What pilots think of cars?

Discussion in 'Pilots In Real Life' started by Jedy_Mushroom, Feb 24, 2016.

  1. Jedy_Mushroom

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    What do you consider a best car for a pilot and why?
     
  2. airman426

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    The one that is the most aerodynamic and beautiful, of course! Just take a look at the 1938 Phantom Corsair.

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    Ain't she gorgeous? One-of-a-kind.
     
  3. Jedy_Mushroom

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    I think that the best car for a pilot is a Chevrolet Chevelle, because I see it as a powerful machine, delivering you to a yet another powerful machine both consumpting more fuel then 50 diesel trains. It's iconic, and reminds me of good ol' days of commercial aviation.
     

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    Huh, back in the day, I used to own one of these. Then I moved on to a Chevy Nova. Both great cars.
     
  5. Jedy_Mushroom

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    I'm jealous :)
     
  6. fly72j

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    Those are very nice rides, but as an aspiring Delta pilot, I'll take a Mercedes SL65 AMG for my daily driver and a Koeniggsegg CCXR to hang out in my garage. I am very fond of cars, and sadly I can identify more cars than planes. I must say I love Chevelles though.
     
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    You have to work for a rather generous airline for that XD
     
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    Actually I take that back about Delta. I can't decide if I want to go that route, or start my own Part 135 business....
     
  9. Jedy_Mushroom

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    Part 135? I should've looked that up, but I'll ask you instead. What's that?
     
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    Haha I hardly know myself what it is! But as far as I know, it's basically where you can, with a commercial pilot's license, fly random people for money while using your own plane.
     
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    Yep, it's like a short-flight charter business. The average starting salary for an airline pilot is ~$50,000, and it usually goes to ~$200,000 for an experienced pilot.
     
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    Every time I've heard about it, it seems VERY appealing. I just might make that my career so I can stay local.
     
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    Weird. First I read things like "Pilots earn so much money blah blah" then I found another thing "Pilots are poor- 35 grand starting and 60 expirienced if lucky."
    Whom do I believe?
     
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    Hmm...what I said is definitely the statistics in the States, and I know my friends make at least that, but I don't know how it is in the Ukraine.
     
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    I've always been told to expect minimum wage working for regionals, especially while building turbine time.

    But back to topic; I drive a diesel '95 Chevy Silverado... but I'd like to have an orange '57 Chevy 150 w/ a turbo'ed 454 spinning a set of Cragar SS', or a '63 Chevy Corvette... or a '67 Chevy Nova. But I'm really a pickup guy, so I'd love to own a '93 Chevy 454 SS Silverado, which are something of unicorns these days. Excuse me as I adjust my bowtie. :)

    In all seriousness; I find that after I started flying, everything else really became dull. Flying has genuinely sucked the excitement out of my everyday life, so any car(s) I buy in the future need to have mucho HP and copious amounts of class (or sex appeal, that works too). I'm too American for imports, can't replace classic Detroit steel in my eyes, so all these little Subarus and VW's I see in every flight training center's parking lot, they just won't cut it for me. #'Murica
     
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  16. Jedy_Mushroom

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    Ok. Now it is time to hear from you on what you consider a pilot's car in BeamNG (or the one you like in general).
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    My pick would be a brand new ETK 800. I have a 6 cyl. Turbo diesel model as a RP vehicle. I would like to get myself an ETK 2400i as soon as it comes out.
     
  17. fly72j

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    I would totally have a Bolide 390 GTR Notte edition.
     
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    Hmm...let me think about it.
     
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