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PbyCat-Guy
 Post subject: How Do I Fly?
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Looking for guidance as of how to become a P-47, B-17, B-29 pilot eventualy. Finishing up my CFI, and have just a few hours of tail wheel time. Considering getting a job towing banners this summer to build up my Tail Wheel time. What's next after building up tail wheel & high performance time?
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PbyCat-Guy wrote:
Looking for guidance as of how to become a P-47, B-17, B-29 pilot eventualy. Finishing up my CFI, and have just a few hours of tail wheel time. Considering getting a job towing banners this summer to build up my Tail Wheel time. What's next after building up tail wheel & high performance time?


Making the right friends and finding other ways to make money that pay more?

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T-6 time.

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remember the basics,
pull back, houses get smaller, keep pulling back and houses get bigger again.

push forward, houses get bigger, keep pushing forward, houses get bigger a whole lot faster

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Go buy one.
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Then, landing the T-6 regularilly from the back seat ! So you can be checked on the Spitfire, the Mustang, and all those cool machines...

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Matt Gunsch wrote:
remember the basics,
pull back, houses get smaller, keep pulling back and houses get bigger again.

push forward, houses get bigger, keep pushing forward, houses get bigger a whole lot faster


And when you push the controls left or right and step on the foot rest the world will keep coming around and get bigger all the time.... :wink:

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RMB wrote:
Go buy one.

Gee, I thought everyone had a B-29 here. You mean there's B-29less people? Sad. :lol:

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me109me109 wrote:
T-6 time.


In all seriousness, this is the "gatekeeper" to the warbird world. If you are hoping to ever fly a warbird fighter, at least 200 hours in the T-6 is required to be in your logbook in order for you to be insured to fly the fighter..

If you are interested in going into the multiengine heavies, then the C-45/Twin Beech is the place to start logging similar numbers of hours.
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Talk to WIX'er Chuck Gardner. He took the exact route you're describing and succeeded at it. He's now logging massive amounts of time in the Collings Foundation's TP-51C!

Ahhh, I remember when he was just a wee lad looking for his first job towing banners. :wink: :lol:

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 Post subject: 200 hours in a T-6
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You guys need to get more specific:

200 hours T6 at 30 gallons an hour= 6000 gallons

6000 gallons at $4.50 a gallon = $27,000.

Bare facts, objective information, what WIX is ALWAYS about... Bull$hit not allowed here...

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Forgotten Field wrote:
You guys need to get more specific:

200 hours T6 at 30 gallons an hour= 6000 gallons

6000 gallons at $4.50 a gallon = $27,000.

Bare facts, objective information, what WIX is ALWAYS about... Bull$hit not allowed here...


you can't pay the $27,000 for the gaz!
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RyanShort1
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Forgotten Field wrote:
You guys need to get more specific:

200 hours T6 at 30 gallons an hour= 6000 gallons

6000 gallons at $4.50 a gallon = $27,000.

Bare facts, objective information, what WIX is ALWAYS about... Bull$hit not allowed here...


I know where fuel can be had for $2-3.50 a gal... if that helps any.

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