The down-low on daveleau :)

[daveleau]

Hi everybody!

I'm Dave. My last name is French, but I don't have an outrageous accent-a. :)

I'm from Greenville, SC, but I consider Charleston, SC home as well. I live in Shreveport, right now.

I moderate Baptist/Anabaptist, Exposition and Bible Study, Hermeneutics, Seventh Day Adventist (temporarily until we get SDA staff), Christian Reviews and General Apologetics.

I'm a huge sports fan (Geaux Tigers ...and El Cid!) and love to read. I'm currently seeking a Master of Arts of Religion from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.

If you have any questions or just want to chat, please feel free to drop me a line here or in PM! :)

God bless you,
Dave

[carmi]

I'm a huge sports fan (Geaux Tigers ...and El Cid!) and love to read.

:cool: What books do you love to read? Fiction, non-fiction or both alike?

[carmi]

And another question: do you write?

Going by your subject line, you know how to ;)

[ej]

Any plans to read Harry Potter books 4, 5, and 6?

I'd recommend them - they're different from books 1-3 in that - although the overall storyline is predictable - they explore deeper issues than the first 3 books, and Ms Rowling develops her characters beautifully. :)

[daveleau]

:cool: What books do you love to read? Fiction, non-fiction or both alike?

Almost exclusively non-fiction, now. I am working my way through the US President's biographies and am a Revolutionary War buff. I also read a lot of theological books both for school and for fun.

:)

Thanks for asking! :)

[daveleau]

Any plans to read Harry Potter books 4, 5, and 6?

I'd recommend them - they're different from books 1-3 in that - although the overall storyline is predictable - they explore deeper issues than the first 3 books, and Ms Rowling develops her characters beautifully. :)

Not right now. I have so many other books. I read the first three as e-books on my PDA. Whnever I had to wait in line somewhere, I'd read them on it. I don't have my PDA anymore, so... I also got a little tired of the stories. I really liked the first 3, though.

thanks for asking! :)

[RED that's ME]

Besides the Bible what is your favorite book? :)

[daveleau]

Tough question, Red. :)

I would guess that Virkler's Hermeneutics would be one of my favorites because I learned so much about studying Scripture from it.

My favorite history book would be Flexner's Washington: The Indepensible Man because I saw how someone so flawed with so many mistakes could still be so influential for bringing about good things. Not to mention it highlights his Christian roots and life.

Thanks for asking. :)

[RED that's ME]

How long have you been flying planes?

[daveleau]

The very first time I flew, even comercially as a passenger, was on my honeymoon. That was 2 weeks before I was to report for my first assignment. :) It was Nov 2001. The first time I had the controls was in June 2002. I've been flying ever since, although I control the plane verbally while the pilots take cues from me. We're one of the few aircraft that still uses and needs a navigator.

Thanks for asking. :)

[carmi]

What is your idea of a perfect way to spend a Saturday?

[daveleau]

What is your idea of a perfect way to spend a Saturday?

Hanging out with my wife, whether its going to the movies, reading a book, running errands or doing work around the house. Pretty mcuh anything as long as I'm hanging out with her. :)

Thanks for asking :)

Yours in Christ,
Dave

[Sweet Pea]

What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

[daveleau]

Hmmmm. Spending Thanksgiving at my grandmother's with my whole family. She passed last December, and since she began getting weak, we haven't had a family-wide gathering. We had a great time together, and my grandmother was a superb cook.

Thanks for asking! :)

[RED that's ME]

Is there one adventure you would like to do in your lifetime that you haven't done yet? If so, what is it?

[daveleau]

Hmmmm. That's a tough one. I'd have to say that I would like to fly in a fighter jet. I fly routinely on large military aircraft, but I've never flown in a fighter.

I also want to write a book.

Thanks for asking, Red. :)

God bless you,
Dave

[Trainingforministry3]

Favorite time morning or night?

[mnphysicist]

Have you ever flown inverted?

[RED that's ME]

What kind of book would you like to write? And why don't you go ahead and start writing it? :) When you get it written, do I get an autographed copy? :P

[hopperace]

Hi everybody!

I'm Dave. My last name is French, but I don't have an outrageous accent-a. :)

If you have any questions or just want to chat, please feel free to drop me a line here or in PM! :)

God bless you,
DaveThank you Dave. What do you consider to be the most important aspect of peace-making leadership? :hug:

[daveleau]

Have you ever flown inverted?

