Sorry, folks, didn't mean to come on so strong, but I used to spend a long time @here and have HAD a lot of friends here, like to encourage young ppl. to fly, and learn from the Old Wings.... but when I came back,
it was all different, and under current TOS it looks like you have to personally own all aircraft depicted, and/or have about 30 100-page legal letters on file granting you Formal, Legal, COP-y-wrong permission to post ANYTHING! I want to know and respect Rules here, and CONTRIBUTE as a Video Creator, because....
I have the....
SKY SPIRIT! Fame and fortune matters nothing to me, I am anonymous, do everything under this weird name, (try Googling it and ignoring Japanese kid-game). I'm just a 59-yr.-old-but-current PPL, SEL (Complex since 1976). Since I was 4, I somehow KNEW I was born to fly, and worked to finance a college education and my PPL at the same time. Got my BA and Private Ticket within months of each other, PPL SEL granted by FAA Nov. 1974, B.A. granted by Univ-Texas at Austin May 1975! Won't bore you with types flown, but worked up from Lineboy Gofer at LRD in 1976-77 to Night Shift Line Chief at LRD' MAIN Old-REAL-Pilot-Style FBO. AND precautionary-landing a
SWEARINGEN MERLIN II when BOTH of our fuel-pressure gauges pegged down to ZERO at 7,000 ft headin' S outta San Antone.. for Laredo. SAT Tower made all the Big Iron go around... even turned on the Rabbit for us. Had to redline her at 350 knots indicated in a 90+ bank just to get down to where we should be, slightly above Pattern alt 2 miles from Rnwy 1-3. Never fell for the "get me a left-handed airscrew" or "bucket of propwash" old initiation-jokes, either. I had read too much since age 7 when I got First Ride in REAL 45-hp J-3 Cub. With my ...um... err..."Aircraft Line Technician" savings, paid for an AWFUL HARD SCHOOL and then I work in a certain place where everybody wears suits and they call me "Counsel".
Flashback to 1973, and I'm plunkin' down for 1 lesson/mo. in a 150 from a bunch of instructors, some True Sky Masters, ...and one who pulled my engine at 2,000- no big deal, trim her up for 70 Best Glide 7' Fwd-to-1' down and find a decent field... check fuel to BOTH, mags ON, carb heat ON, engine's got gas, air, spark, gear down and welded, Flaps dropping right, etc.. Closer and closer we glided down until it was clear we would land safely on a 2-dirt-track grass-hump-in-middle ranch road w/ barbed-wire fence along its R side.... Instructor said/did NOTHING, seemed to be all scrunched down in his seat watching, but with BIG SCARED-STIFF eyes. HE DIDN'T EVER EVER give me engine back OR EVEN A YOKE-WIGGLE, SO....flew the 150 until TOUCHDOWN, and we're rollin' along nose-high, soft-field style, engine idling, yaw-bouncing from gear to main gear, me holding nosewheel UP (didn't DARE let it down on grassy rock-log-concealing middle hump there) LIGHT ailerons to LEFT and out of corners of eyes watching Hard Texas Cedar fenceposts flash by <18 in. under my R wingtips...
Finally I saw the fenceline WAY ahead made a hard 90 car-turn to L, still waiting, still bouncing along the ranch-road, thinkin' "This guy is either crazy or a Marine!" (no difference), & raised up to 10 deg. flaps ready to go UP, and he's just sittin' there like a lump, still cringed down in his seat, REALLY trying to crawl under his seat, not daring to look out... SO... I thought: "This idiot ain't gonna crash ME, so I DID the Necessary and REtook MY airplane and shoved in throttle, cleared fence's turn by 40-60 ft.over, climbing w/FINE airspeed, in a GREAT plane.. at about 1,500 AGL I just LOOKED HARD at him silently.. he un-cringed just a bit and stammered out (he was that terrified): "I....I didn't mean for us to TOUCH DOWN!" And it took all my self control NOT to yell at him "WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER SIGNAL ME SOMEHOW that I had throttle again-EVER?" He had NO answer- so I just narrowed my eyes with contempt, took HIM back to Old LKS W. of Houston and landed, pointedly unbuckled his belt for him, disgusted with this useless guy who had the nerve to charge me for almost crashing us BOTH and obviously had NO clue about REAL Instructoring or ANY real right to use ANY aircraft controls... but at least now I knew I could handle a pasture fenceline pickup-truck road deadstick landing in a Cessna, w/ Texas bobwire fence underwing. Went in and told Instructor Boss (who also happened to be the FAA Designee-Examiner) and told him in few words The Story. Went home, NEVER saw that cringin' ALLEGED instructor again...
