At what point do you say...?

[minitour]

At what point do you say "I'm a pilot"? Like...when are you officially classified a pilot? Is it after first solo? PPL? Commercial Rating? First Job? ATP? 1,000 hours?

-mini

....yep....I'm that bored...

 

[mar]

Ah c'mon!

Pilot = One who pilots.

That's it man.

If you've ever had your hands on the controls then you're doin' the Dew! You're a pilot!

Now. There are lots of different kinds of pilots: Military, Civilian, Student, Commerical, short ones, tall ones, fat ones, rich ones and yup, there are poor pilots too.

Buck up there little buddy, you can call yourself a pilot!

BUT IF YOU EVER PAY FOR YOUR FRICKIN' JOB I'LL RIP YOUR LUNGS OUT!!!

Just kidding. I just added that for dramatic effect.

Good luck.

 

[BD King]

Actually, it is when you can belch, fart, and scratch your gonads in public without embarrassment.

 

[TurboS7]

As soon as you see a pretty chick at the bar. I used to do lazy eights over the high school during baseball and cheerleading practice---that worked.

 

[Bluto]

After answering the same questions from every friend, family member and friend of a family member 25,000 times, you will probably not want to tell anyone you are a pilot anymore. "So, can you fly by yourself?" "When will you be a commercial pilot?" "When are you going to fly the big airplanes?" "Why are ticket prices so confusing?" AAAAAARGH! I try to avoid discussing my career when at all possible!

 

[TurboS7]

Mar, we are going to be doing some serious flying out of ANC this winter. You should see our airplane up there this weekend getting the NOPAC checkout with the FAA.

 

[Tackleberry]

I just came off a course, and I didn't tell anyone I was a pilot, I was a firefighter (not that far fetched).

So, the moment you realize being a pilot isn't as cool as it is on TV, then your a pilot.

 

[rumpletumbler]

According to the CFR's if you hold a certificate you are a pilot. Even if it is a student pilot certificate. If you hold the certificate and the accompanying medical, etc. etc. You are a pilot.

 

[FN FAL]

At what point do you say "I'm a pilot"? Like...when are you officially classified a pilot? Is it after first solo? PPL? Commercial Rating? First Job? ATP? 1,000 hours?

-mini

....yep....I'm that bored...

That one's easy!

You know you're a pilot, when you find yourself in a PILOT HOLE!

 

[FN FAL]

After answering the same questions from every friend, family member and friend of a family member 25,000 times, you will probably not want to tell anyone you are a pilot anymore. "So, can you fly by yourself?" "When will you be a commercial pilot?" "When are you going to fly the big airplanes?" "Why are ticket prices so confusing?" AAAAAARGH! I try to avoid discussing my career when at all possible!

One of my coworkers was on the radio asking about using the electronic method of studing for the ATP written. After the other coworker answered him, I keyed the mike and while disguising my voice like a Yupper asked him, "What you trying to be, a COMMERCIAL pilot?"

I think there's a lot of us out there that can relate.

 

[bigD]

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!

 

[Pilot124]

You know you are a pilot when you all you can afford is a 99 cent double cheeseburger at McDonalds..

 

[Lead Sled]

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!

BigD...
You forgot the watch and the glasses. You've also got to buy a BIG watch and buy a pair of Raybans and wear the case on your belt. Then you are a pilot.

Lead Sled

PS...
Real pilots fly taildraggers and don't use autopilots.

 

[vetteracer]

QUOTE

After answering the same questions from every friend, family member and friend of a family member 25,000 times, you will probably not want to tell anyone you are a pilot anymore. "So, can you fly by yourself?" "When will you be a commercial pilot?" "When are you going to fly the big airplanes?" "Why are ticket prices so confusing?" AAAAAARGH! I try to avoid discussing my career when at all possible!

That is the truth.

So, do you want to be a commercial pilot and fly for the airlines?

You can’t fly at night can you?

You don’t fly for an airline, so you just fly little Cessna’s around?

So when are you going to finish your training and get on with an airline?

I work for a hospital and tell chick in the bar that I am an Ologist. They say, "did you say ____"(fill in blank") Ologist? I say, "yup, that's me, I'm a practicing Ologist, Biology, Oncology, Radiology, I do it all". And I'm a beachcomber on the side.

Mark

 

[DX Rick]

Not that I'm some high time "pilot" but in the last year, I have been so sick of answering questions about flying, and dispatching. Especially the "can you fly by yourself?" question. I see how creative I can get, by making up new careers for myself.
My favorite is "I'm a profesional bass fisherman".....end of conversation, right there.


