The Most Interesting Pilot in the World...

He writes his own checklists....


(For those unfamiliar... you lose one on takeoff after V1 and a common checklist name is "Engine failure on takeoff, takeoff continued")
 

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When he leapt from the Red Bull Flugtag stage he never came down.
He practices short field landings on carrier decks, with a tailwind.
He can recite his last 10 clearances verbatim, in reverse.
He prefers to fly his sailplane on cross-country, at night.

I don't normally fly into Aspen in IMC but, when I do, I prefer the back course. Stay thirsty my friend.
 
Immelman said:
He writes his own checklists....


(For those unfamiliar... you lose one on takeoff after V1 and a common checklist name is "Engine failure on takeoff, takeoff continued")
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But wait a minute, that's Chuck Norris... although Chuck Norris can certainly do those things, this thread is about the Most Interesting Pilot in the World...
 
To him, the E on the fuel gauge means "enough"
The FAA issues VIP TFRs for him - Very Interesting Pilot
He flies approaches with his knees, he can tame adverse yaw with his lean

He is... the most interesting pilot in the world.

"I don't always fly solo, but when I do, I only bring my best friend."

Stay current my friends.
 
He makes contrails in the vertical on a hang glider
He has metal wings on his chest, sub-dermally
When he gets thirsty on airliners, he sticks he head out the window in IMC to collect a cloud

He is ... TMIPITW

I don't always fly commercially, but when I do, I fly Eastern Airlines
Stay current events my friends
 
He received his solo endorsement during his discovery flight.

He's mastered short field, "propeller out" landings directly into his hanger for the sole purpose of not crowding the CTAF.

He's the Owner of the only successful "live stick" landing of an unpowered glider.

He only flies VFR in blizzards and derechos with galeforce winds, but he covers his instruments, just to make it fair to Mother Nature.

Flightplans giggle like school girls at the thought that they'd be filed by him.

He is the most interesting Pilot in the world.

"I don't always surf the web, but when I do, I surf PilotsofAmerica.com.
Stay current, my friends."
 
His discovery flight was solo.
He gave Orville and Wilbur pointers.
He took on the Luftwaffe with a J-3, and won.

"I do not always fly pistons, but when I do, I prefer Continentals."

Stay current, my friends.
 
He doesn't need a squawk code 'cuz his Mode S transponder is too cool
Class Bravo clearances are granted automatically to him
TFR and Restricted airspace do not apply and acknowledge his presence
- Stay Current my friends
 
He wows airshow crowds with a missing man formation with only a single paper airplane
His initial approach point is his origin airport
When she shoots approaches he does so in a J-3 Cub
But the last approach he shot was done with a Bow (and Arrow)

He once flew a fully loaded B-52 on a 90* Glidepath, just for giggles and grins
He does the zero-g parabola in the airport courtesy car
When asked by ATC for his position, his answer is always "right here".
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I try not to necropost, but when I do, I do it on PoA
Keep posting my friends
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Man, if you're gonna dig up a run-out thread, at least do so with some good material.
 
I'm sorry it didn't meet with your approval.

Please take the floor.
 
...and the crowd goes wild with Ed's cleverness. Raaaaahhhhhhhhhh
 
I don't always think of necromancy.....but when I do....I see Dr Bruce in the threads.

Stay dead...my friends.:D
 
He flew the IGS 13 approach at Kai Tak to mins. in the STS. With a go-around and hold.
 
When he posts on the internet, everyone agrees with him.
 
He doesn't ask but traffic in the pattern does advise.
 
"His AI is driven by the gyros in his inner ears"
"The Earth departs orbit just so that he's never on an unusual attitude"
 
He doesn't need an airplane or any other object to fly.
 
When he leans, he leans forward.
He squawks "7500" when he wants to say hello to Jack Nicholson.
He groundloops his Cub in the flight levels, just to see what it feels like.

He is the most interesting pilot on the world.

"I don't always always land on paved runways, but when I do, I prefer grass.

Stay current my friends!"
 
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He once broke the sound barrier... in an ultralight.
He flew around the world non-stop... in a Cessna 140.
His EFB is a Polaroid picture of the Earth and a View Master.
His 787 Dreamliner has an STC for Mogas.
He's type-rated for the Saturn V.

"I don't always fly rental aircraft, but when I do, I prefer the Space Shuttle."

"Stay airborne, my friends."
 
The metal landing calculator is calibrated based on his patterns.

I don't always drink Zima but when I do, it's in a Cirrus
 
My vote is Bob Hoover. Surely a prisoner of war who steals a FW-190 to escape to safety deserves it. Got lucky to see him fly at Berry Field in the 50's. Besides maybe Lindbergh and Yeager, he's the most interesting real pilot in the world.

In “Forever Flying,” by R.A. “Bob” Hoover with Mark Shaw, Chuck Yeager refers to Hoover as the greatest pilot he’s ever seen and “a magician in the cockpit.” Astronaut Wally Schirra says Hoover’s “the finest acrobatic pilot we’ve seen in our lifetime.” Fellow acrobatic giant Leo Loudenslager says Hoover set the “standard of excellence,” and Barron Hilton compares the pilot in flight to “poetry in motion.” Jimmy Doolittle called Hoover the “greatest stick-and-rudder man who ever lived.”

That's enough for me.
 
I'd agree with Bob Hoover being the real most interesting pilot in the world.

He could fly anything, including a freight train.
 
For him there is no clearance void time.
When ATC issues him a delay vector, he provides his phone number to call.
When NY tracon says "I have an amendment to your route, advise ready to copy," he says "No thank you"

He is the most un-delay-able pilot in the world...
 
bradp said:
For him there is no clearance void time.
When ATC issues him a delay vector, he provides his phone number to call.
When NY tracon says "I have an amendment to your route, advise ready to copy," he says "No thank you"

He is the most un-delay-able pilot in the world...
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The best response to NY Tracon then is "cancel IFR". :)
 
When Clearance has his route they ask him "are you done yet?" (he's got his honey in the cockpit)
 
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Somebody shines a green laser at him, he just bends the light right back in their eyes.
 
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