Is anyone actually happy? Anybody?
Yes, sad but true. Miitary pilots have a stable career, have had their training paid for, and they do work casual weekends and take jobs and opportunities away from GA pilots trying to get hours and make a living.
It doesn't help the industry at all.
It doesn't help the industry at all.
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Yep
.. So it's almost been a year since we've had a "happy post!" In my opinion, thats not good enough.
Have we had a good year of flying? I certainly have. It's involved new challenges, seeing more places and making new friends.
We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a better job... maybe have a baby, then another. Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that all will be well when they are older. Then we are frustrated because they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely we’ll be happier when they grow out of the teen years.
We tell ourselves our life will be better when our spouse gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a vacation, when we finally retire. The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than right now.
If not, then when?
Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy in spite of it all.
there isn’t any road to happiness. Happiness IS the road. So, enjoy every moment. Stop waiting for school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to gain ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married, for Friday evening, for Sunday morning, waiting for a new car, for your mortgage to be paid off, for spring, for summer, for autumn, for winter, for the first or the fifteenth of the month, for your song to be played on the radio, to die, to be reborn… before deciding to be happy.
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination.
So, lets year about your year of flying
Have we had a good year of flying? I certainly have. It's involved new challenges, seeing more places and making new friends.
We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a better job... maybe have a baby, then another. Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that all will be well when they are older. Then we are frustrated because they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely we’ll be happier when they grow out of the teen years.
We tell ourselves our life will be better when our spouse gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a vacation, when we finally retire. The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than right now.
If not, then when?
Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy in spite of it all.
there isn’t any road to happiness. Happiness IS the road. So, enjoy every moment. Stop waiting for school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to gain ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married, for Friday evening, for Sunday morning, waiting for a new car, for your mortgage to be paid off, for spring, for summer, for autumn, for winter, for the first or the fifteenth of the month, for your song to be played on the radio, to die, to be reborn… before deciding to be happy.
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination.
So, lets year about your year of flying
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Happy as a pig in you-know-what :-)) Never going to the airlines, working in the warmth with the best boss in the world. Check out the cheshire grin on the face of the student you just sent first solo ... I never want another job. Just let me do this one until they carry me out :-)))))
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wrongwayaround ,
Your post is quite easily the best post I have ever read on this forum.
People I suggest you all print this gem off and stick it to your fridge so you can read and ponder over it everyday.
I will be printing it off and giving it to each of my kids to read. (when they are old enough to read !)
This is going straight to the pool room.
Your post is quite easily the best post I have ever read on this forum.
People I suggest you all print this gem off and stick it to your fridge so you can read and ponder over it everyday.
I will be printing it off and giving it to each of my kids to read. (when they are old enough to read !)
This is going straight to the pool room.
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Seconded...
Yep, for sure. Wrongwayaround has it the rightwayaround if anyone does, I reckon.
You've started me thinking.
My year has been a great one. A few unforseen hiccupps that have plagued me somewhat, but at least you learn to move on from those things.
Certainly one of movement and development, new experiences and challenges, and so forth.
I think the saying "You take something with you from every person you meet in your life" holds truth.
520.
You've started me thinking.
My year has been a great one. A few unforseen hiccupps that have plagued me somewhat, but at least you learn to move on from those things.
Certainly one of movement and development, new experiences and challenges, and so forth.
I think the saying "You take something with you from every person you meet in your life" holds truth.
520.
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Was doing some circuits the other day, gusty sh*tty cross winds did the first one .... best in 20years .... got hold of spectator at the aero club and took him for a hour around the clouds, over the farm, orbit around the local Pub for the boys, got the crap shook out of us on the way home and did the second best crosswind landing in history. Following day was on my own did a short hop and back .... absolutely shocking approach (power + attitude = performance blah blah) too high , too low forgot to flare bounced twice before I thought better clean this up, applied a little power raised nose and plopped onto the runway .....ahhhh it don't get any better than this I says to meself .... wonder what the poor buggers are doing (who cares!) 
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WWA - that was the most sensible thing i have read on here for a while.....
My personal belief is the whingers on here are the PPL's with a little knowledge which is dangerous, and CPL's who havn't got the right stuff to make a career of this great industry.
