Aviation Experience
Airlaw’s members have been involved with aviation for over 1,100.
total years
Twenty six (26) members are pilots.
Twenty one (21)
members were military pilots, (8) Navy pilots, (10) Air Force,
(1) Marine, (3) Army.
Five (5) members were civilian pilots.
Eight(8) were carrier qualified pilots.
Four (4) were Top Gun or
Aggressor pilots.
Six (6) had R&D.systems test or experimental flight
test backgrounds.
Most have taught flying or gave check rides during
their careers.
Twenty one (21) of our jet pilots have flown for major airlines.
Sixteen (16) have flown jumbo jets on international routes.
Our
pilot / members collectively have have vast Aviation experiences
Our pilot/attorney members have accumulated in excess of three hundred
seventy five thousand flight hours. [ 375,000 ] At jet
speeds that is about 187 million miles. Based on 40 hour work weeks,
that is 9,375 weeks airborne. [ 300 weeks for each pilot]
Airlaw’s members have evaluated, investigated, helped litigate, or
litigated about two thousand aviation accidents. (2,000)
AIRCRAFT FLOWN
A PARTIAL LISTING
Military:
NAVY: F-8 Crusader, F-4 Phantom, A-4 Skyhawk, A-6 Intruder, S2
Tracker, F-14 Tom Cat, F-18, S3 Viking, F-16N
AIRFORCE: T-38
Talon, F-5, F-100 Super Sabre, F102 Delta dart, F-4 Phantom, F-15 Eagle,
C-141, B-52, C-123,
ARMY: Huey, Apache, Blackhawk, Kiowa
AIRLINE TYPE RATINGS:
CV-880, Boeing 737,
Boeing 727, Boeing 757, Boeing767, Boeing 747, Boeing 777, Airbus 300,
Airbus 320, DC-8, MD80 series, MD-11, Lockheed L1011, Lockheed L-15.
A330, DC-3, DC-4, DC-9, DC-10, G111, G64, Lear series,
Civilian
Piper: Colt, Tri pacer, Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Seneca II.
Cessna:150, 152, 172, 182, 310, 337, Citation
Mooney: 21,
Beech: V
tail, A-36, Baron, Travel Aire, Queenaire, Kingair 200,
North
American: Turbo Commander, Diamond 3, Westwind, Citation, MU2,
Various: home builts, ultra lights and experimental aircraft.
Military Trainers: Tweety bird, T-33, T-34, T-38, T-28, T2 Buckeye,
TS2a, TA4,
AIRLINE:
Approximately 19 ½ years of airline
classroom training time
Approximately 300 years of airline flying
Approximately 75 type ratings
Approximately 1500 flight simulator
periods
Approximately 600 recurrent schools
Approximately 600 line
checks
Approximately 2,000 observed flight hours LOA
Our
members have collectively flown to every state in the union, over every
ocean in the world, to most countries in the European Union, to many
countries in the old Warsaw Pact including Russia and to many countries
of the Pacific rim.
