Your favorite type of flying?

Count me in for Helicopter EMS. Very challangeng and very rewarding. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Unfortunatly they have the worst safety record outside of Alaska.
 
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Instrument flying in busy airspace...followed very closely by instrument flying in busy airspace at night.

LOVE IT!!!!

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Ditto 100%.
 
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Pilot/Photographer for National Geographic flying into the remotest parts of the world

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Definately my ambition in flying ... this would be awesome !!


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Hitting my wash coming out of a loop! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The perfect 'wheeler' on a grass strip at dusk /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Actually Tom, flying at 15-20 feet is freakin' hard work. It's a hoot for sure but I've usually been wringing wet with sweat at the end of the low level flight.

Doug, love your work! Shoot stuff and drop bombs indeed.
 
Flying for Delta Air Lines.....ohhh sorry that would be a nightmare.

I would like to fly up in the Alaskan bush or drop objects on thing that make big booms..
 
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I love flying at night!

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Ditto.

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Instrument flying in busy airspace...

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Ditto ditto.
 
Alaska ... probably end up dead in a year or two but damn bush flying just seems more and more attractive ... or Forest Service work (i.e. forest fires) which if I'm extremely lucky I may have an opportunity at doing in a year or two – not bombing (I'm not that crazy) but lead plane/logistics type stuff.

I dunno I'm looking at any, all and every option and the more "unique" roles in flying seem to be taking up more and more of my thought processes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
I got into the tailwheel thing for the spin awareness training, and I REALLY REALLY like tailwheel aircraft. They seem more fun, more intuitive, and it's just more like real flying to me.
 
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Instrument flying in busy airspace...followed very closely by instrument flying in busy airspace at night.

LOVE IT!!!!

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I'm with you on that one. The only time I've been able to do this was when I flew into MSP on my first IFR cross country. It was crazy busy, but so much fun. Nothing like having 3 A320s hold short for a Piper Warrior :-). I also enjoy night flying, though I haven't had a chance to do night IFR in a busy environment. I must say though that so far I'm not a big fan of night IFR because all of my IFR has been done wearing a hood. But night VFR is by far my favorite kind of flying I've done yet. So peacefull and calm. And a lot of the time in North Dakota at night you can see the northern lights.

Oh yeah, and for a while I thought that cloud seeding would be really cool. Flying through thunderstorms in light aircraft...I even took a course in 'weather modification'. After learning more than I ever cared to know about the microphycis of clouds I decided that I didn't want to take the second course.
 
Anything where I get to actually fly! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But Idealy, I think flying fishermaen and hunters to back woods camp and lakes would be a blast... somewhere in Canada or Alaska.
 
....free flying, lol
or stealing Mike D's gig. I'd have to say captaining my own G-IV followed by flying for Hooters Air /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bandit.gif
 
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I'd love to drop bombs and shoot stuff.

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Bombs/rockets/gun on time, on target, and with no frat when the ground troops are under fire and yelling at you for support. Even better when they remember you by voice 2 weeks later and pull you aside to give some thanks.

Could've done without the trophy, though.
 
EMS, be it fixed wing or rotorwinged. I'd love to make a difference in someone's life.

With that, Coast Guard aviation would be killer.
 
I know the grass is always greener, but I'd still very much like to be a F/A-18 pilot (like Capt. Kegley!) or a B1-B pilot on a low-level mission.

One can only spend so many hours staring out of the window listening to the captain yammering about his last bowel movement before you start wondering what it's like to fly a high performance aircraft in a high threat environment.
 
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One can only spend so many hours staring out of the window listening to the captain yammering about his last bowel movement before you start wondering what it's like to fly a high performance aircraft in a high threat environment.

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You wouldn't just be talking about BMs in a high-threat environment...I'll search for it, but there's a recording of an F-16 pilot apprising ATC of an "incident" in his flight suit somewhere on the internet.

J.
 
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