What's the coolest thing you've done in an airplane?

atracnitrix

atracnitrix

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Thus far in your flying career, what has been the coolest thing you have done?

For me, the time I flew home as a student pilot and my family got to see me fly for the first time. What's yours?
 
Still to this day, it's been taking friends up for plane rides and getting 100 dollar hamburgers/seeing the sights in Chicago or St. Louis. Some of them, their first ever. I was in HS at the time, which made it EXTRA cool in my mind! :smoke:

These days, exiting a D or C airport vertically gets my rocks off. :rolleyes:
 
Flying my high school prom date to dinner or the first time I had to put a glider in a field/during my first race.
 
Taking my brother up and explaining to him that we had run out of gas and he needed to be absolutely still so we could conserve enough fumes to land somewhere in the desert. I topped it off with some slow flight to a stall. Once I told him it was an elaborate joke, he wouldnt speak to me for 3 hours and threatened my life. :D
 
Hard to pick one, I just have so much fun flying!

  • Flying x/c over parts of the country I've never seen before, low and slow, all alone with camping gear, stopping wherever I feel like with no plans other than to get somewhere else within 3-4 days.
  • Taking my kids for a ride, special one on one time doing something I love with them is precious.
  • Disappearing into the mountains and flying off grass for a few hours, flying along rocky knife edge ridges, watching mountain goats out my side window, looking for deer, elk, moose, and bear wandering around in the opens as I work my way through valleys and over ridges.
  • Aerobatics is a blast.
  • Way back when I was a kid I skipped school one day took one of my solo x/c flights to the EAA museum in Oshkosh, a cute college girl picked me up in the shuttle van and I was like WOW, I spent hours wandering the museum, and then flew home zig-zagging around thunderstorms... it was such a great adventure while my classmates were stuck in Algebra class all day
 
First solo. Specifically, the climbout after the first touch and go. It was then that I realized "I can fly an airplane by myself, and if I never do it again, I still have done something that most people havent."
 
mine was a joke i played on a fellow controller`over the freq on a day i was flying my brother down the lake shore for the Chicago tour, i dialed up 133.5 which is the low alt arrival sector for KORD arrivals from the northeast to see who was working and it was a new guy we got from KGRR named Jim Schmidt. Smitty was a good guy but loved to talk on the freq wayyyyy toooo much ,a real pilots pal.the sector wasnt very busy so i said to my brother " hay lisiten to this"

ME... chicago center N5171L

Smitty... N5171L chicago go ahead sir

ME.... yea center i got a little problem and wonder if you can help me out.

Smitty... sure sir what do you need. (well now i got him hooked)

ME... well center it appears i just Schmitt My Pants.(we would call jim a "schmitt head" as a nick name)

well there was about 10 seconds of silence...........................

Smitty... AAAAHHHH say again sir.

ME...yea center i think i just Schmitt my pants can you help me out with this?

well there was another 10 seconds of silence than another voice came on, it was smittys trainer one of my friends name BOB.

BOB...AAAAHHH sir not sure what we can do for you.

well after that i told them it was ME and we all had a good laugh about it.oh and there was a Lufthansa 747 on the freq at the time i wonder what they were thinking

Hans das amaerkan ist a hozenschizer

YA dunkoff!
 
I met my wife. She was a friend of the owners, travelling with them to Atlanta. It was a bit of a setup by the owner's wife.

The plane was owned by a group of doctors and all the wives thought it was their job to find me a wife.

I thought it was silly until I met Daniela.

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