How is someone the best pilot ever? He's piloting a single engine plane. It's not like it's an advanced fighter jet. I don't understand why he feels so confident in possessing this title.
shareHe's egotistical. That's why.
shareIt's like any other car driver who feels he is the best.
shareAll pilots thing they're the best. Best pilots. Best businessmen. Best lovers. Ask anyone of us.
shareYeah, that's true. Those pilots that THINK they are the best piss me off as a pilot because I KNOW I am the best!
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Wanna really know why we think like that? Go to your local airport and take a "Discovery Flight" at the local flight school. You'll actually get to fly an airplane for a few minutes, but the important thing is the pucker factor as you're coming in for a landing and are near the threshold and about 100 feet off the ground. That bile you feel in your throat, the knowledge that you're flying at about 80 miles an hour and headed straight for the ground - on purpose yet - and only the guy (or gal) over there in the left seat can do this safely is what we all when through...
and more to the point, still go through. We have to put trust in our training, and when we're finally safe on the ground, realize that WE did that. The number of people in the world that can do that is quite finite, and WE can.
That's why we all think we're the best...
But I KNOW I am!
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..Joe
Joe? Are you Joe Hackett from Wings? Cause you read more like Brian... anyway you're funny. : D
shareBecause he is Indiana Jones and Han Solo.
Its that man again!!
Maybe because he's done the Kessel run in 20 parcepts
shareDon't forget Gordon Cooper's reply, when asked, "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?" His response was, "Well, you're looking at him."
shareYou can tell this size of a pilots stick by the size of his watch.
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