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Gulfstream Girl Gets Her Seaplane Rating |
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Don Maxwell - Jan 11,2015
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Russ Garner - Dec 16,2013
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I guess we're suppose to be surprised women can fly airplane and sometimes better than their male counterparts.
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Russ Garner - Dec 19,2013
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You don't have to be a male to fly airplanes. I met my wife Lou Ann flying ultralights in the early 80's as some of you know. She had some trouble assembling her machine the day I met her and that's how I met her. But once we were in the air she flew circles around me in Advanced Aviation Cobra built by the founder of Progressive Aerodyne Kerry Richter. She was somewhat a novelty to some back then but males treated her and the few other women pilots with respect as fellow pilots taking the risks as the guys were. Just ask Jon Brown of Browns SPB about Lou Ann and he will tell you he thinks she's one of best pilots he's had the pleasure of giving ASES rating to. You don't need to be sorted out just because your female anymore.
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Robert Charlwood Richardson - Dec 17,2013
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Gentlemen, as a former USAF pilot who had in his UTP class two early <br />female students, then as a C-5A/B squadron chief pilot I hired four <br />female UTP graduates during the post First Gulf War pilot <br />drawdown. In all these cases I found them fully on par with their male <br />counterfeit dying skills; except that I had to regularly deal with whisper <br />campaigns that their advancement had more to do than their flying <br />skills. <br /><br />So I am confused by this thread. Are you questioning her float plane <br />skills or the fact that she has been too aggressive in pursuing so many <br />flight credentials? Or is it that she is a good looking blonde female <br />who also appears to be a good stick. Would you have the same <br />comment for a twenty something good looking blonde guy following the <br />same career path? I can think of a few like that who fly SeaReys. <br /><br />As a model she makes good money that can pay for top knotch <br />training and she found a corporate flight ops chief to mentor her <br />through the process. Most of the heads of corporate flt ops are former <br />military officers and they tng/ run thing like they did in the military. <br />Looking at the referred websites it looks like she made the most of the <br />professional aviation training out there and had the money to pay for it. <br />so she is broadcasting this on social media, that is what today's <br />Internet generation does. Face it, the US GA pilot group is aging and <br />shrinking. She is making GA glamourous for her Millinium age group. I <br />can understand why SeaReyNE is making the most of their new <br />graduate. <br /><br />As for Don's run down of milt flt tng time. I graduated from UPT with <br />289hrs in T37/38 acft and received @20hrs in C-130s before i was <br />made a mission ready C-130 pilot. As to her 3-days of Taylorcraft <br />float training to check ride with SeaReyNE, I did exact same thing out <br />of Bay Bridge airport. I did it in 3-days and 4.5hrs. Every SES <br />instructor will tell a newby that the landing/takeoff part is easy, it is the <br />general around water and flt ops one needs to focus on and build <br />experience on. I am sure that SeaReyNE gave her that sound advice. <br /><br />Having flown up to Dandury CT Summer of 2012, I found that the flying <br />and water ops around Danburry CT is no easy matter. Besides <br />bridges, all the lakes and rivers are surrounded by hills or set don in 2-<br />300 gullies requiring a seaplane pilot to not only focus on where to <br />alight on the water, but also the flight path to the alighting point. This <br />something us Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Canadian SeaRey pilots <br />know very well. While the FL environment is nice and warm with nice <br />flat lakes. Come north and you learn about SeaRey flying in wooded <br />mountain terrain. <br /><br />Until I or someone I know fly with her and tells me to beware. I will treat <br />her with the same respect I treat all pilots with FAA Certificates. <br />Despite all the rumors, I have never heard of any case where a check <br />ride was passed for other than valid flight reasons, even with our over <br />active imaginations. <br />
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Don Maxwell - Dec 17,2013
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Right on, Rob--about female pilots in general and GG in particular. AND those flatulent fairweather flat flaccid Florida flyers!<br /><br />Oh. <br /><br />Sorry. I wasn't trying to stir up a controversy--just thought it was a nice seaplane training video with a pleasant looking student. <br /><br />My own favorite seaplane training location is at T73, Kirk Air Base, near Lancaster SC. For my semi-final exam before the checkride, Jim Kirk had me fly west of town, where a railroad bridge and dual highway bridges cross the river at different odd angles. The water is about 400 feet wide there, but it looked like 50 feet to me that day and at least 200 feet down below the bridges, way down below the tall trees on the high riverbanks. He said, 'Clear the second bridge by less than 50 feet--the bridge, not the tractor-trailers crossing over it. Land on the water, then power up, take off, and fly under the power lines and pass to the left of the islands, then climb up above the trees. Then do it again.' <br /><br />Tsk. It doesn't look nearly as exciting to me now. Piece of cake! You can see it in GoogleMaps at 34.708669,-80.86676 <br /><br />I'd forgotten about the other set of power lines, between the bridges...
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Don Maxwell - Dec 18,2013
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Now that I've watched a good number of Gulfstream Girl's videos, I agree that they seem to promote an agenda perhaps more than necessary. This seaplane video, for example, is essentially a commercial for the instructor, as well as making GG look good. And she does seem to have had special guidance in becoming a Gulfstream pilot so quickly.<br /><br />On the other hand, it seems a cheerful video and it does give a pretty good idea of what it takes to get a SES rating, so I'll leave it here unless someone objects.
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Alex Nelon - Feb 03,2015
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I'm with you, Don.
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Ed Feraca - Jan 28,2015
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Just an FYI about here seaplane rating. My partner Tony Debany gave her the training and rating and said gulf stream girl was a
good stick. And the FAA examiner is no pushover. That said a cub is not a Searey 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Aj1oz_ODc
http://www.sportflyingct.com
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