Nope! :) Unless you count the cartoon of my in my avatar. :) (An illustrator actually drew that for me.) I've only flown a Cesna 172, a modified 747 navigator trainer, and a B-52H. None of those would survive being inverted. :)

[daveleau]

What kind of book would you like to write? And why don't you go ahead and start writing it? :) When you get it written, do I get an autographed copy? :P

I want to address intra-Christian disagreement, and how we should act and what is appropriate according to Scripture. I am already accumulating data and research, so I kind of am already writing it. And, of course! You'll get one of the first copies signed!!! :)

[daveleau]

Thank you Dave. What do you consider to be the most important aspect of peace-making leadership? :hug:

Hi Ciborium! :wave:

I think adherance to Scriptural guidelines of leadership is the most important aspect. My favorite and most often quoted verse for this is 2 Tim 4:2. (preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. [ESV]) The key that most often drops out in my experience in the USAF and sometimes here is the kindness aspect.

God bless you!
Dave

[USincognito]

Are you glad that K.I. Sawyer got BRAC'd and you didn't go to Minot?

[daveleau]

KI Sawyer would likely have been a more desirable choice for assignment when compared to Minot. As for Minot...I got my first choice in my current assignment. :)

[ZACTAK]

Do you think it is weird that someone who hates to fly would want to get their pilots license?

[USincognito]

If you ever have to go make crators in the sandbox, where do you want to be based out of: Diego Garcia or Guam?

[A New Dawn]

If you got stranded on a deserted island and there was no hope of rescue, but someone could drop one kind of food for you on a daily basis, what would it be?

[MaraPetra]

Two questions for you, Daveleau :)

1. Does it make you and/or your wife grin when you have a telemarketer or other person from out-of-state call you, and they phonetically butcher your name? Or do you just shrug it off as one of the hazards of having a French name?

2. Have y'all ever visited Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge or New Orleans, since you're only a few hours away from those areas? Once you get south of I-10, Cajun Culture rules!

Geaux Saints, Tigers and Ragin' Cajuns! :thumbsup:

[daveleau]

Do you think it is weird that someone who hates to fly would want to get their pilots license?

Yes. :) lol

Actually, I'd never flown in any aircraft until a month before I joined the USAF. So, stranger things have happened.

[daveleau]

If you ever have to go make crators in the sandbox, where do you want to be based out of: Diego Garcia or Guam?

Diego. Peace and quiet and actual work where my training would be used.

[daveleau]

If you got stranded on a deserted island and there was no hope of rescue, but someone could drop one kind of food for you on a daily basis, what would it be?

Meat lovers pizza. It has all the basic foodgroups. :)

[daveleau]

Two questions for you, Daveleau :)

1. Does it make you and/or your wife grin when you have a telemarketer or other person from out-of-state call you, and they phonetically butcher your name? Or do you just shrug it off as one of the hazards of having a French name?

2. Have y'all ever visited Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge or New Orleans, since you're only a few hours away from those areas? Once you get south of I-10, Cajun Culture rules!

Geaux Saints, Tigers and Ragin' Cajuns! :thumbsup:

My dad's an LSU grad, and it was the only other school I applied to other than the Citadel. I had to choose - discipline or party? I chose the former. I have lots of family in N'awlins, where my dad grew up. I have only been there about 5-6 times, though.

My wife went from a Smith to a Leaumont. She complains about having to spell her name at least 5 times every day. lol I also love the mail I get and how strangely people misspell my name. We get a big laugh out of it. I'm glad my grandfather dropped the "de" prefix, otherwise it'd be even that much tougher. :)

Geaux Tigers! (This last week's game was very sad, though)

[daveleau]

Where are you stationed now?

Barksdale in Shreveport, LA.

[A New Dawn]

Where are you stationed now?

[A New Dawn]

Meat lovers pizza. It has all the basic foodgroups. :)

Ahhhh......... pizza was my choice, too. And hopefully they'd drop a bottle of Coke every once in a while, too. :thumbsup:

[Alexander Nissi]

did you know there are now 7 major groups dave? They are breads and cereals,diary,meat, fruits and Vegtables, Ice cream, Sugary foods and the most important one of all Chocolate?:) hehehe~Alec

[MaraPetra]

Hehehe

My last name was Jagneaux, before I married this time around. You can use your imagination on how badly that name got mangled on a daily basis :D Hence the question.

What's your favorite plane to fly?

And which plane are you drooling to one day fly?

[daveleau]

Hehehe

My last name was Jagneaux, before I married this time around. You can use your imagination on how badly that name got mangled on a daily basis :D Hence the question.

What's your favorite plane to fly?

And which plane are you drooling to one day fly?


:) How is that pronounced?

My favorite plane to fly is the B-52, because of the flexibility of what it can do. While other planes might be more fun to fly, no aircraft has the flexibility and history that the B-52 has.