PS
Try explaining to someone what a dispatcher does....When I explain it to them. They look like dogs trying to watch TV

 

[FN FAL]

Not that I'm some high time "pilot" but in the last year, I have been so sick of answering questions about flying, and dispatching. Especially the "can you fly by yourself?" question. I see how creative I can get, by making up new careers for myself.
My favorite is "I'm a profesional bass fisherman".....end of conversation, right there.


PS
Try explaining to someone what a dispatcher does....When I explain it to them. They look like dogs trying to watch TV

I hear ya, these are same doaks who think that when the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban of 1994 sunsets on monday, that crime is going to go spinning out of control. The masses are stupid and are subject to hysteria because of their ignorance.

Anyway, I flew a Navajo from msn to stp to pick up some pax I had dropped off earlier in the week. They had an extra guy coming back with them, that had not flown up on the earlier charter. No big deal, happens all the time.

So anyway, as we are being vectored in the terminal area, this guy see's that we are near the msn airport. He gets all excited and leans across the seat and like a kid that just found out he's going to "Dinyland", he bellers out... "You mean we can land at a "COMMERCIAL" airport?!!?"

I was like, "Dude, choke yourself on my hand!"

 

[banned username 2]

there are poor pilots too.

Say it ain't so!!!!!!

BUT IF YOU EVER PAY FOR YOUR FRICKIN' JOB I'LL RIP YOUR LUNGS OUT!!!

Just kidding.

Mar may just be kidding, but there is about 10,000 other members on here who aren't!

Just kidding! (well maybe not... )

Got you again! Just kidding!

(not really, have to say that in public )

 

[FN FAL]

Say it ain't so!!!!!!

Mar may just be kidding, but there is about 10,000 other members on here who aren't!

Just kidding! (well maybe not... )

Got you again! Just kidding!

(not really, have to say that in public )

There's nothing wrong with talking to yourself...really, it's actually healthy.

I also don't think it's unhealthy to hold a conversation with yourself.

But if you are having one these conversations with yourself and you find yourself going, "Say WHAT mother fu<ker??"...it's time to get some help.

 

[minitour]

There's nothing wrong with talking to yourself...really, it's actually healthy.

I also don't think it's unhealthy to hold a conversation with yourself.

But if you are having one these conversations with yourself and you find yourself going, "Say WHAT mother fu<ker??"...it's time to get some help.

well im screwed

-mini

 

[flyifrvfr]

When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that I work for Will's Car Wash and Wax. I tell them that it is my responsibilty to spray the inscents (sic?) in the car. I go on to tell them that you just can't walk off of the street and do my job, you have to be promoted to it.

I tell them I started out on the vacuum and worked my way up to the towel drier, and after a long training period, worked my way to spraying the inscents.

 

[Lead Sled]

When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them "Nothing, I'm a pilot."

Lead Sled

 

[Big Duke Six]

If someone asks while I'm in a bar, I usually say I'm an "Atmospheric Penetration Specialist" (if she's cute) or that I'm in "Passenger Relocations" if it's a dude.

 

[FN FAL]

If someone asks while I'm in a bar, I usually say I'm an "Atmospheric Penetration Specialist" (if she's cute) or that I'm in "Passenger Relocations" if it's a dude.

What are you doing talking to dude's in a bar?

 

[Big Duke Six]

Oh come on, can't I fantasize a little?

 

[dseagrav]

I dunno if it counts, but when people ask me what I do for a living, I tend to tell them that I play piano in a whorehouse so I don't have to admit working with computers. It's a much more respectable position with better pay and benefits. I gather answering idiotic questions about aviation must be irritating, but at least when someone DOES find out you guys are professional(?) pilots they don't expect you to fix their airplane for free. (And then when you tell them no, you won't fix their interweb or whatever, they try to guilt-trip you like it's somehow your fault...)

 

[Bluto]

dseagrav, you work on computers? Hey, can you tell me how to get rid of those annoying pop-ups on my interweb? Thanks

 

[Cosmo1999]

At what point do you say "I'm a pilot"? Like...when are you officially classified a pilot? Is it after first solo? PPL? Commercial Rating? First Job? ATP? 1,000 hours?

-mini

....yep....I'm that bored...

hmmmmm lets say WHO CARES

 

[Tackleberry]

Download a free program called "Ad-Aware" from

www.lavasoftusa.com

That should work.

 

[mar]

TurboS7

Turbo, my friend, good luck on the NOPAC qualification. I'm sorry I won't be in ANC this weekend but I hope everything goes well.

I've got a friend (near geek) that flies 747s and when people ask him what he does he tells them he drives an 18-wheeler.

Nerd.

 

[Cutlass1287]

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