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| Banned Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: USA
Posts: 489
| Any JC'ers fly out of Flint, MI (KFNT)??? I was there today and saw quite a bit of training activity going on... |
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| | #2 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Orlando, Florida
Posts: 158
| I used to fly into there. I got my private just up the road at the Owosso Airport. (5D3) |
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| | #3 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hockey Town, MI,USA
Posts: 839
| [ QUOTE ] Any JC'ers fly out of Flint, MI (KFNT)??? I was there today and saw quite a bit of training activity going on... [/ QUOTE ] I flew ou tof there back in the day. American wings is the only school I know of there. City is suffering so I figured the training would be as well |
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| | #4 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Utopia
Posts: 12,403
| [ QUOTE ] City is suffering so I figured the training would be as well [/ QUOTE ] Has it ever NOT been suffering? |
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| | #5 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hockey Town, MI,USA
Posts: 839
| Before all the GM plants started shutting down ain early 80's it thrived |
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| | #6 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 748
| I went to college in Flint. Nothing like living in the ghetto of Flint for 5 years! I've never flown out of Flint-Bishop Airport. Never knew they had much flight training going on. |
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| | #7 |
| Agent Smith | I was based in FNT for about a week. Talk about a GHOSTTOWN, geez. I'd suggest the film "Roger & Me", but then people would flip out and figure it's some type of political statement. |
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| | #8 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hockey Town, MI,USA
Posts: 839
| [ QUOTE ] I went to college in Flint. Nothing like living in the ghetto of Flint for 5 years! I've never flown out of Flint-Bishop Airport. Never knew they had much flight training going on. [/ QUOTE ] GMI/Kettering, or U of M FLint? |
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| | #9 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 142
| Flint was our redheaded step child. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] To the contrary we had some really nice cities in Michigan. Traverse City was awesome in the fall and spring. Saginaw/Bay City, and Mackinaw City were great in the winter or fall. Plus the UP in the winter if you liked to hunt, fish, and camp. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] The burbs' of Deeeeetroit (where I was) were also really nice. A mix of new developing cities like Troy, combined with old-town feel like Birmingham. Ack. Now I'm stuck in the most un-American of states. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/buck.gif[/img] |
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| | #10 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Orange County, California
Posts: 200
| Michael Moore is from Flint .... little known fact that he used to be a check pilot on the 777 for American. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif[/img] |
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| | #11 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spring, TX
Posts: 878
| [ QUOTE ] Michael Moore is from Flint .... little known fact that he used to be a check pilot on the 777 for American. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] i call bs..prove it |
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| | #12 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Orange County, California
Posts: 200
| Of course it's BS ... funny mental image, though. He is from Flint. I don't remember the publication ... maybe Fortune Magazine .... rated Flint the worst place to live in the US several years ago. High crime and even higher unemployment after the GM plant which employed most of the city shut down. |
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| | #13 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 142
| [ QUOTE ] Michael Moore is from Flint .... little known fact that he used to be a check pilot on the 777 for American. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Now I remember why I hated the place. Down with the anti-American leftist creep. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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| | #14 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spring, TX
Posts: 878
| [ QUOTE ] Of course it's BS ... funny mental image, though. He is from Flint. I don't remember the publication ... maybe Fortune Magazine .... rated Flint the worst place to live in the US several years ago. High crime and even higher unemployment after the GM plant which employed most of the city shut down. [/ QUOTE ] oops...i forgot the smiley face...that would change my post. yeah, that guy is a duscheb@g.....send him back to flint |
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| | #15 |
| Old Skool Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Park City, UT
Posts: 3,293
| you know, he only got on his crusade after GM pulled out of the city and basically turned the whole place into a big slum. He was originally all about showing what big buisnesses can do to places when they decide to leave. Once people started paying attention that's when he got more into the political stuff. So you guys all have GM to thank for Michael Moore. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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| | #16 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 748
| [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I went to college in Flint. Nothing like living in the ghetto of Flint for 5 years! I've never flown out of Flint-Bishop Airport. Never knew they had much flight training going on. [/ QUOTE ] GMI/Kettering, or U of M FLint? [/ QUOTE ] GMI/Kettering. Nothing like living next to the Flint River and abandoned Delphi plants! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] All of our neighbors around our fraternity house were unemployed ex-GM line workers. They would be on their front porch in the morning when we went to class with a 40 of malt liquor....and they would be there in the afternoon when we came home. If nothing else it makes pretty much anyplace you live after school seem REALLLLY nice! |
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| | #17 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN
Posts: 902
| Aack! I've been desperate to return to Michigan, but I sure won't go back to Flint unless it's to visit my parents. I can sum up Flint's history in two words . . . Auto World. That just about says it all! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif[/img] |
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| | #18 |
| Banned Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: USA
Posts: 489
| Flint was pretty dumpy... Glad we were only there a couple of hours... Europe next week, that should be better... |
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