Fifth Floor: Hiding Nicely in Plain View
POSTED BY: LightMeDark
UPDATED: Sunday, December 18, 2005 23:30
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Originally posted by ThatWeirdGirl:
Or if that won't work, I think I'd make a pretty decent muse for a writer or artist
What a coincidence. I've been looking for a muse for quite some time. Interested?
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Haidon wrote:
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My dad was a pilot. He was a flight instructor, actually. Here's the long and short of it: if you like to eat, don't become a flight instructor.
If you have to wear any kind of corrective lenses (contacts, glasses, anything) you'll have a hell of a time trying to get any kind of well-paying job. Commercial airlines aren't keen on taking people with less than 20/20. That's what did my dad in. He absolutely loves to fly, but he could never get anything past instruction.
Hi Haidon. Thanks for the reply :)
Funnily enough commercial airlines don't interest me so much I was kinda wondering about light aircrafts really, in particular being one of those pilots that flies over a burning forrest and dumps tons of water on the fire?!!? How do you get a job like that?!
You gotta have some huevos for that job!
Unfortunaley I do wear glasses for driving, and I realise this limits your choices as a pilot but any tips hints or anecdotes you may have I'll be really grateful for.
Cheers Haidon
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Cozen: apologies.
CMS and LMD: With your woodwind backgrounds you two should check out Bela Fleck's concert video: Live at the Quick. He has a wood wind section that positively takes no prisioners.
Biologist / Chef hmmm? Hey how come all you guys are only thinig of large animals. There are plenty of micro organisms that he can serve. 
Yippie ki yay white blood cell!
And what about endangered fauna?
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Haidon wrote:Quote:
My dad was a pilot. He was a flight instructor, actually. Here's the long and short of it: if you like to eat, don't become a flight instructor.
If you have to wear any kind of corrective lenses (contacts, glasses, anything) you'll have a hell of a time trying to get any kind of well-paying job. Commercial airlines aren't keen on taking people with less than 20/20. That's what did my dad in. He absolutely loves to fly, but he could never get anything past instruction.
Hi Haidon. Thanks for the reply :)
Funnily enough commercial airlines don't interest me so much I was kinda wondering about light aircrafts really, in particular being one of those pilots that flies over a burning forrest and dumps tons of water on the fire?!!? How do you get a job like that?!
You gotta have some huevos for that job!
Unfortunaley I do wear glasses for driving, and I realise this limits your choices as a pilot but any tips hints or anecdotes you may have I'll be really grateful for.
Cheers Haidon
The
Somnambulist.
www.cirqus.com
I imagine you need to get trained, then get bunch of time in flying banners over tourist beaches to rack up hours for a commercial license and then graduate to crop dusting. From there you need to find that firefighting flightschool like the kind John Goodman ran in the movie Forever, or was it called Always? I can't remember. Of course this is all idle speculation from a guy who can barely fly a paper airplane.
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
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I imagine you need to get trained, then get bunch of time in flying banners over tourist beaches to rack up hours for a commercial license and then graduate to crop dusting. From there you need to find that firefighting flightschool like the kind John Goodman ran in the movie Forever, or was it called Always? I can't remember. Of course this is all idle speculation from a guy who can barely fly a paper airplane.
He,he... I got some great paper aeroplane designs :)
When my dad retired we were going to chip in together and start having some flying lessons but he then found a job working in Brazil, so we put the idea on the back burner. But our initial enquiries all pointed to accumulating lots and lots of flying hours! That's what instructors use to accumulate their time in the air as you have to maintain a certain amount to keep you license.
I'm sort of interested in the varieties of jobs you could have from flying.
I remember the film Always I actually thought it a really touching love story, and I remember the whole training to put fires out being quite exciting, but I don't imagine it's quite like that... or is it?
Crop dusting though... hmmm... is it me but that sounds kinda fun too :)
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:Quote:
I imagine you need to get trained, then get bunch of time in flying banners over tourist beaches to rack up hours for a commercial license and then graduate to crop dusting. From there you need to find that firefighting flightschool like the kind John Goodman ran in the movie Forever, or was it called Always? I can't remember. Of course this is all idle speculation from a guy who can barely fly a paper airplane.
He,he... I got some great paper aeroplane designs :)
When my dad retired we were going to chip in together and start having some flying lessons but he then found a job working in Brazil, so we put the idea on the back burner. But our initial enquiries all pointed to accumulating lots and lots of flying hours! That's what instructors use to accumulate their time in the air as you have to maintain a certain amount to keep you license.
I'm sort of interested in the varieties of jobs you could have from flying.
I remember the film Always I actually thought it a really touching love story, and I remember the whole training to put fires out being quite exciting, but I don't imagine it's quite like that... or is it?
Crop dusting though... hmmm... is it me but that sounds kinda fun too :)
The
Somnambulist
www.cirqus.com
It's been my expereince that life will never be consistently as exciting as movie, but every so often it has it's moments. I hear cropdusting pays well, but that's just what I hear. The tourist banner thing, that I hear pays less than delivering pizzas, but you get to fly and accumulate hours. Unless of course you own your own plane and then you get to charge whatever you want and on days you just want to relax and have a beer you pay some rookie to fly it for you.
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Right, so that's not happening. I love to cook, maybe you need a sous chef?
Of course. You are hired. Hm. Perhaps I can staff my whole operation here. What is your specialty?
I must admit that I am not a great cook but I believe that the willingness to try makes me at least a decent cook, right?
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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
[Biologist / Chef hmmm? Hey how come all you guys are only thinig of large animals. There are plenty of micro organisms that he can serve.
And what about endangered fauna?
Hm. Not many endangered bacteria around.
Though some people may wish that they were! Unfortunately, endangered plants do not get nearly the kind of press than endangered animals do.
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