You know you are an airline pilot wannabe when...

[airplane wizard]

You know you are an airline pilot wannabe when___________________


1. you wear a pilots uniform while playing MSFS
2. you buy airline AFMs on ebay and use the checklists while playing MSFS
3. you make pax announcements to yourself while playing MSFS or when flying your 172

4. you toss and turn all nite thinking of ways to get more ME time

 

[snap145]

When you put a post up on flightinfo.com about other wannabe airline pilots....

 

[PunchTheClown]

When your stupid enough to go to Gulfstream, ATP, etc or in any way spending 40k on this career.

 

[SennaP1]

When your stupid enough to go to Gulfstream, ATP, etc or in any way spending 40k on this career.

Speaking of which, with the new banner here about more hiring success....

http://www.atpflightschool.com/airline_training_programs/airline_alliances/pinnacle_2006-08-30.html?utm_source=flightinfo&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=ACPP

Saw one for 78K.

I wish them well.

 

[Trogdor]

When you wear a pilot uniform while you are a CFI.

 

[greg52083]

When you wear a pilot uniform while you are a CFI.

Sorry not everyone wore dirty old jeans and ripped shorts when they were instructors. Oh yea, those instructors who wear uniforms will make more any any of us for the first 2 years at the airlines & paid holidays, paid between terms, paid time off every holdiay, off on the weekends, make your own schedule, 401k matching + 5%, oh and NO CALLS FROM FKN CREW TRACKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FCKN NIGHT.....

 

[flyslow24]

Sounds like a good deal what flight school gives you all those benefits?

I thought the ripped shorts was to make your students feel bad so they would buy the hamburgers

 

[jc3]

I was happy to wear a uniform and get Delta bennies all over the world and have time to enjoy them, my family too! Thank god I had a girlfrined with money though.

 

[Flysher]

The CFIs at FSA wore uniforms as well as the students, and I thought that was overkill. Much like the CAP guys who wear military flight suits. Its like driving to work in a flame retardent race car driver suit.

When I was a CFI I wore kakis and a company polo. That was professional and also comfortable.

Your not supposed to wear torn up jeans and shirts until you fly freight anyway.:laugh:

 

[30West]

4. you toss and turn all nite thinking of ways to get more ME time

He he he he, I think we were ALL guilty of that one early on!

 

[FmrFreightDog]

Sorry not everyone wore dirty old jeans and ripped shorts when they were instructors. Oh yea, those instructors who wear uniforms will make more any any of us for the first 2 years at the airlines & paid holidays, paid between terms, paid time off every holdiay, off on the weekends, make your own schedule, 401k matching + 5%, oh and NO CALLS FROM FKN CREW TRACKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FCKN NIGHT.....

Wow!! Touch a nerve there, Skyking?

 

[Peter Griffin]

4. you toss and turn all nite thinking of ways to get more ME time

This very problem wanted me to back to school to study something else! Or rob a bank, one of the two. Turns out a criminal record is hard to get rid of.

5. (For the corporate guys) If you ride with an airline crew to the airport, you immediately begin talking about how you had to "call dispatch" and "flight levels" to show the line guys you "made it."

 

[pilotyip]

You build model airplanes, you read every book you can get your hands on that has to do with pilots, your idea of a fun day as a kid is riding down to the local airport to watch airplanes take off and land, as you get older you watch every airplane you can see may even pull the car off of the road watch one land, one of the most exciting things you can think about is hanging around the local Howard Johnson's listening to Zantop pilots talk about their experiences, you can name every airplane you see, you drop out of the U of Mich MBA program to get a job flying Electra's at Trancon I.

 

[Flying Ninja]

...when you're dumb enough to buy into the pretty new airplanes that CAPT has and pay $85,000 for 225 hours of flight time on the logbooks and a useless DC-9 type rating.

I was one of them. And boy am I paying for it today (and for the next 15 years). Good times...

Word of advice: Stay the hell away from CAPT!

 

[oiltycoon]

Here's visual proof of "cool pilots":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiYMAbbo8bE

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb9C0zdIcdQ

 

[cloudkicker1981]

anyone who post on this cite who thinks they could write a manual on what a REAL AIRLINE pilot should have done or worn...........and ps i would love to meet anyone who bashes PFT that actually talks ******************** to a pft to their face.....all of you are a bunch of clowns.....now go put your make up on

 

[ERJFO]

You work for Chautauqua...