Flight Pundit

So Michael moves back to Colorado as this person starts a “business” –one that he (Michael) is well qualified to operate…in the very area he lived in!! Hmm…maybe there are opportunities for this up in Colorado??

The Chandler, Ariz., resident has started a business that will make it that much easier for amorous couples to join the “Mile-High Club.”

For $750, couples can get a 90-minute ride 6,000-feet above the Phoenix area, with the only destination being that delightful place known as love, sweet love, the Arizona Republic reports.

Riedel’s friend, Richard McPherson, flies the lovebirds up in a Cessna 320 decked out with a “retro lounge jazz club” interior for the company, Mile High AZ.

Thus far Riedel’s venture is still in its infancy. Mile High AZ is testing the airspace, so to speak, offering free flights to friends, who in turn leave “testimonials” on Milehighclub.com.

“It was everything we expected and more,” the Republic quoted one posting.

And though this mortgage broker hasn’t quit his day job, the paper reports, he’s enjoying the ride, noting it’s “a heck of a lot more fun to talk about than being a Realtor.”

All I can say is:::
***THUD***

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Some people need to remember- don’t mess around on flights anymore.

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How do you make a small fortune in Aviation?

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I was flying today, 4 years after the terrorist’s attack on America.
Security was tight, every passenger was looking at everyone else.

God Bless America.
We will never forget!

We are still waiting for the Islamic people to condemn these barbaric attacks!

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Flying to Miami last Sunday was painful as I have seen in a long time. I stopped by Bugger King where they should remove the people all together because they bad a bad meal even worse. The America West ground and Flight crew were all very pleasant compared to other airlines

The planes had no leg room, no extra room for bags and what I noticed was that passengers were the problem. I saw people bump into others with no care in the world. People are just living in there one little world and thinking that everyone else should get out of the way. I understand the cattle car mentality but people are way too rude.

I think I am ready for the cheap tickets to stop. It would make flying not so common. Not something that everyone does all the time. then maybe it would not attract the hateful people.

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Raven asked in a comment what it is like to fly. So I thought I would start at the beginning and do a true flying story every once in a while. This is my second favorite topic other than women, Marines, politics, guns. So here is the first episode:

My first flight was in an old Cessna 172 when I was six. From that point on I was hooked for life. The desire to fly has guided my life through school, the Marines, college, and work. My first lesson was from a retired Army Colonel when I was just 18 before I entered the Marines. I did this without the knowledge of my parents. I flew for an hour in this old plane that really amazed me that it was able to start let alone fly. It was the best airplane I could afford at the time working on minimum wage at McDonald’s while in high school. Shit hit the fan at home when I told them afterwards.

Years later in the Marine Corps, I was working with pilots every day and was finally able to talk one into teaching me to fly in the off time and I had positioned myself in a way to afford the lessons. I took a couple lessons and then got deployed to another desert with my unit and was not able to continue. I studied all of the flying books I could but would not continue while active.

After I was discharged from the Marines I got a ramp job (fueling airplanes) at the same local airport, with another former Marine, that I spent much time at growing up. I was in college so I took whatever work there was to pay for flights. We had two lessons and he was killed in a airplane accident that almost stopped my will to fly. I started again with another Certified Flight Instructor’s (CFI’s) a month later. Death is a part of life in the military and also in aviation. You have to move on.

Well we got to a point that I was comfortable with all aspects of simple flight. My CFI & I were doing touch and goes at my home airport when he said come to a complete stop, pull off the runway, and he jumped out and said do three more touch and goes.

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