To all Professional Pilots
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DE727UPS
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bwade210 said to me:
"My question to you is do you think you are better than everyone at schools like GIA, or have you simply not reached the point in your life where "having fun with people" (i.e. making fun) is getting old? The time has come for you to graduate high school and mature!And also.......you really should have resisted this urge because right now you look like a complete ass"
Then bwade210 asked:
In a sentence or two, what is one thing you wish you knew back (during your training) then, that you know now?
DE727UPS answers:
Back during my training days, I was too busy to respond to the idiots. I didn't have the time. Now, I never forget who they are or what they said....
"My question to you is do you think you are better than everyone at schools like GIA, or have you simply not reached the point in your life where "having fun with people" (i.e. making fun) is getting old? The time has come for you to graduate high school and mature!And also.......you really should have resisted this urge because right now you look like a complete ass"
Then bwade210 asked:
In a sentence or two, what is one thing you wish you knew back (during your training) then, that you know now?
DE727UPS answers:
Back during my training days, I was too busy to respond to the idiots. I didn't have the time. Now, I never forget who they are or what they said....
Additionally, this message is for all the newcomers out there who are working on their private, who aspire to fly professionally, and who still get excited when they see the big tails at the airport:
NEVER, EVER let any pessimists here on the message boards dampen your hopes. A lot of whiners hang out on these forums.... and these whiners are the 10% who do 100% of the whining. I don't mean to offend anyone here, but I get sick of people trying to step on other's dreams.
For the most part, all of the professional pilots out there who enjoy their careers don't spend their time on these forums being pessimistic. They don't let an industry downturn bring them down. They are taking heavies across the Atlantic and Pacific, flying into Milwaukee in snowstorms and loving it, and happily bringing wide-eyed children into the cockpit to check out the 'switches and dials'.
...maybe this will be a wake up call for the whiners. I certainly wouldn't have appreciated negative bashing back in high school when I was flying Cessnas and just getting started.
NEVER, EVER let any pessimists here on the message boards dampen your hopes. A lot of whiners hang out on these forums.... and these whiners are the 10% who do 100% of the whining. I don't mean to offend anyone here, but I get sick of people trying to step on other's dreams.
For the most part, all of the professional pilots out there who enjoy their careers don't spend their time on these forums being pessimistic. They don't let an industry downturn bring them down. They are taking heavies across the Atlantic and Pacific, flying into Milwaukee in snowstorms and loving it, and happily bringing wide-eyed children into the cockpit to check out the 'switches and dials'.
...maybe this will be a wake up call for the whiners. I certainly wouldn't have appreciated negative bashing back in high school when I was flying Cessnas and just getting started.
DE727UPS
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"For the most part, all of the professional pilots out there who enjoy their careers don't spend their time on these forums being pessimistic. They don't let an industry downturn bring them down. They are taking heavies across the Atlantic and Pacific, flying into Milwaukee in snowstorms and loving it, and happily bringing wide-eyed children into the cockpit to check out the 'switches and dials'....maybe this will be a wake up call for the whiners. I certainly wouldn't have appreciated negative bashing back in high school when I was flying Cessnas and just getting started."
Not sure where you're going with this. We tell it like it is here. "Like it is" means different things to different people. For anyone to be positive, so as to not risk being negative, wouldn't be honest, now, would it. Is that what a newbie wants to hear? You want to hear that, you can find it at the news links at several of the big academy websites.
Personally, I'm sorry if I come across as negative. There are certain things about entering this career that just drive me crazy. Things that are accepted today as commonplace just weren't heard of back in the day. Should I just shut up about that at the risk of being negative?
I'm at this site because I care about what's going on, even though a lot of it will never effect me personally.
Not sure where you're going with this. We tell it like it is here. "Like it is" means different things to different people. For anyone to be positive, so as to not risk being negative, wouldn't be honest, now, would it. Is that what a newbie wants to hear? You want to hear that, you can find it at the news links at several of the big academy websites.
Personally, I'm sorry if I come across as negative. There are certain things about entering this career that just drive me crazy. Things that are accepted today as commonplace just weren't heard of back in the day. Should I just shut up about that at the risk of being negative?
I'm at this site because I care about what's going on, even though a lot of it will never effect me personally.
B767
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Im in high school (almost done..yes!) and still get "excited when see the big tails at the airport." I have had my sights set on ERAU for a long time and I'll admit then when I first saw these boards and read the post I became a little tentative and kind of despised what was being said (especially all the negativity towards ERAU and such). Then I aged and matured a little and realized that this IS the way it is. I used to live in a world where you could be a 747 captain making 300k a year only flying once a month and all the good things like that. Kind of the dream world a pilot lives in (like Leonardo DiCaprio plays it out in Catch Me If You Can). These people have not dampened my hopes but rather taught me that it's a different world out there and it's a lot harder then expected.
DE727UPS said:
I don't know how to say it, but if it sounds pessimistic on jetcareers, chances are it's a lot worse than it seems.
I try to keep a positive outlook on stuff mixed in with a good dose of reality and if it's too "pessimistic" here, things are far worse than they seem to you.
Mr_Creepy said:
Well, one FO (a friend of mine) owns a former Canadian Air Force T-33 based of Waukesha. Paul's T-33
Another couple of FO's (one was my classmate and the other was a fellow ERAU alum) own a (wait, gotta google it because I forgot the type...) L-39 Albatross in Rockford. Jeff and Nancy's L-39
My neighbor (and fellow pilot) is restoring an A-4, but currently flies a Yak and a Pitts in international aerobatic competititon. It's pronounced Bourbon!
And the other FO that I went thru recurrent with last year, with his father (a 74 captain) have two MiG-15's and a couple P-51's and do the air show circuit. I couldn't find any online information about the MiG-15, but it's the bright red one that does the airshows.
