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What It Means To Be a Pilot Today

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • The author contends that the present day (2015) offers the optimal era for pilots due to the unprecedented variety of aircraft and diverse flying experiences available.
  • Pilots today can choose to fly everything from vintage tailwheel airplanes to modern glass-cockpit aircraft, enabling a wide range of adventures from bush flying to aerobatics.
  • This era provides more opportunities and choices for pilots to experience the joys and thrills of flight than any previous generation.
  • While current opportunities are vast, the author expresses a sole envy for future generations who will likely fly even more advanced electric aircraft with unimaginable technologies.
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If you could pick any era in the admittedly brief history of powered flight in which to be a pilot, what year or decade would you choose?

Would you desire to be a pioneer of flight, using your unfair knowledge of aerodynamics and aircraft systems to build and pilot early machines that could fly circles around Orville and Wilbur? Would you prefer to be a part of aviation’s Golden Age, alighting in wood-and-fabric biplanes and streamlined metal monoplanes in the 1920s and 30s? Do the warbirds of World War II stir your soul? Or does the jet age kindle your love for all things aeronautical?

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