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Why do/did you want to be a pilot?
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bobbysamd
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Why I wanted to be a pilot
I had always loved airplanes from when I was a child. I was reading books about airplanes from the time I learned how to read, and can remember taking my first airplane flights on DC-7s and Connies. I always knew I wanted to learn how to fly, and took my first lightplane flights when I was in college. By the time I turned 31 I finally was making enough money to afford flying and thought my life was stable enough to start.
I started flying simply because I loved airplanes and flying and had wanted to be a pilot. No other reasons. I had changed careers to aviation when I was 36 for those reasons only; I felt that if I must work I may as well do something that I enjoy. It was never the money, or babes or to fly "heavy iron."
I had always loved airplanes from when I was a child. I was reading books about airplanes from the time I learned how to read, and can remember taking my first airplane flights on DC-7s and Connies. I always knew I wanted to learn how to fly, and took my first lightplane flights when I was in college. By the time I turned 31 I finally was making enough money to afford flying and thought my life was stable enough to start.
I started flying simply because I loved airplanes and flying and had wanted to be a pilot. No other reasons. I had changed careers to aviation when I was 36 for those reasons only; I felt that if I must work I may as well do something that I enjoy. It was never the money, or babes or to fly "heavy iron."
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Lead Sled
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Several years ago the was a quiz published in our local Sunday supplement that asked questions that a person could use to determine if (s)he had a drinking problem. I don't drink so I don't have a drinking problem, but I took the words "alcohol" and "drink" and replaced them with "aviation" and "flying". I found out that morning that I was a confirmed hardcore aircraftoholic.
For most pilots, there is something intoxicating about being at the controls of an airplane in flight and the fact that someone is actually paying you to do it is well... You know what I mean. I would absolutely hate it if I ever had to get a "real" job.
Lead Sled
For most pilots, there is something intoxicating about being at the controls of an airplane in flight and the fact that someone is actually paying you to do it is well... You know what I mean. I would absolutely hate it if I ever had to get a "real" job.
Lead Sled
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It's simple really. Like a kid who dreams of being in the World Series playing baseball. Another dreaming of driving for a Nextel Cup team at Daytona. I want to be a pilot because... I love it.
It's somewhat hard to explain. I guess it's the urge to look up into the sky when you here the faintest sound of a jet miles above you. The thrill of knowing I'll put Newton's Laws and Bernoulli's Principals to the test. And the biggest of all, the thought of knowing I'll be in a Cessna in less than 30 minutes defining what it is to be free.
I guess it's the little things that we take for granted that essentially are the key elements of what drove of us all from the getgo.
I know for a fact a lot here have lost the "little" things that drove and anspired them to go where I hope to go someday. Hopefully when I'm old and gray, I'll have the peace of mind knowing that I never did lose sight on that big, or should I say "little" picture.
It's somewhat hard to explain. I guess it's the urge to look up into the sky when you here the faintest sound of a jet miles above you. The thrill of knowing I'll put Newton's Laws and Bernoulli's Principals to the test. And the biggest of all, the thought of knowing I'll be in a Cessna in less than 30 minutes defining what it is to be free.
I guess it's the little things that we take for granted that essentially are the key elements of what drove of us all from the getgo.
I know for a fact a lot here have lost the "little" things that drove and anspired them to go where I hope to go someday. Hopefully when I'm old and gray, I'll have the peace of mind knowing that I never did lose sight on that big, or should I say "little" picture.
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What bobbysamd said.
I always wanted to fly as a kid. I mistakenly thought that you had to have 20/20 uncorrected vision to be a pilot (I didn't), until I had a co-worker who wore glasses tell me that he was taking flying lessons. The next Saturday, I went out to the local airport and took my first lesson and was hooked. Got my Private six weeks later and have been flying ever since. Now I've been a pilot and aircraft owner for 30 years and can't imagine not being able to fly.
