I love how everyone jumps straight from these initial quotes to Peter Graves creepy dialogue LMAO. It's not related at all in the movie but no one can resist repeating the most disturbing line from the movie..
Those lines were throwbacks to Police Squad! It was made in the 70's before the term "Political Correctness" didn't exist, the style of humour was revolutionary, surreal, and pushed limits. When I first watched it I was probably 12 or 13 and quite sheltered. They are shocking, but that is the point.
Pilots don’t want you to know you can land on those clouds. I saw it in a documentary about a man with an unfortunate weak bone condition and his friends
The FIRST rule is to make sure you have the fuel your gauges say you do! My dad would look into the gas tank of any plane he was about to fly if he didn't witness them fueling the tank himself.
1000' above if VFR but I'm instrument rated and 9/10 I can request a specific altitude providing it's the correct altitude for the direction. I'm flying privately in E airspace so I'm not competing for airspace at 10-12k'
“Cloud surfing” i.e. flying a minimum 1000ft above the clouds or flying an IFR vector at a fixed altitude lol. Rules are written in blood but damn can they suck the fun out of something that would be incredible otherwise.
Being that I'm in a GA plane I don't usually have a lot of conflicting traffic so ATC usually gives me a requested altitude if I ask to go up or down a little provided it lines up with the direction I'm traveling. Otherwise yeah I'll get a vfr on top clearance and stay high enough above.
It depends on how far you take it, ie single engine, multi engine, commercial, etc. A single engine private pilot license will run about 10k, but that depends on where you go.
A full on commercial flight program I’ve seen run from 75-100k or even more, but this fluctuates wildly based upon if you need housing, and whether or not it’s a full on aviation degree or not.
I’m probably not the best suited to answer this though, so take with a grain of salt!
Nice! Keep chugging through even when it gets grindy, it's worth it!
If you are just doing it recreationally get your IR anyway even if you don't intend to use it. PPL teaches you how to control the plane, IR teaches you how to fly the plane.
Flying right a long the surface of the clouds, usually like to be inside the spires of cumulous cloud tops to the sides, it's like flying in a giants cloud kingdom.
I wish I could. Unfortunately even after being 7 years seizure free, the fact that I’m on epilepsy meds means the FAA will never give me a license. I understand why, but just bummed about it.
Do you have your driver's license? That's the basic criteria for a sports pilot. Take lessons and tell them the deal - even if you can't get your license you can still take lessons. You can fly with a CFI as long as they are comfortable with it. Then you can meet people on the field.
What could matter for that is what type of seizures you used to have: motor/non motor, was it focal and you were aware, tonic-clonic, or petit mal which I now think are called absence seizures? They may care because a tonic clinic seizure could be a problem for a pilot if you are in proximity to the controls.
I do! I never lost that thankfully :) but damn I’ll have to give that a shot!!
Wow I haven’t met someone in the wild who knows seizure types. I had absence seizures. Only a handful before I got diagnosed and promptly put on meds. Haven’t had anything since. Not even focal aware.
I'd suspect no pilot would be uncomfortable flying with you having had absence seizures only. It's not like you are going to accidentally mess up their controls if they are in command of the aircraft.
Hah. No I'm a GA pilot not a regional pilot. I'm too busy yelling at my kids and busting bravos like N1NR, just have to remember "unable flying" for your get out of jail card.
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u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb Feb 10 '25
That's why I got my pilots license. Top 5 favorite things to do is cloud surfing.