What's on your bucket list?

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FORANE

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Lets have it.
Name something on your list.
 
Get my formation flying endorsement.

Buy Henning a drink.

Fly all 50 states again

Meet Ben in WY

Go to Gaston's

Live to be 110 with all parts working properly
 
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To land at every state. To see how many airports in the country I can land at. To fly my own aircraft to Alaska.
 
Get my IR
Buy a plane
Sell that plane and trade up to an RV
 
Finished my bucket list by wing suit base jumping. I just want to fly and sail a bit and if my tastes change, I will change my activities to match.
 
Finish my PPL
Upgrade to IR
Get my El Presidente's back down to sub 6 seconds :)
 
Get CFI.

Introduce my son to aviation.

Drug my wife and take her flying.

Declare medical emergency when she freaks out.

Have a beverage with you nut jobs. :)


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I'm a car nut, and one of my bucket list items has always been...

Own a Ferrari, take it to various tracks, and race it. Something like a 458 Italia.
 
Do Texas to Puerto Rico on my piper arrow.
 
Go someplace exotic for vacation, not business. I'm writing this from my hotel room in Hong Kong.
 
ClimbnSink said:
Finished my bucket list by wing suit base jumping. I just want to fly and sail a bit and if my tastes change, I will change my activities to match.
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Finished???!!!
That just isn't right.
 
Get my IR (so close to being done with that)
Check out in the Glass panel cockpit - that's right I'm training w/steam gauges
Seaplane rating? (Chasing ratings baby!)
Get my General license ham radio license - chasing licenses there too
Fly up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
 
  1. Ride a motorcycle around the entire US, hitting every state. Visit every national park while I'm doing it, and hit all the nice beaches and good seafood restaurants in coastal states. Camp on the good nights, hotel on the bad. Eat at all the Mom-n-pop restaurants and one offs, NO CHAINS. Talk to the locals. Ideally this would take years to do right.
  2. Get a fun go anywhere airplane, something like a Just Aircraft, and go nowhere in particular. Fly along and look at cows on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Maybe even drop in to visit them. Take it on cross country trips to visit all of you, fly on the good VFR days, hole up on the bad. Not care how long it takes. Enjoy a few frosty cold ones.
  3. Have the time and resources to get down to the islands and charter a sailboat as often as I would like. Now that's a vacation! No, thats life!
  4. Try hang gliding. This one I will do early summer.
 
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Get myself a nice Beech 18 and spend a year flying around North America with it. I figure that should pretty much finish off all my retirement savings.
 
write-stuff said:
Alright, you win. Where'd you make your base jump(s)? Have you made it to the Alps or Norway yet?
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Wingsuit jumps were in Norway(back in 2000, old school I flew away from the wall not at it.) Jumped in the Italian Alps. Low stuff throughout the states.
 
ClimbnSink said:
Wingsuit jumps were in Norway(back in 2000, old school I flew away from the wall not at it.) Jumped in the Italian Alps. Low stuff throughout the states.
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That is pretty cool, did you take any vids of your flight? (I know that timeframe is before the GoPro era)
 
Bill Jennings said:
That is pretty cool, did you take any vids of your flight? (I know that timeframe is before the GoPro era)
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There was a still or two might have been video but I never had a copy. Red wingsuit so it looked horrible on videotape. I still have VHS basejumping footage from the mid 90's I need to convert someday.
 
ClimbnSink said:
Wingsuit jumps were in Norway(back in 2000, old school I flew away from the wall not at it.) Jumped in the Italian Alps. Low stuff throughout the states.
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You are definitely the coolest person on this board! You going back anytime to grind the crack?
 
ClimbnSink said:
Wingsuit jumps were in Norway(back in 2000, old school I flew away from the wall not at it.) Jumped in the Italian Alps. Low stuff throughout the states.
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So anyway, how the hell do you learn to do that? I'd imagine you'd have to be an accomplished jumper before starting, but that is really a cool thing to have done. I also like watching that guy with the jetpack, that is interesting as well.
 
Bill Jennings said:
  1. Ride a motorcycle around the entire US, hitting every state. Visit every national park while I'm doing it, and hit all the nice beaches and good seafood restaurants in coastal states. Camp on the good nights, hotel on the bad. Eat at all the Mom-n-pop restaurants and one offs, NO CHAINS. Talk to the locals. Ideally this would take years to do right.
  2. Get a fun go anywhere airplane, something like a Just Aircraft, and go nowhere in particular. Fly along and look at cows on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Maybe even drop in to visit them. Take it on cross country trips to visit all of you, fly on the good VFR days, hole up on the bad. Not care how long it takes. Enjoy a few frosty cold ones.
  3. Have the time and resources to get down to the islands and charter a sailboat as often as I would like. Now that's a vacation! No, thats life!
  4. Try hang gliding. This one I will do early summer.
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I like #1 and #3.
#1 is at the top of my list also minus the bike.

Question, does it count as visiting a national park if one flew over it at a low but legal altitude?
 
1. Metal bucket.
2. Plastic yellow bucket.
3. Wooden bucket.
4. Canvas bucket.
5. Garden bucket.
6. Wine bucket.
7. Full bucket.
8. Empty bucket.
9. Free bucket.
10. Bucket seats.
 
Sac Arrow said:
1. Metal bucket.
2. Plastic yellow bucket.
3. Wooden bucket.
4. Canvas bucket.
5. Garden bucket.
6. Wine bucket.
7. Full bucket.
8. Empty bucket.
9. Free bucket.
10. Bucket seats.
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You forgot this one:
bucket-beer-isla-mujeres.jpg
 
write-stuff said:
You are definitely the coolest person on this board! You going back anytime to grind the crack?
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Would love to but I'm retired from that stuff. You can't have a job or family commitments and do that those fun things takes too much time.
Bill Jennings said:
So anyway, how the hell do you learn to do that? I'd imagine you'd have to be an accomplished jumper before starting, but that is really a cool thing to have done. I also like watching that guy with the jetpack, that is interesting as well.
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I was a pro skydiver with a bad basejumping habit. I only had a handful of wingsuit skydives before I basejumped with one, definitely not recommended, but we only knew a little bit better back then.
 
I'd like to fly to the northernmost point in Maine, and then keep going. Fly as far north as I can. A few years ago I circumnavigated Lake Erie on a Kawasaki Vulcan 2000. We were in Ontario riding on some road and heading due north.

The urge to keep going rather than turn east was strong. Would love to do it in the 'Hawk.
 
I was just thinking about this the other day. I really need to update mine.
What I've completed-

Oktoberfest in Munich with friends- Belgium side trip
Watched a Bullfight in Spain - not bloodless
Fly fishing at the dream stream
Saw the Mona Lisa/Eiffel tower
Saw the tower of London/Churchill underground bunker/museum
Toured vineyards in the south of France
Toured vineyards in Napa
Hot air balloon ride in new Mexico
Fly in fishing trip to Canada - beaver on floats
Diving with the turtles in Hawaii
Diving with the stingrays in the Caymans
Swimming in the cenotes in the Yucatan
Visiting mount Rushmore during bike week with family (unplanned storm overnight)- lucky to get a room
Valentines weekend at GastonsNew Orleans in the spring
Obviously learning to fly was in there somewhere :)
seaplane rating at Kenmore Air

Will have to think on the rest and what is left.
 
Timbuktu
Katmandu
Marrakesh
 
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