[quote=“zwarbyt,post:39,topic:35959"”]
COMMERCIAL pilot
private :tup:
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commercial -> private, but either way you look at it you are still a truck drive in the sky… that is why i do not do it.
you can rent planes
fun > work,
IMO
i guess its all just how you see it. Truck driver of the sky, i would have to disagree from perspective. People fight over a corner office, or the ability to work with there hands. Hear you can pilot an aircraft that weighs more than your house, and see the lights of JFK, CO Springs… while flying in on a beautiful ILS approach. Most say that they won’t do it cause its like being a truck driver, i think its just a way of rationalizing that they wish they could do it. I mean who would want to be an astronaut, all you do is ride as the computers fly its predetermined course, you get airsick, and have to shit into a vaccum funnel, who would want to do that, surely not me. To each there own, but until you do it, you can’t say how it really is do to that.
True flying planes costs money, I know better than most. But to get out and fly you own plane over a cool night, fly to syracuse just for dinner, or shoot an instrument approach down to minimums and at the end see the beautiful approach lights in front of you, showing that you did everthing correctly. Now thats a hobby. I have raced nitrous cars, am currently flying some very risky combat missions, and i still look forward to tooling around in my little POS cessna when i get home.
For those that havn’t gone up in a small plane, really its a very fun and enlightening experiance. I offer to anyone on this board, if you want to tear tiny holes in the big sky, and turn expensive gas into noise and wind, let me know. All i ask is that you fly the plane, and buy burgerking when were done
[quote=“n20junkie,post:43,topic:35959"”]
All i ask is that you fly the plane, and buy burgerking when were done 
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I’ll take you up on that. Wanna go to Cleveland for dinner? (no “getting lucky” comments please, that’s a given.)
i am saying that when i did it, i felt like a truck driver in the sky and those around me that had 100+ hours with the wheels up. DO NOT GET ME WRONG I ENJOY to FLY, in fact when i am 70 i want to become a mail pilot in AK. so if i dye i had fun doing it and do not have to worry about crapping myslef in a home… and i hate the tower the can be a$$’$
junkie…what cessna do you have?
I have a 73 Cessna 150L. Its not a race plane but its dam fun for me. Actually going to cleveland would work great, i have a really good friend (actually long time ex) that lives in cleveland. I land at Burke Lakefront (KBKL) that is right down town. I would totally be up for a ride down there, just gotta give me a few months till spring, the army has be busy with the helicopter thing in afghanistan.
My little plane, not an Extra, but still good fun
Cleveland, while on my way to dayton
^cool :tup:
[quote=“n20junkie,post:47,topic:35959"”]
I have a 73 Cessna 150L. Its not a race plane but its dam fun for me. Actually going to cleveland would work great, i have a really good friend (actually long time ex) that lives in cleveland. I land at Burke Lakefront (KBKL) that is right down town. I would totally be up for a ride down there, just gotta give me a few months till spring, the army has be busy with the helicopter thing in afghanistan.
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I had one of the scariest landings at KBKL. Looking out the side windows to land because there was a 30 knot cross wind with 40 knot gusts. We landed at almost 45° to the direction of the strip.
where do you fly out of?
I keep the plane at North Buffalo Surburban, its right across from the transit drive in. It used to be outside, but before i deployed i put it in a hangar.