Pilots Unite! - Page 2

ControlledBurn · 2004-09-25, 12:27 PM

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

I hear you have to actually be a pilot to go ahead and be a rich pilot which facilitates buying planes. And by be a pilot, I mean have something like your private or commercial pilots license, not your medical/student pilot certificate.

Hamma · 2004-09-25, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by Peacemaker

Sweet. I would love to learn to fly someday but for some reason I just have a feeling I would be bad at it. There is so much crap going on to worry about.. and chances are if you screw up you are dead

Hezzy · 2004-09-25, 12:32 PM

I'm thinking about becoming a pilot. Is there any kind of medical examinations you have to go through? Apparently I'm slightly colourblind. Would this affect my chances of becoming a pilot?

I'm going to become a commercial pilot if all goes well. Perhaps maybe police at the most. (Helicopter that is)

Hamma · 2004-09-25, 12:34 PM

Yea - personally helocopter piloting has always interested me more.. being a medflight pilot would be kickass. Landing on higways and such

ControlledBurn · 2004-09-25, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by -Hezzy-

I'm thinking about becoming a pilot. Is there any kind of medical examinations you have to go through? Apparently I'm slightly colourblind. Would this affect my chances of becoming a pilot?

I'm going to become a commercial pilot if all goes well. Perhaps maybe police at the most. (Helicopter that is)

http://www.leftseat.com/baggish.htm

SDM · 2004-09-25, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by -Hezzy-

Apparently I'm slightly colourblind.

HFS. NO WAY!

Hezzy · 2004-09-25, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by SDM

HFS. NO WAY!

Sputty made me it

SDM · 2004-09-25, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by -Hezzy-

Sputty made me it

You kids and yer damned php fangled shit.

Infernus · 2004-09-25, 12:42 PM

Hezzy · 2004-09-25, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by SDM

You kids and yer damned php fangled shit.

If anyone wants to quote one of my sigs, just look in the directory the script's in.

MrShooter · 2004-09-25, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Triggar

Just pray you've got an apartment that you can stay at too

Oh, and Peacemaker, that aircraft is wicked sweet, hotter than Heidi Klum I'd even say, but check out THIS baby (what I will totally buy with Martyr when I'm a rich pilot):

/me drools all over the keyboard

Replace the prop engine with a Jet engine and im getting it

Triggar · 2004-09-25, 03:35 PM

It makes Jesus weep with pride

Peacemaker · 2004-09-25, 09:42 PM

@ hamma: 1. Flying is relativly easy to do. I swear to god doop could do it. Maybe.... but as for safty that aircraft I just pictured has a rocket launched parchute recovery system. It can save you and the airplane for a mear 100k. (thats how much to fix it. Its alot to fix but the airplane itself is 500k) Also to become a heli pilot I think you need to become a normal pilot.... its also ALOT harder. Take it from me... Ive flown one.

@ Martyr: Holy fuck thats hot.

@ jet lover dude: Jet engines are over rated... finding landing strips long enough to set down on... places to refuel.... fixing them... overhauls... its just not worth it. Plus a prop means you can go mad slow....

Quick story... friday was my second lesson. It included things as slow flight... well I got bored with just doing slow flight so I asked the instructor if I could do something fun. He knows me so he said ya. Found a nice small area in the Mohawk Vally... nice tall valley ... dove into it, pitched for speed at 39 kts and throttled up for altitude.... full flaps.... Congrats I am now in a 39 kt head wind.... aka... I am hovering.... ATC started to yell at me for showing off after that

I held steady for about 2 minutes.... just sitting in one spot.... kinda creepy... you could see people looking up at us 1250 feet down saying "Wtf"

Baneblade · 2004-09-26, 02:34 PM

I want to get a rotary license someday.

There was once an opportunity I could have been a Blackhawk pilot, but that went along with my vision.

Navaron · 2004-09-26, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Peacemaker

@ hamma: Maybe.... but as for safty that aircraft I just pictured has a rocket launched parchute recovery system. It can save you and the airplane for a mear 100k. (thats how much to fix it. Its alot to fix but the airplane itself is 500k)

Negatory ghost rider, if the chute is deployed the plane is done for. The stress is way too much, you may land in one piece, but that plane's never getting certed again. To my knowledge it's only been used once (twice?).

And your slow flight story sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, you've got a very bad flight instructor.