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

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.

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.

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

Always been interested in airplanes. Worked for BeechEast out of TEB in the 80's as charter pilot and Instructor . Did all the CFI I MEL... Flew for a regional, then a 121 supplemental. Being away on the road for up to 3 weeks at the time just got old.

Nearest airport with any active training going on is INT, almost an hour away. All of the ones nearby are private one or two plane grass strips

I have and do. Gots a couple of MGBs, old pickups and a half of dozen old tractors to keep me busy and play with. Life is good in retirement.

Noah W

Still flying, but GLAD to be out of the commercial world. No more TSA nonsense, passenger nonsense or Company nonsense.

Life is GOOD on the other side of Part 121.

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