Pilot Some Kind of Aircraft
Topic: Goals
I'd still love to do this.

The closest I've gotten is flight simulators: most recently, the banshee in Halo which, to quote Ford Prefect, "...looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."

I wanted to become some kind of pilot for the military. But there's this rule about 20/20 uncorrected vision, so I was ineligible. And pilot's classes are smeggin' expensive.

My first choice of craft, though, if I could afford it, would be a helicopter. Definitely. There's something about an aircraft that can contour fly, fly sideways, backwards, and move in pretty much any direction the pilot wants. It hovers. It takes off and lands on one spot; no runway required. How cool is that? Very, very cool.

But if I were flying an airplane, I'd love to be behind the controls of the SR-71 or YF-12. So fast, you don't hear the passengers screams until you land, and it doesn't matter any more.

Based on my experiences with flight simulators, I don't doubt that I'd never get a pilot's license for conventional aircraft. I could do a helicopter, but landings aren't the kind of thing you'd want to trust me with on anything with wings.

So this is a non-accomplished, but perhaps that's for the best.

Halo
Ford Prefect
A-12/YF-12/SR-71 Images