Not for a career, but for a few years, I'd like to fly an SR-71. It had a navigator, and is the fastest and highest flying aircraft (terrestrially speaking, since we of course have spacecraft that fly faster and higher). They just need to unretire it... :) For one flight, I'd like to fly an F-22, but just to get the feel of the performance. It's a great fighter, but it is not an aircraft I'd like to make a career out of.

[MaraPetra]

:) How is that pronounced?

My favorite plane to fly is the B-52, because of the flexibility of what it can do. While other planes might be more fun to fly, no aircraft has the flexibility and history that the B-52 has.

Not for a career, but for a few years, I'd like to fly an SR-71. It had a navigator, and is the fastest and highest flying aircraft (terrestrially speaking, since we of course have spacecraft that fly faster and higher). They just need to unretire it... :) For one flight, I'd like to fly an F-22, but just to get the feel of the performance. It's a great fighter, but it is not an aircraft I'd like to make a career out of.
It's pronounced ZHOHG-no. Easy enough, IMHO :)

Cool on the planes. My FIL flew F-111A's, F-4 D's and E's while in the AF. He served 5 years in Vietnam as a pilot over there.

Do y'all get crawfish and Community coffee up there? Are are you being tortured with Folgers? :)

[daveleau]

lol, I hate to say it, but I'm not much of a coffee drinker aside from the occassional Starbucks while at Barnes and Noble. But, my FIL asks us to bring him Community coffee each time we go up to see him. We do get crawfish, but I am amazed at the lack of cajun and creole food in N LA. It simply doesn't exist. Food is advertised as "spicy", but hardly ever is.

[MaraPetra]

That seems to be inherent once you get to Alexandria, and northwards. We always say the "North" starts at around Bunkie :)

Tell your FIL he can order Community coffee online by visiting their website. I had a friend in Fredonia, Kansas, to whom I was shipping CC. It got pretty expensive until she started using the site :)

"Spicy" is a relative term, but cheer up! I can PM y'all the recipe for Tony Chachere's creole seasoning...A lot cheaper to make it than to buy it, and you can adjust the spiciness to taste. The recipe came out of the first Tony Chachere cookbook. Little did Mr. Tony know that his seasoning would become such an international brand. It's interesting to note that in his cookbook, "Second Helping", the recipe was omitted.

I'm amazed that y'all can get crawfish up there. Is it live ones, or that nasty Chinese frozen crawfish meat? :sick:

Anyways, do you find that prayer before flight makes it more of a joy?

[daveleau]

Anyways, do you find that prayer before flight makes it more of a joy?

Undoubtably!!!!! I can tell a distinct difference between my performance and enjoyment depnding on if I pray before a flight. Regardless, I always thank God afterwards for a safe flight (for me, my crew and those on the ground if we are dropping anything.) One of the guys I flew with a few times would kneel in front of the aircraft before he began his exterior inspections. I find that my self-consciousness of what others think clouds my ability to pray and am distracted, so I don't do that. I pray before I leave and on my way to work. I do other things to be a voice for God while I fly, though, including the injection of Christian music on my MP3 player on long flights when we have music rigged up, reading the Bible or studying for my classes between events or just my sunny disposition. But, I have noticed definite differences.


That seems to be inherent once you get to Alexandria, and northwards. We always say the "North" starts at around Bunkie :)

Tell your FIL he can order Community coffee online by visiting their website. I had a friend in Fredonia, Kansas, to whom I was shipping CC. It got pretty expensive until she started using the site :)

"Spicy" is a relative term, but cheer up! I can PM y'all the recipe for Tony Chachere's creole seasoning...A lot cheaper to make it than to buy it, and you can adjust the spiciness to taste. The recipe came out of the first Tony Chachere cookbook. Little did Mr. Tony know that his seasoning would become such an international brand. It's interesting to note that in his cookbook, "Second Helping", the recipe was omitted.

I'm amazed that y'all can get crawfish up there. Is it live ones, or that nasty Chinese frozen crawfish meat? :sick:

We have a Shavers in town that sells fresh crawfish, but most are frozen.

I love Tony Chacere's seasoning. I'd love a copy of that recipe! Thanks!

[MaraPetra]

My FIL would pray before each flight, too, and do a rosary. In five years, he was never once shot down, which is amazing in and of itself since his sorties were very dangerous.

He also says that up there, he always felt a closeness to God that was different than what he felt when he was on terra firma.

I'll PM that recipe to you real quick. If it's humid up there, you may want to add a few rice grains to the seasoning mix when it's in a shaker...That absorbs the moisture and keeps it from caking up. The pre-made Tony's has an ingredient which keeps that from happening, but the homemade version does not.