I always wanted to fly as a kid. I mistakenly thought that you had to have 20/20 uncorrected vision to be a pilot (I didn't), until I had a co-worker who wore glasses tell me that he was taking flying lessons. The next Saturday, I went out to the local airport and took my first lesson and was hooked. Got my Private six weeks later and have been flying ever since. Now I've been a pilot and aircraft owner for 30 years and can't imagine not being able to fly.
Ailerongirl
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As silly as this may sound, I think aviation is an undiscovered gene. It's something that passed down in the blood that's for sure! 
My Dad died when I was 9, and last year whilst going through old photographs I found a pile of pictures taken in the early 70's of airplanes...some were taken of the airplanes themselves, some were from inside the airplane whilst in flight, and some were of clouds. 35 years later, and I have a pile of pictures almost exactly the same, without even knowing about the ones my Dad took when he was working on his ratings
What really got me wanting to be able to fly, as in pilot the aircraft myself, was being a f/a....and realising how therapeutic being able to 'get away' really is.
My Dad died when I was 9, and last year whilst going through old photographs I found a pile of pictures taken in the early 70's of airplanes...some were taken of the airplanes themselves, some were from inside the airplane whilst in flight, and some were of clouds. 35 years later, and I have a pile of pictures almost exactly the same, without even knowing about the ones my Dad took when he was working on his ratings
What really got me wanting to be able to fly, as in pilot the aircraft myself, was being a f/a....and realising how therapeutic being able to 'get away' really is.
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Third Grade
I still remember the day the teacher asked all of us in class what we wanted to be when we grew up. She told us to draw us doing what we wanted to do. I remember me drawing myself in the left seat of a jet (didn't even know that was the Captain's seat!!!!) I wish I still had that picture, but I do remember what it looked like. Since that day there has been no question in my mind what I wanted to do.
I grew up in the approach/departure path of Hartsfield and always loved hearing the jets fly over the house. Some people complained of jet noise, I loved it. I hope that one day (soon) I get to fly one of those commercial planes over my parent's house and make the noise I loved to hear and look up into the air to see what was making it.
srj
I still remember the day the teacher asked all of us in class what we wanted to be when we grew up. She told us to draw us doing what we wanted to do. I remember me drawing myself in the left seat of a jet (didn't even know that was the Captain's seat!!!!) I wish I still had that picture, but I do remember what it looked like. Since that day there has been no question in my mind what I wanted to do.
I grew up in the approach/departure path of Hartsfield and always loved hearing the jets fly over the house. Some people complained of jet noise, I loved it. I hope that one day (soon) I get to fly one of those commercial planes over my parent's house and make the noise I loved to hear and look up into the air to see what was making it.
srj
AA717driver
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Glamour and money! What else?
Seriously, I always wanted to do it. When I was in 7th grade and joining the Methodist Church I had to talk to the associate minister about my "future".
Keep in mind this was in the early '70's and the Methodist Church leadership was a little to the left of Ho Chi Minh. So I sit down and he asks me "what do you want to do when you grow up?" (Not knowing that I had no plans to "grow up".) I jumped at the question. "I want to be a fighter pilot!" I thought he was gonna $hit! He got all red in the face and stammered and stuttered. "You mean you want to kill people?" "No, I don't WANT to kill people, I just want to fly cool jets." "But sometimes, you have to kill people as the price for flying fighters." He wasn't happy. I didn't fly fighters and didn't kill anyone. I just steal years from their lives by pi$$ing them off...
TC
Seriously, I always wanted to do it. When I was in 7th grade and joining the Methodist Church I had to talk to the associate minister about my "future".
Keep in mind this was in the early '70's and the Methodist Church leadership was a little to the left of Ho Chi Minh. So I sit down and he asks me "what do you want to do when you grow up?" (Not knowing that I had no plans to "grow up".) I jumped at the question. "I want to be a fighter pilot!" I thought he was gonna $hit! He got all red in the face and stammered and stuttered. "You mean you want to kill people?" "No, I don't WANT to kill people, I just want to fly cool jets." "But sometimes, you have to kill people as the price for flying fighters." He wasn't happy. I didn't fly fighters and didn't kill anyone. I just steal years from their lives by pi$$ing them off...
TC
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