LESSON 1: Just because he/she has Instructor Ticket DOES NOT MEAN they will not try to kill BOTH of us.
LESSON 2. Like when lost at night: CLIMB, COMMUNICATE, CONFESS,(HE DIDN'T!) & COMPLY....
LESSON 3. Idiots are EVERYWHERE! (Even teaching teenager pilots!)
LESSON 4. FLY YOUR AIRPLANE (correctly!) ABOVE ALL ELSE! AND KNOW HER!
LESSON 5. GET A REAL PILOT FOR AN INSTRUCTOR! NOT A JUNE BUG! Left right after Boss-instructor report of turned-out-harmless Incident. Hope the FAA-man tore up his Instructor-ticket RIGHT THEN & THERE, but know nothing of what happened AFTER... except the cringin' June Bug was GONE forever after and troubled us no more. NOT easy to learn to fly RIGHT when yer INSTRUCTOR tries to crash ya...
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SO- I am here to share and try to Comply, ALL vids I post here have been up on SueTOOB for YEARS, feel that should be enough for FL350, or I'm outta here.. I don't show stuff kids shouldn't see, but figger I'm among PILOTS, and TRUTH and the MIGHTY US CONSTITUTION are my shields in Reality and Law. FL350 wants to play bunkhouse-lawyer games, I get enuf of that at the office... YouTube was WISE & has benefited from the 8+ MILLION hits my little vids have attracted over the years, and I have had people email me saying "Are you the REAL Crashman, or...?" and YES I'm REAL and HERE and YOU have the RIGHT and RESPONSIBILITY to protect yer kids accordin' to your OWN best PERSONAL PRIVATE judgments, I can't do it for you.. and ANYPLACE is just ONE click AWAY from me! SO: EVERYBODY can feel free to explore my vids at:
My UToob Chan You FL350 Mods- this is YOUR place, so tell me if I'm NOT welcome, OK? But.....if not....
...you WON'T AT ALL BE...
PROUD AND GLORIOUS! ...and you will have
AMNESIA! LONG-TERM MEMORY LOSS! - & this vid, ALL THE HOLLYWOOD SUITS thought was a GOOD thing and DID NOT hassle me for
taking TWO chunks of Holly-Movies and combinin' 'em with a GREAT band's music that gives it away FREE for all to use however they want! Because when you make a collage of chunks of different things made by others, (we ALL depend on EACH OTHER, don't forget!), it is a NEW CREATIVE WORK (Title 17, U.S.C., LOOK IT UP!) and I'll stand up and say we ALL CAN SHARE IT, BECAUSE I do everything here FREE for ALL - just like CHUMBAWAMBA, who made the music for this vid and many others of mine... and ANY ads you see that the SueTOOBs have placed on my videos are WITHOUT MY CONSENT, just RIDING MY BACK, and I have NEVER made a PENNY off my vids- EVER!
Ever hear of a HUGE Nazi Gasbag? No, NOT Rush Limbaugh, the
HINDENBURG! Singers are personal friends of mine, and gave the music to me (I bought their album & it's GONE now from ANY stores) and I DARE you to try to get it outta your head!
Blue Skies and Peace! - the CRASHMAN out, climbin' and changin' frequencies FAST! .
PS: Comments and Constructive Criticism ALWAYS WELCOMED!
Bob Hoover - Probably The Best Pilot In The World., Bob Hoover / Chuck Yeager / Fighter pilot Uni.
Aug 4 2011, 06:31 AM
That's why he is humble.
