Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: fireflyr on February 06, 2006, 10:34:55 AM
Title: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: fireflyr on February 06, 2006, 10:34:55 AM
We need a new topic. Here's one for pilots and future pilots and folks that like flying and folks that like to talk about flying and anybody else that gives a rats butt about flying. Tell everyone how you really feel about aviation or about a memorable experience while flying.
Myself, I always dreamed about airplanes, drew airplanes, built model airplanes, talked about airplanes, read books about airplanes---well, you get the picture!
My 1st lesson was my 1st time in an airplane and it was the fulfillment of all my childhood hopes and dreams. Airborne at last, I discovered the beauty of the beckoning sky, the freedom of moving in a new dimension, a feeling of controlling my own destiny --------- Flying to me is an experience of the soul rather than a form of transportation :'(
------PLUS-----
I GET TO GO LIKE A BAT-OUT-OF HELL, THE COPS DON'T CARE ,AND THE CHICKS THINK IT's COOL!!!!!! :D
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on February 06, 2006, 03:45:21 PM
My Grandpa took me to the Confederate Air Show when I was 12, and I've been hooked ever since. He was training to fly B-25's when WWII ended, and he always had great stories about flying bomb runs over Oklahoma and low-level cross countries across three states. I thought of how awesome it would be to do that kind of thing. He was always excited to hear about my training at UND, and he was so proud when I graduated.
Ironically, UND took some of the fun out of flying for me. Up there, it's always "go, go go." "This is the lesson today. Can't do anything else." We couldn't just go up and fool around. It's a good school, and I'm glad I went there (met my wife there). It's easy to get burned out on flying, though.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: fireflyr on February 06, 2006, 05:52:41 PM
I flew with an instructor a few years back, Justin Lobsinger, who is a UND graduate and if he's an example of what that school turns out, you have to feel lucky you're getting such a good education.
Justin went to work for a part 135 carrier in Concord CA and I belive he's sitting left seat on a Beech jet now. Absolutely one of the finest young men I've ever flown with, and HE KNOWS HIS STUFF!!!!
We need more quality schools like UND.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on February 06, 2006, 07:26:06 PM
Name's not familiar. UND used to be the best school for aviation. The problem now is, if you aren't friends with the lead instructors and administration, you don't get hired as an instructor. It's starting to get "inbred" a little bit. There are exceptions to that rule, and there are some excellent instructors up there, but there are some really crappy ones, too. Students get abandoned when instructors get hired and leave without finding replacements.
It's too bad that that's the situation up there, but that means more good instructors are getting out into the real world. The school isn't as good, but maybe the real world is better for it.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Plthijnx on February 06, 2006, 07:45:49 PM
back when i was fourteen in the early to mid 80's my dad and i went on a fishing trip in the great white north and i piloted my first plane: a DeHavilland Beaver float plane! i was hooked from then on but never pursued it until i was 27. i would have learned much earlier had i not been under the misconception that you had to have 20/20 uncrorrected vision. at the time before lasik i had 20/400. well, that and racing supercross and chasing women didn't help either! :D
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Mike on February 07, 2006, 03:16:00 AM
This is a good thread, I like it...
I was into big trucks and boats as a little kid but when I was ten or so my parents took me to the local airshow and there I saw the plane of all planes: The AV-8 Harrier !! That did it for me. I got into building plastic model planes, then RC planes, talked about planes, drew planes, just like Jim. I always loved helicopters though (it was the hovering thing that impressed me the most with the AV-8) but people told me my vision isn't good enough and it's too expensive to learn how to fly helicopters and so on... So I put the helicopter idea aside an concentrated on planes. As long as I would fly it didn't matter. When I was 14 my aunt won a 30min plane ride at some raffle thing and gave it to me. My first flight then was in a small Piper Cherokee (I'll never forget the day). I was hooked even more although I thought this wouldn't be possible. Man, what a feeling to be up in the sky looking down! When I was 16 my dad paid for the family to go on a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon during a USA vacation. And a day later I saw a Jet Ranger park at the little motel we were staying somewhere in Arizona or Nevada to spend the night. He landed right in the motels parking lot!!! I totally thought I had never seen a cooler thing in life ever at the time!
And that's where my career started. . .
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on February 07, 2006, 04:31:47 AM
Does the FAA have any complaints about Lasik? Any trouble on your medical?
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: chuckar101 on February 07, 2006, 05:49:34 AM
I've been obcessed about aviation since I was about eight. My Dad got me started by telling stories and getting me plastic models for Christmas. I joined CAP in middle school and have been dying to get my license since then. Hopefully I'll have soon though.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Mike on February 07, 2006, 06:11:14 AM
I've been obcessed about aviation since I was about eight. My Dad got me started by telling stories and getting me plastic models for Christmas. I joined CAP in middle school and have been dying to get my license since then. Hopefully I'll have soon though.
You forgot to mention what your dad used to do back in the days!
RESPECT! I must say!
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: leiafee on February 07, 2006, 08:32:50 PM
I actually wasn't one of those kids who was always mad about aeroplanes. My grandad was the airminded one of the family. Ex-RAF and a tendency to point out things in the sky with types instead of something more generic. I thing knew the words "Sea King" before I knew the word "helicopter"
I had a jolly in my dad's friends Cessna when I was quite small and remember asking the pilot voer and over to turn around again because I liked the feel of it and that the view was better when we were banked.
