trains to planes [Archive]

benny4

25th Jan 2001, 20:29

Don't laugh all you highly qualified pilots, but i am a train driver. I have been interested in flying planes all my life and recently i have been finding trains a tad boring. I want to be come a commersial pilot but leaving school at 15 with no qualificashons might peenalize me. will i make it? Trains are probably harder to drive than planes are to fly anyway!

foghorn

25th Jan 2001, 20:52

WHOOP WHOOP WIND UP

See benny's other post in the Questions forum

http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/Forum57/HTML/000628.html

Autofly

25th Jan 2001, 22:39

Benny,

There's a guy who flys helicopters at my local airfield. I've never been in a Helicopter but I have been told that this guy is one of the best pilots around. He drives trains when he's not training PPL(H)'s. There's no reason why it wouldn't work for you. Leaving school at the age you did won't be a problem if you can pass the ATPL exams at the end of the day.

Good luck

BN2A

25th Jan 2001, 22:40

Autofly,
Read Foghorn's post!!!
:rolleyes:

VFE

25th Jan 2001, 22:44

Oh, that's so original Benny4.

3 putt

27th Jan 2001, 20:47

Benny4,
Try bending over,you sound more like a "pile driver".