"I find it amusing, and down right ridiculous, that some of you think that people like Sky, myself, and others are "No Longer" professional pilots."

I see no reason for Tony M and Sky not to feel free to express their opinions based on their past experience as professional pilots. But it's past experience. Sky is a part time CFI and Tony M owns a Pitts. One is a real estate investor and the other is an MD.

"IMO, once a person has achieved a level of personal success, they're THERE."

Totally disagree. Once a doctor retires, he's a retired doctor. Ex-doctor. No longer part of the professional profession. No longer practicing. No longer studying. He may no longer giving a rip about what goes on in the profession on a day to day basis. And each day that goes by he is less and less up on what's going on in the biz. Same thing for pilots. Once a pilot retires, he's an ex-professional pilot.

Tony, maybe you want to be called Dr M the rest of your days and are thus see yourself as part of the MD profession. I don't see it working that way in aviation. It's all semantics, anyway. What's your point, again?

 

[quote=TonyC;470015]Correspondence?

If you think someone can get into Med school with a correspondence degree, you're not the worthy adversary that you purport to be here.

you're tipping your hand-careful.

 

You are entitled to your opinion-personally, I couldn't care less what you think. I offer advice to those who seek it, and will continue to. Daily I get e-mails and PM's from pilots here seeking a better life.

I not only "see myself" as part of the M.D. profession, I AM part of it.

You shouldn't see that as threatening. Just the facts.

 

"personally, I couldn't care less what you think."

Ummm...likewise....

"I not only "see myself" as part of the M.D. profession, I AM part of it."

You're proving my point. You're a professional MD, not a professional pilot...

 

You know, I shouldn't have made the comment about correspondence degrees. It was demeaning to those who have worked hard to earn their degrees, and I apologize to anyone I may have offended.

What I intended to do was point out how preposterous your notion is that because you used to be a professional pilot you're still one now. You're no more a professional pilot than I am a paper boy, and making such a claim draws into question your ability to reason.


Makes me wonder if I shouldn't rewrite the above with shorter sentences and smaller words.








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I just changed my job title to corporate pilot in charge of the care and operation of a Cessna 150. Other job duties include property management.

Yea !! I am a professional pilot !!

SkyHigh

 

What you are is ...


I had to stop and look for the Terms of Service to see if there was an acceptable way of completing that sentence. I couldn't find a link to the TOS (I wanted to find a loophole ), but I'm sure Don will show me where it is. Anyway, I know from reading quoted exceprts that there's something in there about being neighborly, and I don't think it would be neighborly to point out you're a moron, so I'll refrain. It occurs to me that fences make good neighbors, so perhaps we should figure out a way to build a "virtual" privacy fence around you and your "also quit" next-door neighbor.


What you are is ... making a fool of yourself. No, seriously, you lose any shred of credibility that you may have ever had when you make this absurd claim to be a professional pilot. You make a mockery of what you claim you once wanted to be.

Why would you even want to claim to be a professional pilot after all you've said to discredit the profession? If I'd said half the bad stuff you've siad about the profession, I'd rather people think I play piano in a ***** house. (Yeah, that was stolen from an old bumper sticker.)

You tried, it got too hard, you quit, you're bitter -- we get it. Everybody already knows that not every person who begins the climb will make it to the top of this mountain. You want to spread the story of how you couldn't make it as a professioan pilot, knock yourself out.

But, you wanna mock the profession, bash those who are successful, and mislead those who are interested, then expect to be called on it.








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I'm sorry I missed it-TonyC, what airline is it that you fly for?, or are you flight instructing?

 

what is a correspondence (sp) degree? like an online degree or something? If so, i'm doing one right now, and it's a beeyatch! Very challenging. Also fully accredited.

 

That's what I'm talking about, and you got the spelling correct. As I said, I shouldn't have used that reference to call into question a poster's intelligence. In the first place, it insults those who really work hard to get their degrees that way, and I'm sorry that I insulted them. In the second place, the poster is doing a good enough job of demonstrating that lack of intelligence himself.

Good luck on the degree -- hang in there! You'll be glad you did it.







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