What do you like about flying?

FlyboyZR1

FlyboyZR1

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I've been reading various interview questions lately, and "What do you like about flying" is one of them. It seems like there are so many negative things in the industry that people tend to focus on it would be nice to hear some of the positive things that made you want to fly in the first place. So...

What do you like about flying?
 
The challenges, the view, some of the people, lol.. knowing i'm doing something that many view as downright insane.. but mostly cause i love flying. Always have since a little kid, and the bugs not going away anytime soon... :nana2:
 
You get to see some amazing sunsets and sunrises.
Doing something different everyday.

Swen, you forgot the sarcasm tag...LOL
 
I like flying because it's in me. It's a part of me and has been since I was a little kid. I walk with my head turned skyward, studying the clouds, watching the birds, and looking for that streak of sunlight reflected off the aluminum skin of flying machines.

Geez...sounds like a poem.
 
Swen said:
Bummer, I was looking forward to a rendezvous with some FA's in my future....:)
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Keeeeeeeeeep looking........

There's a lot of F/As out there that wouldn't touch a pilot with somebody else's 10 foot pole ;)


(Not all, of course. There's cool F/As like me out there too. Wait, I'm furloughed, never mind!)
 
jtrain609 said:
I'm in it for the money.
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hahaha


No, but I was just up today on a XC with my student. While dodging big clouds from 6500 feet, looking at everything below. If only people knew I was spying on them from above as they drive, sit at their desk, or whatever. I'm getting paid to do this?! I guess there's always the feeling of being the only person in the world when you're up there too.
 
You do get to see some cool stuff up front that you won't get to see in the back. Things like a mid-air refueling of two F-16s as you fly over them by 1000 ft, clouds running between mountains like a river in an early (VERY early) morning sunrise and a night approach is always cool.

For me, it's also the feeling of completing a highly skilled task succesfully and in a professional manner.
 
Keeeeeeeeeep looking........
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I actually just wait for women to be attracted to my skills. Afterall, I have more skills than Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris got to see me beat him to a bloody pulp, twice.
 
Your -2 of a section flying at 500 ish feet and 360+ knots and work your ass off for 45 minutes to roll inverted on your target to bomb it within 10 seconds of a preflighted time from 12 hours earlier. A close second is coming in for the break "overhead" at 410kts and about 1000 feet.
 
300K?? Oh, you meant 30K.. :)
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