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Old 4th Aug 2003, 08:33
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Question I don't look like a pilot!

Ok here goes; I don't look like what people think a pilot should look like. I have long brown hair, and a motorbike, and look (so i'm told) like one of the extras from the film Top Gun.

Are the any other pilot-rebels like me out there or am i one of a kind????

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um, your just one of a kind
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Old 4th Aug 2003, 15:43
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What DOES a pilot look like?
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Wish I knew what a pilot looked like. I have this card in my local shop offering trial helicopter lessons...gotta get some students somehow. Was discussing it with the woman who works there, and a young girl in the shop says to me: "Oh, is that you? You don't look like a helicopter pilot." Arghhhhhh.. Please tell me how to look like one.
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The crew cut, the leather blouson jacket the aviator shades!
No! That just makes people think you're a bl**dy spotter.
No I guess I'll settle for the skinned knuckles, oily clothes and general casual air of the owner of a vintage aeroplane.

PS Cymro Blewog a beic modur, eitha cyfredin fin meddwyl!

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.PS hairy Welshmen with motorbikes fairly common I think!
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Old 4th Aug 2003, 16:46
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Everyone knows you don't need to look like a pilot... you'll just tell everyone you are.
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Old 4th Aug 2003, 17:17
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You could invest in some epaulettes...

...and say things like "I am the Captain of a PA28 Dammit" down your local
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Old 4th Aug 2003, 17:51
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Everyone knows that a pilot should look like that geezer off of flightline on Discovery Wings - Raybans, USAF leather jacket, silk scarf, life jacket on - all while walking around Duxford
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Old 4th Aug 2003, 19:16
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If you don't look broke, you're probably not doing enough flying.
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Old 5th Aug 2003, 00:07
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Apparently, women of the trolly dolly persuasion say you look like a pilot if:

You have a crap car

Big watch


And a small dick !
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Old 5th Aug 2003, 00:17
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that's the cool thing about being a wannabe bush pilot - small planes, big ????

(but no tarts with carts on a DHC Beaver anyway!)

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Old 5th Aug 2003, 02:16
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Can't say I've ever met a pilot that looked like one... I mean, take a Gatbash. People look like many things (particularly as the evening drags on), but not pilots...
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Old 5th Aug 2003, 08:05
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Angel

VFR800,

You got it in one....
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Middle aged, thickening, loud?

Do you really want to look like them?
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Looking like a pilot? Hm. Flying an aircraft (or even a helicopter) does the trick...

Cheers,
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Old 5th Aug 2003, 20:54
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Ok, I'll just be myself then

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Old 5th Aug 2003, 22:24
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The Terry Thomas lookalike with handlebar tash has gone out of fashion - especially for the girlies
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The ladies say that there is absolutely no requirement to be able to recognise a pilot.

If he is one he will tell you!

(on the other hand he could be lying)

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