Original Message

No actually.  I am a Viet-Nam era Air Force brat.  My dad retired a full an O-6 (a full "bird" Colonel for you uninitiated).  I always wanted to fly helicopters, nothing else.  My dad never understood it.  To this day I still don't have any fixed wing ratings.  Who wants to fly something you can trim up, then set the autopilot or Flight Management System up on, then read the paper of take a nap?  Not me.