No wings on?
08-11-2016 | 04:42 PM
#81
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When I had 50 hours and a PPL, I did not consider myself a real pilot. It wasn't until I was signing my name for a jet with paying passengers in the back that I felt like a real pilot. Even when I was flying a turboprop on the west coast full of rubber dog doodoo, I didn't consider myself to be a "real" pilot yet. I still had way too much to learn to be that cocky.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
I've been flying airplanes for 25+ years, GA, military, and airlines, and I still have "way too much to learn to be that cocky", as you say.
But, the day I got my PPL and flew back to my home 'drome with that temporary ticket in a Cherokee, proud but scared, I was very much a "real pilot."
08-11-2016 | 04:52 PM
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When I had 50 hours and a PPL, I did not consider myself a real pilot. It wasn't until I was signing my name for a jet with paying passengers in the back that I felt like a real pilot. Even when I was flying a turboprop on the west coast full of rubber dog doodoo, I didn't consider myself to be a "real" pilot yet. I still had way too much to learn to be that cocky.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
08-11-2016 | 05:01 PM
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If you don't get what he's trying to say then you probably never will.
Just because a 16 year old gets a driver's license doesn't make them a race car driver. They are just legally allowed to drive. Their decisions and actions obviously lack skill and judgement that would most likely differ after much experience.
The whole "wings" thing though, who cares.
Just because a 16 year old gets a driver's license doesn't make them a race car driver. They are just legally allowed to drive. Their decisions and actions obviously lack skill and judgement that would most likely differ after much experience.
The whole "wings" thing though, who cares.
08-11-2016 | 05:10 PM
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When I had 50 hours and a PPL, I did not consider myself a real pilot. It wasn't until I was signing my name for a jet with paying passengers in the back that I felt like a real pilot. Even when I was flying a turboprop on the west coast full of rubber dog doodoo, I didn't consider myself to be a "real" pilot yet. I still had way too much to learn to be that cocky.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
I still have a lot to learn, but I do consider myself a real pilot.
Maybe for a military guy, it was something different - a stage when they issued you wings that you earned.
But that is just me.
08-11-2016 | 10:13 PM
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Au contraire, because of all of the b*****g about lack of wings, and people wearing their jacket wings on their shirt anyways, we now have official shirt wings. They're optional and only lIke $10 that Trans states will gladly deduct from your paycheck in case you can't live without them.
08-12-2016 | 07:33 AM
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Au contraire, because of all of the b*****g about lack of wings, and people wearing their jacket wings on their shirt anyways, we now have official shirt wings. They're optional and only lIke $10 that Trans states will gladly deduct from your paycheck in case you can't live without them.
08-12-2016 | 08:04 AM
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You can't think of the wings as being symbolic of an aviation achievement, like you probably do of military wings.
Instead, they're simply symbolic of your employment at a particular shop. When you are given them varies between where you work.
At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
Overall, it is simply a uniform item that socially has less value and meaning than in the military.
Instead, they're simply symbolic of your employment at a particular shop. When you are given them varies between where you work.
At the regional airline I worked at, I was given the wings unceremoniously by my the examiner after my LOE simulator session at the very end of training.
At the major I work at, I was given them after only a few weeks of non-flying indoctrination training (basically still at the beginning of training -- I hadn't even see the inside of a simulator yet) in a fancy-ish formal ceremony that family/friends are invited to attend.
Overall, it is simply a uniform item that socially has less value and meaning than in the military.
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