Quotes please...

I think one of the current manufacturers summed it up best in one of their
ads: to paraphrase "No traffic cops at 6000 feet hiding behind a puffy
cumulous with a radar gun".

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
news:uC3bg.6047$343.822@trnddc06...
Hello all,

I'm working on an article for a regional magazine in California. The
spin of the article is to encourage folks to go down to their local
airport and sign up for that first lesson to get them started on either a
sport or private pilot certificate.

What I'm asking our R.A.P. community for is a concise quote to answer
the question: "Why did you want to learn to fly?"

Please tag your quote with first name, last initial, and either your
state of residence or, if not in the USA, your country code. Sorry,
handles and other cute nicks won't make the grade. If you are familiar
with the business, you know the editor has the final chop on anything that
ends up on the pages.

Go Fly!

Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Photographer

I started flying because:

"...of the challenge," Casey W., CA

On Sun, 21 May 2006 03:42:24 GMT, "soxinbox" wrote
in ::

I think one of the current manufacturers summed it up best in one of their
ads: to paraphrase "No traffic cops at 6000 feet hiding behind a puffy
cumulous with a radar gun".

While that assertion is true, implicit in it is the unflattering and
erroneous notion, that airmen seek to avoid law enforcement due to
their violating regulations.

Albuquerque to Carlsbad Caverns - 6 hours by car, 2 hours by air

Denver to Taos - 5.5 hours by car, 2.5 hours by air (got mountains
in the way). Have lunch, stroll around a few galleries,
and be home for the evenings news!

More important...

My schedule, not the airlines. No strip search. And, (to quote the
Stargate promo from last year) you can carry a weapon!

I want to experience the thrill of ****ing into a Gatorade bottle while
bouncing around at 5,000 feet.

I want to annoy tens of thousands by circling endlessly and creating a
god-awful racket, purely for my amusement. With GA, I can do this without
consequence.

I love antiques, and the average GA plane will allow me to experience
technology from the 1950s.

On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:21:34 -0400, "Skylune"
wrote in
outaviation.com::

I want to annoy tens of thousands by circling endlessly and creating a
god-awful racket, purely for my amusement.


Oh, much like you do in this newsgroup. :-)

by Larry Dighera May 22, 2006 at 03:19 PM


On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:21:34 -0400, "Skylune"
wrote in
outaviation.com::

I want to annoy tens of thousands by circling endlessly and creating a
god-awful racket, purely for my amusement.


Oh, much like you do in this newsgroup. :-)



Yes, except i cannot kill-file the pilots who incessently buzz around over
what used to be a quiet town....

"Skylune" wrote in message
Yes, except i cannot kill-file the pilots who incessently buzz around over
what used to be a quiet town....

Where on earth do you live that the amount of GA has increased?

To see the airspeed move toward the top of the yellow arc, to verify
the gauges say go, to apply back pressure and have the runway disappear
beneath the cowling. . .

If that doesn't touch someone's core, you might check their vital
signs.

On 23 May 2006 17:01:55 -0700, "Tony" wrote:

To see the airspeed move toward the top of the yellow arc, to verify
the gauges say go, to apply back pressure and have the runway disappear
beneath the cowling. . .

If that doesn't touch someone's core, you might check their vital
signs.

Boy, waiting that long to rotate would sure get MY juices flowing!

Don