Hello! I'm not a new Cruncher, I'm only new to this forum.

I'm a retired career pilot of WW2 Spitfire replica, retired published cartoonist for newspapers and magazines, and full time inventor since retiring in 1991. I became a believer when my aircraft collided mid-air with a sphere UFO in 1985. I've been running SETI@HOME since first loading it into a 286 computer and many others since then. I've been running it on an iMAC i7 since 2009. I started looking for a SETI forum to help resolve recent issues with running the program but, that'll be in other threads. Thanks for accepting me into the group. Cheers!

Welcome to our family Grissom. I hope it was not me driving the UFO. :)
I have seen a really big one, very near to me, a lot of years ago, I saw them inside because they had huge windows and a lot of light.

I'm also an ex-pilot but I flew piston and turboprop twin engine corporate type aircraft and I have never had a collision, at least not one I know about. Glad to have you on the team and the forum. Don't be a stranger.

Welcome to the team.

Glad to have you aboard the team and the forums! Thanks for saying hi and we are always here to help if you need anything! :)

Hello and thanks for being here!

HF

Welcome aboard Grissom!

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Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham

Welcome to our family Grissom. I hope it was not me driving the UFO. :)
I have seen a really big one, very near to me, a lot of years ago, I saw them inside because they had huge windows and a lot of light.

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So sorry about the 1 year 2 month delay in response but I just now resolved my problem of not being able to post or reply in this forum. I may still have to join this TEAM to make me truly official. We're working on that now. I'm very curious about what the aliens you saw in the windows looked like. My illustrated story can be seen here: http://rense.com/general63/ohio.htm sent to the FAA only as part of my accident report for N1650R. The FAA, not knowing how to file it, years later, removed my name (legality) and passed it to UFORTH who passed it to all other UFO sites because, they said, I was the first pilot to ever report intentionally colliding with a UFO. Although I was thankful for the FAA removing my name, many searched ownership of my tail number and found me anyway.

Hmmmm... Duke of Buckingham... are you originally from England? I lived in England 1956 to end of 1959 and have a photo of me standing with family in front of Buckingham Palace.

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Originally Posted by c303a

I'm also an ex-pilot but I flew piston and turboprop twin engine corporate type aircraft and I have never had a collision, at least not one I know about. Glad to have you on the team and the forum. Don't be a stranger.

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Ha! Did you mean "I love my ALTITUDE problem"? It's always nice to meet another retired pilot. Sorry about this 1+ year delayed response but just now returned to the forum.

Thank you everyone for all the welcomes. Sorry about the 1+ response delay but I just found out that I must join the TEAM to become a member of the forum.

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Originally Posted by Grissom

Ha! Did you mean "I love my ALTITUDE problem"? It's always nice to meet another retired pilot. Sorry about this 1+ year delayed response but just now returned to the forum.

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I was always a firm believer in the fact that if you are going to be a pilot you have to have an attitude problem. Since I flew corporate, I usually had my boss in the right seat and of course he always wanted to do some flying. While I was following him through on a landing one day he did something that was just bad practice and he would have ended up to far down the runway and way to fast. I told him I had it but he decided he would keep control. Well a slap in the mouth jarred some sense into him. Like I said ATTITUDE is a mainstay.I learned that from my first instructor and it held me through all 6,000 hours of time.

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Originally Posted by c303a

I was always a firm believer in the fact that if you are going to be a pilot you have to have an attitude problem. Since I flew corporate, I usually had my boss in the right seat and of course he always wanted to do some flying. While I was following him through on a landing one day he did something that was just bad practice and he would have ended up to far down the runway and way to fast. I told him I had it but he decided he would keep control. Well a slap in the mouth jarred some sense into him. Like I said ATTITUDE is a mainstay.I learned that from my first instructor and it held me through all 6,000 hours of time.

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I talked my best friend into getting his pilots license. He soon bought a new plane and took me on a flight to a beach to celebrate. No matter how much I yelled about landing downwind (windsock wagging), he kept insisting it's not a problem. I braced for impact. He went off the end and skidded through about 400 feet of grass stopping too close to a line of trees to be able to turn around. Wet and muddy, we couldn't push it backwards up hill. Just about everyone at this small one building airport ran out to help get it turned around. A very embarrassing event he'll never forget. But me, many years earlier, I made two far FAR more serious and embarrassing mistakes on my first solo landing, so, instead of rubbing-it-in, I told him about my solo.

My boss was the type that knew it all and thought he had enough money to do it. I finally left because he thought that maintenance on a plane really wasn't important and could be put off a couple of hundred hours. Sorry but I was an aircraft mechanic in the Army and I learned how to maintain choppers. Maintenance was always #1 with the units I was in and I followed that rule even in civilian flying.