Still fly recreationally after becoming a professional pilot?

bucksmith said:
I still do primary instruction one day a week and I think it costs me money...Does that count as recreational? I enjoy teaching and think I'd like to get my glider stuff going someday. BUUUT that'll be when I'm really not worried about making money...Sooo, you know, never?
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You're killing me here. You know that, right?
 
As much as I can.
 

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My last job killed much of my joy for putting around in a little Cessna. If I go fly for fun now I just want to be on floats or in a tailwheel... Even then I don't want to pay for it. My money feeds my other hobbies.
 
I always plan to fly GA. As some on here have said, flying for work is work. If my ventures work out by the time I can get into 121, I'll have the money to do it and it's doubtful I'll ever find scenic and photogenic flights around the Bay Area with dates and friends boring. I have plenty of non-flying hobbies, but I rarely fly more than an hour anyway, I don't think it would be time consuming to fly once or twice a month.

Interesting to see the different responses here though.
 
Flying is generally the last thing I want to do after doing it every day for three weeks.. That said, in the future I'd love to have an RV-6 or something to fart around in. And when I think about how much of a pain in the ass it is to maintain an airplane I get off the idea pretty quick.
 
While working at the airline I owned a 150 then a Cherokee 180 then a Grumman Tiger then a Cherokee Six and finally a Bellanca Viking. A few years ago I realized It made no economic sense for me to own an airplane and bought motorcycles. I probably jumped from one pot of boiling water to another. Oh well...I never claimed to be smart.
 
I'm flying 20 minutes each way in a cirrus this weekend JUST to see a dirtbike race. Personally, I find every chance I can get with out taking undue risk.
 
I don't have enough time in my life really to fly outside of work, but it is something I would love to do in the future when I no longer fly for work or my schedule is better. So perhaps the answer is then "no"? I know every time I go fly with the old man when I am home visiting, it is a lot of fun and a completely stress free event unlike most of my flying
 
No time, no interest, no money.

To be honest, flying for a living became a lot more fun when I realized that I can still turn all the automation off and fly the airplane myself. Now when I want to fly, I turn everything off and do so. When I want to sit and monitor, I do so.

It's truly been the best of both worlds for me: a high performance jet to have fun with on CAVU days (within the rules set by my employer), and fully automated, high tech wiz bangery when I need it to be.
 
Can't afford it. Plus, the last few places I've gone have demanded recurrent "checkrides" every 12 weeks with an instructor (just to rent a 172, WTFO? No, just no.) The added time and expense that this sort of requirment creates just puts the final nail in the coffin. I'd love to if prices were still within 25% of what they were 10 years ago, but they've more than doubled.
 
Hacker15e said:
You're talking about a regional airliner, right? Or is there an F-5 or Alpha Jet somewhere on the property they occasionally let you guys fly? :)
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Me: "We don't care that you did 300+ knots in the climb inverted at 200' in the Goshawk or whatever; this is the highest performance airplane we happen to have flown thus far..."
 
I'd love to fly for fun. It would also make commuting to work a joy instead of a pain. However I don't have the money for that kind of flying :(
 
I'm an airplane nerd (most on here are although they claim otherwise) and I've come to terms with that. No longer do I give the standard line of "I don't want anything to do with airplanes when I leave work". Yes it's true I don't want to be in crowded airport terminals after a 4 day, but I never loathe aviation. With that said, I don't have enough money in my pocket to get into GA. I won't fly with someone else In their plane as that seems dangerous and torturous. Ideally someone would give me a Kingair or a PC12 and keep it filled with jetA for me, but I haven't gotten any offers yet.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Me: "We don't care that you did 300+ knots in the climb inverted at 200' in the Goshawk or whatever; this is the highest performance airplane we happen to have flown thus far..."
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As a total aside, I watched from the side of the taxiway as a Jordanian F-16 pilot took off, leveled out in ground effect (looked like maybe 30' or so), sucked up the gear, then did a half barrel roll, remained inverted about 100' off the deck, and flew down the rest of the runway before he completed his roll and started a vertical climb. I won't argue that it was entertaining to watch, but about the dumbest thing I have ever seen anyone do in a jet. I was almost positive that I was about to watch his fiery death.
 
///AMG said:
As a total aside, I watched from the side of the taxiway as a Jordanian F-16 pilot took off, leveled out in ground effect (looked like maybe 30' or so), sucked up the gear, then did a half barrel roll, remained inverted about 100' off the deck, and flew down the rest of the runway before he completed his roll and started a vertical climb. I won't argue that it was entertaining to watch, but about the dumbest thing I have ever seen anyone do in a jet. I was almost positive that I was about to watch his fiery death.
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Amazing what you can get away with if Dad's the Crown Prince, no? :D

(only somewhat :sarcasm: )
 
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