Don't care...
02-16-2014, 05:28 AM
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Don't care...
Anybody out there quit flying and don't give a schit if they never get in an aircraft again?
I retired with around 18,000hrs in 2007. Don't care if I ever get in another airplane again. Still interested in aviation though. Still visit a bunch of aviation related forums and read post that interest me. Anybody else in the same boat?
Noah W
I retired with around 18,000hrs in 2007. Don't care if I ever get in another airplane again. Still interested in aviation though. Still visit a bunch of aviation related forums and read post that interest me. Anybody else in the same boat?
Noah W
02-16-2014, 05:41 AM
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Moving to the 'Leaving the career' forum.
You'll find people there that have done the same thing.
Was it the **flying** that you grew to dislike so much or the **job**?
Seems that if it was the flying, you wouldn't still hold an interest in aviation.
the forum might be interested in more of the back story.
You'll find people there that have done the same thing.
Was it the **flying** that you grew to dislike so much or the **job**?
Seems that if it was the flying, you wouldn't still hold an interest in aviation.
the forum might be interested in more of the back story.
02-16-2014, 07:26 AM
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Did aviation ever interest you as a thing in itself? Was the interest beat out of you, or did it just evaporate over the course of a career of constant routine flying?
At times I wish I was back in the Hog or the T-38, but that part of flying is behind me. It was cool while it lasted. As the John Cougar Mellencamp song says: "Oh yeah life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone--now rock on"
I find that I pick up a lot of enthusiasm from the students around here, particularly from the retired guy I'm teaching. Maybe you should be a sport pilot instructor. You might be able to spin the "wheel of life" in aviation around one more time.
Life's big. I'm sure you have a lot to interest you outside of flying. Hope you enjoy it and your new vector.
At times I wish I was back in the Hog or the T-38, but that part of flying is behind me. It was cool while it lasted. As the John Cougar Mellencamp song says: "Oh yeah life goes on, long after the thrill of livin' is gone--now rock on"
I find that I pick up a lot of enthusiasm from the students around here, particularly from the retired guy I'm teaching. Maybe you should be a sport pilot instructor. You might be able to spin the "wheel of life" in aviation around one more time.
Life's big. I'm sure you have a lot to interest you outside of flying. Hope you enjoy it and your new vector.
02-16-2014, 07:33 AM
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Quit flying...
Retired @59½ due to age 60 rule. 2 mos.after I retired, the rule was upped to 65. Screw 'em all. Just got tired of all the FAA BS. Only the people I was working with would keep me in the business. Just wondering if anybody felt the same way.
Noah W
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02-16-2014, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Fluglehrer
Did aviation ever interest you as a thing in itself? Was the interest beat out of you, or did it just evaporate over the course of a career of constant routine flying?
I find that I pick up a lot of enthusiasm from the students around here, particularly from the retired guy I'm teaching. Maybe you should be a sport pilot instructor. You might be able to spin the "wheel of life" in aviation around one more time.
Life's big. I'm sure you have a lot to interest you outside of flying. Hope you enjoy it and your new vector.
Noah W
03-01-2014, 07:38 AM
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When I was a flight instructor in ANC my chief pilot hated aviation. He was a WWII fighter pilot and continued to fly for the military long after. He thought of planes as killing machines and avoided aviation for 30 years before coming back to it to work.
When I asked him as thy why he came back all he could say was "habit".
Skyhigh
When I asked him as thy why he came back all he could say was "habit".
Skyhigh
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