JACK METZKER 1951 - 1976 PILOT AMA GSW DAL DFW Name: Jack M. Metzker State of Issue: Kansas Date of Birth: Monday July 14, 1930 Date of Death: Wednesday March 29, 1995 Est. Age at Death: 64 years, 8 months, 15 days Last known residence: City: Hurst County: Tarrant State: Texas ZIP Code: 76053 -SSDI (1/3/12) J. M. METZKER Pilot seniority date of 6/4/51 per the 9/1/72 FL/ALPA Seniority List. He is not on the 9/1/81 list. He's shown as a DFW CV580 captain on the 4/76 Pilot Domicile List. Cannot find him on the 3/77 list. I'll assume he took medical retirement in 1976 until I receive information otherwise. -Jake Lamkins (1/3/12) Email to FL pilots: Hello all, I'm updating Jack Metzker's memorial webpage and I have very little info on him. It appears he was a month shy of being 21 when he was hired by CN on 6/4/51 which is startling. That's about the youngest I've heard of. Do any of you have further info on Jack such as an obit, photo, stories, etc.? Did he leave FL around 1976? -Jake Lamkins (1/4/12) I flew with Captain Jack Metzker a lot of hours in the DC-3 early in my career with CN/FAL .... lot of Kansas City layovers ... we would hit town and check in at the Aladdin Hotel on the square downtown ... there was a bar on the west side of the square that had his favorite song on the juke box .... we spent many evenings sitting in there listening to “Scotch and Soda” ... over and over .... A great guy to fly co-pilot for .... -Phil Stallings (1/4/12) Jack was an old Central pilot.......flew f/o for him on the CV580. -Dan Adair (1/4/12) I got to know Jack Metzker pretty well during my first year at CEN in 1958. He was the training instructor for my Airline Transport Pilot rating which was a requirement for continuing employment after my probation first year at CEN. It was not a pleasant experience but that's all "water under the bridge". Jack was a sailor in the Navy during WW II. After the war he returned to his home near GCK and went on with his life. He decided to learn to fly on the GI bill and his instructor was Max Hunt, also a WW II veteran but was a Navy Carrier Pilot and now the flight instructor for Jack. Jack built up his time and once he got his Commercial Pilot rating he started looking for an airline job. One day he told Max that he was going to rent a plane and fly down to Ft. Worth TX where he heard that Central Airlines was hiring pilots and would Max like to go along. So they both flew down to Texas. Jack hired on with CEN but since Max was taking roots in Kansas. he declined. But a year or two went by and Max decided that since CEN was hiring, it might be the right thing to do. A few years went by and Max's seniority was such that it was time for him to check out as a Captain. Guess who his instructor was.....Jack Metzker who now was a Captain himself and a few years senior to Max who now became Jack's student! All went well and the rest is history. I flew co-pilot for Jack for a month or two. We were both in our late 20's and looked much younger. As we were boarding the airplane at Meacham field to begin a trip, I heard one old grizzly mechanic say to another...."Damn they're hiring them right out of high school these days". Jack enjoyed stopping in the aisle one (or more) times to talk to the little old ladies. They thought it was really nice that he had found such a good job for the summer while he was going to college! Jack went out early on a medical retirement and died at a too-young age. -Frosty Frost (1/5/12) Posted at FLacebook and FL Club: DFW pilot Jack Metzker's memorial webpage has been updated. http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Jack_Metzker.html Post your remembrances of Jack. -Jake Lamkins (1/5/12)