• I'm training to be a pilot
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Hello, I think this is the best place for this to go, if not can a mod move it for me. I started flying a good couple of years ago but after coming into a very well paid job I am able to fly alot more and have purchased 2 Go Pro cameras, doing that allowed to film all of my flights and post them online to allow people to watch and possibly get into flying, this is what originally got me into flying. Does anyone else here fly? If so what is your best flight so far and do you have ideas for me to make my videos a bit more fun. Here are some of my more recent videos [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8J-rE9feA[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BumZYhS36i0[/media]
Being a pilot is excellent for doing DIY facelifts: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7z-R24nW1M[/media]
I remember there was a guy who posted videos of him flying a plane a while ago. Can't remember who it was, though.
it wasnt me
The headmounted Hero is a bit much...
[QUOTE=Killuah;46111681]The headmounted Hero is a bit much...[/QUOTE] That was how I had it in the first place to get an outside view but now I have my second camera I am thinking of moving it, any ideas where?
[QUOTE=Chaotic Lord;46111573]I remember there was a guy who posted videos of him flying a plane a while ago. Can't remember who it was, though.[/QUOTE] I posted about my flight training a few years back but I never posted any videos.
I've always wanted to be a pilot despite my fear of heights.
Learning to fly a helicopter is something that has always been on my list of things to do in life, but lessons are really expensive and there's no schools or trainers near where I live, so instead I just piddle around in DCS World with the Huey module.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;46113881]I've always wanted to be a pilot despite my fear of heights.[/QUOTE] Maybe doing a test flight might be the way to get over it, ask the instructor if they have any fear of flying classes. [editline]30th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Zackin5;46115511]Learning to fly a helicopter is something that has always been on my list of things to do in life, but lessons are really expensive and there's no schools or trainers near where I live, so instead I just piddle around in DCS World with the Huey module.[/QUOTE] If you really want to fly with realism, get FSX and get a PMDG plane, that allows for technical ability aswell as flying realism.
[QUOTE=Chaotic Lord;46111573]I remember there was a guy who posted videos of him flying a plane a while ago. Can't remember who it was, though.[/QUOTE] Jaanus?
I got as far as my first solo flight before I ran out of money :v: I usually say I had 20 minutes of flying solo, but I just checked and apparently it was 12 minutes. Still, it is very useful for getting people to go: "but there was someone sitting beside you right? Like in a driver's test?" and for me to get to respond "no I was completely alone." Also useful for getting laid. [editline]1st October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Durrsly;46113881]I've always wanted to be a pilot despite my fear of heights.[/QUOTE] I have a (minor I think maybe) fear of heights and flying is very comfortable for me, even in hail damaged, 30 year old single prop piper tomahawks. Yet if I get a quarter of the way up a rock climbing wall I freeze and can't move...
I'm a freshie at my college, first one to solo out of the bunch (I came in with around 16 hours logged, mainly in an old Piper warrior, so my instructor went "fuckit, part 61") Can confirm a fear of heights, just not in an airplane
I'd like to fly someday but having to pay 15,000€ / $20,000 dollars just to get the license in Finland is not my kind of thing. Maybe I'll get the ultralight license which is only 5,000€.
Being a pilot has always been my dream job, but the amount of training, cost, and flight hours needed to work for someone worth while isn't really worth the effort in the end imo.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;46120666]Being a pilot has always been my dream job, but the amount of training, cost, and flight hours needed to work for someone worth while isn't really worth the effort in the end imo.[/QUOTE] It has always been my dream job, with me getting another job I really enjoy and is well paid I can afford to do both, you should try and get into a flying club, you don't have to fly you can just visit
New video uploaded. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dRZwGcu_M[/media]
I'd love to be a pilot, but my vision problems won't allow me to do so. Not only do I have severe myopia in both eyes, but my right eye is amblyopic, and there's no treatment in sight. Oh well, I can still stick to the passenger's seat or flight sims...
I'm colour blind so I'm SOL. Really like your videos wilki, very interesting! Must be an amazing feeling flying an aircraft.
More pilots, Hooray! I got my PPL about a little over a year ago now. But i had been flying Gliders (un-powered) since 2010, off and on. I considered making a Pilot Fast Thread to enthuse about Aviation and draw fellow FP aviators together. Still might at this point- as rare as the trade is getting to be. But there always seem to be interest in Aviation. I posted some pictures a while back somewhere of a landing here locally- Nothing special, but its something to look at... [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/MamTpMp.jpg[/thumb] Yep, that's me. Circa 2010 [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/L7tL8VO.jpg[/thumb] July Landing 17L, KAPA, Colorado. Note the windshield carnage. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/piRIHom.jpg[/thumb] Goin' for the flare! [b]edit:[/b] Bitch ass Imgur.
