What do you say when someone asks you..

[CrimsonEclipse]

Dont you want to be a commercial pilot, fly big planes?

Turn it around on them.

Person: Dont you want to be a commercial pilot, fly big planes?
Me: Why?
Person: For money and glory (or whatever they usually say at this point)
Me: The big planes don't have that anymore.

CE

 

[Pat Fabin]

You guys done stroking yourselves yet?

 

[FraxJockey]

Dont you want to be a commercial pilot, fly big planes?

...and what have a big bullseye on my back for every nutjob terrorist out there?...No thanks.

 

[pilothouston123]

Are you a commercial pilot?
Yes.
Oh really, what airline?
No I am a private Jet driver.

bull dozer driver, golf cart driver, dump truck driver, bus driver, cab driver, limo driver, airline pilot, private jet drver, astronaunt.

 

[flyboy]

or how about getting on an airliner only to sit next to someone (plane ole passenger) who "coaches" you through the whole flight just b/c he knows a little about flying the airlines. i find it more fun to indulge him in lots of questions about flying just to play ignorant than to say, "i know that i'm a pilot." I prefer, "really, what's a flap? if we loose one, can we still fly? how much oxegen is flowing through the cabin? if i light a match, will it explode? anyone had a similar experience?

 

[Black Hawk]

Most of the time people that ask kind of question are just curious or are trying to make polite conversation. Why get defensive? Say something like "I tried it for a while and A. didn't really like it or B. moved on to something else because it was a better opportunity".

 

[FlyFlyFly]

Another option is to say "well, once you land a 747 on a pitching carrier deck, one has nothing left to prove." When they say the inevitable "no way" or "that's impossible", say "for a commercial pilot, yes."

 

[tracearabians]

Look them square in the eyes and say " Go To Hell "

Dont you want to be a commercial pilot, fly big planes?

 

[flyboy]

when you have a job flying "big" planes, chances are you are going to be doing lots more work than the rest of us.

 

[CA1900]

Look them square in the eyes and say " Go To Hell "

HAHAHA! Best answer yet!

 

[Diesel]

And take the pay cut? No thanks.

 

[Jetdriver69]

I tell them I drive the big blue truck that sucks the crap out of the toilets on big airplanes. That usually shuts them up.

 

[FlyingFisherman]

Rubber chippers. It's our job to remove the rubber marks from the runway so the airplanes can see where to land.