At what point do you say...?

[FN FAL]

Ive decided that I am no longer a "dishwasher." I am a "Product reconfiguration manager"

Hahaha...you'll get there dude!

When you get to be a freight dog, you'll be able to say, "well, I am a seasonal aritist. In the winter I make ice sculptures and in the summer I paint thunderstorms!"

 

[CDVdriver]

In a bar I'll say I work "at the airport", if they ask more I'll say I work with airplanes, in the kinda dives I can afford to drink they usually assume I'm a mechanic.

For the rest I call everybody Captain after their first flight

 

[minitour]

hmmmmm lets say WHO CARES

Obviously someone does...and if he didn't, there's a back button up top...great, thanks for playing.

-mini

 

[coolyokeluke]

Who cares?

Judging from the number of posts I'd say a few.

I like being able to tell people that I'm doing a profession that they have somewhat of an idea of without having to spend an hour explaining. (OK they don't get that I'm a "commercial pilot" since I don't fly Boeings or Arbi or something big). I was in the merchant marine before. "Oh you're a marine!" "Don't be silly, merchant marines went away like 200 years ago" (an actual quote). Plus some people find it interesting. I'd been an instructor for about a week and a half when I met this great woman in a bar. That's the first time I decided so say "I'm a pilot". Must've worked, we got married.

 

[Ryan]

If you really want to consider yourself a pilot, you need to open the Sporty's catalog and buy the largest flight bag they sell. Next, buy as many gadgets as you can to fill the flight bag. Get the largest kneeboard you can. Even if you're not instrument rated, call Jepp and get a subscription anyway - you don't want people thinking you're VFR only. Don't forget to buy the traffic pattern calculator either, and be sure to get the stick on landing gear handle with the three green lights. You don't want that hot chick you're taking up in your 152 to think you fly a fixed gear plane, do you?

And finally, you need to get a license plate frame and bumper stickers for your car telling everyone that you're a pilot.

And there you go. You're now a pilot!

I was laughing out loud as I read your first paragraph, thinking "yeah only goofs would do that" I quickly sobered up as I read the line about a license plate frame and bumper stickers and realized "hey that’s me!" Guess I’m a goof too. Oh well.

Ryan