Sort of ambled along thinking flying would be nice, but that it was naturally out of reach of "normal people". Trial flight with some birthday money a few years ago changed my mind, and prompted me to do some serious rebudgeting to see how much I could afford to fly. Making my own sarnies for work, and walking instead of taking the bus pays for most of my first hour a month.
Two years real time and 30 hours flying time later I'm still training but still adoring it.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Plthijnx on February 07, 2006, 10:36:33 PM
Does the FAA have any complaints about Lasik? Any trouble on your medical?
not really. i did have to jump through a number of vision tests though by my optomitrist to be sent to my AME. actually what was worse is that i had to jump through even more hoops because when i was 17 i had a double pneumothorax, (collapsed lungs) from a supercross racing accident. but all this was on my initial student pilot/medical certificate. since then, i just write down "previously reported" and they are content with that.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: fireflyr on February 08, 2006, 02:09:09 AM
Two years real time and 30 hours flying time later I'm still training but still adoring it.
Good for you ,
Sounds like you are persistant---Keep it up!!!!
Jim 8)
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: chuckar101 on February 08, 2006, 03:30:49 AM
Okay Mike. My Dad was an air traffic controller in the Army and flew helicopters with them as well. He was one of the pilots that picked up survivors off the embassy roof and had his helicopter dumped in the sea. I respect him greatly and wish I can be half as lucky as he was when it comes to flying. Although I want it to last longer and avoid high blood pressure and eye problems. He now flies the ultralight with me and we argue on procedures with the airplane all the time. It's kinda fun.
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: FlyingBlind on February 08, 2006, 09:48:27 PM
As you know im not a pilot - im a parachutist.So i guess i kinda got interested in flying when i was very young...i always was fascinated by the F-16 and used to play a game called: F-16 falcon.Then my parents gave me a model B-18 Flying Fortress Do-It-Yourself kit, and i made it.Then my father started parachuting..he asked if i would like to i said hell yes! And so im jumping....
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: madpilot44 on March 20, 2006, 10:58:32 PM
When I was a little boy my dad was a helo pilot with the Guatemalan Air Force, flying hueys and 412's, I started getting rides and I loved flying. I remember this one time when he got asked to ferry a chopper from one air force base to another, and decided to get the whole family. each one flew in the left seat (copilot's) for a while but I was jealous whenever I wasn't in the left seat. I was hooked and I knew then and there I was going to be a pilot, and I'm training for it.
Title: WAIT A MINUTE !!!
Post by: Mike on March 21, 2006, 05:39:53 AM
When I was a little boy my dad was a helo pilot with the Guatemalan Air Force, flying hueys and 412's, I started getting rides and I loved flying. I remember this one time when he got asked to ferry a chopper from one air force base to another, and decided to get the whole family. each one flew in the left seat (copilot's) for a while but I was jealous whenever I wasn't in the left seat. I was hooked and I knew then and there I was going to be a pilot, and I'm training for it.
WAIT A MINUTE !!!
ARE YOU MO's SON ???! ???
(I remember a certain thread.... http://www.chickenwingscomics.com/forum/index.php?topic=19.0)
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: MO on March 21, 2006, 02:13:32 PM
Ha ha ha ha! Good one Mike... He's not my son, but I do remember his father when I was part of the Guatemalan Air Force...
Saludos!
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: madpilot44 on March 21, 2006, 04:08:49 PM
HAHA no mike, I'm not... but I'm sure my dad and MO met while in the FAG. I don't really have the honor myself though...
Saludos!
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: madpilot44 on March 21, 2006, 04:29:39 PM
BTW... I think it's in the wrong topic, but MO, I guess you could say "...I flew with your dad..." jaja ;D
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Mike on March 21, 2006, 05:12:57 PM
How funny... ..I guess the Guatemalan Air Force is bigger than I thought ;D
Title: Re: Why I like to fly or would like to
Post by: Callisto on March 23, 2006, 08:01:55 PM
Mean while back at the thread ;D (not to break up a quazi family reunion... LOL)
I would love to learn to fly because I want to look down on the world with contempt... *ahem* was that out loud?...
Seriously, I live near Lewis University (LOT) and my girlfriend and I go to dinner near Clow Int (1C5) often and I see small aircraft buzzin’ around all the time. I just imagine the freedom those guys get just taking to the sky, cruising all over the place.
A few years back I worked near LL10 in Naperville, IL Where the Lima Lima Flight Team is based (the acrobatic team that fly those bright yellow T-34 Mentor's) They would take off and land, fly over head in formation often. That was cool. I heard the drone of 6 propeller driven T-34's and would look out and see them in a diamond formation, one by one they would peel off and land.
I fly MSFS ALL THE TIME. I have more hours taking off at Meigs 36 than most pilots do in real life! :D
I will sit in front of my computer for HOURS. My GF doesn't understand it... I guess that's why I've read about that AIDS fireflyr keeps talking about. ;D
I don’t know it’s difficult to explain… but I guess you all know what I’m getting at, which is why I’m digging this “Chicken Wings Comics” thing!
