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webkiwi
Hi,
my name is Michael, and I am a … flightsimulatorholic
(thanks to Bob Holland and his fantastic hop servers) 14
years with United Airlines has given me a little bit of “aviation” experience,
but I was furloughed after the events of 9/11. I now work for the government,
but don’t tell anyone, ok? I
am originally from
Glenorchy,
Opononi,
Middle Earth! Filming for the Lord
of the Rings took place here.
NZQN, South
Island, New Zealand. Fun place to land! In
addition, I have about 8 years of Law Enforcement experience and currently volunteer
as a Tactical Flight Officer with the Law Enforcement Aviation Coalition (LEAC),
based at KENW. As a result, I have also started painting aircraft as there is
nothing cooler than flying our police helicopter in flight simulator. We even
used flight sim to decide on the paint scheme of our latest helicopter, a DoD surplus
LEAC
EC-135 on local news coverage Refueling stop
during a mission
LEAC EC-135 ‘Air One’ at KMDW
LEAC EC-135 ‘Air One’ in FS2004
Our
new LEAC OH-58C as delivered
LEAC OH-58C proposed paint in FS2004
LEAC OH-58C proposed paint in FS2004 My
flight preference is rotary wing (for obvious reasons), but seem to find myself
in either a Dash 7, Beech Twin Bonanza a lot, or more recently a A-1H
Skyraider, especially during the NJ Short Hops. I love floatplanes, and hope to
see a floatplane hop sometime. I also read an article recently about “flying” Route
66, which sounds like it would be an interesting helo hop
list… Look
forward to talking and flying with you all soon. Oh, BTW, check out the Google
Earth links on Bob’s site. You can track your flight progress and is an AWESOME
feature that apparently not many people know about. Some
of my frequently visited sites… Stay
safe. NB:
I originally had a few problems connecting and/or staying connected to the hop
servers. After many frustrated evenings I finally found some online resources
for configuring routers etc so thought I would share them for the next person. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823630 |
