On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:26:03 GMT, CFLav8r wrote:
I'm a real pilot, am I not?
I ask this question to the entire aviation NG, to find out if you consider
yourself a real pilot.
The question came as I was returning from my mailbox this morning only to
have my neighbor stop and ask me "why if your always getting aviation stuff
(EAA magazine came this morning) in the mail do you not become a real
pilot?". And to this I answered "I am a real pilot".
He then said "No your not, you don't fly the big planes".
Well considering the source of the question, I just said just because I have
a drivers license doesn't mean I want to drive a truck or bus.

This isn't the first time that I have had someone not consider me to be a
real pilot.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
And what if any was your response?
Or do you not consider yourself a real pilot?

David (KORL)
PP - ASEL -Instrument student


I was in the drive-thru lane at the local grease-trap a couple of months
ago. The kid at the cashier asks "Are you a pilot?" Says he saw my plates
and the AOPA sticker in the side window. I respond (with my chest puffed
out), "Why, yes I am." He asks, "What airline do you fly for?" I say,
"I don't fly for an airline, I fly myself." He says, "No, I mean, are
you a real pilot. I want to get a job as a pilot." I said, "Do you
think that you get the keys to the 747 on the first day?" He kinda
garumphs and says, "Guess not." I take my burger and drive off.

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Rick/JYO
PP-ASEL-IA
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