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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Introduction
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 15:33:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 15:33:29 1986
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> Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies.
> This seems a good idea for net.aviation...

Self-introduction?  Sure, why not.

I've been flying for 8-1/2 years, and have logged almost 1200 hours.
Every one of those hours was paid for out of my own pocket.  The first
200 were in a 1965 Cherokee 140, the next 250 in a 1959 Comanche 250,
and the last 750 hours in a 1946 Cessna 120.

I got my instrument rating in 1980 and kept it current for the next
two years.  But I never found a use for it.  It always seemed like the
weather was either VFR or else was so bad that I refused to fly a
single-engine plane IFR in the stuff.  By 1982 I finally figured out
that my personal single-engine IFR minima were stricter than my VFR
minima, and that unless/until I got a multi-engine rating (not very
likely) I was wasting money keeping my instrument rating current.

Almost all of my flying is local, fair-weather daytime VFR; just flying
for the sheer delight of being flying.  Just for the heck of it, once a
year I fly to the Oakland area where I have family and friends; that
trip is always an adventure.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug