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| quote: Originally posted by skywag:
Sorry, but you pushed one of my hot buttons. You got your pilot's Certificate......not license.
Dogs are licensed. pilots are certificated.
Back when I lived in the Chicago area, late 1960's, I instructed at a large Part 141 school at Midway, where the only curricula that we taught were for instrument rating and instrument instructor certificate. The Chief Instructor was a grumpy guy who gave a lecture whenever he heard somebody refer to a "pilot license." He would say that a license was something you bought, like a dog license, hunting license, etc. (he included driver license in that category), while a Certificate was something that you earned.
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| Outstanding pursuit and accomplishment! I have a lot of respect for those who conquered their fears. I miss flying and hope to get back into it someday. quote: Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
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When I went on my practical check ride, I had just touched down in an awful 10+knot crosswind, applying full power, when the biggest bumble bee you've ever seen was shot into the cabin through the wing vent.
Now I'm trying to climb out with what sounds like a basket ball with wings and a hypodermic needle filled with make your life awful angrily bouncing around the roof of the 172.
I looked over at the examiner who was the biggest bear of a man, and exclaimed, "a bee in the cabin! we've got a goddamn bee in the cabin!!!"
He just calmly looks at me and asks, "well what are you going to do about it?"
All I could say was "fly the plane". So I did.
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| quote: Got My Private Pilot's License Today
Congratulations, that's quite an accomplishment.
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| Contrats! Clear Prop! Green side down. Cheers
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| WELL DONE! WELL DONE INDEED!! I took my check ride in 1987. And promptly ran out of money to fly.
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| quote: Originally posted by Sig2340:
WELL DONE!
WELL DONE INDEED!!
I took my check ride in 1987. And promptly ran out of money to fly.
I ran out of money about halfway to my checkride. And that was in about 2004-5.
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| quote: Originally posted by skywag:
Great going!!
Sorry, but you pushed one of my hot buttons. You got your pilot's Certificate......not license.
Dogs are licensed. pilots are certificated.
Karl
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It is true that pilots are certificated. There are plenty that would argue that we’re certfiable too, but that’s another issue… |
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| OK, I'll play. BTW congratulations!!! Now, what was the end number of the first plane you soloed?? Mine was N8135C, a Piper Cherokee PA28-161. |
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| quote: Originally posted by MMSIG229:
what was the end number of the first plane you soloed?? Mine was N8135C, a Piper Cherokee PA28-161.
I don't remember the N-Number, but it was a 65 hp Aeronca Champ, much like the one in the photo below. It was August 1964 at the now-closed Asbury Park NJ airport, and I had about eight hours when my instructor said, "I'm gonna get out and watch you. Do everything just like I showed you, and if you do good, I'll let you solo." 
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| | | Posts: 31590 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010 |
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| Nice job. Flying is great fun. Best “job” ever. |
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I also have a drivers license, that I had to take written and driving test to acquire.