
- No type rating for the DO328 or 727(D'oh claims to have flown both)
- A Knoxville area address(D'oh claims to be a New Yorker)
Maybe beachnut or someone else can correct me, but I thought that FAA certificates didn't expire(mine don't). I looked up a pilot I know and his CFI/CFII ratings are dated 1988. In other words they dont list the recurrent date, they list the original issue date. I could be wrong.
The FAA says:
Commercial - 12/02
CFI/CFII - 6/99
....but D'oh says:
Commercial - 5/96
Multiengine - 7/96
CFI - 10/96
CFII - 3/97
MEI - 6/97
(implying that whats listed are the renew dates.)
I'm just asking questions
no expiration, need current medical, first class you are hooked up to OKC and they see your heart stuff as you are in doc office
did you look at all the pages, it has tabs
the first time I checked out JDX or the pilotstruth guy, I thought I saw an ATP and type ratings, I noticed his CFI was not current
Glen Stanish, who registered the domain for pilotsfortruth, does indeed have everything he says he has including a B737 type rating. But, Robert Balsamo only had what I listed above.
I bet I looked up Glen. I think I did go to whoisit or the ip place. Did Glen's stuff match the JDX junk? That name sound familiar.
Actually there are a few pilots who are have too much ego to believe anyone can fly the new jets. But they are easy to fly once underway. The things your Captain does to land and takeoff in the WX are the hard things that take some of years to master! If JFK junior had take IFR training he would still be flying. The hard part of flying was not demonstrated by the terrorist, simple winds and weather could have foiled them.
It was funny looking at the FDR video with smart remarks by a so called pilot. The so called pilot tells us the terrorist should have done a 25 degree dive into the pentagon instead of the simple turn and line up he did. I really do not ever want to fly with who ever made the comments.
A handful of pilots are in the truth movement. I am worried their poor judgment could be reflected in their flying.
I'm 50/50 on D'oh actually being a pilot. I've known a few dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks pilots(but most are really quite sharp as you know), but D'oh has had so many foot-in-mouth dead giveaway moments(didnt know if UA used ACARS) that I'm pretty sure that if he is(was) a pilot - he's never commanded anything more than a Cessna 310.
Glen flies for Continental, so you might wanna avoid them. D'oh claims alot of the Independance Air pilots "had questions". But, don't worry, they went belly-up earlier this year.
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Looks like the leaders in the truth movement self destruct in their everyday jobs. JaneDoe not picked up, Jones retired, etc.
Funny the first amendment comes up, I will have to remember that when my kids try to commit me!
Maybe one of our expert pilots single handedly brought down Independence air!
Funny the first amendment comes up, I will have to remember that when my kids try to commit me!
Maybe one of our expert pilots single handedly brought down Independence air!
qarnos
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People like JDX need to realise that being a pilot does not mean you can't be wrong.
Someone quite a while ago mentioned the analogy of someone with a drivers license automatically qualified as a road crash expert. I thought that was quite succinct.
CurtC
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A couple of weeks ago, I was on a father-son campout, and one of the other dads in our group is a 757 pilot for Northwest. I asked him if he ever got a wierd feeling thinking it was his kind of plane that was hijacked on 9/11. He said no, and then added that the reason the terrorists made sure to hijack either 757s or 767s was that those are the ones that are automated enough that they could actually fly them successfully.
Really? I would be surprised if the new jets weren't the easiest to fly, in terms of the actual "monkey skills" of manipulating the controls.
They still have lots of complex systems to learn, I'm sure. But it would seem to me that safety considerations, if nothing else, would tend toward designing for a lower workload for the pilots.
rikzilla
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I knew about the site but I don't think they've always had a search function for pilot certificate holders. Very cool! I looked myself up too.
Edwin Richard Robinson
No address listed for me but my little Private Pilot Certificate shows up!
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The_Fire
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That would explain why the darned plane was bumping like a kangaroo on drugs during my last trip to Canada: It wasn't airpockets! It was the dog and the man fighting over the controls!
.jaydeehess
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I had a guy who claimed to be a pilot(granted he only claims Cessna 172) who told me that Flight 77 could not have made the manouver because it dropped 7000 ft in 2.5 minutes and that is 2800 feet per second!!!
He had divided 7000 by 2.5 to get 2800. When I pointed out that there are 150 seconds in 2.5 minutes and that makes it 47 feet per second he changed the subject.
He also could not calulate the g forces claiming that flight 77 would have experienced 5 g in the turn it made. I calculated less than 1 g lateral and less than 1 g over normal gravity vertical force and asked him to check my figures. He couldn't.
I am also told that a 757 cannot exceed VMO, that the computer will not allow it. Anyone know if the computer will counter pilot commands and reduce power as Vmo is exceeded?
The proof is seen on 9/11, a pilot can exceed speed limits by pushing up the power or lowering the nose. You could shut down the engines and still go faster by pointing the nose down.
You are right. Flight 77 was simple pilot stuff, lazy sloppy turn, a 2500 feet per minute descent. Too simple. these guys kept it simple until they had their targets made, then they pushed up the throttles and crashed. Most pilots will tell you it is simple to do what the terrorist did.
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If anyone cares, the G forces are recorded in the FDR data, and none of it is even remotely abnormal. I can look it up later but I think the vertical G never gets about about 1.7 or 1.8. The latteral is even less interesting.