Great Thread, would love to hear more inspiration from the ones out there doing it tough!!
My personal belief is the whingers on here are the PPL's with a little knowledge which is dangerous, and CPL's who havn't got the right stuff to make a career of this great industry.
Great Thread, would love to hear more inspiration from the ones out there doing it tough!!
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Hi everyone
Great to hear im not the only one lovin the job. Personally it's been an awesome year for moi. Lots of cool new planes, lots of awesome mountain flying, met heaps of cool people and of course drunk way to much piss!
Of course the money is still crap and there's always the constant sniff of greener pastures (it's only natural), but at the end of the day, im 4 years in and there is absolutely nothing id rather be doin!
I've had many a young wannabe ask me if this is the way for them lately and I simply tell them the same thing, the moneys crap and it's always a hard slog, but theres no better job in the world.
Anyway, cheers to you all and all the best for the coming year.
RS
Of course the money is still crap and there's always the constant sniff of greener pastures (it's only natural), but at the end of the day, im 4 years in and there is absolutely nothing id rather be doin!
I've had many a young wannabe ask me if this is the way for them lately and I simply tell them the same thing, the moneys crap and it's always a hard slog, but theres no better job in the world.
Anyway, cheers to you all and all the best for the coming year.
RS
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romansandal...What you said with bells on!
Used to tell students or parents of students, (when asked about aviation) that the flying and challenge is fantastic but the industry sucked.
I too have had a great year, working like mad doing what I should be paid more for.
When you look out the office window and see dirty great big CB's floating over huge areas of landscape, that's a job.
Used to tell students or parents of students, (when asked about aviation) that the flying and challenge is fantastic but the industry sucked.
I too have had a great year, working like mad doing what I should be paid more for.
When you look out the office window and see dirty great big CB's floating over huge areas of landscape, that's a job.
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Happy? You Bet after 3yrs of being away from Home (NZ), Im back for a holiday............
Spent part of the afternoon at NZAA..smelling the JET A1....watchin the world go by. Best thing I ever did was to leave and fly elsewhere..sure I go a bit misty-eyed when I see the old Koru...but thats about it. Bugger flyin a 1900..or a crappy old scaab...or a 737 come to think of it..gimmie my 757..or my 767 anyday
after 3yrs of being away from Home (NZ), Im back for a holiday............Spent part of the afternoon at NZAA..smelling the JET A1....watchin the world go by. Best thing I ever did was to leave and fly elsewhere..sure I go a bit misty-eyed when I see the old Koru...but thats about it. Bugger flyin a 1900..or a crappy old scaab...or a 737 come to think of it..gimmie my 757..or my 767 anyday
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Well, just to add to all the warm fuzzy's here. I just had a meeting with three senior members of the authority over here in west section to resolve some percieved problems. very positive meeting and a very profitable outcome on both sides. common sense prevailed.
They don't seem to be the two headed monsters I have been led to believe they were.
They don't seem to be the two headed monsters I have been led to believe they were.
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Careful there, Wiz, that sort of seditious talk could easily have a flow on effect if left unchecked. We wouldn't want the constant state of war to end, surely?
Wrongwayround, nice post. A few years ago when I was attempting to get through the same idea to my oldest at her most frustrating, always impatient for her life to begin properly, I came up with "Life is what's happening to you while you're waiting for your life to begin". Not Nobel prize winning stuff but I was quite proud of it. Your
puts it a little more neatly.
Now if only I could learn to take my own sound advice.
Wrongwayround, nice post. A few years ago when I was attempting to get through the same idea to my oldest at her most frustrating, always impatient for her life to begin properly, I came up with "Life is what's happening to you while you're waiting for your life to begin". Not Nobel prize winning stuff but I was quite proud of it. Your
there isn’t any road to happiness. Happiness IS the road.
Now if only I could learn to take my own sound advice.
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Its great to hear others also love getting up and going to 'work' as well.
Nothing beats the satisfying feeling of that greaser crosswind landing your student has just pulled off... or even the aerobatic routine that has gone flawlessly. Even the simple things like cruising over the city on a beautiful crystal clear night, nothing but you and the sky, makes all the S**t we put up with worthwhile.
