Warbird Information Exchange

Today's paper had an ad for WWII Warbird rides in a Stearman or an AT-6. It looks like a half hour flight is $429 and an hour is $659, with aerobatics included "free" as part of those packages.

I'm seriously considering it, they'll be flying out of Smith Reynolds here in April. Anyone flown with these guys before or have any comments?

B

My son worked for them a couple of summers ago, from what he said, about 95% of riders have a very good experience. They occasionally have people that don't listen or just will not do as they are told.
You have to admire anyone that can make a living with old airplanes.

Steve G

I haven't flown with them, but they operated at my home base for a weekend earlier this year and they seemed very professional to me. One thing about this airport, it's got two runways and a lot of training traffic – and everyone seems to love to use the wrong runway. (why land with the wind somewhat off the nose when you can have a quartering tailwind instead?) I'm constantly struggling to get the pattern switched and it gets old. The day they were there everyone was using rnwy 3 even though it favored 26 – I decided not to buck things and landed on 3 and had an interesting time. The Stearman must not have had a radio, but he got ops to announce a shift to 26. So at least they know which way the wind blows.