First Time in a Private Jet.
 

My friend is a member of net jet and timeshares this jet.
The wife and I went skiing with him and his family in Big Sky, Montana over the holidays. This was our transportation....................Un real!
Private Ski Club, no lift lines, his Chalet is right on the mountain. Ski out the back door and down to the lift.
I dont think I can ever ski in crowds again.
Going back next week!!! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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the Berner Sennen looks like he's a happy camper... yours?

I forgot to mention the Jet is a Hawker 800XP.
8 passenger medium sized private jet.

Burmese Mountain dog. Its my friends dog, we are the God Parents

correction: Bernese Mountain Dog aka Berner Sennen

and as I say, "I don't like rich people but I like how they live"

Ask them if you can sit on the jumpseat for the landing next time. The view is much better...

This is what Michael (fingpilot) and I do for a living but in something a bit (a lot) larger. Nice world to live in and glad you enjoyed it.

Joe

had 2 when i was a kid, they're great fun, friendly , very witty , protective... great with kids... and when they see snow, they are in their element...

i've been hearing reports that they do suffer from inbreeding... and some of em now get bad characters and cancers too ... still, great dogs...

The first takeoff sent chills down my spine. During flight I crouched down in the cockpit and asked a million questions.
The highlight of the trip

Who needs ski clothes when you have a hair suit




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That is awesome! I need to hang out in Coto more often. Nice friends!

Known this family for 17 years, used to be my neighbor, until the company went public, then he built a mansion out in coto.
Very giving people.

The funny thing is I always thought really wealthy people were stuffy........wrong, I met some of the nicest, happiest people ever. I guess when you have that much $$$$$ its pretty easy to be happy.

So I guess the place has a sauna as well. Sweet. We have a sauna at our cabin in Wisconsin, my stepdad jumps through a hole in the ice into the lake after a sauna sometimes. Furthest I've gone is a roll in the snow in shorts.

I was with friends who have a place in Mammoth last night, I hope to ski this winter. Cool pics! :cool:

Looks like fun - what about the ladies?

should meet my niece some day, she'll moan about a dollar refund if she accidently gets the wrong type of fruit from the store a mile away...born rich, stresses out all day , and doesn't even work for a living...well, not a real job anyway... 30+ still a student... previous jobs "worked a a gallery" *yawn*...

My wife is the blond, my friends wife the brunette.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1167846286.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1167846314.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1167846344.jpg

I had a client fly me to a meeting in San Diego in his Citation. It's the fastest private jet, cruising at just below the sound barrier. 55 minutes from SFO to SD Intl. We drove up to the private terminal, got right on and took off. I was back in the office by noon. Not a bad way to go.

Nice looking ladies... where are the topless shots?

A classic motion moment?:D

I snuck this photo when she was not looking ( not wife or my friends wife)
In the spa and behind closed doors,
Photos unavailable.

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OMG! going south.....

are those yours or your wife's?

if you used the lavatory on the jet, PLEASE tip the service guys at the airport (i do that here in FL), hawkers are the WORST to do the lav service on.

i also heard mention of a Citation X (ten) on this thread... heck yes! i fueled one of those this afternoon. 800 gallons is a LOT of jet fuel!

i will say, private jets are the way to go. one day, i will fly them - i REFUSE to work for a living!

not to be a jerk on-ramp, but it's wives, with a v...

-Mike, grammar nazi

Mike,

Were you near the ERAU planes that were damaged/destroyed last week in the storm? Hear it was bad...

Work hard and you will get there. My first job at an airport was mowing the grass. Been in the left seat for over 25 years now and the view is great. Yes, its not working for a living as they pay me to do something I would do for free! :)

shhh dont say that too loud!

nope, i've been out of school for over a year. i saw pictures of the devastation :( seminoles and 172's all balled up all over the place.

i can't imagine what the flight costs and scheduling will be like now. it was horrendous when i left the flight program in '02.

-Mike

BS (they aren't kidding with that title) in Aerospace Studies
Minors: Safety Science, Meteorology, Space Studies

Mike,

PanAm moved their entire fleet of training aircraft to DVT two years ago, just two miles West of where I live. After this and what PA did, would guess that ERAU will move most if not all of the fleet to Prescott.

Just too expensive to keep the planes in Florida with the summer and winter storms that they experience. Its one thing to fly a Challenger, Hawker or Learjet out of an airport before a storm, but flying 50 single and twin trainers is a different story.

aye, the did spend a ton putting instructors and their significant others up in hotels and bussing them to and fro during the hurricanes a couple years back.

is the schooling at 'riddle' good? yes. the politics, runaround, and financial management... not so good.

they have put a bunch of money into the campus down here, i don't think they are planning on moving much of anything to prescott. maybe they should!

maybe they figured 'why bother' moving them... shortly after i graduated in '05, there was a hailstorm that 'modified' most of the planes there. i had to chuckle whenever i'd see one of them at the last aiport where i worked, the pilots would always claim 'she's a few knots faster' with all the dimples in the skin... oh brother!

ERAU is ok if you want to spend 4 years getting all your degrees AND aviation training. For me they took too long. I used to instruct for them overseas and they are a descent school, just depends on what you are looking for.

Well, if they keep the majority of their fleet in Florida and it keeps getting bent up every year eventually their insurance cost will force them to do something.

with friends like that...i...uh...need new friends! ;)

you can get a ride in my 944 if you ever get to this part of the globe...
just bring a sick bag from the airplane with you: see the "Olson made me puke" thread

:D

lol...stijn. you bad..you bad... ;)

on-ramp is correct.

wives is plural. wife's is possesive.