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From: calvert@ut-sally.UUCP (Ken Calvert)
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Subject: yet another thumbnail biog
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 14:56:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 14:56:14 1986
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As I've enjoyed reading others' bio's, guess I'll venture out of the
ranks of the "passive readers" and give mine.

Age: 29
ASEL, July 1983
Total time: 70 hours, alas.

I guess I've been in hiatus for the last couple of years.
From what I've seen, there seem to be quite a number of
net.aviation readers who have taken some time off from
flying for one reason or another, and then returned.
Makes my heart glad.  In my case, it has been
marriage and returning to school. (read: lack of $$)

I learned to fly in C-150's at Colts Neck, a turf field in the middle
of central New Jersey horse country (near Freehold).  (What? you didn't
know there was horse country in NJ? I recommend a visit to
COL sometime - it's like something out of the barnstorming days -
complete with office heated by pot-bellied stove.  Flying in there on
a clear, calm summer evening is almost a religious experience.
But hurry.  When I left a year ago there was talk of putting
- no kidding -  a shopping mall where the airport is :-()

Of the three airplanes I flew in regularly when learning, usually
only one had a working radio, none had working xponders, and one
was missing a prop spinner.  But they flew okay, and were the cheapest
things around!  

Someone mentioned the experience of a night landing on an unlighted strip.
I'd have to count that as one of my most memorable also (I don't have that
many to choose from).  COL had lights, sometimes.  On my night dual
cross country, we came back late and they hadn't left the lights
on.  The airport was somewhere in the middle of a LARGE dark area.
My instructor said "that's okay, we just fly up this lighted road, make
a left at the lighted billboard, and presto."  Sure enough, there
were the two bicycle-reflectors marking the end of the runway - the
only things visible in the sea of blackness.

Keep 'em flying, and keep writing about it for those of us
who're "just wishin'" right now.

					Ken Calvert
					Univ. of Texas Computer Science
					calvert@sally.UTEXAS.EDU
					ut-sally!calvert

-- 
I speak only for myself, you understand.

Ken Calvert
Univ. of Texas
calvert@sally.UTEXAS.EDU
[ihnp4,seismo,almost anywhere]!ut-sally!calvert