Sure we all have rough days and we rant and rave about everything that comes into range but yet we still turn up for work the next day.
Why?? I hear you ask,
Simple, there is nothing else we would rather be doing.
Well thats my 2 cents.
Cheers Guys
A370
Nothing beats the satisfying feeling of that greaser crosswind landing your student has just pulled off... or even the aerobatic routine that has gone flawlessly. Even the simple things like cruising over the city on a beautiful crystal clear night, nothing but you and the sky, makes all the S**t we put up with worthwhile.
Sure we all have rough days and we rant and rave about everything that comes into range but yet we still turn up for work the next day.
Why?? I hear you ask,
Simple, there is nothing else we would rather be doing.
Well thats my 2 cents.
Cheers Guys
A370
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Yeah yeah, I know. I nearly choked while I was doing it as well. Hey, If something good comes from there, I'm not going to knock it. 
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Who's unhappy?
Love it here. Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh, KL, and a few other Asian cities. Overnights are great too.
Pity about the never ending sims.
Management??? Who gives a $hit about them....just turn up, fly, go home and get on with life.
Life's too short to be grumpy every day.
Love it here. Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh, KL, and a few other Asian cities. Overnights are great too.
Pity about the never ending sims.
Management??? Who gives a $hit about them....just turn up, fly, go home and get on with life.
Life's too short to be grumpy every day.
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I took off the other day for the Solomon Islands from Brisbane...11:30am departure (very civilised hour). Had a goumet brunch, loveliest flight attendants on earth. Nothing but ocean, blue skies, a smidgen of cloud and a 120kt tail wind.
Mountain range to descend through before Henderson Airfield, mount Austin boasts a 1,000 on top of Kosiusko....and 10 DME from the airfield. Some cloud cover over these ranges, a touch of spoiler, and we were in paradise.
A little less than an hour turnaround, and we were DME stepping up these same ranges, another goumet meal across the coral sea (with desert this time due to the headwind home), a nice descent through fantastic Queensland thunderies/lightning/hail, a rare left base over Brisbane town (spectacular city scenic) for a visual, home by 4:30pm (civilised hour) for some street cricket with the kids................Mate!!!! Nothing in the whole world like it. Wouldn't be dead for quids. Really beats the hell out of another day in the office.
Mountain range to descend through before Henderson Airfield, mount Austin boasts a 1,000 on top of Kosiusko....and 10 DME from the airfield. Some cloud cover over these ranges, a touch of spoiler, and we were in paradise.
A little less than an hour turnaround, and we were DME stepping up these same ranges, another goumet meal across the coral sea (with desert this time due to the headwind home), a nice descent through fantastic Queensland thunderies/lightning/hail, a rare left base over Brisbane town (spectacular city scenic) for a visual, home by 4:30pm (civilised hour) for some street cricket with the kids................Mate!!!! Nothing in the whole world like it. Wouldn't be dead for quids. Really beats the hell out of another day in the office.
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My wife came home from work the other day, said she was sick of the cube farm sitting in front of a computer screen for eleven hours a day with impossible dealines to meet set by senior management . She looked very tired, in fact absloutely exhausted, so much so she could barely conduct a conversation. She said it was ok for me as I didn't have to sit in front of a computer all day.
The next day at work, I sat in front of my computer screen, considered the view from my office window, which had changed from the last time I'd looked. I was asked if I would like a cup of coffee, I accepted and advised that TOD was in 10 minutes. After landing I rebooted my computer and departed for home.
That evening I told my wife of my day at work and she advised me that she had quit her job, that she couldn't stand it any longer. At first I was a little concerned about money as her job paid considerably more than mine, but then I noticed how happy she was and figured we'd work it out.
Love My Job? bet your sweet ass I do!
The next day at work, I sat in front of my computer screen, considered the view from my office window, which had changed from the last time I'd looked. I was asked if I would like a cup of coffee, I accepted and advised that TOD was in 10 minutes. After landing I rebooted my computer and departed for home.
That evening I told my wife of my day at work and she advised me that she had quit her job, that she couldn't stand it any longer. At first I was a little concerned about money as her job paid considerably more than mine, but then I noticed how happy she was and figured we'd work it out.
Love My Job? bet your sweet ass I do!