Do you have an aviation soulmate?

I've thought about bringing my HT along and working some 2m voice from the air, but just haven't yet. Wonder what it'd cost to get a nice 2m antenna installed on the belly.
 
mkosmo said:
I've thought about bringing my HT along and working some 2m voice from the air, but just haven't yet. Wonder what it'd cost to get a nice 2m antenna installed on the belly.
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You probably already have one... just power down Comm 2... Hahaha... I won't tell anyone what you hooked to the coax... :)

That said, I've actually never done that. I have a steel plate that was the cover of an old GE MASTR II mobile rig, that we bolted another thinner stainless plate we already had, bent in a Z near the edge, to raise it about two inches above the bigger "junk" steel, and drilled it for an NMO mount... the whole thing just lays on the floor in the baggage area and you can strap it down for turbulence (it's pretty heavy, it's not going anywhere on its own, but I still wouldn't want it banging into the plastic sides back there)...

The other trick I've seen done is to get an extra inspection plate for the one right at the top of the wing strut in a Cessna, and drill it for an NMO, and notch the edge to bring the coax outside, and wrap it around the wing strut, and stuff it inside through the window. I haven't done that one either, since it's questionable whether it's legal, and there's a chance of having stuff snag on something above the inspection port inside the wing if you don't make sure that coax is tied down tight to the back of the NMO, and hooked to the plate (two more small holes in the inspection plate and a tie wrap run through there and cinched down would do it) so it can't go anywhere.

But if I really needed to take comms on VHF/UHF aloft for some weird emergency reason -- the inspection plate thing done carefully wouldn't bother me at all. Or hooking to an existing Comm antenna for VHF. It's cut "close enough"... 5W and altitude is King. We never had to run more than 10W on VHF SSB from a vertical antenna in the baggage compartment for contacts pushing a couple hundred miles. Just climb. :)

One of the old avionics instructors at Metro State had a Cessna 205 festooned with ham antennas, including an HF longwire from tail to wingtip the other wingtip, and he'd done all the paperwork with the FSDO to have various rigs mounted in his panel over the years. Bart has to be getting pretty old nowadays and I know he retired from teaching... hopefully he's doing well. I haven't seen the 205 around lately, I just realized.

And, I've never asked @weirdjim if he has any gear on board...
 
Humphrey said:
Soulmate? No. I've had aviation friends who are female (I am male). I've had physical relations with some of them. Soulmate implies something deeper, perhaps marriage. I cannot think of anything worse than getting married to a pilot. Shudder. She will be wanting to share the logging time and having an opinion on what I'm doing. No thank you. Not as a spouse. As a hot little female friend that I am maybe physical with? Sure anytime. And been there done that.

Not interested in aviation soulmates AT ALL.

I'm a firm believer in "opposites attract" when it comes to long term relationships where things like being a "soulmate" is discussed. So I say HELL NO to a female pilot for that role.
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Again, please refer to post #22. There you will find the definition of an "Aviation Soulmate."
 
Humphrey said:
He was gay. That's why you were such good friends.
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Nope, he has a girlfriend. I think they actually just got married. We are just two adults that can interact on the same plane of intelligence. I hope you get to have this kind of human interaction one day, not all women are objects for your pleasure.
 
PrincessPilotNJ said:
Don't pilots learn from others mistakes? Class is now in session.
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Depends on the subject matter. When the biggest risk is rejection or superficial palm contact, you go for it. If the risk is striking the earth in a big fireball, you learn from others' mistakes.
 
When I was in flight school, I was older than most of the other students. There was a girl there that was still a lot younger than me, but much more mature in mind than age.

We were in the same study group and studied together. She was freshly divorced after marrying young, and was not looking for a relationship or a quick roll. I realized that and treated her as just another person learning to fly. We became very close, we studied together, did a lot of activities together, even traveled to a few places together. We both enjoyed each others friendship, and she really enjoyed that all the other guys were not hitting on her because everyone thought we were a couple. We became roommates, not bunk mates.

Actually it was one of the best relationships I have ever been in because we knew what each other wanted, and didn't want in our friendship. We were not in love, more like infatuation.

Alas, all good things must come to an end. We finished flight school and went our separate ways. I have never seen or heard from her again.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Depends on the subject matter. When the biggest risk is rejection or superficial palm contact, you go for it. If the risk is striking the earth in a big fireball, you learn from others' mistakes.
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What you stated may be the biggest risk to you, but may not be to others. Everyone asseses the risks differently.
 
Zeldman said:
When I was in flight school, I was older than most of the other students. There was a girl there that was still a lot younger than me, but much more mature in mind than age.

