..I cant make it to the left seat of a triple 7 in 8 months?! Great....back to the drawing board.


I am with most of you on the SkyHigh issue. As a new comer with low hours and high asperations he has been nothing but helpful and informative and has never done anything but offered his oppinions, not merely pushed them upon others. He has alot to say and good, bad, or indifferent i welcome it and find it a breath of fresh air.

OK lets hear about it!!

I'v seen my fair share of aviation drop-outs - they don't talk about it and move on to other things out of disgust...At least Skyhigh has the balls to offer his opinions - opinions he knows will not be liked by the masses on an aviation board...I enjoy flying as a PPL and will never forget my last CFI and his 6 years in the instruction business before giving up to become a cop...When I last spoke to him - he had a new dream (no longer SWA) - flying helos for the police...I wished him luck but wondered how someone can go from having SWA as a dream job to helo's for the police department as a dream job....Don't people have one dream job???

Oh well....Keep posting Skyhigh...

-LAFF

Rok on, Freight. Respect your post.

Good luck.

Don't minimize your ability to keep flying after your horrific personal experience.

Geez.

Wish I could put in words what I felt when I read your above post.

But I can't.

All the best to you.

And if you're able to keep flying after your immense loss,

you need to be positioned in the left seat of a big plane.

Immediately, somewhere.

Some how.

Thanks FP,

I appreciate your response. Is it possible to pursue something you "love" but not have it love you in return? Those of you who are comfortably at a nice major wrongly assume that there must be something wrong with Skyhigh. Perhaps he didn't try hard enough? Maybe he didn't love aviation enough? Always looking for the cause of the accident. What if there just isn't enough room for everyone? What if there just isn't enough room for most? I wasn't a military superstar with a strong military legacy. I didn't have an uncle at UPS. I was just a garden variety suburban white guy with few chances in the big world of network aviation.

I tried hard enough. I wasted enough time and money. Sometimes even our best efforts will not make dreams come true. At some point those with an interest in self preservation have to walk away. Skyhigh is here to remind everyone that it is better to be lucky than good in regards to aviation.

Sit smugly, if you wish, and think to yourself "I will not end up like skyhigh" then think again.

SkyHigh

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Don't minimize your ability to keep flying after your horrific personal experience.

Geez.

Wish I could put in words what I felt when I read your above post.

But I can't.

All the best to you.

And if you're able to keep flying after your immense loss,

you need to be positioned in the left seat of a big plane.

Thanks my friend, I appreciate your sentiment. Idont know anymore what the future holds, but will do my best to rise above all that has happened and humbly realize that I am not the only one to go through these terrible events.
Rather, count my blessings, and consider my self blessed to have come through it. I would like to think of myself as an example for others in the same boat.Not to give up, the sun will shine again sooner or later......
Thanks

No one is debating if they love flying or not. The question is will flying love you back. After such a huge investment it seems to me that the answer is increasingly becoming NO. There are many things in life that each of us enjoy. Perhaps we should choose one of them as an employment avenue and save flying for the weekends. Sooner or later each of us needs to make a living.

SkyHigh

It is better to be lucky than good.