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Welcome. My name
is Doug Reeves and in 1996 I started what would become
VansAirForce.net
(VAF). Its focus is on those building and flying
'RV' kit airplanes from
Van's
Aircraft. From 1996-2002 with help from RV
mentor
extraordinaire Jay Pratt,
RV-6 N617AR
was completed and flown on 9/17/2002. More on this
plane below.
Working both from home and remotely,
I publish the 'Van's Air
Force News' Monday thru Friday and am the administrator
of the
VAF Forums. This has been my primary job since 2007
(the two decades before that I worked in I.T.). With
over 30,000 registered VAF forum accounts and tens of
thousands of unregistered 'lurkers', if you are looking for
Van's Aircraft RV community, friendship, mentors and motivation,
you'll find many 'RVators' here capable of doing just that.
FLYING
I am available for contract flying
work.
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In addition to
VansAirForce.net and the occasional contract flight, I work part time
at
CAE in
the Embraer Phenom 300 simulator in their Supporting Crew Member
program. Participated in (102)
client simulator sessions during 2020 (4/5ths right seat
1/5th left seat). Dozens and dozens of V1 cuts...
;^)
Flying Resume
Ratings:
COMMERCIAL PILOT:
AIRPLANE SINGLE & MULTIENGINE LAND; INSTRUMENT
AIRPLANE.
ATP written passed 12/2020 (90%) - EMB-505
type rating class and ATP check ride
scheduled for Jan/2021.
Location: Dallas, Texas.
Total Time |
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2,050 hrs0
(1,700 PIC) |
Turbine Time |
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427*
hrs0 |
*Turbine Hours Expanded |
Hours |
Type |
2910
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Embraer Phenom
300 Level D simulator. |
1000
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Cessna Caravan C-208 EX |
360
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Pilatus PC-12 NG |
Age 55. 46 bpm resting heart rate.
170 lbs. Blood pressure 117/72. Lifelong
non-smoker. EKG
10/22/19 |

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Previous Contract Pilot Work
2018 - 2020. One of five pilots flying a
Cessna C208 Grand Caravan EX for a private owner
who enjoyed visiting his cattle.
Logged 99.6 hours in it before it was sold and
replaced with a Pilatus PC-12NG. Logged 36
hours in the PC-12 before the chief pilot
retired (the new chief pilot brought his own
crew). Both aircraft operated off of a
2,350' grass runway in addition to paved
airports. I enjoyed these aircraft very
much.

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Flying Background
...a.k.a. "I got to
1,500 hours PIC by building my own plane."
1996-Present.
I earned both Instrument and Commercial
ratings in this aircraft, and have 450+
hours in formation. The current panel
shown below utilizes (3) Garmin G3X touch screens
and (2) WAAS Certified 430W GPS/Comms.

Ed Hicks photograph.

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THE
BETTER HALF
...and turning away from airplanes for a bit.
My lovely wife teaches yoga (about
her practice) and
co-founded a non-profit that provides free yoga for cancer
patients and survivors (Yoga
Bridge).

Susan Becker
Reeves
fmi: -
SusanReeves.com -
YogaBridge.org -
Moondog Treasures
Why Advertise
on VAF?
Enter 'Van's Aircraft'
in any search engine. You will, of course,
find the company site as the first return. Look just
below that though and you'll find this site. It is
usually on page (1)
in the search results of any search engine. If you have time go listen to around the 57min mark
of this podcast where Van's founder Richard VanGrunsven
is being interviewed. He has a couple of nice things
to say about this site, and I suspect if he didn't feel that
way he wouldn't have said it.
People researching Van's Aircraft and the RV line of kitplanes usually
find their way here. No secret formula, just an online
presence since December of 1996.
Wanna Advertise on
VansAirForce.net (VAF)?
Would love to have you
onboard. I just ask two things: 1. The
product or service be aviation-related and.... 2.
You pay by the due date when invoiced. I've been
burned in the past - and the back and forth via email is a
lot of trouble for a 1-person company. Here's my logic on
this - if you hem and haw and make excuses that have me
emailing you multiple times to get the check you agreed to
send, how do I know you won't do that with the RV community
and your product?
Still
interested? Great!!! OK, work up an ad
graphic using the graphic here as a reference.
Feel free to save the image to your computer so you'll
have the correct dimensions to start with. Email
me for an advertising rate card. If it still
sounds good, simply email me your graphic, tell me which
URL to have clicking on the ad take readers to and
include the mailing address where the invoice needs to
be mailed. Easy parcheezy. If you want to
update the ad from time to time, that would be just
fine.

