"CFLav8r" wrote in message
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The question came as I was returning from my mailbox this morning only to
have my neighbor stop and ask me "why if your always getting aviation
stuff
(EAA magazine came this morning) in the mail do you not become a real
pilot?". [...]

This isn't the first time that I have had someone not consider me to be a
real pilot.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?

I've never heard that before. However, while I too have the occasional
neighbor who's an idiot, I avoid talking to the ones that are. Maybe I just
do a better job staying away from people dumb enough to say something like
that.

From a child, I could understand. But a full-grown adult? That's just
stupid. Life's too short to spend any time at all worrying about someone
who says that sort of thing. They don't deserve your consideration. I'm
not even sure why I'm bothering to reply to this thread, that's how silly it
is.

You know you're a real pilot, and it doesn't matter whether someone else
doesn't see that you are. That reflects on them, not you.

Pete