Flight Instructor Quotes

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career!

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.