VAF Mentioned
Here and There:
From Van's Aircraft:
https://www.vansaircraft.com/vans-air-force-online-forums/
Kitplanes Magazine
"...the largest online
gathering of builders in the world...."
"...this incident shows
exactly where the collective brain trust at VAF ...is so
valuable...."
(read
article)

Kitplanes Magazine
"...by far the largest
and most active user group in Experimental aviation..."
(read
article)

Flying Magazine
(click to enlarge)

Flying
Magazine Blurb about VansAirForce.net
Brought to my attention by Larry Pardue. The word I'm
most proud made it into the article was 'politely'.
(Speaking of community, Van's....)


Flying
Magazine Blurb about VansAirForce.net
In an article by Stephen Pope on Van's Aircraft,
VansAirForce.net was mentioned favorably. One minor
correction...in the article it reads incorrectly that I was
the founder of 'Van's Air Force'. What I actually did
was create a WEBSITE called VansAirForce.net in 1997.
The term 'Van's Air Force' has been around for decades.
It was very satisfying to see this site referred to as "the
largest online community for devotees of all things Van's."
Many thanks to Mr. Pope and Flying.
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Before emailing/voice mailing/private
messaging/texting me, please read...
Q: I sent you an email/voice mail/private message/text. Why
didn't you get back to me?
A: (short):
There are ~30,000 VAF forum
accounts and another 50,000 or so unregistered 'lurkers', so we can
probably agree I get a fair amount of email. Because of that,
and due to both the limitations of the human hand and available cash
flow, if your email doesn't reference one of the items below you might not get a reply.
- Contract Flying Job.
- VAF Advertiser.
- Forum Login Issue.
- Some long lost friend from my
past.
Let me explain in
greater detail...
A: (longer): If your phone rang every five minutes around the clock, and
everyone left a message, how long could you hold out before turning
it off? The last thing I want is to have someone upset at me because
I haven't responded to a call / email / IM / PM / vMail / letter / note / smoke
signal. Having said that, the reality is I get more
emails than I can respond to. It's an uncomfortable feeling
that I never get used to, knowing that if I typed and talked day and
night I couldn't keep up.
Some examples I get on a regular basis:
'Sup bro! Can you help me promote my Youtube channel on my
RV build?'
'I'm trying to get in touch with Gern Blanston. Got his
number?' 'Why did you delete my post about selling my washing machine
on eBay?' 'What engine/avionics/prop/tools should I buy?' 'Can you send me a larger version of a plane image you
posted 2yrs ago? It was red.' 'What's
my plane worth?' 'I'm thinking of buying so
and so's RV. Is the price is fair?' 'I'm writing a paper on
this or that, can I ask you some questions?' 'I have the same radio as you and it's
throwing an error.
Help!' 'I'm starting a small business. Can I pick your
brain?' 'Can you tell me how to do a web site / what
software do you use / what cameras?'
None of the questions above are at all unreasonable,
and I answered them for years for tens of thousands of people.
Then, over the course of a decade or so the site got a good head of
online steam, and the emails really started coming in. It is
not unusual for me to get 200-300
emails/vmails/PMs/texts/calls a day, and no matter how much
typing/talking I do, it keeps growing. Of course, that's the
way it works - you reply to a question and usually that person will
ask one or two more in a follow up (completely understandable).
But in the mean time more folks are asking things, so the pile
always grows, never shrinks. OK to deal with for a little
bit...not so much 365/24/7 for the rest of your life.

(photo
credit)
If you don't hear back from me, again, please accept my apologies
in advance. It's me, not you.
Thanky,

PS: Same goes for the cell
phone. If I don't recognize the caller ID as being from a
family member or close friend (or a couple of folks up at the Van's
factory), I don't usually pick up. If you're looking for a
contract pilot and and interested in me, please leave a message!
I'll return your call!!!
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