Forbes article on pilots...

[pilotyip]

Dude- if you're stereotyping- you're not getting me

yes you are correct, I am not getting you. We are all a team except for those I don't consider team players?

 

[bluesideup340]

and we didn't think we were special, notice nothing about the college degree being the true clear indication of a professional pilot. BTW I greased in my landing in the B-17 yesterday, life is good.

Pilotyip for the most part I enjoy your posts, although I might not always agree with everything you have to say. For the most part your posts are well written and thoughtful. But it seems you repeatedly get stuck on the subject of degree and college education. Yes I agree you do not need a college degree to fly an airplane. That being said, why do you bring this subject up so often? It appears that the lack of a college degree bothers you more than us. Time to move on.

Cheers,

 

[pilotyip]

Pilotyip for the most part I enjoy your posts, although I might not always agree with everything you have to say. For the most part your posts are well written and thoughtful. But it seems you repeatedly get stuck on the subject of degree and college education. Yes I agree you do not need a college degree to fly an airplane. That being said, why do you bring this subject up so often? It appears that the lack of a college degree bothers you more than us. Time to move on.

Cheers,

Thanks for your kind remarks. It is my trade mark, I have a reputation to live up to. It is all in fun, sometimes just to get a rise out of the college is the only way crowd.

 

[waveflyer]

You mixing threads yip?

 

[pilotyip]

You mixing threads yip?

no how do you do that?

 

[cynic]

I'll bet $1 pilotyip is also highly religious!

 

[Traderd]

I'll bet $1 pilotyip is also highly religious!

Or maybe just high..... on something

Gotta love a guy so optomistic.

 

[pilotyip]

I'll bet $1 pilotyip is also highly religious!

define highly religious? Go to church yea, carry a bible no, follow most of the 10 commandants, you know like not stealing killing, being nice to mom and dad yea. Big believer, like Winston Churchill, in Christian civilization. His famous speech goes something like this. " ...I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin, upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization upon it depends our own British...........". The kinda, don’t judge, do unto others, be charitable, etc that kinda Christian civilization stuff. Did you win your $1?

 

[cynic]

I did.

have fun!

 

[UALRATT]

define highly religious? Go to church yea, carry a bible no, follow most of the 10 commandants, you know like not stealing killing, being nice to mom and dad yea. Big believer, like Winston Churchill, in Christian civilization. His famous speech goes something like this. " ...I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin, upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization upon it depends our own British...........". The kinda, don’t judge, do unto others, be charitable, etc that kinda Christian civilization stuff. Did you win your $1?

Yip, sounds like you picked that up in the Humanity and Western Civilization class at your college or that your kids just bankrupted your retirement account just getting through college and you couldn't convince them otherwise...No joke man!!

 

[pilotyip]

Yip, sounds like you picked that up in the Humanity and Western Civilization class at your college or that your kids just bankrupted your retirement account just getting through college and you couldn't convince them otherwise...No joke man!!

college who needs college?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

And yes... Coding in C++/Perl/Java/C Sharp is more complicated than putting a hold into an FMS. I'd be surprised if anyone would argue with that

I certainly would not argue with that.

More importantly, however, everyone knows chicks dig programmers. If you know C++/Perl/Java/C Sharp you are sure to bag some stone cold foxy babes.

 

[Ty Webb]

Some day some of us are going to have to rely on extensive knowledge and good habit formations to evade catastrophe. Fate picks who has to show their skills, or Lack thereof. Just ask Sully.

Some of the truest words ever written on F.I., and I have been on here since about 1996.

Cynic, you need to get yourself a copy of the book "Fate is the Hunter" by Ernest Gann. Much of what you will read in that book is still very true today, and if you haven't ever flown a 16 hour duty-day through some of the most volatile weather imaginable, then you're commenting about something that you have no concept of.

Yeah, I know, you had to put in 16 hours one night on the eve of a really big "build", and your ISP went t.u. . . . . and your CIO was going "WTF?" but it just really ain't the same.:laugh:

 

[pilotyip]

a copy of the book "Fate is the Hunter" by Ernest Gann. Much of what you will read in that book is still very true today, a:laugh:

What!!!! you mean there are pilots on this site who had not read the BOOK? This has to be fixed by the mods right now

 

[cynic]

You guys have me all wrong.

I agree that we SHOULD have only highly qualified and highly intelligent and highly capable pilots.

My point is that unintelligent and incompetent people can and do get type ratings and through airline pilot training. It is not hard to complete the training. That is why it is possible to pay very low wages to people that are intellectually limited.

In my profession however, the bar for a minimally functioning employee is quite a bit higher and as a result; starting salaries are much higher.

It is what it is. I'd rather be a pilot, it is more fun, sitting at a desk sucks. I was a full time pilot for a year or two before we had kids But trying to support a family on peanuts sucks and I'd like to actually retire one day.