Same dude! I'm working on my PPL right now, but I'm set on becoming an airline one. Fly a nice Piper Warrior.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PILOTS! Im a UAS aviation major at the University of North Dakota, through my PPL working on my Instrument rating, with 88+ some hours in a Cessna 172. Working towards becoming a "drone" pilot. KGFK swag. After my instrument il be working on my commercial and then multi engine next summer, and then I might take the CFI course too. If anyone here has any questions regarding UAS or how to get your PPL ask away in here. If your looking for a college with aviation go to UND (Harvard of aviation), il give you the grand tour. To the people with eye problems, my roommate had crossed eyes and got surgery for it and now has a 1st class medical, so dont let that hold you back.
Good luck fellow pilots! I as well am training/aspiring to be a pilot. I'm in the bookwork phases of my civilian license, and hopefully will fly for the Navy later on.
Getting at least a private pilot license is near the top of my "When I'm rich I'll..." list. Seriously, if somebody came up to me tomorrow and said "Come with me and I'll pay you $35k a year and provide all your training so you can come be a bush pilot for my company" I would drop out of school and do it in a heartbeat. I am dead serious. Unfortunately you have spend something like $50,000 to train for a commercial license, out of pocket, before you can even get paid to pull a banner behind a Cessna, and that's just never been possible for me. But, yeah, I would fucking kill any one of you with a rusty spoon if it would give me a career as a pilot.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46153660]Getting at least a private pilot license is near the top of my "When I'm rich I'll..." list. Seriously, if somebody came up to me tomorrow and said "Come with me and I'll pay you $35k a year and provide all your training so you can come be a bush pilot for my company" I would drop out of school and do it in a heartbeat. I am dead serious. Unfortunately you have spend something like $50,000 to train for a commercial license, out of pocket, before you can even get paid to pull a banner behind a Cessna, and that's just never been possible for me. But, yeah, I would fucking kill any one of you with a rusty spoon if it would give me a career as a pilot.[/QUOTE] I know a guy who's a commercial pilot and he says that with the pilot shortage so many airlines have projected they might return to doing training themselves like in the early jet era, so if you just get a PPL sometime soonish they'd give you all the extra training for airliners once they hire you. Now that's just what he said, I don't know if that includes an IFR and a multi-engine license for you to have beforehand, but I'm assuming they'd train you in that but I don't know for sure.
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;46153696]I know a guy who's a commercial pilot and he says that with the pilot shortage so many airlines have projected they might return to doing training themselves like in the early jet era, so if you just get a PPL sometime soonish they'd give you all the extra training for airliners once they hire you. Now that's just what he said, I don't know if that includes an IFR and a multi-engine license for you to have beforehand, but I'm assuming they'd train you in that but I don't know for sure.[/QUOTE] Have the airlines stopped treating their pilots like shit, though? That's the main reason for the pilot shortage, with the majority of flights being outsourced to regional characters that pay shoestring wages and maintain brutal working conditions.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46153728]Have the airlines stopped treating their pilots like shit, though? That's the main reason for the pilot shortage, with the majority of flights being outsourced to regional characters that pay shoestring wages and maintain brutal working conditions.[/QUOTE] From what he's talked to me about, I'd say yes/the airline he works for didn't do that stuff. He says he gets paid better than a military pilot (>$120K a year) and if he doesn't want to do a flight, he can just say no and not get paid for it. It does seem like a pretty busy job, but with what I just said above and decent time on layaway after each flight WITH airline-paid hotel/accommodations it seems perfectly fine to do as long as you like it.
Welp, I am a retard here is the new video that works. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMkQDC8hQeM[/media]
Do you have to have perfect vision to be a pilot?
[QUOTE=Trooper0315;46153696]I know a guy who's a commercial pilot and he says that with the pilot shortage so many airlines have projected they might return to doing training themselves like in the early jet era, so if you just get a PPL sometime soonish they'd give you all the extra training for airliners once they hire you. Now that's just what he said, I don't know if that includes an IFR and a multi-engine license for you to have beforehand, but I'm assuming they'd train you in that but I don't know for sure.[/QUOTE] The pilot shortage is a huge myth thats been around since the 70s. Ask any real airline pilot
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