Pilots Thread

Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"
Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"
"TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees."
"Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?"
"Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"



Tower: Delta Bravo Charlie, your squawk is really seven-zero-four-six?
Pilot: Affirmative.
Tower: I’ll send you an excavator, your heigth is minus nine-zero feet.



Tower: "Have you got enough fuel or not?"
Pilot: "Yes."
Tower: "Yes what??"
Pilot: "Yes, SIR!"



Controller: "AF123, say call sign of your wingman."
Pilot: "Uh... approach, we're a single ship."
Controller: "oooohhh! You have traffic!"



ATC: "N123YZ, say altitude."
N123YZ: "ALTITUDE!"
ATC: "N123YZ, say airspeed."
N123YZ: "AIRSPEED!"
ATC: "N123YZ, say cancel IFR."
N123YZ (Pause) "Eight thousand feet, one hundred fifty knots indicated."

 

You get to go to flight school? Awesome... I want to go. Anyways, being a pilot would be great, sans the expensive vehicles and fuel. I've always wanted to get into a cockpit or control panel of some sort because of my love for Evangelion.

A question for the OP: If you know, do you have to rent the plane or does it come with the training?

 

Not sure how many responses you'll get from actual pilots and I'am not one. But do remember times when I would go up with my boss quite a few years back and we'd leave from an airport on Route 50/Colonial Drive in Orlando Florida called Hernandez Airfield(?)or something close to the name.

I'd fly the Cessna (turboprop think?) around central Florida while he did business paperwork. I flew for him because he needed to keep up his flight hours or something relevant but not sure exactly but anyway once a helicopter fly close by when I was starting to line up with the runway (he'd work the radio) and I about crapped my pants because the helicopter sounded like a huge bumble bee flying by and could feel the tremendous vibrations from it. It was a crazy place to land and once had a smaller plane zoom right in front of us when I was setting up to land. Boss got onto the radio and took seconds for the other plane to realize he was in the wrong runway and rolled away but again, it got my adrenaline flowing. My fingertips felt like they were embedded 3 inches into the steering wheel.

Fun times because back then you could fly more freely and see Disney and Epcot, etc where as now I believe some of these are restricted no fly zones. It's actually very easy to fly when cruising in Florida because the horizon (weather permitting) being relatively flat gave me a perspective on keeping the plane balanced without gawking at the controls every second. I actually flew his plane for many hours and enjoyed it tremendously.

Anyway, sorry to not have any advice for you and not a pilot but you brought back some good times. I've always thought to get my license some day because I do have a love for it but economy wise (here) it's not possible for now.