Observations from a ramp rat. . .

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Scav
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Observations from a ramp rat. . .

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So I recently took the plunge and started doing something different with my life by bringing aviation back into it. In the process, I've noticed a few things while looking at the virtual hardware I've purchased over the past several months.

In particular, I was seeing things about these aircrafts that before I became a ramp rat I wouldn't have really seen before as just a sim pilot -- things like the look of the gas caps on the Cherokee and what MAY be turn limit marks on the nose landing gear assembly; being able to tell immediately what kind of tow bar I would use to move that aircraft around and seeing exactly where and how I'd hook that tow bar into . . . seeing the metal nubs on either side of the Skylane's nose landing gear and knowing which adapter I'd use when attaching a tug bar . . . seeing where I'd attach a bonding cable to any of these planes . . .

Anyway, I just wanted to express that even though I now am making a vocation looking at and working with airplanes all day, it's still refreshing to really see little details like these in the sim world as well. :)

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Paughco
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Re: Observations from a ramp rat. . .

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You need to do an "internship" at your local airport. Spend a few weekends gassing and washing airplanes. See what is coming and going out of your local airfield. Get a few rides over to the nearby fields. It's a gas, trust me. Or see if you have a nearby small field that has an annual fly-in. Not an airshow, but a fly-in. Go to that. I live in the Pugetropolis area, and we have a small airfield on the Skagit River, in the town of Concrete. It's on Hwy 20, a great road. They have a fly-in in July each year. It just happens to coincide with the last day of the Washington State BMW Riders rally in Republic. I stop in on the ride home. Way freakin' cool. Piper Tri-Pacers. Cubs with tundras. Last year I helped push a Beech Staggerwing around so it was pointing in the right direction to fire up and head towards the runway. Aviation is where it's at!

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