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breister

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  1. Thanks Kent! If I buy I can't count on someone clever like you creating the cutouts. I guess I need to go study the specs to see if there is actually more width, and go sit in one. I don't suppose you are in the Atlanta area?
  2. Hi gang, Finally got to sit in a couple of Cozy IIIs - one a "normal build" and the other a Cozy Girlz strakes mod. I always thought of myself as thin build, but those were a lot cozier than I expected in the hips and shoulders! Since they are only trying to hold a single pilot in width, are the Long EZ's any roomier or are they just as tight for hip and shoulder as the Cozy IIIs? As I'm getting older, I'm finding I have less tolerance and flexibility for being totally shoehorned into a little box. Just for fun I tried out sitting in a KR2 today - made the Cozy seem roomy, and I almost couldn't get out of it. Does anyone have a Long EZ in the Atlanta area I could try sitting in? I'm really just looking for a "keep my currency and go to the beach" toy for the next few years; if the Long EZ doesn't make me claustrophobic that may be the direction I go. Blues skies!
  3. The kids today don't seem to have the attention span to be pilots. I'm a bit younger than you, maybe flew some of the F-4s you flew back when. My friend got an RV thinking his kids would love to go up to their cabin in it with him; his girls said "hell no" and his boy would rather play Nintendo than fly. They simply aren't interested. Maybe there is something in the water causing brain damage? I am a Vietnam-era pilot although I never flew for the airlines. My contemporaries who split for the airlines are all retired now. Ha! I was Sully Sullenburger's Flight Commander at Nellis. I suppose there are a few middle-east war military pilots who are flying with the airlines now but the military is not training nearly the number of pilots they trained during Vietnam. It seems like a good time to get a flying job, if you can acquire the hours and have no history of suicidal depression. :-) The decline in ATP numbers in this article is really striking--about 8500 in 1990 down to 3000 today. http://www.nafinet.org/whitepaper.aspx
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