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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: dkff49 on August 07, 2011, 09:50:41 PM
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Anybody want to donate to a fund to help me to do this. :D
Fighter pilot for a day program. Available in several locations throughout US. No experience necessary (according to site)
http://www.cloud9living.com/fighter-pilot-for-a-day (http://www.cloud9living.com/fighter-pilot-for-a-day)
Someday maybe I will get to. :pray
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:O I'm doing that way before you :lol kidding now I want!
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how long do you get to fly? 1400 isnt that bad if its an all day hting...
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The website said it's 2 1/2 to 3 hours with about 1 hour of actual flight and the rest for training purposes.
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The website said it's 2 1/2 to 3 hours with about 1 hour of actual flight and the rest for training purposes.
Well lost my interest
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Well lost my interest
It depends on what you sign up for. An all day two sortie flight with 5-6 fights per sortie will run you ~$2000 these days. This is a whole fighter pilot for a day experience from the brief, flights, fights, debrief, brief, flight, fight and debrief. This is the better value for your dollar as even though it's more expensive you get more flying. Like anything in life there's room to negotiate but you need to bring something to the table like a second individual or a group to make it worthwhile to the company that they'll get the airplanes in the air.
I did this back in 2003 with another AH player (who I owe a rematch, if you read this...) and it was a freaking blast. They travel around the country to however many locations, the pilots were good people and the flying was great fun and a fantastic learning experience. Once you've done it, you can go back for $700 per flight in today's pricing (or that's how it was at the time, the requirements for their "Frequent Flyer" program may have changed)
You will learn the basics of flying in formation, get acclimated to the airplane with some tracking exercises, follow the leader, basic aerobatics, etc. As you get accustomed to the flying you'll then find a nice comfy piece of sky to do your fights, fight, debrief after each engagement and usually score a couple-few kills. We took a hands-off approach from the instructors and they didn't coach us. At the time I was a student pilot with all of 20 hours or so and one aerobatic flight in an Extra under my belt going against a far more experienced pilot who had flown with them several times. I got my butt handed to me but I did get several great gunsight evasions on tape. That's a highlight of not only my flying career but also came about strictly because I grew up playing Air Warrior and Aces High. I'd like to get him back in the skies whether it's in a Marchetti or in my own airplane whatever that may be.
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car, or flying a plane. hmmmmmm. Plane
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I'll have a look in and around my couch :)
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Is the guy who you are flying with a CFI? It just says "Instructor" I guess it is implied.
Anyway I know what I want Santa to bring me for christmas
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The pilots are generally military. I believe (this is dated information) at the time there was only one civilian pilot among the IPs and that was due to being immediate family to the owner of the company. May or may not be true.
There's no requirement for them to have an instructor certificate though some do.
At the time I was participating there was one CFI among the 4 IPs. Three retired Naval aviators and one current Marine harrier driver made up our group of IPs.
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Didn't Gary Numan do this?
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I'll have a look in and around my couch :)
Woohoo I'm well on my way now. :D
I thought even at the price it was a pretty good deal anyway. Most other offers out there are for you to be a passenger only and they won't be dogfighting another plane. I was actually amazed that it was this close to affordable given the insurance that must be associated with this due to having inexperienced people piloting the planes performing dogfighting maneuvers. Add to that the fuel and salaries and maintenance costs and it kind of makes me wonder how they do it.
Someday I hope to save up enough money to do this, but until then I am keeping this site in my bookmarks and on my wishlist. :airplane: