When do you know you've made it? (light-hearted humour.)
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....when you can write in the "Endorsements" section of the MR without your hand shaking nervously.
......when you can approach a LAME about the fact that the whole vertical stabiliser has just fallen off on taxi and he doesn't roll his eyes, turn to the other LAME's and say, "....ah, bloody pilot finger trouble!", and the rest of the LAME's don't roll their eyes, giggle and shake their heads..................................................or something like that........
......when you can approach a LAME about the fact that the whole vertical stabiliser has just fallen off on taxi and he doesn't roll his eyes, turn to the other LAME's and say, "....ah, bloody pilot finger trouble!", and the rest of the LAME's don't roll their eyes, giggle and shake their heads..................................................or something like that........
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I think you know you've made it when:
-you wish you were back in an airplane with no aisle,
-you think back fondly about having to enter the cabin by climbing over the wing,
-you wish it was just you on board (no pretentious hosties grumbling about "He wants ANOTHER coke with ice...)
-you think how nice it was in the old days to be able to see individual trees/cows/whatever on the ground because you're not up at 41000ft catching cosmic rays,
-you wish you could fly a go-around without having to report yourself in the Log,
-you wish you didn't have to wear that stupid hat each day,
-you wish you could fly VFR like the old days so you don't have to deal with Bombay on HF...
Did I miss anything??
-you wish you were back in an airplane with no aisle,
-you think back fondly about having to enter the cabin by climbing over the wing,
-you wish it was just you on board (no pretentious hosties grumbling about "He wants ANOTHER coke with ice...)
-you think how nice it was in the old days to be able to see individual trees/cows/whatever on the ground because you're not up at 41000ft catching cosmic rays,
-you wish you could fly a go-around without having to report yourself in the Log,
-you wish you didn't have to wear that stupid hat each day,
-you wish you could fly VFR like the old days so you don't have to deal with Bombay on HF...
Did I miss anything??
1) Aerodromes you fly to have a licensed code
2) You make more money than the stupid, heavy, dumb miners/politicians behind you
3) You have windscreen wipers
4) De icing doesn't involve a well timed throw of water just before take off
5) Putting flight levels/mach numbers on the plan
6) HF actually works
7) VHF works also
8) You laugh at people having to do orbits at 2000'
9) Laugh at the 1 in 60 rule as the FMC does the diversion for you
10) The plane you fly now is you weekend 'fun' plane to go fishing/surfing with.
2) You make more money than the stupid, heavy, dumb miners/politicians behind you
3) You have windscreen wipers
4) De icing doesn't involve a well timed throw of water just before take off
5) Putting flight levels/mach numbers on the plan
6) HF actually works
7) VHF works also
8) You laugh at people having to do orbits at 2000'
9) Laugh at the 1 in 60 rule as the FMC does the diversion for you
10) The plane you fly now is you weekend 'fun' plane to go fishing/surfing with.
Why do I get the impression that Airline Driver is the be all and end all for most of the posters here......
When I've made the last payment to the finance company
When I've made the last payment to the finance company
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I'm with Itchybum
...With a few more additions.
- You can go flying for "fun" because you own the plane.
- You your wife and kids don't have to wonder where things are going/coming from next.
Cheers
- You can go flying for "fun" because you own the plane.
- You your wife and kids don't have to wonder where things are going/coming from next.
Cheers
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Eeeerm....... when you get to retire voluntarily 
, reasonably intact, 
still married to wife #1,
, respected by your peers
, surrounded by your grandchildren 
and with a life well lived. 
, reasonably intact, still married to wife #1, , respected by your peers, surrounded by your grandchildren and with a life well lived.
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I knew I had 'made it' when ....
1. I paid more dollars in tax in one year than i earned as a C210 pilot!
2. FA's apologised if they couldn't bring me an Earl Grey tea, white and a half!
3. Operations rang, apologised for ringing me at home on my day off(!!!) but would I be available for a call out that would be about a thousand dollars worth of flying, and happily said 'thanks anyway' when i knocked it back!
1. I paid more dollars in tax in one year than i earned as a C210 pilot!
2. FA's apologised if they couldn't bring me an Earl Grey tea, white and a half!
3. Operations rang, apologised for ringing me at home on my day off(!!!) but would I be available for a call out that would be about a thousand dollars worth of flying, and happily said 'thanks anyway' when i knocked it back!
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You know you have made it when
1 Management try to help you out,
2 Aircraft is prepared on arrival,
3 Maintenance is quickly repaired not operating under a dozen MELs
When the aircraft has
1 A cockpit door
2 Call button
3 Flight attendant
4 you don't have to give a pax brief ( FA's job)
5 A toilet
6 Able to walk down the aisle, not hunched over.
1 Management try to help you out,
2 Aircraft is prepared on arrival,
3 Maintenance is quickly repaired not operating under a dozen MELs
When the aircraft has
1 A cockpit door
2 Call button
3 Flight attendant
4 you don't have to give a pax brief ( FA's job)
5 A toilet
6 Able to walk down the aisle, not hunched over.
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When I think you've made it in aviation...
With a sweat-stained shirt covered in oil, dirt under your fingernails, sunburnt neck and tatty old thongs, you close the cowl on the aircraft you paid for yourself, built yourself, and fix yourself... point it into wind at an aerodrome with no known name in the middle of nowhere, and go wherever the hell you want, at whatever speed you want....
and simply enjoy what you are doing in aviation.
With a sweat-stained shirt covered in oil, dirt under your fingernails, sunburnt neck and tatty old thongs, you close the cowl on the aircraft you paid for yourself, built yourself, and fix yourself... point it into wind at an aerodrome with no known name in the middle of nowhere, and go wherever the hell you want, at whatever speed you want....
and simply enjoy what you are doing in aviation.