Pilot Introduction Thread

[UAL025 James Nessen]

Callsign: UAL016
Name: James Nessen
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Current Location: Dixon, CA
Hobbies: Disaster Services Worker, Law Enforcement Volunteer, Little League Board Member, Baseball Coach, FSX Flying, Ham Radio Operator, Traffic Signal Collector
Occupation: Linux System Administrator for one of the large internet portals.
Interesting facts: I have a working traffic signal "intersection" in my garage!
Children: 4
Married: Yes
Age: 35 (just turned today)

[UAL908 Mark Wilsberg]

Callsign: UAL507
Name: Mark Wilsberg
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Current Location: Mexico City
Occupation: Globetrotter...nah...Journalist (Focus on Politics and Economics) so..same thing.
Lived in: NYC, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico
Hobbies: DJ (Strictly Techno), Music Production, Aviation, Writing, Travelling (obsessively), Football (called soccer by the gringos)

[UAL021 Robert Touchtone]

Call sign: UAL106
Real name: Robert Touchtone but I go by Rob.
Birth Place: Royal Oak, Michigan.
Home town: Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.
Current Home: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Age: 46.
Married, 6 children.

Hobbies: Flight sim. Designing sceneries for FSX and FS9.
I have over 50 sceneries available on flightsim.com and AVSIM.com.

Real Occupation: Truck Driver for Bozzuto's INC. Based out of Cheshire, CT. Deliver food products for all the IGA stores in the Mid Atlantic region, also deliver Sam Adams beer to major distributors in the Mid Atlantic and North East.

Service: US Navy HT3 (sw). From 1984 to 1989 aboard the USS Puget Sound as a high pressure nuclear components welder. My wife also served as chiefs cook on the same ship, that's where we met. She is a senior HR rep for Amazon.com.

My set up. 17" Mac Book Pro running windows 7 in bootcamp. with I-7 930 processor. 8GB DDR3 Ram. NVIDIA M-530 512MB ram. 512GB hard drive 1TB external HD. 1 Acer external second monitor. SAITEK pro flight throttles, Yoke, Rudder Pedals. Plantronics game pro head set.

[UAL420 Paul W McCullough]

Callsign: UAL712
Name: Paul McCullough
Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Current Location: Pasadena, Texas
Hobbies: Flight simulation, digital aviation photography. Editing FS aircraft parameters.
Interests: Military and aviation history, aircraft incident and crash investigations.

Engaged, no children.
Age: 38

Born in North Houston and lived in the Houston area until I was 9. Moved to Little Creek, VA with my father after he finished Navy Basic in 1983.

I lived in Virginia, South Texas and California between the ages of 9 and 18.

Served in the Army for 3 years as a Stinger missile instructor and SWAT MP(1992-1995).

Lived in the Dallas area from 2006 til 2010(was married at the time).

I have had the priveledge of flying Level D class sims for the 737(300 and 700 variants), 747-400, 767-300, and FA-18C.

I currently work for Kroger Company as a Drug/GM clerk, but have worked with blimps as a mechanic, and 747-400s as a freight handler.

I can drive tugs of any size, including pushbacks. I have marshalled aircraft and done contract maintenance on Lear 35s

[UAL127 George Widener]

Callsign: UAL127
Name: George Widener
Current Location: Oshkosh, WI
Hobbies: Flightsim, photography, Lego, railroad history
Occupation: Railroad Locomotive Engineer, CN Rail
Other: Been flightsimming since 2004, active aircraft repainter (mostly AI).
Married, no kids.
Age: 41

[UAL303 Andrew Conley]

Callsign: UAL303
Name: Andrew Conley
Birthplace: San Diego, California
Current Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California
Hobbies: Aviation, Flying, history, biking, hiking
Occupation: Full time student at CCA, Intern at Jetsource Aviation (KCRQ), CEO of SkyWest Virtual Airlines.
Interesting facts: Uncle was a Fleet Maintenance Manager at United Airlines (real world).
Age: 15
Kids: none
Joined Vual: September 3 2012

[UAL358 Manthan Dutta]

Callsign: UAL353
Name: Manthan Dutta
Birthplace: Delhi, India
Current Location: Delhi, India
Hobbies: Aviation, Aviation History, LEGO, Ships, Biking.
Occupation: Student in 10th grade, going to go into aeronautical engineering.
Interesting facts: Cousin brother (23) is [manager of something - cant remember what atm] at Indigo airlines.
Age: 15
Joined Vual: September 7 2012
PC Setup: 1) 15.6" Toshiba Sattelite C655D
2) i5-3570k, MSI GTX 660 Ti, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 64GB SSD.

[UAL148 Adam Robinett]

Callsign: UAL148
Name: Adam Robinett
Birthplace: Independence, Missouri
Current Location: Independence, Missouri. United States.
Hobbies: Aviation, FSX, Warhammer 40k, and just having a great time.
Occupation: United Airlines CSR/Ramp Service At KMCI
Interesting facts:I'm a Second Generation United Airlines Employee, Mother is a now retired 40 year Flight Attendant for UAL. Fun fact for her, She applied for both CO and UA and got her Acceptance Letter in the mail from both companies in the mail on the same day, and chose United. Creepy Huh? Other than that I suppose I'm not all that interesting, favorite Plane is Anything made by Boeing, plus the DC-8 and DC-10.
Age: 27
Kids: Lol yeah, No.

[UAL138 Larry Holcomb]

Callsign: UAL138
Name: Larry Holcomb
Birthplace: Monroe, WI
Age: 66
Current Location: Monroe, WI
Hobbies: FlightSim, Computers, Golf, Reading
Occupation: FAA Air Traffic Controller (Retired) I worked at Chicago O'Hare TRACON for 20 years, 1973 to 1993. I worked at Chicago Center as an Operations Manager from 1993 to 2001 when I retired.

Real World pilot, Airplane Single Engine land, Commercial + Instrument. (Retired)

Married. Five Children, Three Grandchildren.

My aviation world these days is on-line.

[UAL730 Jason Tye]

Callsign: UAL730
Name: Jason Tye
Birthplace: Houston, TX
Current Location: Dayton, TX
Hobbies: Aviation, FSX, Photography, Shooting, Geocaching, my kids
Occupation: Aviation Meteorologist
Interesting facts: Ive been an aviation meteorologist since learning that the Air Force actually needs weather guys when I decided to enlist in May 1999. I currently work at Universal Weather & Aviation where we provide trip support for private and business jets.
Age: 34
Kids: 2 girls, ages 7 and 2