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Old 17th Jul 2006, 17:05
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Right, in contrast to my apparently somewhat controversial previous thread, methinks tis time for something altogether more lighthearted.

Inspired by a particularly fine specimen of the female form I spotted in a flying club I visited at the weekend (although obviously I didn't notice for anything more than a passing second, having as I do an exceptionally beautiful young lady friend), I'd like to ask the fine members of this forum whether they've ever used their aviation skills to (or at least attempt to) woo pretty young ladies?

I've taken young ladies with whom I've been romantically linked flying in the past; once in a glider and once in SEP. Interestingly, I'm no longer on speaking terms with both of them. While I would initially think these bits of information aren't connected, who really knows how the female brain works?

Hopefully my partner in crime around these parts will be along soon to tell of his experiences filling three seats of a four-seater with a veritable harem of young ladies.

Incidentally, before I'm attacked by any bra-burners, I did start my using the term "lighthearted"; I would be genuinely interested to hear from any lady aviators out there who've taken people with Y-chromosones up in an effort to get into their undies.
 
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Oh definitely.

There's nothing like a surprise trip to the IoW for lunch to get things going
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Old 17th Jul 2006, 17:41
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Bah! Never works for me on the wife, she hates flying but did manage to suffer the Europe tour last week as it had hotels and champagne and the end of each leg. For some reason she prefers to drive my Porsche to the shops and buy shoes while I go flying.....
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Take it from me, girls look on pilots as 'work in progress' - they have money tied up in aeroplanes that can easily be converted into shoes or holidays.

Although it is useful to know that our men are fully occupied on an airfield, and not mankying about with other women, we would prefer them to give up this unnatural activity!!
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Shoes? Don't talk to me about shoes. Missapproach obsessed by them. Flew her and the other sprogs down to their grandparents at the weekend and she had her head stuck in Teen Vogue for most of the flight. When I asked whether they were having a good time there were just a series of grunts. I would have given my right arm and test**** to be flying at their age.

Mrsapproach just says, what do you expect they have been used to it from being babies?

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Lucy,

As someone who has been hanging around this scene (often involuntarily) for about 6 years, I am pleased to inform you that at the average airfield there is close to zero chance of a pilot "mankying about with other women" - other than a sprinkling of bored "pilots' girlfriends" I doubt there has been much interesting scenery around UK's airfields since the end of WW2

I think it's fair to say there is no problem with taking a gurl up in a nice tourer, somewhere nice, on a nice sunny (but calm) day. Most women seem to really like that. But equally most women will at best only reluctantly climb into the average rented spamcan whose interior looks and works (and stinks) like the inside of a non-restored Vauxhall Viva.

If there were more pilots flying nice modern planes to interesting far away places, there would be far more women hanging around airfields. And more women means more men with more than 2p to rub together would turn up, which of course means a whole big pile of women coming along ... and all of a sudden you have quite a healthy bit of activity going!

Unfortunately, such a suggestion is seen by most pilots - a bunch of back-to-basics anorak-wearing traditionalists - as tantamount to a declaration of war. Just want and see.... I am getting my coat.
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I'm liking the thinking - let's somehow persuade gorgeous women to hang around UK minor airfields, thereby kickstarting a revitalisation of the UK GA scene. Oh yes..........
 
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I proposed with a banner towed over Cocoa beach if that counts?
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Old 18th Jul 2006, 02:15
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I've got a bottle of Southern Comfort on permanent hold.

She'll share it with me one day (unless she read the very damning comment in the "Funny Signs" thread in Jet Blast).

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Take it from me, girls look on pilots as 'work in progress' - they have money tied up in aeroplanes that can easily be converted into shoes or holidays.

Although it is useful to know that our men are fully occupied on an airfield, and not mankying about with other women, we would prefer them to give up this unnatural activity!!
Lucy - I was having the problem of how to describe my gf's feelings towards flying, that is until you summed it up perfectly! I took her flying, and although she did enjoy the experience, it just wasn't the same as going up to her and saying "Here is a thousand quid to go and spend on shoes" to which I am sure her delights would have been far greater!

Conclusion - be single and "tout the totty" at the airfield
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Old 18th Jul 2006, 10:25
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Originally Posted by IO540
If there were more pilots flying nice modern planes to interesting far away places, there would be far more women hanging around airfields...
Unfortunately, such a suggestion is seen by most pilots - a bunch of back-to-basics anorak-wearing traditionalists - as tantamount to a declaration of war. Just want and see.... I am getting my coat.
I don't know, I think most of us would love to fly our girlfriends/wives/SOs over to Cannes for the weekend in our Eclipse 500 personal jet. Unfortunately the budget of most PPLs only extends to hiring a 30 year-old tatty spamcan to fly to somewhere within a 100 mile radius. And that somewhere is usually a very similar scruffy ex-WW2 airfield to the one we took off from
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recently blagged a bird in a club after chatting to her about flying, never fails!
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You don't need a personal jet, but you do need something a lot better than a Vauxhall Viva

I am fairly reliably informed that helicopters are best for this purpose though.

Depends on whether you go for quality. With a jet you will definitely pull some gurlz but their operating cost will probably be comparable to the jet.
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UAV:

The world would be a better place without people like you. Fact. Go pretend to be a lighthouse painter, biscuit factory manager, snake dentist, whatever. Just NEVER a pilot.

I know of someone else who could also be described with a Uniform Alpha trigraph, trying to be the big boy and impress girls with tales of his "part time pilot training". ****.

Met the current girly in a club too, was insistent I was a milkman. She knew I was lying, but that's not the point. Re-arrange these words to form a well-known phrase or saying: In. Box. Your. Get.

Sorry to everyone else for inflicting that rant on you, idiots like the above who try to impress girls with their meagre aviation abilities are a particular bugbear of mine.
 
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Christ I am glad I try to impress them with my "massive" talents then........
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If you're reliant on pilot chat to pull girls, you really do have to question what you're doing with your life..........
 
Old 18th Jul 2006, 15:15
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Whereas you, F, just wait until you're in someone's undercrackers before boring them silly with pilot chat...
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Old 18th Jul 2006, 15:19
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Originally Posted by Fournicator
If you're reliant on pilot chat to pull girls, you really do have to question what you're doing with your life..........
I thought that was the whole point of this thread!

Cheers

Whirls

.... who is not impressed by men who can fly and doesn't own many shoes.
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Old 18th Jul 2006, 15:24
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Whirls:
It may seem subtle at first, but to me at least the difference is massive. Taking a girl you're already romantically involved with flying in a puddlejumper or somesuch, and using the "I'm a pilot" line in a club are leagues apart.
Maybe not to others, can see how confusion may arise, but surely I'm not alone on this one? It's all about being the england croquet team or something similar when out on the razzle!
 
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I am told that in Saudi Arabia it is illegal for a man and an (unrelated) woman to fly together in a microlight in cast they get up to anything norty.
Talk about pilot induced oscillation.
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