Does anyone else thing flying is boring?

[Vingus]

You guys all missed the point, I don't think flying a fighter jet is any more exciting than an airliner, in fact, I have never cared about military aviation, even as a kid.

Flying anything is basically boring. I am talking about jobs that accomplish something and actually make you think and actually pay good. I am not talking about 200k per year, I am talking about liquid, 500k+

It is funny how so many of you immediately talk about flying "something else" for fun..... typical pilots, always goes back to flying.....

Hate to break it to you, but if you have done it once you have done it 1000 times..

Me thinks you have listened to that song, "I want to be a billionaire....so friggin bad" one too many times. Good luck junior.

 

[GINCHBLASTER]

I think we can all agree on one thing here...


Nickelback makes horrible, horrible music.

 

[SFR]

And do it all agaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn!!

 

[SFR]

I thing that I be lickin balls

 

[say again]

I enjoy flying!

 

[BRA]

I think the level of fun with flying can depend on the company. I don't really care to rent a plane on my day off to go sight seeing, but if I am taking a girlfriend or family member then that changes everything. It would be fun for me to see them enjoy it and get to fly the plane a little.

Flying the airliner is a whole lot more fun when the CA/FO is interesting to talk to. The flights where the other guy offers nothing kind of drag. The legs go by too fast and 10,000 feet comes up too fast when you have someone cool to talk to.

 

[Abernathy]

Perhaps it's boring flying an RJ all around no-name towns. Move on in life and things can get unboring?

 

[hyflyin]

I thing that I be lickin balls

I "thing" I will ignore all of your posts now.

 

[sstearns2]

Ok, I need to know, who else thinks that being an airline pilot is one of the most boring jobs available.

Sitting in a cockpit, basically a prisoner the entire block time of the flight, sitting bored for hours, then off to a hotel to sit for hours.... "then do it all again" - Nickelback 2010.

Who else thinks that it is brainless work?

Please quit your flying job.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[hyflyin]

I "thing" I will ignore all of your posts now.

Ahhh, ignored, much better.

 

[J.Otto]

Well, flying is boring. I figured that much out during my primary training on x-countrys. The "coolness" factor kept me going. Its redundnant and regimented. you do the same thing over and over and over. Its a different profession for the avg. joe, for sure. They prolly find it highly exciting and respectable b/c they dont know better. but its become very standardized and you really are just a computer programmer and monitor. Thats the job in a nutshell and why wages arent so high anymore. ANYONE can do this job. For chirsts sake, you had kids going from zero hours to rjs in under a year. Some of these guys even managed to get on with majors or something bigger than a CRJ or ERJ. Handflying is not much done from what I see. And most ofthe time they want you on AP anyway. The pilot is way out of the loop and lost many privilges & authority a while ago. Its no fun sitting in an airplane for hours on AP or a filthy hotel with early shows and limited drinking. you are away from things you rather want to do. Not sit in a boondock town. you miss your family and love ones.

OP, be happy you have a job what ever it is. All work becomess a job eventually. In the end, its what your happy to tell people what you do and live whrere your pay goes further. I dont even want to think of the horrors of reserve. That blows.

But I hope sine your at CAL you knew flying was boring when you did you long x-countries. Thats where I realized it but invested too much to just stop.

 

[SFR]

OP, be happy you have a job what ever it is. All work becomess a job eventually. In the end, its what your happy to tell people what you do and live whrere your pay goes further. I dont even want to think of the horrors of reserve. That blows. .

The first sentence will not go over well with most folks on this board, they like to complain.


Reserve is great at CAL, I flew an average of 6 days per month in 2009. I only have flow 3 days this year 2010 but that is due to another circumstance.....

I can't wait to get back and sit reserve, but please keep telling people that reserve sucks...we need that word spread around.

 

[knowlimits]

I only have flow 3 days this year 2010 but that is due to another circumstance.....

Restraining order? Or dangerously low T-cell count?

 

[StopNTSing]

I hereby nominate this for Dumbest FI Thread of 2010. Do I have a second?

 

[nethan]

Seconded.

Motion passes.

And here I was hoping that whenever I escaped regional hell and made it to the big show I wouldn't still be surrounded by idiots. Damn... all my dreams are getting shattered here.