The cool pilot?

Bob Ridpath said:
Our success rate is poorer here. Try though we might, we tend to pick up pieces at the bottom more often than not ...

Find balance in life and, in that, contentment; lest you lose the one thing that keeps you "flying"' through the years. Change often comes unbidden and wrapped in circumstances beyond our control.

Whether in a cockpit at FL410 or the lobby at Walmart, with a tremendous spouse or walking alone through the days of life, our peace in life is our own to make.

So saith the Old Guy and his happy pups
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I want a dog.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I want a dog.
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Or two

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X-Forces said:
Perfect.
If you ever get over the B6, be sure to send me all of your details. We will become trip trading buddies!!!

I'm an old man, I needs me sleep. :)
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B6 is actually where I want to end up in the next few years. But coming from the 135 world it might be difficult.

And I love my sleep too. There really isn't anything else I would be waking up at 2 am for. :)
 
Derg said:
Unmet career expectations because of an extreme aversion to getting out of his comfort zone and a lack of realization that we're nothing more than simple cogs in the gear of a multinational machine. Pretty much thought he should be a line-holding captain with weekends off, top-scale at only a handful of years of seniority.
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I guess that some people just can't be happy. He's at a top airline, and tons of people would knife one another in order to be in his shoes.
 
When I show my fiance the scale model of the variant of 747 I'll be flying on my next trip, she says "IDGAF, you're a dork, leave now". I really can't argue, having scale models of them does qualify me for dork status.
 
Alchemy said:
When I show my fiance the scale model of the variant of 747 I'll be flying on my next trip, she says "IDGAF, you're a dork, leave now". I really can't argue, having scale models of them does qualify me for dork status.
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I have a coworker, controller, that has over 70 scale models. When he orders them he tries to figure out which airline/box hauler it will ride on. To ensure it rides on its carrier and type if possible.

Some people go to great links for things others would call crazy.
 
At the end of the day, work is the original "four letter word". No matter what you do you can find some thing to complain about. Hell, I'm sure Hugh Heffner wakes up around 1:30-2pm and doesn't want to go look at boobs for the billionth time every now and then.
 
MikeD said:
It's a job like any other at the end of the day, if you're flying for a living. Don't forget that.
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Nah. I mean yeah, but nah.

That sentiment is not universal.

I vastly prefer flying for someone else to flying for fun—it gives my flying context and meaning. It gives me a mission.

Does that mean I don't enjoy my days off or not want to go home at the end of the day? HELL no. But flying is my raison d'être.

If I lost my medical, well I'd probably find a way to fly anyway, however creative I had to get. It's something I can't deal with being absent from my life.

-Fox
 
Derg said:
Unmet career expectations because of an extreme aversion to getting out of his comfort zone and a lack of realization that we're nothing more than simple cogs in the gear of a multinational machine. Pretty much thought he should be a line-holding captain with weekends off, top-scale at only a handful of years of seniority.
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Low expectations are the key to a happy life. I fully expect things to be crappy most of the time. When they aren't, I'm pleasantly surprised.
 
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