Curious on Pilots/people interested in aviation or have aviation background

Just curious to see how many people here have experience in flying, either military, personal civilian flying or are interested in aviation in general. Not sure I see many people in finance/management circles interested in personal flying. I myself have a background in aerobatics, and will supplement my aviation hobby with career. Please post your aviation experience/interests/any fun stories. Also does being a pilot improve your professional performance?

 
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True, but barely on the surface. Checklists run supreme: pre flight: weather, distance, destination, contingency landing locations, speed, time, fuel, altitude, health condition of AC/pilot + passengers. Then startup, take off, post take off, en route, pre landing, post landing, and shutdown checklists lol--flying airplanes is simply following checklists. But the most important correlation I've noticed is planing and executing the plan with account to unforeseen events that you should have already planned for, in case they occur.

If most variables are known, then plan with account to those variables and execute the plan--always successful. And I think this mindset, a lot more risky with your life than say, 10's of millions of dollars, is good preparation for risky operations that require a degree of complexity.

Also I do a lot of chair flying where I close my eyes and visualize the entire flight the day before the flight. This visualization method was used by the hedge fund king Paul Tudor Jones. Here's and excerpt from “More Money Than God.”

“ his method was “to write a script for the market,” setting out how it might behave; and then to test the hypothesis repeatedly with low-risk bets, hoping to catch the moment when his script became reality.13 Years later, Jones described the mental gymnastics that went into writing these scripts. “Every evening I would close my eyes in a quiet place in my apartment. I would picture myself in the pit. I would visualize the opening and walk myself through the day and imagine the different emotional states that the market would go through. I used to repeat that exercise every day. Then when you get there, you are ready for it. You have been there before. You are in a mental state to take advantage of emotional extremes because you have already lived through them.”

 

You can get EASA qualification here in the US for a decent price. My flight school was 90 percent chinese/europeans--EASA standards are much tougher than FAA surprisingly. If you do get it, it will be well worth it.

 

about to pull the trigger on getting my PPL. really hoping to learn on a Cirrus although people tell me it's better to learn in an old school (non glass) plane such as a Cessna. is yoke feedback that important? on the Cirrus it's a sidestick (like Airbus). reason I'm drawn to Cirrus is the parachute.

 
  1. You should get it--never regretted the choice.

  2. Defineltey go old school with the round dials. Your life will be so much easier and much more fun to fly with glass cockpits (g1000's) if you first learn to fly old skool instruments. Also, most flight schools (unless you have a private tutor under part 65) will force you to go through the round dials first before touching the slicker screens.

2b. Cirrus are cool, and hopefully people don't get them just to use the parachute. I think that's more of a sales pitch than actual use, but you never know, if you can safely land the AC with engine out, no need for parachute because you're just gliding, but if wing snaps off, then WTF were you doing in the first place to make the wing snap off? see, its mostly pilot error that would make you want to use the chute, which you can prevent. Plus once you use it, you have a tone of inspections to re-certify the AC--shitty process. You can also buy an experimental AC that requires you to use a parachute de facto if you like using parachutes.

  1. Depends on AC and what you want to do with it. If flying aerobatics its preferable to have a center yoke than when flying 2 people side/side like in a cirrus. On responsiveness, newer AC, no matter the make or yoke position tend to feel a lot more smoother/responsive/firm--but not that much of a difference from older AC. Response is based on speed and largeness of surface area of control surfaces. Big control surfaces are generally more responsive compared to smaller ones--but they all fall under rate same rule: faster speeds increase sensitivity of controls surfaces than lower speeds. Thats why when you're in a stall, barely flying, you can fully deflect the yoke in all directions and the AC will barely reposed--vs when your going 120kts and you barely move the yoke and the AC wants to sommer sault.
 

My father has a background in engineering and also R/C airplanes. He has his PPL and I'm looking to get mine as well next year. I'm slowly accomplishing my goals this year but I think it is going to be reasonable time-wise for me to get it next year ($10k or so).

It would be cool owning a small plane as well but as someone already mentioned, it is impractial flying yourself at senior levels unless you genuinely like to do so. It would be a cool as heck hobby which is why I'm going to go for it.

 

I have my PPL and fly probably 10 hours a month for fun.

I actually have preferred getting into glider/sailplane acrobatics. It's much cheaper than flying regularly. Also would suggest looking into a A License for skydiving. It might look like an expensive hobby, but it costs less than $30 per jump after you get the license and honestly you can get that down to $10 per jump.

So much fun.

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

Nice. I've had a couple aerobatic flights on gliders, and coming from a powered aerobatic background, it was quite different. Teaches you energy management, and the only downside is you're limited on how, when, how long, and what you can do in terms of aerobatic maneuvers--probably explains the less costs. But I've seen glider aerobatic competitors and the stuff that can be done is impressive.

Yea, I've always through of getting my skydiving license. you can get a good chute for around $3000, training is another $2k, then what, like $20-$30 per jump---well worth it.

 

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