Before I was a PPL I thought pilots were God like, used to watch the titchy planes flying overhead and be jealous as ****. I thought flying a plane must be the most exciting thing in the world and would be way out of my league. I took a trial lesson and it is not as difficult as we pretend
So yes, people do think I am more intelligent than I am when I mention that I am a pilot (at least 5 times a day
) but when I take them flying and let them take the controls, they realise it is just an early-middle aged bloke turning a 'wheel' left, right, up and down and talking funny on the radio.
28th,,