(07-07-2021, 01:34 PM)calinb Wrote:On the internet it is hard to see a joking tone(07-06-2021, 12:01 PM)biketool Wrote: How can you tell someone is a pilot, don't worry they'll eventually slip it into the conversation.
How do I know?
So I had food poisoning and I was doing my final approach runway 13 when....(I need the puking emoji)
That's really funny (and true) biketool! I'll pass it on to my pilot friends.
The main reason I disclosed (dropped) one of my previous fields of employment (I'm old and retired now--except for flight instructing for fun) is I wanted to use my "Fly safely and don't get caught doing it" line and advice, which is applicable to many highly government-regulated activities in life!<snip>
, all love and no digs on a cool CFI. Anyways I think it is important that others see that people in the community are pilots and they can be too, it humanizes the idea especially to the young ~middle class who might not think a PPL is achievable for normal people and a normal budget.
Learning to fly including communications and navigation is IMHO a basic skill everyone should have in life(if it were affordable), that and a few years on fire/ambulance dealing with community emergencies.
NASA makes everyone on the astronaut list get their license and fly hours in T-38s(yes please) so they can have a group who can deal with time sensitive emergencies in space and in life. I think it fits well with R Heinleins life skills list.
A Man(person) should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