I have a 14 year-old son who is about to go up for the first time with a friend of mine in his Cessna. The child is looking at a career in flying, and he's fascinated by aerodynamics. We arranged this flight so that he could get a 'feel' for aircraft and aviation in general.

What advice would you give teens who have an interest in flight and are looking at it as a career?

[daveleau]

Stay with it, and don't let money spent in lessons get wasted by only doing part of a certification. Wait until you have enough to pay for a whole license, or have a plan to have it paid for before he starts, otherwise it will cost a lot more. You can't pay for and attend 20 hours of a 40 hour private pilot license, and pay for and attend the other 20 hours later. You will have to repeat much of the previous 20 hours before moving on to more advanced things.

There are a few internet sites that have FAA's radio chatter played for the public. I'd suggest, while doing something else,(playing video games, reading, watching TV, etc) have that on in the background. Pick a callsign that is mentioned, and listen for it while doing something else. When that callsign is read over the radio, respond to it with whatever he wants. This will get him ready to listen for his callsign on the radios while being distracted by the myriad of other things going on in the airplane. Communications are one of the hardest parts of flying (or at least they are for most). Many aircraft have 2 (or more...we have a min of 3 required to listen to at any given time, but at times as many as 6) radios that are required listening in flight, so if something with audio (TV or games) can be done while listening to radio frequencies on this site would help him be able to tune in to what is important at the right time. The most important thing an instructor is going to look for is the ability of the student to follow air traffic control's directives when they are directed at their aircraft. Not hearing them is not an option, even if the student is busy with something else.
Here are some of the links:
http://www.jfktower.com/liveatc.htm
http://www.airparts.com/tower.html
http://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=class-d-center

Study the books. Know what is needed for each level of certification, and study it well so: A) you do well on the test, and B) so that information is available through quick thinking rather than fumbling through a book, which can be difficult while having your hands full of aircraft.

Some say MS Flight Simulator helps. I never used it, but it can help with knowing how to navigate and can help with instrument familiarity and use. Most flying is done by the seat of the pants feeling at first. Instruments come later, but flight sim will help with getting familiar with the instruments, and will save tons of flight hour funds later on down the road, as flight time required is somewhat dependent on how one performs. (More flight time (and more money) is needed for people less prepared/lower performers)

I hope this helps!
Dave

[£amb]

I'm from Greenville, SC, but I consider Charleston, SC home as well. I live in Shreveport, right now.



Sorry I'm coming so late into this thread, but this caught my eye. My husband and myself lived in Charleston from '91-'97. Absolutely loved it and always say we would like to move back there some day. :)

[Tishri1]

Hi Dave do pilots get to watch the in flight Movies, and what kinds of movies do you like to see or dont like to see in fight:wave:

:hug:

[daveleau]

Sorry I'm coming so late into this thread, but this caught my eye. My husband and myself lived in Charleston from '91-'97. Absolutely loved it and always say we would like to move back there some day. :)

I got there in 92, and was in college there until 97, and left in 01. I loved it. Great city.

[daveleau]

Hi Dave do pilots get to watch the in flight Movies, and what kinds of movies do you like to see or dont like to see in fight:wave:

:hug:

No, we don't have much time to watch movies. :) Occassionally we'll take a laptop on the jet and try to watch something, but the aircraft is so much louder than a commerical jet that we could never hear the sound.

[Tishri1]

How do you pass the time?
And have you ever had a "God Moment" up there?:wave:

[RED that's ME]

If you could be on a tv game show, what would it be and why?

[daveleau]

Hmmm.. I know it wouldn't be the rich list. :) We played that at work in our office, and I couldn't name more than 1 or 2 movies by any actor...

I would have to say Who Wants to be a Millionaire, because it's multiple choice, and I do much better at those. I could never be on Jeopardy, or any other straight trivia show, because I am horrible at trivia. :)

[daveleau]

How do you pass the time?
And have you ever had a "God Moment" up there?:wave:

Well, we do have a lot to do on most flights. We pack in a lot of training. When we do have long drone times, I read. We also plug in mp3s and listen over the intercom.

I have seen a couple of "God moments" (I am assuming you mean, uh oh, I'm-about-to-meet-God type of moments), but never been in one. We had an aircraft land gear up, and one struck by lightening on short final that caught the nose radome on fire. I've had to run away from 2 jets for fuel leaks, but nothing major. God's been pretty good to me up there. :) (And down here...)

[ChristmasJoy]

Hi :wave:. What's your favorite Christmas memory?

[FatBurger]

Closed, since daveleau is no longer on staff :)