We were in the same study group and studied together. She was freshly divorced after marrying young, and was not looking for a relationship or a quick roll. I realized that and treated her as just another person learning to fly. We became very close, we studied together, did a lot of activities together, even traveled to a few places together. We both enjoyed each others friendship, and she really enjoyed that all the other guys were not hitting on her because everyone thought we were a couple. We became roommates, not bunk mates.

Actually it was one of the best relationships I have ever been in because we knew what each other wanted, and didn't want in our friendship. We were not in love, more like infatuation.

Alas, all good things must come to an end. We finished flight school and went our separate ways. I have never seen or heard from her again.
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So basically, you went directly to the sixth year of marriage...
 
PrincessPilotNJ said:
I am not sure who you are talking to, but I clearly stated "he" several times. By looking at my photo, it is clear that I am a woman. One does not have to be in a sexual relationship to be "Aviation Soulmates." They could be the same or opposite gender. It is just two people that think alike reguarding aviation. An intellectual connection.
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I have one, but given your definition, I can't talk about it cause I sleep with her too.. LOL!

Jim
 
PrincessPilotNJ said:
Nope, he has a girlfriend. I think they actually just got married. We are just two adults that can interact on the same plane of intelligence. I hope you get to have this kind of human interaction one day, not all women are objects for your pleasure.
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Wait.....
 
It's rather disappointing how fast this thread devolved to the creepy. o_O
 
The only one happy and excited to get into my plane is my dog.

Many of you enjoy fly ins. I fly out. 23 years of airplane ownership and I've flown in the company of another plane one time and that wasn't much to my liking.
 
I've got a guy I like to go flying with in my plane or his.......but we'd never describe each other as....um....can't even say or type the word. Kinda creepy.
 
Timbeck2 said:
I've got a guy I like to go flying with in my plane or his.......but we'd never describe each other as....um....can't even say or type the word. Kinda creepy.
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Yep, I have one of those, too. The girlfriend starts to get jealous sometimes, though.
 
Timbeck2 said:
I've got a guy I like to go flying with in my plane or his.......but we'd never describe each other as....um....can't even say or type the word. Kinda creepy.
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Bromance is the word you're looking for.
 
I don't like fish
Shell fish, guppy
Shrimp and crab and lobster, flounder
I hate fish, but I think most of all
I hate fresh fish like trout
I hate fresh trout
My least-hated, favourite fish would be sole
That way you don't have to see the eyes
Sole has no eyes.
 
Why are we talking about fish in a soulmate thread?

Generally, the fishier, the less you want to engage said soulmate.\

edit: and after I posted that, I realized there could be two meanings to that post. I think it works either way.
 
bikert said:
I don't like fish
Shell fish, guppy
Shrimp and crab and lobster, flounder
I hate fish, but I think most of all
I hate fresh fish like trout
I hate fresh trout
My least-hated, favourite fish would be sole
That way you don't have to see the eyes
Sole has no eyes.
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Depends on which side is facing up. It may not have eyes when it's sitting in the skillet, but flip it once, and it's going to be staring at you.

I don't care for trout either. And I love fish. But not in a soulmate sense.

But let's think about that for a second. What do fish think? What if you were a fish? Do fish have soulmates? Fish can truly separate the physical from the mental. There is zero connection between the woman fish and the man fish when they procreate. Have you ever seen fish f***? They don't. The girl fish puts egg-things on some coral or a rock or something and the boy fishes get all excited and whack off all over the mess, kind of like how Little Johnnie gets when he goes through the laundry bin at his third cousins' house every fourth weekend. Or his second cousin if it's in Kentucky. Or first cousin in West Virginia. Arkansas? We aren't going there. And then after that I guess little fishes pop up and start swimming around, but there's like no, you know, baggage, child support, college fund, "honey how was your day", soccer games, whining when you're spending too much time at the bar, toilet seat positions are a total non issue, nobody argues over the checkbook, etc.

And plus this is huge. Really huge. Big time. Mammals have this problem. As a boy fish you aren't jealous of the other boy fishes, because they don't "get with" the girl fish, but then neither do you, so I guess it's a non issue to begin with. So there is no real reason to stress, and smoke and drink. Which is a good thing, because the smoking part doesn't work out that well underwater.
 
Actually, quite a few fish do protect the nests and parent the fry. And in a few cases, the females are the ones that skip town and leave the males to raise the kids.
 
SkyHog said:
Why are we talking about fish in a soulmate thread?

Generally, the fishier, the less you want to engage said soulmate.\

edit: and after I posted that, I realized there could be two meanings to that post. I think it works either way.
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This scampi a surprise to anyone here.
 
All these fish jokes are giving me a haddock
 
I had an aviation soul mate until he did something stupid and died in a plane crash.
 
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