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From: cfiaime@ihnp3.UUCP (J. Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Happy New Year
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 10:46:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 10:46:35 1986
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In article <729@ucsfcgl.UUCP> rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) writes:
>
>Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies.
>This seems a good idea for net.aviation...

This is a good idea, Bob...so let me add my $.02...

I learned to fly in 1971 at DuPage County Airport near Chicago.  My first
airplane was a Cessna 150 (N6914G, a real pretty blue and white 1971 model)
that was on lease-back.  In 1973, the FBO went under, and I could not 
afford the 150.  I traded it on a Luscombe which a friend totaled several
months later.  It was replaced with a Taylorcraft in 1973.  My instrument 
and commercial were in 1974, mainly because I didn't want to take a 
Biennial Flight Review.  (1974 was the first year for the BFR.)  

In 1974 my wife and I moved to Chanute, Kansas.  The Taylorcraft went to
my brother, and I was forced to RENT for a while.  In Chanute I got my CFI
(1975) and first started flying charter.  May, 1977, I had the misfortune
of totaling a Cherokee 140 while giving dual.  This crash lead directly
to a job offer as a CFI in Augusta, Kansas, right outside of Wichita.
In 1977, Phoebe, my Funk, came into the family.  It also gave the CFII.
While working in Augusta, I got my multi-engine rating.  It was very fun
flying in Augusta, simply because I was able to part-time with a ferry
service moving new Cessnas all over the country.  I also joined CAP in 
Wichita.

When I realized that playing CFI was making me go broke, I went part time
with the FBO and full time with several companies in Wichita.  During
1979, I worked for Learjet in experimental flight test as a ground team
member in certifying the model 28 and 29.  

In 1979, Mid-Plains Aviation in Norfolk, Nebraska hired me as a CFI and
charter pilot.  Here is where my multi-instructor came from.  Late in 1979
I moved back to Wichita, into a job at Boeing as a computer communications
specialist.

During this period, I helped forge the Kansas Blood Run program for CAP.
This agreement is now used in several states to allow CAP to fly blood
on a regular basis for the Red Cross.  Because of this program, I have
been credited with over 30 "Saves" with CAP.

I moved back to the Chicago area in 1981, and got my ATP in 1982.  Since
1984, I have been flying for Condor, a small company that deals in antique
airplanes, warbirds, and unusual production aircraft.  This is the group
that I am doing the flight test for on a composite airplane.  They also
are forcing me to fly a PT-19 and a DC-3.

Total time is around 3000 hours, mostly in singles.  The biggest airplane
flown as PIC is a King Air 90.  The DC-3 type rating is in the cards for
1986.

					jeff williams
					AT&T Bell Laboratories
					ihnp3!cfiaime
					ATP Multi
					Commercial Single
					CFI Airplane Instrument Multiengine
					Advanced and Instrument Ground