Originally Posted by
captain152
USMC - 2006 ... Still got a few decades of flying left, but it's good to look back on where it all began.
Good to see a fellow Cowboy on here though!
It is very strange coming back to where it all began for me.
Here I am, 25 years after I started flying, doing work around the very airfields that I started flying.
I started training out of KTUL and KRVS, finished up my private and got the rest of my ratings through KSWO. 'Flying Aggie' from '87-'88 and still have the jacket to prove it!
I have recently run across another former Cowby from that timeframe and a young lady who is currently enrolled. Coming back home makes it feel like a really small world.
jsf - have you taken many long x/cs like this (or obviously not as far in distance)? I always felt like I got the most out of flying somehwere else and getting out of the local area. On that trip to Biloxi, I did probably half of it in IMC with actual approaches in Jackson and Biloxi, MS. I felt like I was up there flying with the BIG boys
USMCFLYR