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    We really appreciate the feedback you've brought from sharing your experiences with the fleet Fummins!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Daox View Post
    We really appreciate the feedback you've brought from sharing your experiences with the fleet Fummins!
    I agree too!

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    I somehow missed this thread.

    Once I retired from flying big iron (767s) I was a college prof before retiring for good.

    The trust management is almost hands off and I have some of my money in it so it's really a hobby.
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    We're driving the Beetle of the 21st century, the greatest small car now available!

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    Cool! A friend of mine has his 777 ticket at Air Canada.

    I took the stick in a little Cessna once.

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    I guess I'll chime in as part of the "never noticed this thread before" crowd:

    After getting an AS degree in Electronics in 1986, I spent 8 years in the US Air Force as a Nuclear Weapons Technician. Then I got into electronic test equipment repair and calibration for a few years, moved on to flight test instrumentation with an aircraft manufacturer, and then got into IT and database administration. That led to more database admin and database programming, and then to website design and programming. (lightweight programming, ASP and PHP mostly) When the Gulf Coast economy tanked due to the big oil spill in the mid 2000's, my web design job fizzled and I found myself in that interesting place of being in my mid-40's and underqualified for most jobs that would pay a decent wage. Old enough that if I tried to get any significant education while working at the same time, it would take so long to complete it... and then PAY for it... that I'd never really break even. What to do?

    What I'm doing now is stuff I just sort of lucked into. I've always been an auto enthusiast, and I've been autocrossing and organizing autocross events since about 1995. So, that morphed from "hobby" to "business", and now half my income (I don't make a lot, mind you) comes from organizing autocross events. The other half comes from being a professional driving instructor (street driving). I taught part-time for about a year back around 2002, and more recently worked for a friend's driving school for about 3 years before deciding to open my own school with another friend. Business has been slowly increasing, and we just hired our first employee for a total of 3 instructors.

    tl;dr: I'm part owner of a driving school and an autocross club. I teach 4 days per week and organize 2 autocross events every month. I make enough money to get by, and I have lots of free time to slack off and do what I want. Fortunately, my house is paid for, and my wife has a much more stable job than I do. Life is good!
    Simplify and add lightness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loren View Post
    I guess I'll chime in as part of the "never noticed this thread before" crowd:
    flight test instrumentation with an aircraft manufacturer,
    Didn't Embraer open an assembly facility in Florida not long ago? Is it anywhere near you? I read they were looking for people with prior aircraft plant experience. I absolutely love their small jets, the 100 and 300 series are just the best in class IMO.
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    Shelby AKA "Cute", 2017 ES 5MT, A/C.

    Mirage owners look at the world differently than everyone else, but in a better way
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        click to view fuel log View my fuel log 2017 Mirage ES PLus 1.2 manual: 39.0 mpg (US) ... 16.6 km/L ... 6.0 L/100 km ... 46.8 mpg (Imp)


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    Quote Originally Posted by Wallythacker View Post
    Didn't Embraer open an assembly facility in Florida not long ago? Is it anywhere near you?
    Oh, I couldn't answer that question. I left the aircraft industry behind over 20 years ago! I enjoyed working in flight test instrumentation except for the fact that sometimes we had to fly to essentially "monitor the experiments" and keep things working. I hate flying! I especially hate flying with hotshot test pilots in experimental airplanes. So, I let that job go and got into IT instead.

    If you're an aircraft geek, I worked for Raytheon (after they bought Beechcraft), and I primarily worked on the Premier 1 while it was in its certification process. We monitored up to about 100 parameters on every test flight. Everything from pedal and yoke positions to flap and rudder positions, pressures and temperatures on anything you can think of, strain gauges on stuff like the landing gear and even the airframe itself, video monitoring of airflow with yarn tufts, and just... everything. Neat stuff! But, I'm not an airplane geek at all. Never was. So, it didn't pain me to walk away from it.
    Simplify and add lightness.

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