04-03-2015, 11:30 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 230
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How many pilots on here?
Hi, I am a Student Pilot currently taking flying lessons at a local flight school in NJ. I am interested to see how many other Boxster owners on here currently fly for work/leisure or even plan to in the future? My father was a Pilot(Military) and I moved base-to-base all my life so I guess I sort of had it in my blood. It was my dream to fly for the military as well but my weak eyes were a disqualification. My dream now is to live on an air park and fly as much as I want and maybe eventually instruct to make my living. It seems likeit will be a few years before I can do that.
Chime in.
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2001 Seal Gray Boxster (Hair Salon on wheels)
2013 Audi Q5 (Family Mover)
2006 Yamaha R1 (Adrenaline Machine)
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04-03-2015, 12:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: SW Okla
Posts: 1,115
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I have my private pilot and my glider pilot license.
I spent 23 years in the USAF as a navigator on the KC-135R; the big air refueling jet. Along the way I spent 5 of those years as a liaison officer to the US Army in a close-air support/air liaison officer role. I've seen the world from one end to the other.
Now that I'm retired I work as a range control officer on a joint-use Air Force/Army bombing range. I'm still around military aircraft everyday.
I couldn't have had a better career.
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I think I have a Porsche problem...
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04-03-2015, 12:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Oshawa
Posts: 96
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Plus 1 for Private Pilot!!!
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1997 Boxster! (Tiptronic)
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04-03-2015, 01:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 141
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I work as a Test Pilot to pay for my Porsche addiction... :-)
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04-03-2015, 01:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tx
Posts: 259
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student pilot here, 15 hrs not yet solo'd, but ready. I fired my last CFI. Currently flying a C-150, but have been in C-120, C-170, and a PA-28. I love the C-150 by far the most. I like to hop off my Busa and step into a 150. Yea, life is good.
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Chris Dennis, Plano, Texas
'07 Boxster, arctic silver, Tiptronic, 106k miles, no mods
‘13 Boxster S, black on black, PDK, 27k miles, garage queen
‘66 Mooney M20E, hangar queen
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04-03-2015, 01:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tx
Posts: 259
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I thought I was on the Hayabusa forum. Correction: I like to step out of my Boxster, and into a C-150
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Chris Dennis, Plano, Texas
'07 Boxster, arctic silver, Tiptronic, 106k miles, no mods
‘13 Boxster S, black on black, PDK, 27k miles, garage queen
‘66 Mooney M20E, hangar queen
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04-03-2015, 03:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 74
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Commercial Pilot, Instrument rating, airplane owner (Beech Super III, 200 HP), airplane builder (Vans RV-9A, 160 HP).
Last edited by DG Boxster; 04-03-2015 at 03:42 PM.
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04-03-2015, 03:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Wallace, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Posts: 182
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTele58
I couldn't have had a better career.
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Congrats on your career.....I love hearing stories like that.
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The name's Ian....now a former owner.....sold my 2000 Speed Yellow Base to its new owner in Nova Scotia.
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04-03-2015, 03:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Peterborough Ontario Canada
Posts: 148
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Private -multi engine- floats. 0360 powered Glastar taildragger + Aerocet 2200 floats. Boxster spent the winter in the hangar with the Glastar-nestled next to the floats.
Last edited by pilut2; 04-03-2015 at 04:02 PM.
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04-03-2015, 04:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 160
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Single engine commercial, multi engine private, instrument airplane. Unfortunately I don't fly anymore. No time. Became an air traffic controller instead.
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04-03-2015, 04:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2013
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 2,079
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Does RC Count ?
I had to ask
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04-03-2015, 05:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tacoma
Posts: 429
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Commercial single and multi, CFII
My job is flight deck design.
After a lapse in flying I am back at it, this time just for fun
My passion is mountain flying
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04-03-2015, 05:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: FL
Posts: 4,144
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PPL SEL around 150 hours, mostly C-152 and C-172 and around 30 hours in a Zenair CH-701.
Lots of fun but the last time I went up was around 2003.
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04-03-2015, 05:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kuna, Idaho
Posts: 308
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Never ask a man if he's a pilot! If he is, he'll let you know. If he's not, you don't want to embarrass him...
Private pilot, everything from a Pitts to a Baron. Learned basic aerobatics in a Citabria then moved up to RV-4s, followed by a Marchetti SF260. Love low and fast, high and upside down.
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04-03-2015, 05:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Kuna, Idaho
Posts: 308
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Side note, these Porsches feel like Pilots cars.
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04-03-2015, 06:50 PM
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Motorist & Coffee Drinker
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 3,889
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Just helicopters. Preferably at night in dark, vacant air.
I am scared of birds, but I think they are more scared of me.
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04-03-2015, 06:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Greenville, S.C.
Posts: 2,670
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Oddly enough I always had an interest in the Air Force, but my build and desire to be a somewhat viable family man has steered me away.
Regardless I want a private license, any suggestions on at what age i should begin pursuing this?
As a side note the band teacher at school used to have a boxster and now has a cayanne GTS and an air cooled 911, he is an Apache pilot in the guard.
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04-03-2015, 07:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Oshawa
Posts: 96
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pilut2
Private -multi engine- floats. 0360 powered Glastar taildragger + Aerocet 2200 floats. Boxster spent the winter in the hangar with the Glastar-nestled next to the floats.
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Would that be at CYOO?
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1997 Boxster! (Tiptronic)
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04-03-2015, 08:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: San Dimas Ca.
Posts: 49
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Private with an instrument rating here. Owned a 76 Cardinal II straight leg for 20 years.
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04-03-2015, 08:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: new orleans
Posts: 249
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spent 8 years in the army as a crew chief on blackhawks and hueys. not a pilot, but a little stick time on mtfs in the hueys. bye the way f350 nice bird strike, hope all was well after. was it a hawk? dealt with a few pigeons in my days also.
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2005 Porsche Boxster S, 2000 Porsche Boxster 2.7L Base, 2000 Mazda Miata LS Supercharged, 2010 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road
Previous Vehicles: 2005 Ford Mustang GT, 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider, 1971 Alfa Romeo GTV, 1999 Ford Mustang
1977 Toyota Celica GT
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