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These memoirs of a great aviation career are cleverly presented as a life flight adventure. Each chapter is a series of interesting, informative, and easy reading, short stories. Many are airborne adventures, from which pilots may learn from the author’s many mistakes, as well as his many achievements.
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Overview

These memoirs of a great aviation career are cleverly presented as a life flight adventure. Each chapter is a series of interesting, informative, and easy reading, short stories. Many are airborne adventures, from which pilots may learn from the author’s many mistakes, as well as his many achievements.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780738813790
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • Publication date: 5/6/2008
  • Pages: 612
  • Sales rank: 965,303
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.36 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 13
Preface 15
Part I General Aviation Industry
Chapter 1 The Preflight Years
1. What do you Want to be? 23
2. The Roots of my Raising Run Deep 27
3. From Agony to Ecstasy on My First Airplane Ride 31
4. "You'll Never be a Pilot" 34
5. The Pretty Party Crasher 37
6. School Daze 41
Chapter 2 The War Years
7. Civil Air Patrol Coast Patrol Duty 47
8. Regaining Respect at Coastal Patrol Base #21 52
9. I Join the Marines by Mistake 57
10. Surviving Boot Camp at Parris Island 61
11. Tragedy and Heartbreak at Cherry Point 65
12. The Fatal Switch 70
13. Finding my Niche in Marine Aviation 75
14. Tarawa--my First Taste of War 78
15. Night Fighter Action in the Marshall Islands 84
16. Mopping up on Saipan 89
17. I Almost Miss the Boat 93
18. Back Home in the Good Old U.S.A. 97
19. Marriage was Far from my Mind 101
20. Thrills and Chills on my First Solo Flight 105
21. I Learn to Fly Right 110
22. They Almost Ship me out Again 115
Chapter 3 The Training Years
23. On-the-Job Training 121
24. I Finally Become a Private Pilot 126
25. We Take a Second Honeymoon in A J-3 CUB 129
26. Iron Thumb Barretta 131
27. Exciting But Insecure Work 133
28. Three Strikes and I'm Out 138
29. Mechanic School--A Big Tough Decision 143
30. Cal Aero Technical Institute 148
31. Looking for Work 154
32. "You Can't Fly, you're Color-Blind" 158
33. A Fast Track to a Commercial Pilot License 163
34. A Home of Our Own 168
35. An Airplane Becomes a Part of me 171
Chapter 4 The Professional Pilot/Mechanic Years
36. Any Old Port in a Thunderstorm 177
37. The Piper Pacer Wing Ding 180
38. A Pilot's Most Embarrassing Moment 183
39. The Pressure Pot 185
40. Walking in High Cotton 190
41. Helpful Influences 194
42. The Wrestler 198
43. My Transition from Airplanes to Automobiles 202
44. "Where Are We?" 206
45. We Called Him Steve 210
46. The Phantom Runway 214
47. Back Seat Airplane Driver 218
48. The Clipped Tip Propeller 222
49. Why I Quit Scud Running 226
50. Caught in Violation 233
51. From Norfolk to Amarillo with a Lunatic 237
52. My Most Unforgettable Flight 242
53. We Got a Bonus Instead of a Boy 249
54. The Mexican Connection 253
55. Just Turn It Loose 259
56. Bill Piper's Tree Top Encounter 263
Chapter 5 Fixed Base Operator
57. Hull Aircraft Service 267
58. Light Twin Airplanes Take Heavy Toll 272
59. "I'll Show Him" 277
60. What Do You Mean, "Totaled?" 282
61. Foolhardy Ferry Flight 287
62. Stretching Fuel to the Max 291
63. From Hard Times to Good Times 296
64. I Bought a Piper "Pig in a Poke" 300
65. Within an Inch of a Gear Up Landing 304
66. Uptight Ferry Flight 308
67. Why I Went to Work for the Faa 312
Part II Federal Aviation Administration
Chapter 6 Faa General Aviation Inspector
68. Tough Beginning of a New Career 319
69. Prince of Chiefs 325
70. Close Encounters of the Jump Zone Kind 330
71. My First Enforcement Case 333
72. Personality Clashes 338
73. "I Suddenly Forgot How to Fly" 343
74. The Fall of Trans-Air Lines 347
75. The Church Takes Priority 351
76. The Smoking Battle 357
77. A Tale of two Mysteries 362
78. The Ultimatum 367
Chapter 7 Faa Academy Instructor and Course Developer
79. Me?...Teaching College Courses? 375
80. Blackout 379
81. My Last First Solo Flight 383
82. "Study to Show Yourself Approved" 388
83. Cheated by the Suggestion Awards Program 393
84. Right on was Dead Wrong 398
85. Can't Fly When you Want?... Fly When You Can 402
86. The Tables Turn 407
87. Leaving was such Sweet Sorrow 411
Chapter 8 Faa Regional Office Aviation Specialist
88. Welcome to California 417
89. Write Your Own Ticket 421
90. Solving Compliance and Enforcement Problems 425
91. Swap--A Most Controversial Program 431
92. Simplifying Systems Analysis 436
93. Living in Pasadena was A Moving Experience 442
94. Plane Sense Aircraft Alterations 447
95. Clarifying Aircraft Maintenance Responsibilities 452
96. Violation Prevention Program Perishes 457
97. Persistent Problems with Noncompliance 461
98. Warpping up and Moving on 466
Chapter 9 Ontario General Aviation District Office Chief
99. Problems of a New Gado Chief 473
100. Stressing and Old Friendship to the Limits 478
101. Three Unforgettable Ontario Flights 484
102. From Affluence to Effluence to Paradise 488
Chapter 10 San Diego General Aviation District Office Chief
103. Welcome to America's Finest City 493
104. Winners Again in Spite of Tragedy 498
105. The Mystery Airplane of the Psa 182 Crash 503
106. The Flight of the Terrible Typewriter Tiff 507
107. Too much Work and too Few Workers 511
108. The Agony of the Spiritual Quest 516
109. Lost Weekend 522
110. The Hull Report 527
111. My Happiest Day in the Faa 533
Chapter 11 San Diego Flight Standards District Office Manager
112. Caught in a Reorganization Dilemma 539
113. Grounded 543
114. The Anonymous Whistle Blower 547
115. Who's in Charge? 551
116. What Makes a Good Supervisor? 555
117. Multiple Awards for America's Finest Fsdo 559
118. An Old Pilot's Nightmare 563
119. Best Way to Beat Burnout 567
120. Organizational Turmoil 572
121. Bamboozled into Retiring? 575
Chapter 12 The Postflight Years
122. Blackballed 585
123. Post Retirement Reflections 590
124. I Find a New Aviation Career 595
Appendix
Appendix A 601
Appendix B 603
Appendix C 606
Appendix D 608
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