WRUW Today?

C ChiefMark

I have been working from home for years as a director of an IT consultancy. I know what you mean. The grass is always greener though, and when I see cockpit photos of sunlit cloud tops I have to tell myself that day-in and day-out it wold lose it's allure and majesty. I tell myself that anyway... 😬 In the meantime I'll have to satisfy my itch with 20 year-old instruments in 40 year-old airframes below the flight levels. Other than some glorious luck in life that landed me some right seat time in a Lear, a Citation, and an ancient - not to mention barely airworthy - 707, I'll never see anything complex. In answer to what would be my first question, yes, my time in the Lear and 707 is both unlogged and was blatantly illegal. Only the Cessna time (single pilot jet) wasn't breaking a pile of rules. The 707 flight was interesting and terrifying, featuring a ground proximity warning that went off in the flight levels and a thrust reverser that didn't deploy while landing on moss-covered and wet runway in the third world, resulting in tremendous yaw and skidding that was brought under control during a barrage of profanity I'll not forget... and this was over 30 years ago. EDIT - for clarification, during landing I was not in the right seat and I had absolutely nothing to do with bringing that aircraft under control. I was sitting in the jump seat watching, rapt.

Duracuir1

I have never seen this model before. I want one!

Alpha