I'm a real PILOT!

I'm a real pilot, am I not?
I ask this question to the entire aviation NG, to find out if you consider
yourself a real pilot.
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?". And to this I answered "I am a real pilot".
He then said "No your not, you don't fly the big planes".
Well considering the source of the question, I just said just because I have
a drivers license doesn't mean I want to drive a truck or bus.

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?
And what if any was your response?
Or do you not consider yourself a real pilot?

David (KORL)
PP - ASEL -Instrument student

After getting my PPL, then my IR, then my Commercial, then my CFI, I finally
got a tail wheel endorsement in a SuperCub. And not just a 2 day seminar
type, but some very complete and serious training from a lifelong family
friend and ag pilot/CFII/AI who grew up drinking av-gas and breathing the
exhaust of radial engines. Now, sometimes I feel like a real pilot, but
when ever my head gets too big, I just remember how fast a taildragger can
squash even the biggest ego.
--
Jim Burns III

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:26:03 GMT, "CFLav8r"
wrote:

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?
And what if any was your response?
Or do you not consider yourself a real pilot?

Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Don

Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Perfect! I might add a leather bomber jacket too.

"Brad Z" wrote in message
newswFac.148621$_w.1659173@attbi_s53...
Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Perfect! I might add a leather bomber jacket too.


.....and I would add a grey or orange boiler suit with lots of sad badges....

I was in the Aero Club bar the other week, after flying in for the weekend.
I had the full gear on: my Akubra style hat with the airplane pins all
around the brim, the fighter jacket with the pens on the sleeve, the wings
prominently stitched over the left pocket, flying boots, flight bag next to
me, scarf on the table. A gorgeous Michele Pfeiffer lookalike comes over
and we get to chatting. "Are you a real pilot?" she asks. "I like to think
I am," I reply. "I love flying and fly as often as I can. I have all the
licenses, and I have a good time." She says she's not a pilot. Then, for
some reason, she blurts out: "I'm a lesbian. I think of women in the
morning when I wake up. I think about women at breakfast, at lunch, at
dinner, and at every waking moment in between. I even dream about women,"
she says. She then says good-bye and leaves me to contemplate the world. A
little while later a man and his wife come past and ask me: "Are you a real
pilot?" I answer: "I used to think I was, but I just found out that I am a
lesbian!"


--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Nigel T Peart" wrote in message
...

"Brad Z" wrote in message
newswFac.148621$_w.1659173@attbi_s53...
Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Perfect! I might add a leather bomber jacket too.


....and I would add a grey or orange boiler suit with lots of sad
badges....

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
I was in the Aero Club bar the other week, after flying in for the
weekend.
I had the full gear on: my Akubra style hat with the airplane pins all
around the brim, the fighter jacket with the pens on the sleeve, the wings
prominently stitched over the left pocket, flying boots, flight bag next
to
me, scarf on the table. A gorgeous Michele Pfeiffer lookalike comes over
and we get to chatting. "Are you a real pilot?" she asks. "I like to
think
I am," I reply. "I love flying and fly as often as I can. I have all the
licenses, and I have a good time." She says she's not a pilot. Then, for
some reason, she blurts out: "I'm a lesbian. I think of women in the
morning when I wake up. I think about women at breakfast, at lunch, at
dinner, and at every waking moment in between. I even dream about women,"
she says. She then says good-bye and leaves me to contemplate the world.
A
little while later a man and his wife come past and ask me: "Are you a
real
pilot?" I answer: "I used to think I was, but I just found out that I am
a
lesbian!"


--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)



Damn,

Ruined another perfectly good monitor...ROFL!!

Great Post!!

Jay Beckman
Student Pilot - KCHD
8.9 Hrs - Nowhere to go but up!

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
I was in the Aero Club bar the other week, after flying in for the
weekend.
I had the full gear on: my Akubra style hat with the airplane pins all
around the brim, the fighter jacket with the pens on the sleeve, the wings
prominently stitched over the left pocket, flying boots, flight bag next
to
me, scarf on the table. A gorgeous Michele Pfeiffer lookalike comes over
and we get to chatting. "Are you a real pilot?" she asks. "I like to
think
I am," I reply. "I love flying and fly as often as I can. I have all the
licenses, and I have a good time." She says she's not a pilot. Then, for
some reason, she blurts out: "I'm a lesbian. I think of women in the
morning when I wake up. I think about women at breakfast, at lunch, at
dinner, and at every waking moment in between. I even dream about women,"
she says. She then says good-bye and leaves me to contemplate the world.
A
little while later a man and his wife come past and ask me: "Are you a
real
pilot?" I answer: "I used to think I was, but I just found out that I am
a
lesbian!"


BAH DA BUM!!!

"Brad Z" wrote in message
newswFac.148621$_w.1659173@attbi_s53...
Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Perfect! I might add a leather bomber jacket too.

You DON'T have to make airplane sounds
(PWLLLLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTT TTTTTTTT) with your
tongue, though.

I got something else I can show 'em!

-lance smith


Don Tuite wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:26:03 GMT, "CFLav8r"
wrote:

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?
And what if any was your response?
Or do you not consider yourself a real pilot?

Nobody's asked me, but if they did, I'd show 'em my watch and my
sunglasses.

Don